News Atlas — live world news feed

Live world news feed — headlines and images as they publish

Live headlines from top outlets — open a card for a preview, then read on the publisher’s site.

100 stories · Live feed

GuardianSep 29Preview

Australia news live: Shoebridge doesn’t rule himself out of Greens leadership race; RBA interest rates decision expected

Follow the day’s news liveGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastNew South Wales police say they are investigating the suspicious deaths of two men in the state’s north.Police said they found the first man – who has since been identified as a 79-year-old – dead at a property on Summerland Way at Gurranang, near Grafton, on 13 September.And that’s equally important in the Reserve Bank’s mandate, dual mandate, which talks about maintaining full employment at the same time as they go for price stability, which means inflation in the target band.Well, it’s still lower than what we saw under Howard and Costello, is the first point.I think that’s pretty clear. And what we’ve seen in recent years is that it’s possible to have low and steady unemployment at the same time as we see inflation moderate to more normal levels. Continue reading...

Achol Arok (now) and Nick Visser (earlier)Australia newsAustralian politics

GuardianSep 29Preview

‘New kind of cyber incident’: OpenAI apologises for Medicare hack and reveals extent of attack

Chief strategy officer to fly to Australia to front joint committee on AI after breaches of government websitesFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastOpenAI has apologised to Australians for its agent attack on Medicare, and will front parliament next week, as the tech company revealed more details about its June hack of Australian government websites.In a blog post released on Tuesday, OpenAI said it should have handled its response better. Continue reading...

Josh Taylor Technology reporterOpenAIAI (artificial intelligence)

GuardianSep 29Preview

Trump doubles down on claims US will win war with Iran ‘one way or another’ as talks are in doubt – as it happened

This live blog is now closed.Sign up for the Breaking News US emailWhile the lawmakers in the US House have already left Washington to get a head start on midterm campaigning, the Senate is hoping to wrap up its legislative agenda this week. Today, we can expect a vote at 5.30pm ET on the Protect College Sports act, which attempts to provide greater protections for university athletes in the US.The bill includes provisions for players to earn compensation from their name, image and likeness – known as NIL payments, and allow them to transfer schools (and teams) without being penalized or forced to sit out for a defined period of time. If the legislation clears the Senate it will still need to head back to the lower chamber before it can head to Donald Trump’s desk for his signature. Continue reading...

Cecilia Nowell (now); Shrai Popat and Tom Ambrose (earlier)Trump administrationUS news

GuardianSep 29Preview

School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play review – comedy makes a near-flawless Broadway debut

Nearly a decade after it was first staged, Jocelyn Bioh’s study of girlhood in 1980s Ghana is better than ever in irresistible new production After its 2017 premiere off-Broadway, School Girls; Or, the African Mean Girls Play transferred to Los Angeles, was remounted in New York the following year, and has since been staged in over 75 theaters across the US, plus a successful run in London. It’s easy to see why – Jocelyn Bioh’s one-act comedy has a familiar structure, richly detailed characters, and an onslaught of delicious barbs. Plus it has the good sense of an 80-minute runtime.Its splendid Broadway debut is not content with being a mere victory lap, though, in a freshly glorious production helmed by Whitney White. Having staged Bioh’s Tony-winning Jaja’s African Hair Braiding, the director knows her way around an all-women ensemble, and often counts upon a team of usual suspects to

Juan A RamírezBroadwayStage

GuardianSep 29Preview

‘Looked like dried blood’: worker tells Beau Lamarre-Condon trial about finding suspicious belongings in skip

Former Sydney police officer, 31, has pleaded not guilty to murdering AFL umpire Jesse Baird and flight attendant Luke DaviesFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastBrand new AFL shorts, a Qantas card and other bloodied belongings were found in a dumpster two days after football umpire Jesse Baird and flight attendant Luke Davies were allegedly murdered, a Sydney court has heard.Beau Lamarre-Condon, 31, has been accused of fatally shooting the couple with his police service weapon in Baird’s Paddington home on 19 February 2024. Continue reading...

Kat WongSydneyNew South Wales

GuardianSep 29Preview

Vietnamese government accused of abducting Melbourne human rights activist

Tran Hiep, a 50-year-old Vietnamese Australian anti-human trafficking campaigner, not heard from since 18 SeptemberVietnamese authorities have detained three activists, including an Australian, on what have been described as “fabricated” charges.The Vietnamese government said the three confessed to being members of Viet Tan – a pro-democracy organisation – which it describes as a terrorist organisation. Continue reading...

Australian Associated Press and Tory ShepherdCambodiaAustralia news

GuardianSep 29Preview

‘Children are dying’: Fiji hopes declaring an HIV emergency will help it tackle crisis

One in 60 adults Fiji lives with HIV but a recent emergency declaration may help address key issues such as syringe sharingOn a recent Friday night, Dr Kesaia Tuidraki’s medical team parked its mobile clinic outside McDonald’s in downtown Suva, Fiji, and grabbed any kid they could to be tested for HIV. Of the 97 people screened, mostly teenagers – some on their way to get a burger, others to buy drugs – one in six tested positive.“Children are suffering, children are dying, and if that doesn’t move you I don’t know what will,” Tuidraki, country director of Medical Services Pacific, tells the Guardian. Continue reading...

Michelle DuffFijiAids and HIV

GuardianSep 29Preview

Tennessee to execute a woman for first time in 200 years after governor denies clemency

Lawyers for Christa Pike, 50, convicted of killing classmate in Knoxville in 1995, ask supreme court to grant stayChrista Pike, a woman who was convicted of murder 30 years ago, is set to be put to death on Wednesday after her request for clemency was denied by Tennessee governor Bill Lee on Monday. If the execution goes through, she will be the first woman executed in the state in 200 years.Pike, who is now 50, was 18 when she and her boyfriend, who was 17 at the time, killed 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer, one of their classmate at Knoxville Job Corps in 1995. Continue reading...

Abené Clayton and agenciesTennesseeCapital punishment

GuardianSep 29Preview

Ukraine war briefing: Putin orders army expansion as Zelenskyy says more North Koreans to be deployed in Russia

Putin’s order comes as both Russian and Ukrainian forces suffer mounting casualties. What we know on day 1,679Russian president Vladimir Putin has ordered ⁠an increase ​in the size ⁠of the army to 1.55 ⁠million ​active ‌servicemen, according ‌to a ‌presidential decree on Monday. The order comes as both Russia and Ukraine suffer mounting casualties in the more than four-and-a-half-year Ukraine war. The expansion, which follows a similar increase ordered in August, ‌will put the size ​of Russia’s armed forces at ⁠2,441,630. Of those are 1,550,000 ​active ​servicemen, an increase of ​15,500.Ukrainian president ⁠Volodymyr Zelenskyy said ​on X ​on ‌Monday ‌there were now more than 8,000 ‌North Korean ​troops on ⁠Russian territory ​and preparations ​were ​under way ​to ‌deploy ​another ​10,000 troops. Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un confirmed for the first time last year that North K

Guardian staff and agenciesUkraineRussia

GuardianSep 29Preview

‘You’ve got to be pretty tough to be a drag queen out there’: Damien Frost’s immaculate queer portraits

The photographer’s photos are so meticulously staged that viewers often assume they were taken in a studio – not behind a London nightclub or in an Australian goat fieldOne bright spring day, the photographer Damien Frost arrived at a farm in Gungal, outside Muswellbrook, New South Wales. Goats grazed in a paddock, eucalyptus trees stretched into the brilliant blue sky and a tin shed weathered in the sun. Frost walked into the shed and entered another world.“It’s a drag studio,” says Frost. Lining the walls were dozens of wigs and rails of flamboyant outfits belonging to Beverly Fabulosity. “I’ve never seen anything like it. It was a very Priscilla scenario.” Frost grew up in Australia and is now based in London, where for more than a decade he has photographed drag queens and club kids for his acclaimed Night Flowers series. Since late August, he has been back in his home country, co

Words by Oliver Giles. Pictures by Damien FrostPhotographyCulture

GuardianSep 29Preview

Saeid thought he could protest the Iranian regime freely in Australia. He feels like he’s being watched

Tehran’s long arm into Australia is intimidating and surveilling those who speak out against the regime, activists say, as pressure grows on the federal government to shut down the Iranian embassyGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastSaeid Zand could hear the panic in his sister’s voice, though she tried to hide it.More than 12,000km away in Zand’s birth country of Iran, she delivered disturbing news over a WhatsApp call. Continue reading...

Adeshola Ore Community affairs reporterAustralian foreign policyIran

GuardianSep 28Preview

Massive great white shark spotted near whale carcass at popular Perth beach – video

Footage shows multiple sharks, including a five-metre great white, swimming near a large, smelly whale carcass that washed ashore at a popular Western Australia beach, drawing hundreds of onlookers. Surf lifesavers found the dead animal at Perth’s City beach at about 7.30am on Monday and raised the alarm. Local authorities closed the beach for several kilometres in each direction of the carcass, which appeared to be about six metres longAfter a dead whale washed up at a Perth beach, some took selfies. Others held their nose from the stench Continue reading...

PerthWestern Australia

GuardianSep 28Preview

In-laws arrested on suspicion of murder after New York Times engineer shot dead in California

Police arrest couple in their 70s after Jonathan McKinsey, 40, found dead in park in Bay Area city of DublinA married couple in their 70s have been arrested for allegedly shooting and killing their son-in-law, a New York Times engineer, in broad daylight at a suburban Bay Area park.A police officer found Jonathan McKinsey, 40, lying on the ground with multiple gunshot wounds in a park in Dublin, California, a small city about 35 miles (56.3km) east of San Francisco. Around the time the officer discovered him, 911 calls began pouring in from witnesses reporting the shooting. Continue reading...

Abené ClaytonCaliforniaUS news

GuardianSep 28Preview

OpenAI scraps release of new model over safety concerns in internal testing

GPT-6.1 Astra showed deceptive behavior and tried to use external tools despite knowing it would be unsafeOpenAI is scrapping the release of GPT-6.1 Astra, a next-generation ⁠AI model planned for an October debut, over safety concerns raised by researchers ⁠during internal testing, the ⁠Wall ​Street Journal reported on Monday.The model, expected to appear in ChatGPT and ⁠Codex, was designed to handle more complex tasks without human assistance, the report said. Continue reading...

ReutersOpenAIAI (artificial intelligence)

GuardianSep 28Preview

Gianni Infantino ready to accept demands for larger payouts from $6bn reserves

Fifa president says: ‘The ambition is welcome’Infantino mounts fresh defence of failed FFE schemeThe Fifa president, Gianni Infantino, is poised to bow to demands from Uefa and Concacaf to distribute more money from its $6bn cash reserves to member associations.In a letter sent on Monday to all six confederation presidents and copied to members of the Fifa council, Infantino indicated his willingness to “support the greatest level of additional funding”, without committing to the $10m-per-member that has been proposed. Continue reading...

Matt HughesFifaGianni Infantino

GuardianSep 28Preview

Investigation of alleged gang-rape at Cornell University fraternity house reopened

Outrage over treatment of alleged offenders, members of Chi Phi fraternity, has grown since lawsuit was made publicSign up for the Breaking News US newsletter emailProsecutors in New York said on Monday that they have reopened an investigation into the alleged gang-rape of a student at Cornell University after an outcry over “leniency” shown to seven fraternity members named as the perpetrators.According to lawyers for the student, who filed a civil lawsuit against the university and her alleged attackers earlier in September, only two members of the Chi Phi fraternity were expelled after the October 2024 incident, in which she said she was drugged and repeatedly raped over the course of seven hours.Information and support for anyone affected by rape or sexual abuse issues is available from the following organizations. In the US, Rainn offers support on 800-656-4673. In the UK, Rape Cris

Richard Luscombe and Maya YangUS universitiesUS crime

GuardianSep 28Preview

Five UK nationals arrested near RAF Fairford released on bail

Police say alleged offences could have been committed ‘knowingly or unknowingly’ on behalf of a foreign stateFive men arrested over a suspected bomb plot at RAF Fairford have been released on bail as police investigate why they were so close to the airbase in three vans with suspicious material in the back.The five suspects were revealed to be British men, all in their 20s and from London. They had been arrested in the Gloucestershire countryside early on Sunday morning on suspicion of explosives offences and preparing an act of terrorism, with an Iranian link a key line of inquiry. Continue reading...

Vikram Dodd Police and crime correspondentUK news