From the Guardian

  • ‘ICU on wheels’: 24 hours with Ukraine’s combat medics in Donbas

    Moas staff evacuate 80% of critically wounded soldiers from region’s battlefield, where medics say morale is fallingIt is around midnight in Donbas, eastern Ukraine, and the first emergency ambulance of the night is charging 75mph down a single carriageway road from the frontline. Inside, under the care of two watchful medics, is Ihor, an unconscious soldier wounded from the battle of Chasiv Yar, with shrapnel, perhaps from a mine, in his abdomen.The medics’ task is to complete the last leg of...

  • Thousands protest against Canary islands’ ‘unsustainable’ tourism model

    Local people say archipelago’s outdated industry made life unaffordable and prompts environmental emergenciesThousands of people will join protests across the Canary islands on Saturday to call for an urgent rethink of the Spanish archipelago’s tourism industry and a freeze on tourist numbers, arguing that the current, decades-old model has made life unaffordable and environmentally unsustainable for local people.The protests – which will take place under the banner “Canarias tiene un límite”...

  • Weekend podcast: the extraordinary story of the biggest art fraud in American history, plus Zoe Williams on Liz Truss

    Zoe Williams explores the greatest mystery of modern politics: Liz Truss’ self belief (1m15s), and Charlotte Edwardes delves into the extraordinary inside story of the biggest art fraud in American history (5m53s) Continue reading

  • Stereophonic review – dazzling 70s-set music saga is a Broadway triumph

    Golden Theatre, New YorkThe tale of a fictional British-American rock band trying to make an album makes for compelling and incisive dramaBeyoncé Knowles memorably said: “People don’t make albums any more. They just try to sell a bunch of little quick singles.” More than a decade ago, she spoke with startling accuracy on the wash-rinse-and-repeat cycle of music-making. The nameless record executives who want ditties in the key of TikTok. Success itself is an underwhelming boom-bust.Stereophonic,...

  • Solomon Islands election: PM Sogavare retains seat as count continues

    Full results are expected in coming days to determine whether Manasseh Sogavare’s Our party can form the next governmentSolomon Islands’ incumbent prime minister, Manasseh Sogavare, has retained his parliamentary seat, results showed on Saturday, but it will be days before vote counting determines whether his Our party can form the next government.Wednesday’s national election was the first since Sogavare struck a security pact with China in 2022, drawing the Pacific island country closer to...

  • Tanya Plibersek rejects windfarm proposed for biodiverse Queensland forest

    Plan for 85-turbine Wooroora project withdrawn after minister signals refusal because of threat to spectacled flying-fox habitatGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastA proposed windfarm next to the wet tropics world heritage area in north Queensland will not go ahead after the federal government signalled it would refuse the project.Ark Energy had proposed building the 85-turbine Wooroora Station windfarm – formerly known as the Chalumbin windfarm project –...

  • Priscilla, Queen of the Desert sequel in works with original cast, director confirms

    Stephan Elliott says Hugo Weaving, Guy Pearce and Terence Stamp are ‘onboard’ and the sequel will be set partly in Australia but will also head overseasGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailA sequel to The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert is in the works, director Stephan Elliott has confirmed, with the film’s stars Terence Stamp, Guy Pearce and Hugo Weaving “onboard” to come back.Elliott confirmed to Guardian Australia that he will serve as director, writer and producer on the...

  • Man dead and several injured after car crashes into bus following police pursuit near Dubbo

    Police attempted to stop the vehicle but a short time later it hit the bus on the Mitchell HighwayGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastA man has died and multiple people have been injured in a crash between a car and bus near Dubbo in the central west of New South Wales.Police said they had launched a critical incident investigation into the crash, which occurred on the Mitchell Highway on Saturday morning.Sign up for Guardian Australia’s free morning and...

  • Senate to hold vote after reaching deal to renew Fisa surveillance program

    Majority leader Chuck Schumer says bill, which House approved last week, is ‘important part of our national security toolkit’The US Senate has reached an agreement to approve the reauthorization of a controversial surveillance program and plans to vote on it on Friday night, Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer said.If the Senate votes to reauthorize the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which the House approved last week, it would secure what supporters call a key element of the United...

  • Elon Musk and X to fight Australian eSafety order to remove content relating to Sydney stabbing

    Company says it complied with directive over posts about stabbing of Sydney bishop but will challenge ‘unlawful and dangerous approach’ in courtGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastElon Musk and his social media company X have accused Australia’s eSafety commissioner of censorship and say they will challenge in court an order to remove content on the site relating to Monday’s Sydney church stabbing.On Tuesday the eSafety commissioner, Julie Inman Grant, said...

  • UAW secures historic union election win at Tennessee Volkswagen plant

    Vote makes Chattanooga factory first auto plant in US south to unionize via election since the 1940sVolkswagen workers at the carmaker’s Chattanooga plant in Tennessee have voted to unionize with the United Auto Workers, a historic victory for the union and the labor movement’s efforts to expand to the southern United States.The vote was the first union election to be held as part of the UAW’s ambitious organizing drive aimed at unionizing 150,000 workers at non-union auto plants around the US....

  • USC cancels Jon M Chu keynote speech in wake of valedictorian controversy

    University says it is ‘redesigning’ commencement plans days after it decided to prevent Asna Tabassum from speaking on 10 MayThe University of Southern California is “redesigning” its entire commencement plans – just days after making the controversial decision to cancel the valedictorian speech of a Muslim student – and will also cancel the keynote speech by film-maker Jon M Chu.The Los Angeles university’s provost, Andrew Guzman, said on Monday that it took the unprecedented step of canceling...