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Climate crisis
First catastrophic climate tipping point reached, report says, with coral reefs facing ‘widespread dieback’

Unless global heating is reduced to 1.2C ‘as fast as possible’, warm water coral reefs will not remain ‘at any meaningful scale’, a report by 160 scientists from 23 countries warns

Gaza ceasefire live
Israeli hostages due to be released as Trump says ‘war is over’ and flies to Middle East

Woodside
Two legal challenges to North West Shelf extension filed on environmental and cultural grounds

Australia news live
Thorpe says ‘burn down parliament’ comment was a metaphor; Google says social media ban won’t make children safer

Trump tariffs
China warns US of retaliation over Trump’s 100% tariffs threat

In focus

Education
Two years after school phone bans were implemented, what has changed?

Phone bans are now well-established in many Australian primary and secondary schools. Have they made a difference?

Readers reply
Why do people become leftwing or rightwing?

Full Story podcast
Could Japan get its own Thatcher this week?

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Sport

Cricket
Australia chase down record score to defeat India in Women’s Cricket World Cup epic

Tennis
World No 204 Vacherot beats cousin Rinderknech to seal fairytale Shanghai win

World Cup 2026 qualifiers
McTominay and Adams on target as dismal Scotland edge out Belarus

Culture

Music
The passion – and politics – of Peter Combe: ‘Children are wonderful critics because they’re very intolerant’

Books
‘I wanted to write more than I wanted to have children’: author Sarah Perry on rejecting motherhood

Opinion

France is not alone in its crisis of political faith – belief in a democratic world is vanishing

Simon Tisdall

Editorial
The Guardian view on gen Z protests: these movements share more than an interest in anime

Lifestyle

Kindness of strangers
A woman paid for my groceries when I couldn’t

The moment I knew
He was so open and vulnerable, even as a bloke’s bloke

Technology

Spotify
‘Death to Spotify’: the DIY movement to get artists and fans to quit the music app