theguardian.comadded August 2026
World news | The Guardianby Robert Booth UK technology editor27 Aug 2026
The UK government expects the Instagram owner Meta to roll out the same protections for children in Britain as those it agreed in the US on Wednesday, as part of a court settlement that could cost...
World news | The Guardianby Rachel Hall27 Aug 2026
Rescue teams in Nepal are searching for at least 33 British nationals who are among those missing after flash floods ravaged its border with Tibet, killing at least 270 people.
World news | The Guardianby Mark Brown North of England correspondent27 Aug 2026
A woman who died in a house fire along with her seven-year-old niece has been described as “a beautiful soul”.
World news | The Guardianby Tom Ambrose27 Aug 2026
Kremlin dismisses US media 'scare stories' on CIA chief's Moscow visit The Kremlin dismissed US media reports that Russia could attack a Nato member state and that the purpose of CIA director John...
World news | The Guardianby Alex Daniel27 Aug 2026
A company that made its money promising to protect elderly people from nuisance calls has been fined £190,000 for “hounding” them with hundreds of thousands of nuisance calls of its own.
World news | The Guardianby Ben Smee Queensland state correspondent27 Aug 2026
The Queensland government’s latest law and order crackdown – subjecting some children as young as 10 to a mandatory sentence of a year behind bars – could lead to “cruel outcomes”, according to...
World news | The Guardianby Jillian Ambrose27 Aug 2026
Hundreds of Britain’s smallest power plants could remain at a higher risk to state-sponsored cyber-attacks until the 2030s despite a successful Iran-linked hack last month, it has emerged.
World news | The Guardianby Diane Taylor27 Aug 2026
Some of the most vulnerable children and young people in care are deliberately self-harming to avoid being abandoned when they get better or turn 18 and face a “cliff edge” of no further support...
World news | The Guardianby Tom McIlroy Political editor27 Aug 2026
Anthony Albanese has guaranteed Australia’s annual refugee intake will not be cut next financial year, shutting down plans for the arrivals quota to drop by one-third to Coalition-era levels.
World news | The Guardianby Anne Davies27 Aug 2026
A fugitive Sydney developer allegedly warned the then-New South Wales building commissioner that he would “harm” him if he got in the way of his projects which were being inspected for defects, the...
World news | The Guardianby Kalyeena Makortoff Banking correspondent27 Aug 2026
The City’s largest hedge funds, insurers and pension funds are racing to prepare for sweeping rules that will stop nearly 40,000 companies from hiding bullying and harassment cases from the...
World news | The Guardianby Luca Ittimani and Jonathan Barrett27 Aug 2026
Qantas could increase ticket prices and plans to expand add-on fees at its low-budget carrier Jetstar, after the company said fuel costs contributed to its lowest pre-tax profits in four years.
World news | The Guardianby Sandra Laville Environment correspondent27 Aug 2026
Levels of a toxic “forever chemical” rose to 13 times the legal limit during Thames Water pilots for a controversial multimillion pound water recycling scheme that will pump millions of litres of...
World news | The Guardianby Helena Horton and George Francis Lee27 Aug 2026
It will be a gut-wrenching moment for the horticulturalists at Kew Gardens when some of the magnificent trees in the Palm House have to be felled.
World news | The Guardianby Chris Osuh27 Aug 2026
Nathan Cofnas, the academic who accused Jason Arday of plagiarism, has been accused of having “very limited expertise” for his academic role by professors also working at Ghent University, who say...
World news | The Guardianby Matthew Pearce27 Aug 2026
Wild swimming has been linked to a higher risk of stomach bugs and skin rashes, according to the largest ever controlled study of illnesses associated with bathing in rivers and lakes.
World news | The Guardianby Kate Lamb with Hannah Ellis-Petersen in Delhi, and agencies27 Aug 2026
A glacial collapse triggered the catastrophic flash flood in Nepal and Tibet that roared down valleys, wiping out entire villages and leaving a preliminary death toll of at least 165 people, the US...
World news | The Guardianby Tim Jonze27 Aug 2026
Yayoi Kusama, the Japanese outsider artist who reached superstar status after decades living in a psychiatric hospital, has died aged 97.
World news | The Guardianby Benita Kolovos Victorian state correspondent27 Aug 2026
A levy secretly slapped on Victorian public transport users – designed to help pay for the Suburban Loop and other Big Build projects – will be scrapped, the state premier has announced.
World news | The Guardianby Penry Buckley27 Aug 2026
New South Wales police are investigating the death of a 16-year-old girl after a suspected sexual strangulation act.
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