Train drivers secure 3.6% pay rise after threat of strikes on busy UK routes
World news | The Guardianby Raphael Boyd·30 Aug 2026
Train drivers have secured a significant pay rise after the threat of strike action was floated on busy routes across the UK, including on the busy London-Manchester line.
Women in UK arts feel they do not have equal opportunities for roles, says report
World news | The Guardianby Rachel Hall·30 Aug 2026
Women working in the arts believe they do not have equal opportunities for roles, especially as they get older, according to a report saying that the industry is fixated with “young and emerging”...
Pet owners at risk of being ripped off by private equity firms as vet ownership rules change
World news | The Guardianby Helena Horton·30 Aug 2026
Pet owners have been warned that they could be unknowingly ripped off by private equity firms who have bought local vet clinics, after the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) removed...
Pacific Islands Forum meeting in turmoil after several leaders pull out of Palau summit
World news | The Guardianby Krishani Dhanji and Australian Associated Press·30 Aug 2026
Several leaders have pulled out of a the Pacific Islands Forum leaders’ meeting in Palau at the eleventh hour.
A lone Black woman’s defiance of Swedish neo-Nazis, 10 years on
World news | The Guardianby Ashifa Kassam in Stockholm·30 Aug 2026
The striking photograph showed a lone Black woman, her fist raised, standing in the path of hundreds of uniformed neo-Nazis on parade in 2016, and it made headlines across the globe.
Renee was at Gyirong Port minutes before flood struck, now her family want to travel from Australia to help search
World news | The Guardianby Cait Kelly in Kathmandu·30 Aug 2026
Clair Spry says her sister would hate the attention. She would want it focused on the Nepali people, who have been displaced or are in need of aid.
One Nation’s Secret Harbour byelection win shows Labor is at a loss when it comes to calming angry voters | Analysis
World news | The Guardianby Tom McIlroy Political editor·30 Aug 2026
The One Nation hype machine went into overdrive after Saturday’s Secret Harbour byelection but one thing is clear from the thumping victory.
Australia could make social media algorithms optional and follow UK ban on pornography depicting strangulation
World news | The Guardianby Krishani Dhanji·30 Aug 2026
The Australian government is considering allowing users to opt in or opt out of social media algorithms, and is looking at a recent UK ban on depictions of strangulation and suffocation in...
Families balance hope and despair in race to find survivors in Nepal as 41 Australians still missing
World news | The Guardianby Cait Kelly in Kathmandu·30 Aug 2026
Some of them are young, some old; most of them appear to be men. Some of them could be sleeping, except for the mud that covers their bodies.
News live: missing Australian woman found safe in Nepal flooding
World news | The Guardianby Luca Ittimani·29 Aug 2026
Missing Australian woman Cara Severino found after Nepal floods Cara Severino, an Australian woman in Nepal who was missing following devastating floods, has been located and is in contact with...
One Nation claims victory in Secret Harbour byelection in Western Australia
World news | The Guardianby Australian Associated Press·29 Aug 2026
One Nation has claimed victory in the Secret Harbour state byelection in Western Australia With 74.5% of the vote counted, One Nation’s Luke Herdegen leads Labor’s Georgia Tree 57-42 after...
August reveals Australians’ big appetite for weight-loss drugs, love for ‘dupe’ brands and an accelerating EV uptake
World news | The Guardianby Jonathan Barrett Business editor·29 Aug 2026
1. Anko everywhereKmart’s home brand, Anko, started out with a strategy of mimicking popular items, like Birkenstocks and Skims, at a fraction of the price.
Tennessee governor says he backs airport name change to honor Dolly Parton
World news | The Guardianby Edward Helmore·29 Aug 2026
Bill Lee, the Tennessee governor, on Friday said he favored a proposal to rename Nashville’s international airport after legendary country singer Dolly Parton, who died three days earlier at age...
LAPD releases footage of death of man whom police handcuffed and beat
World news | The Guardianby Uwa Ede-Osifo·29 Aug 2026
A cadre of Los Angeles police officers beat and restrained a handcuffed man in July, minutes before he was found dead in a jail cell, according to newly released body-cam footage.
Daughter traces mother and aunt’s last known location in Nepal through TikTok video
World news | The Guardianby Sammy Gecsoyler·29 Aug 2026
The daughter of a woman missing in Nepal has told how she traced her mother’s location through a TikTok video posted hours before the devastating flash flood hit.
Artemis II astronauts receive nation's highest space honor for their successful moonshot
World news | The Guardianby Associated Press·29 Aug 2026
The Artemis II astronauts who flew around the moon in April received the US’s highest space honor on Friday.
Michigan Senate candidate Mike Rogers says he saw Bin Laden’s body with his ‘own eyes’. He did not
World news | The Guardianby Robert Mackey·29 Aug 2026
In a recent fundraising email, the Republican candidate for Michigan’s open US Senate seat, former congressman Mike Rogers, appeared to mislead supporters about his past by suggesting that he had...
FBI no longer treating applicants’ experience with sex workers as automatic bar against hiring
World news | The Guardianby Associated Press·29 Aug 2026
The FBI is dropping a categorical hiring ban on applicants who have had sexual encounters with sex workers and will instead consider in a more holistic manner at least some candidates who have...
‘Their whole village has disappeared’: frantic hunt for survivors in Kathmandu hospital
World news | The Guardianby Hannah Ellis-Petersen and Gaurav Pokharel in Kathmandu·29 Aug 2026
Posters of missing people line the wall of the hospital, the glue still fresh beneath. A schoolgirl smiling in her uniform; a beaming, chubby-cheeked baby; a couple smiling on their wedding day; a...
Royal Navy spent three days tracking Russian vessels in UK waters
World news | The Guardianby Geraldine McKelvie·29 Aug 2026
The Royal Navy spent three days tracking Russian vessels as they passed through UK waters, it has emerged.
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