EV sales outpace petrol cars for first time as Australians dodge soaring fuel costs
World news | The Guardianby Adam Morton·4 Sept 2026
Electric vehicle sales in Australia exceeded petrol cars for the first time last month as a transformation driven by high fuel prices and government policy encouraging clean car uptake accelerated.
Molly Ticehurst’s killer called woman he’d met on Tinder after stabbing and said ‘I’m sorry I murdered her’, court hears
World news | The Guardianby Australian Associated Press·4 Sept 2026
Two hours after Daniel Billings murdered his ex-girlfriend Molly Ticehurst in a frenzied stabbing, he spoke to a woman he had met on Tinder.
UN to vote on adopting new world map that shows Africa’s true scale
World news | The Guardianby Eromo Egbejule in Abidjan·4 Sept 2026
The UN general assembly will vote on Friday on a resolution for the world to formally phase out the traditional Mercator map of the globe in favour of one that more accurately displays Africa’s...
Missouri state legislative candidate accused of trying to plant cocaine on opponent
World news | The Guardianby Uwa Ede-Osifo·4 Sept 2026
A Missouri House race has been rocked by the Wednesday arrest of Republican candidate Thomas Ross, whom prosecutors accuse of attempting to frame his primary opponent Louise Secker for cocaine...
Trump names Adam Telle as acting army secretary following the departure of Driscoll
World news | The Guardianby Associated Press·4 Sept 2026
Donald Trump on Thursday named Adam Telle as the acting army secretary after the departure of Daniel Driscoll amid widespread reports of tensions with defense secretary Pete Hegseth.
Split verdict in New Orleans murder trial tied to staged-wrecks scheme
World news | The Guardianby Danny Monteverde of WWL Louisiana·4 Sept 2026
A federal jury in New Orleans on Thursday returned a split verdict after more than 30 hours of deliberations in a three-week-long blockbuster fraud and murder trial that garnered headlines far...
Missouri supreme court throws out new congressional maps backed by Trump
World news | The Guardianby Associated Press·3 Sept 2026
The Missouri supreme court has unanimously blocked new congressional districts backed by Donald Trump from being used in the November election and ordered a statewide vote on whether to uphold or...
Genetically modified pig kidney keeps man alive for record nine months
World news | The Guardianby Andrew Gregory Health editor·3 Sept 2026
A genetically modified kidney from a pig called Wilma has kept a 66-year-old man with kidney failure alive for a record nine months and successfully acted as a “bridge” to a human transplant in a...
Excavation work on Trump’s towering, gilded arch to begin over next two weeks
World news | The Guardianby Associated Press·3 Sept 2026
The Trump administration said on Thursday that excavation work will start over the next two weeks on the site where it plans to build a towering, gilded arch, a project that is facing a lawsuit and...
News live: Two more Australians confirmed safe in Nepal-Tibet floods; Hanson to make cost of living ‘worse’, union boss warns
World news | The Guardianby Nick Visser·3 Sept 2026
Two more Australians have been confirmed safe in the aftermath of the devastating Nepal-Tibet floods.
JD Vance reacts to airstrike that killed four at Iran wedding: ‘Things happen’
World news | The Guardianby Joseph Gedeon in Washington·3 Sept 2026
The US vice-president, JD Vance, said “sometimes things happen” when asked on Thursday whether an American strike was responsible for killing four people, including a child, at a wedding...
Reform officials ‘plotted to break law on foreign donations’ in undercover film
World news | The Guardianby Rowena Mason Whitehall editor·3 Sept 2026
Nigel Farage is facing fresh criticism on the eve of the Reform UK party conference after some of his team were filmed appearing to plot to avoid electoral laws on foreign donations in an...
We’re prepared to change the law to reform water industry, says Angela Eagle
World news | The Guardianby Kiran Stacey and Sandra Laville·3 Sept 2026
Britain’s insolvency laws cannot deal with the aggressive behaviour shown by the companies that control Thames Water, the environment secretary has said, as she confirmed ministers were prepared to...
Minister tells Brits to stock up on days of supplies after ‘supersize’ El Niño warning
World news | The Guardianby Kiran Stacey and Damian Carrington·3 Sept 2026
British people have been urged to have enough food and water on hand to survive a few days without power or water, as the UN said the El Niño climate phenomenon was “supersizing before our eyes”...
ICE officer who shot Venezuelan man in Minneapolis charged with lying to investigators
World news | The Guardianby Marina Dunbar·3 Sept 2026
A US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer has been indicted on charges of lying to investigators about the events leading up to the shooting of a Venezuelan man during the Minneapolis...
Israelis shoot dead two Palestinian teenagers after settlers encircle village
World news | The Guardianby Emma Graham-Harrison in Jerusalem·3 Sept 2026
Israelis have shot dead two teenagers in a Palestinian village encircled by settlers and Israeli troops have razed an entire village outside Hebron, the latest attacks in a surge of Israeli terror...
Former pardon attorney sues DoJ over ‘unlawful’ firing tied to Mel Gibson case
World news | The Guardianby Anna Betts·3 Sept 2026
The former pardon attorney for the US justice department, Elizabeth Oyer, filed a lawsuit on Thursday against the department and attorney general Todd Blanche, accusing them of “unlawfully” firing...
Higher education regulator apologises for imposing £585,000 fine on university
World news | The Guardianby Richard Adams Education editor·3 Sept 2026
England’s higher education regulator has apologised for a string of mistakes in its decision to punish the University of Sussex with a record fine that was later overturned by the high court.
Far-right Israeli minister outlines plan for removal of all Palestinians from Gaza
World news | The Guardianby Peter Beaumont·3 Sept 2026
Israel’s far-right national security minister has set out a plan for the illegal forced expulsion of all Palestinians from the Gaza Strip, with the intention of sending them abroad.
Serbians targeted with spyware in country’s ‘largest documented wave of surveillance’
World news | The Guardianby Aisha Down·3 Sept 2026
At least 14 people from across Serbian civil society were targeted with advanced spyware earlier this year in what the digital rights group Share Foundation said was the largest documented wave of...
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