Stephen Byrne

Seattle’s World Cup committee is pushing forward with LGBTQ+ rights celebrations this week despite backlash from the two teams involved on the field

Last week, the prime minister, Keir Starmer, announced a sweeping ban on under-16s that would stop them accessing social media apps including Snapchat, TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, X and Facebook by 2027. The move has been nicknamed an ‘Australia plus’ ban, after Australia became the first country to introduce a nation-wide ban on children accessing these apps at the end of last year. But how is it actually going over there? Political correspondent Aletha Adu teamed up with Guardian Australia social media host and reporter Matilda Boseley to find out.

Trump and Republican states are reviving this archaic death penalty method, and lawyers say for one man killed by gunfire, the process went very wrong. Guardian US reporter Sam Levin breaks down how we got here and speaks to advocates raising alarms

We've been treated to a vast collection of weird and wonderful football kits in the past couple of weeks, but what makes an iconic World Cup kit? Guardian reporter Robyn Vinter takes a closer look at the shirts that have captured fans’ imagination this summer – and whether they are destined for iconic status.

Guardian Australia watched the game with Argentina fans in Sydney, and Spain's fans in Melbourne

The seven-year-old songwriter says it would be 'cray-cray' if his favourite artist Jack Black reacted to his song

'[It’s] giving permission, it’s just normal to sing, it’s just normal to go and create something, it’s not normal to stay on a screen all day,' he says.

Miles Phillips says the inspiration for the catchy hit came while he was feeding birds on holiday at Raymond Island

Rafqa Touma speaks to Guardian Australia's technology reporter, lifestyle editor and a tech policy expert about Meta glasses

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