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Anthony Albanese has paid tribute to the victims of the Westfield Bondi Junction stabbings one year on from the tragedy.

Forty-year-old Joel Cauchi killed Ashlee Good, 38, Jade Young, 47, Yixuan Cheng, Pikria Darchia, 55, Dawn Singleton, 25, and Faraz Tahrir, 30, and injured a further 10 people at Westfield Bondi Junction on 13 April 2024 before he was shot and killed by police inspector Amy Scott.

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Fallout from Trump’s trade war is forcing some Guardian readers to cut back or stock up on items from food to cars

A few weeks ago, Dane began stocking up on “paper products”, “cases of paper towels, toilet paper”, “piddle-pads” for their shih-tzu, and his wife upgraded from an iPhone 8 to 14.

The 73-year-old in South Carolina said the purchases – which were made to get ahead of Donald Trump’s trade policies – reminded him of the early weeks of the Covid pandemic, when he scrambled to buy masks, gloves and toilet paper.

US Vermont senator’s tour with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has been drawing record-breaking crowds since February

The Vermont senator Bernie Sanders drew a record-breaking crowd at his rally in Los Angeles on Saturday, which included musical acts from Joan Baez and Neil Young, who encouraged the crowd to “take America back”.

Sanders’s Fighting Oligarchy: Where We Go from Here tour has been drawing massive crowds. Aided by the progressive New York representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the team set the record in Tempe, Arizona, for biggest-ever political rally in that state three weeks ago. In Denver, Colorado, more than 34,000 people showed up – a career-high crowd for the 83-year-old Sanders. Saturday in Los Angeles saw another record: at least 36,000 people packed a downtown park.

The comedian and absurdist on his favourite letters, favourite colours and least favourite shapes

Your first comedy show was called My Favourite Shapes. What is your least favourite shape?

A pentagon. Or an octagon. There’s a rigidity to it that I find displacing.

Julio Torres performs his show Colour Theories at Melbourne international comedy festival 15-20 April

Trump’s tariffs were sometimes played down, sometimes cheered but rarely seriously questioned by the right

While Donald Trump recently instituted and paused hefty tariffs, sparking a trade war and chaos in financial markets, most of the country’s conservative media either applauded the US president or critiqued the policy but not the person behind it, according to journalists and observers of conservative media.

Meanwhile, economists, business leaders, Democrats and even some Republicans warned that the tariffs, which prompted the largest American stock market drop since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, could cause a recession.

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It is now or never. Surely it is now or never.

Rory McIlroy will take a lead into the closing round of the Masters for the first time since 2011. That sentence barely does justice to a Saturday of high drama at Augusta National where McIlroy created history then threatened to feature in his own Shakespearean tragedy once more before re-establishing daylight between himself and the field. That sentence barely does justice, either, to what McIlroy is on the verge of. We are now in the position of fearing what on earth the impact will be on him should he not prevail.

While not thought of as a summer fabric, suede is the surprise trend for right now

From blazers to mini-skirts and slouchy shopper bags, we’re spoilt for choice in suede on the high street this year. As with most trends worth following, the provenance can be traced back to Prada and Miu Miu, the latter showing neat biker jackets and knee-length skirts styled with shirts (left) or swimsuits for summer: think fitted bodysuit with a sleek suede skirt and a minimal sandal.

The suede blazer or short jacket is an incredibly useful wardrobe addition. A blazer adds instant interest to a jeans and a T-shirt look and keeps a mini skirt look modern when worn with a chunky flat sandal or loafer. It’s perfect for that in-between April weather.

Administration fails to show they have taken any steps to facilitate the return of Kilmar Abrego García

The Trump administration on Saturday confirmed to a federal judge that a Maryland man who was wrongly deported last month remains confined in a notorious prison in El Salvador.

However, the White House filing did not address the judge’s demands that the administration detail the steps it was taking to return Kilmar Abrego García to the United States. The White House only confirmed that García was under the authority of the El Salvador government.

• Arnautovic and Martínez on target in 3-1 victory
• Barcelona stretch La Liga lead with win at Leganés

Inter cruised to a 3-1 win at home to Cagliari thanks to goals from Marko Arnautovic, Lautaro Martínez and Yann Aurel Bisseck to keep their grip on top spot in Serie A. Inter are six points clear of second-placed Napoli, who host lowly Empoli on Monday, with six rounds to go.

Arnautovic put the hosts ahead after 13 minutes by blasting the ball home from close range. Roberto Piccoli had the chance to pull Cagliari level when he found himself one-on-one with the Inter keeper Yann Sommer. However, the Swiss reacted swiftly, parrying the effort away.

• England score six tries after break in 49-5 victory
• ‘The girls are really good at resolving issues’

John Mitchell says his side “put themselves through the washing machine” in a difficult first half against Ireland in the Women’s Six Nations on Saturday. England were held scoreless until the 34th minute and only held a slender 7-5 lead at half-time. In 2024 the Red Roses led Ireland 38-3 at the break.

In the second half in Cork England shifted through the gears and they blew their opposition away to extend their winning run in the Six Nations to 32 games.

Lord Peter Hendy apologises after being spotted texting behind wheel of vintage Routemaster in London

The rail minister, Lord Peter Hendy, has reported himself to the police after he was spotted using a mobile phone while driving a vintage Routemaster bus in London during a charity tour.

The former Transport for London commissioner apologised for what has been described as an “error of judgment” after a passenger saw him texting behind the wheel of the double-decker last month.

• Boulter and Burrage beat Dutch pair in decisive rubber
• Sonay Kartal defeats Eva Vedder in singles in The Hague

With Great Britain’s presence at the Billie Jean King Cup this year hanging in the balance, their pivotal contest with the Netherlands tied at 1-1, Anne Keothavong made a dramatic call. Instead of the doubles specialist, Olivia Nicholls, present in The Hague precisely for these matches and with Harriet Dart positioned as the first-choice doubles team, the British captain chose to rely on the pure firepower provided by her singles players.

It turned out to be a stroke of genius. Katie Boulter and Jodie Burrage, both ranked outside the top 250 in doubles and with minimal experience together, produced an inspired performance to lead their team to victory with a dominant 6-2, 6-2 win over Suzan Lamens and Demi Schuurs.

Turkey’s president lashes out shortly after talks with Netanyahu’s government aimed at defusing tensions

The Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has lambasted Israel for undermining stability in neighbouring Syria during a diplomatic forum, days after the two countries held talks aimed at defusing an escalating conflict between them on Syrian soil.

“Turkey will not allow Syria to be dragged into a new vortex of instability,” Erdoğan told attendees at the Antalya diplomacy forum on the southern Turkish coast, accusing Israel of “trying to undermine the 8 December revolution”, in reference to the insurgency that toppled the former Syrian president Bashar al-Assad after decades in power.

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There’s a moment, 26 minutes and nine seconds into Disney’s Coco, where the film’s departed souls are trying to clear a customs desk in the afterlife. It’s a moment that Mary* can see clearly without ever looking at the screen. She’s seen Coco more than a thousand times, easy.

Mary’s sons, Ryder* and Murphy*, adore it. They light up when watching the film, pretzels in hand, and they stay, transfixed, right through to the end – the very end – every time. “My kids absolutely love credits,” Mary laughs.

When Mitch launched into a piano recital at his birthday party, his friends were gobsmacked by his hidden talent. Eoin O’Dwyer knew he was the man he had to marry

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Nobody spoke about being gay in Ireland. I come from a big Catholic family – six kids, millions of cousins – from a rural part of the country, and I didn’t think there was anyone like me. Although my parents and family have been unwavering in their support from the day I came out in 2001, they also understood my need to leave a country where, back then, a religion that didn’t recognise me was so dominant.

Cities like Sydney are queer beacons, and when a career opportunity arose I moved to a job at St Vincent’s hospital. That’s when I met Mitch, at a Mardi Gras party.

Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund each scored twice in a rollercoaster second half for an entertaining 2-2 draw in the Klassiker on Saturday that kept the Bavarians six points clear at the top with five games left.

Bayern have 69 points ahead of second-placed Bayer Leverkusen, who earlier drew 0-0 at home to Union Berlin.

Special powers granted to prevent the collapse of British Steel’s Scunthorpe works

Emergency legislation allowing the government to instruct companies to keep loss-making steel operations in England open, or face criminal penalties for their executives, were passed yesterday during an extraordinary sitting of parliament.

MPs and peers trooped into Westminster for a rare Saturday sitting after prime minister Keir Starmer and a small team of cabinet ministers decided on Friday morning that special powers were needed for the business secretary Jonathan Reynolds to prevent the imminent collapse of British Steel’s Scunthorpe steelworks, with the furnaces going out, and the loss of thousands of jobs.

• Women’s Six Nations: Ireland 5-49 England
• Much-improved Irish trailed only 7-5 at half-time

As the saying goes, it is the hope that kills you and that was definitely the case for the Irish fans in Cork. Ireland’s classy first-half performance had a nation daring to dream of a first win over their rivals since 2015, which highlights their remarkable improvement.

Almost a year ago they fell to an 88-10 defeat at the hands of England but have gone on to beat New Zealand and the USA. The hosts kept England from scoring in this encounter until the 34th minute and they frustrated large parts of their game. But the Red Roses know how to flick a switch and turn on their clinical edge, which is exactly what they did in the second half which was complete one-way traffic as they once again proved why they are the No 1 team in the world.

• Quarter-final: Northampton 51-16 Castres
• Young flanker dazzles with two tries in Champions Cup

What is the East Midlands equivalent of deja vu? For the second season in succession Northampton are into the Champions Cup semi-finals and have booked themselves a trip to Dublin to face Leinster. Last time they came within three points of victory so, on paper at least, there is still a chance that Saints can march all the way to next month’s final in Cardiff.

All the evidence would suggest, though, that Leinster are a more formidable force this year than last while Northampton had be initially resolute to see off a hard-edged Castres team who competed strongly until two tries in five minutes early in the second half from the fit-again George Furbank and the man-of-the-moment Henry Pollock cracked their resistance.

Manager’s predecessor, Gary O’Neil, also enjoyed a fine start before things took a seemingly inevitable downturn

Managers rise and managers fall and often there isn’t much reason for it. It was only a year ago that Gary O’Neil seemed one of the brightest young managers in the Premier League, but by December it was over. This is how football is: when a blip becomes a slump becomes a spiral, the only solution is the sacrifice of the manager. It often works: Wolves have improved dramatically under Vítor Pereira and, while they may not yet be mathematically safe from relegation, they surely soon will be.

The life of man, the folk carol reminds us, is but a span; the life of a manager is even shorter (but a spanager?). O’Neil had replaced Scott Parker at Bournemouth four games into 2022-23, after their 9-0 defeat by Liverpool, and had kept them up comfortably, only to be jettisoned for Andoni Iraola. He took over Wolves less than a week before last season began and had them in the top half in March.

The last time we were here, on Tuesday night, Arsenal enjoyed surely the finest occasion in Emirates Stadium history. The 3-0 win over Real Madrid in the first leg of the Champions League quarter-final will live forever; the return is eagerly awaited on Wednesday.

It was always likely to be lower-key here, Mikel Arteta making five changes to his team and watching them labour. The blood and thunder of the Madrid tie was missing; the do-or-die imperatives. It was a slog for Arsenal and as the hour mark approached, Arteta knew he had to do something. He readied three stellar substitutes – Myles Lewis-Skelly, Martin Ødegaard and Bukayo Saka.

It’s time to fashion a new global trade order without the US

The game-changing geopolitical event last week was the near collapse of the immense $29tn ­market in US government debt, threatening the stability of the American and global financial system and the safe-haven status of dollar assets.

The US president boasted as the collapse unfolded that world leaders were queueing to “kiss his arse”. Twelve hours later, he was in the same humiliatingly weak position as the then British prime minister Liz Truss found herself after her tax-slashing “mini-budget” in 2022. The markets had forced him to pause for 90 days the swingeing range of “reciprocal” tariffs that he announced on what he proclaimed “liberation day”; instead he lowered all of them, bar that on China, to 10%.

• Lando Norris to start sixth as McLaren teammate takes P1
• Russell and Antonelli drop a place for Mercedes mistake

The expectations that McLaren would be strong for the Bahrain Grand Prix were proved in qualifying as Oscar Piastri claimed a powerful pole but their dominance was far from as complete as had been expected, with his teammate Lando Norris, the champ­ionship leader, managing only sixth.

Piastri was pushed hard by the Mercedes of George Russell who took a superb second place, with his teammate Kimi Antonelli equally impressive in fourth and Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc in third.

• Ferrand-Prévôt is first French winner of women’s race
• ‘It could be my best win ever,’ says Olympic gold medallist

France’s Pauline Ferrand-Prévôt overcame sickness and a crash to win the Paris-Roubaix women’s race for the first time on Saturday.

The 33-year-old delivered a well-timed solo breakaway, to add the prestigious and gruelling Spring classic to her Olympic mountain bike gold medal at the Paris Games last year and the 2014 world road race title.

Counter-terror police lead investigation after Hashem Abedi’s ‘vicious’ assault at HMP Frankland

Counter-terrorism police are leading the investigation into an attack on three prison officers by the brother of the Manchester Arena bomber.

Hashem Abedi, who ploted the 2017 bombing, attacked three prison officers with hot cooking oil at a high-security prison, the Prison Officers’ Association (POA) said.

Musician best known for tracks such as Chase the Devil and War Ina Babylon rose to fame in the 1960s

Max Romeo, the influential Jamaican reggae artist best known for tracks such as Chase the Devil and War Ina Babylon, has died at the age of 80.

The singer, known to his family and friends as Maxie Smith, died after heart complications in Saint Andrew Parish, Jamaica, on Friday.

Barrages of popcorn and even live poultry are featuring at screenings of A Minecraft Movie

‘Chicken jockey!” If you know what this phrase means, you’re either a preteen boy or have accompanied one to a recent cinema screening of A Minecraft Movie.

Warner Bros’ latest money-spinner is a movie adaptation of the Swedish game Minecraft, a prerequisite in the social lives of children between the age of eight and 12. The game enables children to explore and reconfigure a creative digital environment, accumulating resources in a world built from blocks. The movie enables children to explore and reconfigure the codes of basic decency in a cinema environment, testing the limits of any hapless usher left to supervise.

• Italian fights back to win semi-final 1-6, 6-4, 7-6 (4)
• Carlos Alcaraz beats Davidovich Fokina 7-6 (2), 6-4

Alex de Minaur has had the most scorching clay-court spell of his career finally doused in the semi-finals of the Monte Carlo Masters in a nail-biting loss to Lorenzo Musetti.

Seeking to become the first Australian since John Newcombe in 1969 to reach the final of the prestigious Masters 1000 event, De Minaur continued surfing on his extraordinary wave of success over the week by blasting past his Italian opponent, taking the first set 6-1.

The open door of American democracy is slamming shut faster and louder than we could have imagined

On Friday afternoon, a federal immigration judge in Louisiana ruled that Mahmoud Khalil, the lawful permanent resident who was arrested last month for his advocacy for Palestinian rights at Columbia University, was removable – that is to say, deportable – under the law.

Let’s be absolutely clear about how outrageous this decision is. The judge, Jamee Comans, had given the Trump administration a deadline to produce the evidence required to show that Khalil should be deported. In a functional state, such evidence would rise to a standard of extreme criminality necessitating deportation.

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Manchester City 5-2 Crystal Palace

Brighton 2-2 Leicester City

Nottingham Forest 0-1 Everton

Southampton 0-3 Aston Villa

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An extremely smiley Bryson DeChambeau has a chat with CBS Sports. “If I can just keep it in the fairway … iron shots into the green … I watch a lot … see what players are doing … where the pin locations are … how people are playing it … trying to get comfortable with that … get my day started off a little late on purpose … feel comfortable like I’m just getting up, getting ready to go play some golf and have a good time … I’m excited … it’s gonna be a lot of fun!”

Shot of the week at 12 by Denny McCarthy! At the 155-yard par-three, he lands his ball five feet in front of the flag. A couple of tiny bounces take it a couple of feet closer, but no further. That’s a kick-in birdie, though. The 32-year-old from Florida, whose best finish here was a modest tie for 45th last year, moves into the red at -1 overall. So close there to only the fourth ace at 12 in Masters history. The others: the two-time US Open champion Curtis Strange in 1988, the amateur Bill Hyndman in 1959, and Claude Harmon, Butch’s dad, in 1947 (a year before his victory).

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The author of bestseller The Ministry of Time on how lockdown telly, Terry Pratchett and her Cambodian heritage shaped her Arctic time travel tale

Kaliane Bradley, 36, lives in east London and works as an editor at Penguin Classics. Her debut novel, The Ministry of Time (Sceptre), was published last year to critical acclaim and a place in the bestseller charts and is out in paperback now. It’s a vivid time travel tale following Lieutenant Graham Gore, a crew member of Franklin’s lost 1845 Arctic expedition, who is brought back to life in the 21st century as part of a government experiment. He develops an unlikely relationship with his “bridge”, a contemporary character helping him assimilate to the modern world. It was longlisted for the 2025 women’s prize for fiction and the BBC has commissioned a TV adaptation.

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Lovely and discombobulating. I veer wildly between immense gratitude and intense impostor syndrome. But I’m still working 4.5 days a week, so I’m grounded by my job.

Emergency legislation giving government power to instruct British Steel to keep plant open passed unopposed

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Proposals to save British Steel’s Scunthorpe blast furnaces have been granted royal assent after an extraordinary parliament sitting on Saturday.

Emergency legislation giving the government the power to instruct British Steel to keep the plant open passed the Commons and Lords in a single day unopposed.

Researchers behind test using biomarkers say it could ‘revolutionise’ early diagnosis of disease

Researchers have developed a simple and “cost-effective” blood test capable of detecting Parkinson’s disease long before symptoms emerge, according to a study.

About 153,000 people live with Parkinson’s in the UK, and scientists who undertook the research said the test could “revolutionise” an early diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease, “paving the way for timely interventions and improved patient outcomes”.

It’s not as sensational as recreating long-dead species, but conserving modern-day fauna is far more pressing

The parable of the Mars mission: we’d rather spend trillions sending ourselves to a yet unlivable planet than look after the one we have. And swiftly on its heels, the parable of the dire wolf. We’d rather resurrect a 12,500-year-old species from the dead than save our existing wild animals. Of course we would. Recycling is boring; doing the very thing 90s science fiction movies warned us not to do is fun.

We are not quite on the verge of bringing back ancient species. But last week the PR campaign for doing so began in earnest. Colossal Biosciences – a company known for trying to revive the dodo, the mammoth and the thylacine – has unveiled three large adorable white puppies, claiming it has created “the world’s first successfully de-extincted animal”: the dire wolf, made famous by Game of Thrones. It invited author George RR Martin to look; he duly burst into tears.

• 47-year-old had been feeling unwell ‘for a number of days’
• Howe admitted on Friday and is receiving expert care

Eddie Howe will miss Newcastle’s match with Manchester United on Sunday after being admitted to hospital for tests late on Friday night.

The 47-year-old has been told he will not be discharged until Sunday at the earliest as medical staff assess an unspecified condition that kept him at home in bed during the latter part of last week. He was understood to still have been undergoing tests on Saturday afternoon.

It should be the best of times for Nottingham Forest but the great expectations of securing an historic Champions League spot risk making it the worst if they miss out. A Murillo mistake gifted Everton victory in stoppage time as the pressure started to show at the City Ground.

The Brazilian centre-back lost the ball just inside the Everton half, allowing Dwight McNeil to breakaway and slip in Abdoulaye Doucouré to finish the job in the 94th minute. The visitors deserved the win against Forest, who did not live up to their lofty position of third place amid a disappointing performance.

An animal’s chance of survival after domoic acid poisoning is 50-50, and this year an outbreak has sickened hundreds

It was just after 8am on Tuesday, a thick morning fog still clinging to the California coastline, and SeaWorld’s animal rescue team had already made their first save of the day: a hefty, sick-looking sea lion that had been waddling dangerously close to a four-lane highway in downtown San Diego.

Now, in a private area of SeaWorld that few of the theme park’s thousands of daily visitors ever get to see, the rescue team was in full “triage” mode. Half a dozen staff members maneuvered the caged sea lion off the bed of a truck, and grabbed IV bags full of fluids and vitamins.

The word cholita has in the past been used as a pejorative term for the Indigenous Aymara women of Bolivia. But the women in these photographs are reclaiming the word: they are “Cholitas Escaladoras”, or climbing cholitas. In 2019, they summited the 6,961 metre (22,841ft) peak of Mount Aconcagua in Argentina, the highest mountain outside Asia, while wearing traditional dresses and shawls. After reading about them in an article, photographer Todd Antony flew out to feature them in a series. “I wanted to capture their strength and pride,” he says. “In the very recent past, Aymara women were socially ostracised and systematically marginalised. Their act of climbing breaks the stereotypes associated with them and mirrors their rise out of oppression.”

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