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Australia news live: five-year-old seriously injured after being struck by ebike rider in Sydney

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-09-30T05:04:00+00:00

Follow the day’s news live Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastWho is potential Greens deputy leader candidate Steph Hodgins-May?So who is the first-term senator expected to announce a leadership ticket tilt with David Shoebridge?Get your dirty hands off our kids, that is our message to the fossil fuel industry, who have no place in early-learning centres, in schools, or in our cultural institutions in this country.Children should go to school to get evidence-based education, not to be brainwashed by fossil fuel corporations seeking to build social licence. Continue read

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Reanimated AI Greta Garbo stars again … in a ball-bearing advert

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-09-30T05:00:12+00:00

Relatives of Hollywood legend say her doppelganger could now be used for more glamorous rolesShe shimmered in Hollywood’s silent movie era and lit up the first talkies – now Greta Garbo may be about to star in cinema’s new AI age.More than a century after her screen debut and decades after her ashes were laid to rest in a Swedish woodland cemetery, the Hollywood superstar’s descendants are ready to consider an AI version of her taking a 21st-century film role. Continue reading...

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Nandy says children’s social media ban only ‘staging post’ in online safety drive

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-09-30T05:00:12+00:00

Exclusive: Culture secretary says UK will crack down further and be ‘pioneer of tech as a force for good’Lisa Nandy has warned technology firms that the government’s online safety crackdown is not finished, saying that banning under-16s from social media platforms is only a “staging post”.Earlier this year the government announced that teenagers under the age of 16 would be banned from accessing “high-risk” social media apps, while safer platforms would be subjected to restrictions. Continue reading...

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Healthy Babies programme to be expanded across England

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-09-30T05:00:11+00:00

Scheme will follow principles of Sure Start, helping families with infant feeding, mental health and bonding with babiesThe government is rolling out a Healthy Babies programme to every local authority in England, as part of its efforts to expand a Sure Start-type system of help for deprived children and families.It aims to support parents with infant feeding, their mental health and building strong bonds with their babies, alongside health visits, midwifery care and wider services. Continue reading...

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Mimi Sheller, sociologue : « L’administration Trump a préféré la mort par les combustibles fossiles à la transition verte »

Source: Le Monde - International · Published: 2026-09-30T05:00:10+00:00

Sous l’impulsion du capital carbone et des géants de la tech, les Etats-Unis s’enfoncent dans une « transition négative » qui sacrifie l’écologie au profit de l’hypermobilité des élites, explique la chercheuse américaine dans une tribune au « Monde ».

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India’s Sustainable Aviation Fuel readiness surpasses 50%: Report

Source: The Hindu Business Line – Markets · Published: 2026-09-30T04:54:40+00:00

The joint report by US aircraft major Boeing and RSB shows that India's opportunity will depend not only on production potential, but on the coordinated development of the wider enabling ecosystem

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Inflation leaps to 4% stoking fears of fifth interest rate hike before Christmas

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-09-30T04:40:25+00:00

Jim Chalmers says ‘higher global oil prices flowing through to oil prices in Australia’ are to blame for inflation rising from 3.5%Inflation has jumped to 4% in the year to August, from 3.5%, as Jim Chalmers was again forced to defend Labor’s economic management amid fears the Reserve Bank will need to hike interest rates again before Christmas.The increasingly embattled treasurer was accused of “gaslighting” Australians by insisting that government spending was not responsible for high inflation, blaming instead higher fuel costs associated with the ongoing US-Israel war on Iran. Continue rea

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Beau Lamarre-Condon trial: crime scene photos paint harrowing picture of alleged murder victims’ final moments

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-09-30T04:16:14+00:00

Former police officer has pleaded not guilty to murdering Jesse Baird and Luke Davies in early 2024Warning: graphic content Warning: graphic contentA hole in a door and a bullet bent out of shape: crime scene photos shown to a jury paint a harrowing picture of Jesse Baird and Luke Davies’s final moments. Continue reading...

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Apple Pay launches in India to take on PhonePe, Google

Source: The Hindu Business Line – Markets · Published: 2026-09-30T04:06:54+00:00

Customers can make payments across merchants using their iPhone, Apple Watch and iPad, with support for Mac coming soon

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Missile alerts cost Ukraine $45m for every hour they halt businesses

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-09-30T04:00:10+00:00

Figure cited by minister highlights trade-offs Kyiv faces as it tries to keep normal life moving amid Russian strikesMissile alerts are costing Ukraine an estimated $45m (£34m) for every hour they bring business to a halt, according to the country’s economy minister, as Kyiv searches for ways to keep the economy running under an intensifying Russian bombardment.Russia has increasingly targeted the infrastructure underpinning Ukraine’s economy, striking industrial sites, warehouses, logistics hubs and datacentres in what Oleksandr Kravchenko, the minister for economy and the environment, descri

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Tern turnaround: colonies in England show signs of recovery after decline

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-09-30T04:00:10+00:00

National Trust says latest figures encouraging – with numbers of birds on the rise – but work still to be doneEngland’s most important tern colonies are showing signs of recovery after being hit by years of bird flu, flooding and increasingly unpredictable weather, new figures from the National Trust reveal.The trust reported record numbers of little terns at Long Nanny in Northumberland, one of the UK’s most important breeding sites for what is the country’s second-rarest breeding seabird. Continue reading...

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Can a mushroom make music? Devon exhibition explores ‘cultural world’ of fungi

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-09-30T04:00:09+00:00

Exeter museum to host DJ’s ‘collaboration’ with woodland fungi and artist’s map of her own body’s mycobiomeFor one of the installations, a musician spent hours in woodland “collaborating” with fungi to create a soundscape inspired by the electricity they emit.Another is a kinetic sculpture of an extinct fungus that honours Beatrix Potter not for her tales of mischievous rabbits but for her lesser-known skills as a mycologist – a fungi expert. Continue reading...

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Australia news live: Chalmers blames inflation on fuel costs and end of energy rebates; Faruqi ‘disappointed’ by ballot

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-09-30T03:56:26+00:00

Follow the day’s news live Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastWho is potential Greens deputy leader candidate Steph Hodgins-May?So who is the first-term senator expected to announce a leadership ticket tilt with David Shoebridge?Get your dirty hands off our kids, that is our message to the fossil fuel industry, who have no place in early-learning centres, in schools, or in our cultural institutions in this country.Children should go to school to get evidence-based education, not to be brainwashed by fossil fuel corporations seeking to build social licence. Continue read

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CAFE III norms tighten targets, reward small cars and electrified vehicles

Source: The Hindu Business Line – Markets · Published: 2026-09-30T03:51:28+00:00

India’s final CAFE III norms tighten passenger-vehicle efficiency targets by nearly 17% through FY32; Maruti Suzuki, Renault and Nissan could benefit, while EV, hybrid, CNG and ethanol credits widen compliance options for Tata Motors, Toyota and Mahindra

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