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From TV to toilet rolls: how to save on subscriptions
You can normally only sign up for free trials once, but there are lots of them to work your way through, especially when it comes to music, audiobooks and TV and film streaming.For example, Spotify Premium offers a month free (normally £11.99 a month), Apple TV+ a week free (normally …
‘It was chaotic but beautiful’: Warda Mohamed and Kosar Ali on filming the British-Somali short Muna
When Warda Mohamed posted a message on social media that she had completed her feature film script, she never expected it to change her career. “I genuinely thought it was just going to be a few people saying, ‘Oh my God, well done’,” she says. “I posted it at nine …
‘Deported because of his tattoos’: has the US targeted Venezuelans for their body art?
Like many Venezuelans of his generation, Franco José Caraballo Tiapa is a man of many tattoos.There is one of a rose, one of a lion, and another – on the left side of the 26-year-old’s neck – of a razor blade that represents his work as a barber.Two other tattoos …
‘He is innocent’: family of deported Venezuelan rebukes Trump claims
Donald Trump’s White House has described the Venezuelan migrants deported to a notorious prison in El Salvador as “heinous monsters” and terrorists who “rape, maim and murder for sport”.But relatives of Francisco Javier García Casique, a 24-year-old from the city of Maracay, say he was a hairdresser, not a crook.“He …
‘Heartbreaking’: poisoning suspected after mass deaths of more than 200 little corellas in Newcastle
New South Wales authorities are calling for the public’s help as it investigates the suspected poisoning and mass deaths of more than 200 little corellas across multiple Newcastle suburbs.The NSW Environment Protection Authority said it was interrogating pesticide misuse as the possible cause of the “serious incident”, based on its …
‘It’s a history lesson’: fossil fish up to 16m years old found perfectly preserved in central NSW
Fossil fish so exquisitely preserved that scientists have been able to reconstruct their final days from up to 16m years ago have been discovered in central New South Wales.Several fossils of small freshwater fish, embedded in an iron-rich mineral called goethite at the McGraths Flat fossil site near Gulgong, have …
Supermarket guards, truck drivers and ‘very big mistakes’: the failed role of western mercenaries in the fall of Goma
An investigation into Romanian mercenaries in DRC reveals how a disorganised operation with untrained recruits became a deadly ‘circus’
Experience: I moved in with my partner the day we met – now we’re married
Four days after she arrived I thought: this is it. I bought an engagement ring
In Romania, the far right has unleashed a tide of hate and resurrected our fascist ghosts | Andrei Popoviciu
Economic uncertainty and polarisation are a potent cocktail that extremist politicians such as Cǎlin Georgescu thrive on
How does ex-Tropical Cyclone Alfred compare to past storms?
As ex-Tropical Cyclone Alfred crossed the coast , authorities remain concerned about heavy rainfall and the potential for flooding.It is expected to make landfall in Queensland on Saturday as a tropical low.According to the Bureau of Meteorology, over the years, at least 20 cyclones have approached within 300km of south-east …
‘You just hope for the best’: rarely seen froglets – the length of a grain of rice – released into small patch of Victorian wilds
More than 3,000 critically endangered Baw Baw frogs have been released in Victoria’s east as part of a record-breaking conservation breeding program.Zoos Victoria’s reintroduction of 3,000 tiny froglets and 40 adult frogs into the high-altitude forests of the Baw Baw plateau, about 120km east of Melbourne, was the largest in …
Two girls fell in love at a camp for ‘troubled teens’ and made an audacious escape. Their captors weren’t far behind
Cassia and Ashley felt ‘dehumanized’ at the Re-Creation Retreat in Arizona, one of the many teen rehab facilities across the US.
Mysterious and vulnerable: the secret lives of Australia’s giant worms
One of the world’s largest worms might escape notice, if not for the loud gurgling noises that can be heard coming from underground as the species burrows and squelches through its moist clay.The giant Gippsland earthworm, a purple and pink colossus that lives in a small, wet patch about 100km …
Earth’s strongest ocean current could slow down by 20% by 2050 in a high emissions future
In a high emissions future, the world’s strongest ocean current could slow down by 20% by 2050, further accelerating Antarctic ice sheet melting and sea level rise, an Australian-led study has found.The Antarctic Circumpolar Current – a clockwise current more than four times stronger than the Gulf Stream that links …
The savage suburbia of Helen Garner: ‘I wanted to dong Martin Amis with a bat’
In early January, the Australian author Helen Garner decided to cut back an unruly bush in her garden. Garner lives in a Melbourne suburb in the adjoining house to her daughter, son-in-law, three grandchildren, some chickens and a dog. The family were away at the beach for the holidays and …
‘A dream come true’: Syrian twin actors return home after 14 years of exile in France
For the 41-year-old brothers, returning to their Damascus flat is bittersweet.
Eric Adams, Trump and a New York story that’s stress-testing the rule of law
In both real life and on film, New York City has often been a city linked with public scandals, corruption and high drama.But even Hollywood scriptwriters, so often keen on using the Big Apple as a backdrop, would have been hard-pushed to describe the astonishing events that have played out …
‘Let’s start a chapter of our own’: the couples who found love in bookshops
‘I’m also just a girl, standing in front of a boy, asking him to love her.” It’s been more than 25 years since Julia Roberts delivered that famous line to Hugh Grant in a travel bookshop at the end of Notting Hill. But romantic moments in bookshops are not just …
Tasmania fires destroy huge swath of wilderness and could ‘burn for weeks’
Fires that have razed 90,000 hectares of Tasmanian wilderness, including parts of the famous Overland walking track, could burn for weeks as firefighters battle to contain blazes in remote terrain.By late on Friday, more than 20 fires – which were sparked by dry lightning strikes on 3 February – had …
Domestic violence study that strangled rats should not have been approved, animal advocates argue
Animal welfare experts and advocates have questioned whether an Australian-led study that non-fatally strangled rats as part of research into the impact of intimate partner violence in humans should have been approved.They argue that, despite gaining necessary ethical approvals, the study’s use of animals lacked justification given the potentially severe …
‘Like finding gold’: plains-wanderers spotted in Melbourne’s west for first time in 30 years with help of AI
Critically endangered plains-wanderers have been found living in Melbourne’s west for the first time in more than 30 years.Notoriously elusive and difficult to spot, the rare birds were detected on two pockets of remnant grassland by Zoos Victoria, with the help of AI.The zoo installed 35 audio recorders, called song …
The one change that worked: I began a quiet, satisfying rebellion against the digital age
There’s something magical about holding a physical print of a moment you’ve captured. I first experienced this feeling as a teenager, when my aunt gave me a film camera for my 16th birthday.
