Today
Spy drone scandal rocks Olympic soccer as police detain Canada staffer
The women’s soccer tournament is in chaos after New Zealand reported a drone spying on their session, leading to the dismissal of two Canadian coaching staff.
- 31 mins ago
- Hans van Leeuwen
Aussie boxers have a huge chance in Paris - but it could be the last
Boxing, one of the Olympics’ most ‘pure’ and accessible sports, could be axed for 2028. The Aussies say this would be ‘a crime against humanity’.
- 51 mins ago
- Hans van Leeuwen
Australian flag bearers for Paris revealed
Paddling champion Jessica Fox and hockey veteran Eddie Ockenden will carry the Aussie flag as they sail down Paris’ river Seine in an unorthodox opening ceremony.
- Zoe Samios and Hans van Leeuwen
Lex Greensill accused of misconduct in UK legal twist
Details of the UK Insolvency Service’s lawsuit against the Australian emerged after the High Court in London ordered a partial release of documents.
- Cynthia O’Murchu and Robert Smith
The comfort food that’s fuelling Australia’s athletes
To conquer the world, one thing the Aussie competitors need is some of their favourites from home.
- Hans van Leeuwen
As Australians are attacked at Olympics, 45,000 police to hit streets
Olympic officials have warned of a broad range of security threats in Paris, from protests to crime and even war, as authorities step up protection for Israeli athletes.
- Zoe Samios and Hans van Leeuwen
France faces glut of unwanted Olympics tickets
A lack of demand in the secondary market has left many holding tickets they cannot sell, while organisers have continued to release more tickets.
- Josh Noble and Joanna S Kao
Brisbane Olympics boss: Stop making 2032 Games a ‘political football’
Andrew Liveris claims plans for the Queensland event is running “ahead of schedule” with cricket remaining a possibility to be added to the roster of sports.
- Zoe Samios
Yesterday
Putin’s growing LNG ‘dark fleet’ raises alarm
A mysterious buying spree of gas tankers has driven up the prices of older vessels as Moscow prepares for tighter trade restrictions.
- Shotaro Tani and Oliver Telling
This Month
Nine CEO runs in Paris torch relay as strike action looms at home
The company’s chief executive, Mike Sneesby, waved happily to French locals hours after journalists in his publishing division voted overwhelmingly in favour of a five-day strike.
- Zoe Samios
- Exclusive
- Paris 2024
Labor wants quotas for women on sports boards
Almost 56 per cent of Australians competing in Paris are women – the highest proportion in history. But this is not reflected on the boards of most sports.
- Zoe Samios
US journalist sentenced to 16 years in Russian prison
The Wall Street Journal’s Evan Gershkovich becomes the first Western reporter to be convicted of spying in modern Russia, and could be used in a prisoner swap.
- Ivan Nechepurenko
We don’t know when rates will be cut again, ECB says
European Central Bank chief Christine Lagarde says the question of an interest rate cut in September is “wide open”, and dependent on data.
- Hans van Leeuwen
Fewer aristocrats: Starmer lays out left-wing vision
The supposedly cautious UK PM is proposing taxpayer funds for green energy, nationalising the railways and rolling out new workers’ rights.
- Updated
- Hans van Leeuwen
Paris mayor dives into Seine River to prove it’s safe for the Olympics
The big question on French lips is not whether the chronically polluted waterway will host sports, but whether President Emmanuel Macron will also take a dip.
- Hans van Leeuwen
- Analysis
- Russia-Ukraine war
Russia’s vast stocks of Soviet-era weapons are running out
The much-vaunted offensive against Kharkiv in the north that began in May is fizzling out. Advances elsewhere have been strategically trivial and at huge cost.
- The Economist
French government to resign but stay on in caretaker role, sources say
The caretaker government will run current affairs in France, including the start of the Olympics, but cannot pass laws.
- Elizabeth Pineau
Aussie who says he invented bitcoin faces UK crime probe
Australian inventor Craig Wright has claimed for a decade that he created bitcoin but now faces perjury allegations in a UK criminal court.
- Sam Tobin
France’s left-wing parties struggle to unite, Socialists’ leader says
The New Popular Front, an alliance ranging from socialists and Greens to the communist party, won the parliamentary election but fell well short of a majority.
- Sudip Kar-Gupta
Britain’s ultra-rich ‘non-doms’ prepare to flee Labour tax rise
Living in the UK but not legally domiciled, they pay more than £8 billion in taxes a year, and now Keir Starmer’s new government plans to increase their levies.
- Ben Stupples
