Today
Macquarie-owned water company must double payouts to angry customers
The UK government proposes forcing Southern Water and other utilities to pay more for poor service, after water shortages and polluted supplies.
- Jessica Shankleman
Tom Cruise dives into star-studded Paris closing ceremony
With golden fireworks, celebrities and thousands of athletes partying into the night, the closing ceremony put a final flourish to Paris’ first Games in a century.
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- John Leicester
The good, the bad and the ridiculous: We’ll always have Paris 2024
Sporting triumph and tragedy, a blockbuster Aussie medal haul, controversy, bad food, Gina Rinehart, Snoop Dogg. Here’s what you missed in the past fortnight.
- Hans van Leeuwen
Yesterday
Opals win bronze in emotional send-off for talisman Jackson
The women’s basketball team lifted Australia’s total medal tally to the highest since Sydney 2000, and made a fitting finale for the game’s five-time medallist.
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- Hans van Leeuwen
White supremacists turn UK riots into online recruiting pitch
Hard-line organisations previously designated by the UK as domestic terrorists are calling for an overthrow of the British government.
- Jeff Stone
Russia pushes back at Ukraine’s cross-border assault
One of the strikes on Ukrainian troops involved a thermobaric missile that causes a blast wave and suffocates those in its path, the Russian Defence Ministry said.
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- Kim Barker
- Analysis
- Paris 2024
Khelif gets her fairytale ending. The controversy’s far from over
‘I am a strong woman,’ says the Algerian boxer. The trouble is, not everyone agrees, and the fracas has now turned into an Olympic-level culture war.
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- Hans van Leeuwen
Australia’s athletes bag more Olympic medals than any Games since 1956
After Jess Hull won silver in the 1500m, the unsung Australian track-and-field team quietly surpassed the golden era of the 1960s.
- Hans van Leeuwen
The day of what-might-have-beens for Australia
The Aussie grip on the dais eased, with two silvers and three fourth-place finishes. But still third on the tally, just. Here’s what you missed overnight.
- Hans van Leeuwen and Zoe Samios
Stingers, denied by Spain, go out with heads held high
The Australian women’s water polo team won silver after a final that a scriptwriter might not have penned, but was nevertheless an honourable defeat.
- Hans van Leeuwen
This Month
Putin rushes reinforcements to Kursk as Ukraine seizes gas facility
Ukrainian forces reportedly took control of a key gas facility in Kursk after a stunning sweep through the region that took Moscow by surprise.
- Joe Barnes and Telegraph Video
Richardson wins silver in sprint at track cycling
Australia’s Matthew Richardson was unable to match Dutch legend Harrie Lavreyson, who successfully defended his Olympic gold medal from Tokyo.
- Roger Vaughan
Rampant USA runs roughshod over Opals
The USA has won the gold medal at every Olympics since Atlanta 1996. On Friday, it was easy to see why.
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- Hans van Leeuwen
Enter the battle zone as the Olympics starts ‘breaking’
Australian Rachael ‘Raygun’ Gunn didn’t get a medal in breaking - but the audience was the winner in a bizarre and high-octane spectacle. Here’s what you missed overnight.
- Hans van Leeuwen and Zoe Samios
Aussie diver takes superb silver to spoil China’s dominance
Maddison Keeney burst into tears of joy after nailing a crucial dive that won her a silver medal in the women’s 3m springboard.
- Ian Chadband
- Explainer
- Paris 2024
Freezes and flares: The newest Olympic sport explained
Breaking is the latest sport to appear at the Olympic Games. But how does it work, how do you win and can you make any money from it?
- Zoe Samios
In Paris, they’re asking: is the Olympic balloon our new Eiffel Tower?
In a sometimes controversial opening ceremony, the floating cauldron captured everyone’s imagination. Now France is considering making it a permanent fixture.
- Hans van Leeuwen
Inside the Paris ‘homes’ of the world’s best athletes
There is a way to get a glimpse of the world’s best athletes when you’re at the Olympics. And it isn’t at the pool, on the track, or at the Champions Park.
- Zoe Samios and Hans van Leeuwen
- Analysis
- Russia-Ukraine war
Ukraine punches through Putin’s lines in surprise war tactic
A government in Russia’s Kursk region declared a state of emergency as Ukrainian forces advanced several kilometres across the border.
- Andrew E. Kramer
‘Clearly failed’: Minister Watt moves to create CFMEU special powers
Murray Watt says he has given the construction and general division a strict deadline; Australia to accept nuclear material in new AUKUS deal; How the Olympics day 13 unfolded. Follow live updates.
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- Natasha Rudra and Lucy Slade
