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Aussie student says he is ‘forced’ to live in car to study, reveals $10 daily food budget: ‘Rent has gone crazy’
A 26-year-old psychology student on Australia’s Gold Coast says he has been forced to live in his car in order to keep studying, after a sharp rent increase left him unable to afford housing on his government support payments. Jadon Lukas moved out of his share house in July after his rent rose by $80…
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Grim discovery inside Sydney unit as woman is found dead and man is rushed to hospital
Police in Sydney made a grim discovery during a welfare check at a unit in Wentworthville, in the city’s west, finding a woman dead and a man unresponsive. The incident, which occurred on the evening of Monday 7 September 2026, has prompted a police investigation, with detectives working to establish the circumstances surrounding the woman’s…
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Gaps in evidence on vaccinating badgers against TB, researchers say
Researchers from the British Ecological Society’s Wales policy group, along with academics from Cardiff and Aberystwyth universities, have warned that significant gaps in knowledge are undermining the effectiveness of vaccinating badgers against bovine tuberculosis (TB) in Wales. The issue is contentious, as bovine TB remains one of Wales’s biggest animal health challenges, with cattle regularly…
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Film Industry Leaders Demand Structural Fix for Gender Gap at Lumiere Summit
At the Lumière Summit, senior figures from StudioCanal, Canal+, the BFI, the Berlinale and the Toronto International Film Festival used a panel titled “Safer Sets, Different Stories: Why Gender Balance Matters” to call for structural, accountability-driven measures to close the film industry’s persistent gender gap. Speakers framed the underrepresentation of women behind the camera not…
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Experimental cancer drug could stop osteoporosis and help women stay slim after menopause
An experimental cancer drug called CADD522 has been found to strengthen bones and reduce fat gain in post-menopausal mice, offering a potential new approach to treating osteoporosis, a disease that affects around one in three women over 50. Unlike many existing treatments, which work by suppressing bone loss and can cause complications with long-term use,…
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University of Melbourne scholar charged with rape and ‘sex by fraud’ after child abuse material allegations as police reveal four active investigations
Anthony Brooks, a 33-year-old registered sex offender studying an honours course at the University of Melbourne, has been charged with a raft of new offences including rape and procuring sex by fraud. He appeared before Melbourne Magistrates’ Court seeking to vary his bail so he could travel to New South Wales for two months of…
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Boatbuilders review – a gentle study of craftsmen’s quiet expertise
A new documentary, Boatbuilders, premiering at the Venice film festival, follows craftsmen at the Brooklin Boat Yard in Maine over roughly a year as they construct a bespoke 56ft sailing yacht for a wealthy financier. Directed by Luke Lorentzen, the film is a quiet, observational study of skilled manual labour and the dynamic between the…
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Discovery beneath soccer field reveals massive medieval convent lost for centuries
Archaeologists in Roskilde, Denmark, have discovered the remains of St Clare’s Convent, a 13th-century religious complex that had been lost for centuries, buried beneath a football pitch. The find was made using ground-penetrating radar ahead of planned construction of an underground car park, and museum officials say the site is unusually well preserved, offering a…
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Two of the Universe’s Great Mysteries May Have Their Own Dimension
Physicists are increasingly exploring the idea that dark energy and dark matter, long treated as separate cosmic mysteries, may in fact be linked or even manifestations of a single “dark sector” theory. The renewed interest follows observations from the DESI collaboration in 2024, later reinforced by a larger 2025 study, suggesting that dark energy’s strength…
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End of the Road festival review – Pulp and CMAT lead indie landmark’s joyous birthday party
Guardian critics have delivered a highly positive review of End of the Road festival’s 20th anniversary at Larmer Tree Gardens in Wiltshire, praising it as a “warm, genre-hopping powerhouse” where fringe experimental acts receive as enthusiastic a reception as headliners. The festival’s evolution from its alt-folk and Americana roots into a broader, eclectic showcase, while…