From the Sydney Harbour fireworks to rooftop parties and a pop-up cinema in Melbourne, there are plenty of NYE events to bring in 2026
For close to 50 years we’ve waged an ever-escalating battle against one other – and our home town
NSW premier says some will find police presence confronting but ‘we won’t be mucking around’
The NSW premier wants ‘the public to be assured that there is a comprehensive and massive police response’ to Bondi. But at what cost?
NSW premier Chris Minns encourages Sydneysiders to ‘puff out your chest’, stating police on ‘high alert’ as more than 1 million people expected to celebrate in the city
More than 2,500 police will be deployed throughout metropolitan Sydney, including some with long-arm weapons
One passenger tells the ABC it was ‘chaos’ and she felt her life was in danger, but others shrug off the incident
When developers began circling Espíritu Santo island in the 1990s, a private conservation effort saw them off. But today the Unesco site faces a new threat: mass tourism
Brother Dong is one of a growing band of Chinese volunteers who are lending their support to Ukraine
Exclusive: Sales via intermediary companies appear to continue despite Michelin’s attempts to cut off trade
Editorial: Over the holiday period, the Guardian leader column is looking ahead at the themes of 2025. Today, how US foreign policy has dramatically – and alarmingly – turned towards Latin America and the Caribbean
From Stanley Tucci’s imperious tech titan to Lex Luthor’s distractingly hot CEO and Elon Musk-esque blowhards, films this year took us inside the billionaire mindset
US has verified as fake the claimed attack on Putin residence, says Zelenskyy; leaders of Ukraine’s allies to meet in France next week. What we know on day 1,407