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Sunday in the Park With George musical cancelled, after Ariana Grande and Jonathan Bailey both drop out

The star-studded Sondheim musical has hit the buffers after a second star, Jonathan Bailey, joined his Wicked colleague Ariana Grande and left the production First, it was Ariana Grande who dropped out . Then her co-star Jonathan Bailey followed her out the door. Now, the London revival of Sunday in the Park With George has been cancelled altogether , with organisers perhaps anticipating that it would be hard to sell tickets for a star-studded musical without the stars. Grande and Bailey, who appeared together as Glinda and Fiyero in Wicked and Wicked: For Good , had originally been cast as Dot and George in Stephen Sondheim’s hit musical. It was set to debut at the Barbican in the summer of 2027. Continue reading...

The GuardianThe Guardian•Tim Jonze14 Sept

Trump says he will consider releasing more 9/11 records after families’ request

Families have asked Trump to declassify records that could shed light on Saudi Arabia’s alleged role in the 2001 attacks Donald Trump said Sunday that he will look into requests from families of 9/11 victims to release records that could shed light on Saudi Arabia’s alleged role in the attacks 25 years ago. Several families have long alleged that a group of extremist religious leaders in Saudi Arabia gained influence in the kingdom’s government and aided the hijackers. Fifteen of the 19 hijackers were Saudis, but the Saudi government has long denied any involvement in the attacks. Continue reading...

The GuardianThe Guardian•Associated Press14 Sept

Macklemore dropped from Ed Sheeran’s US tour after ‘free Palestine’ speech

The American rapper will no longer support Sheeran’s US leg of Loop tour after comments at MetLife Stadium show Macklemore has been dropped from the remainder of the US leg of Ed Sheeran ’s Loop tour, after the American rapper drew headlines for saying “free Palestine” on stage at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey. In a brief speech between songs on 4 September, the Grammy-winning artist told the audience he wanted the people of Gaza and “the occupied West Bank” to know “we have not forgotten about them”, prompting a petition from the Israeli American Council demanding his removal from the tour. Continue reading...

The GuardianThe Guardian•Adrian Horton14 Sept

VARs who wrongly allowed Haaland’s goal at Manchester United are stood down

Matt Donohue and his assistant not used this weekend Pro Ref said allowing winner was ‘error of judgment’ The video assistant referee officials who allowed Erling Haaland’s winning goal in the Manchester derby on Sunday have been stood down from their responsibilities. Matt Donohue and his assistant, Blake Antrobus, have been told by Pro Ref they have not received appointments for the next round of Premier League fixtures, due to take place next weekend. Continue reading...

The GuardianThe Guardian•Paul MacInnes14 Sept

England give Fleming unprecedented consent to balance job with TV role in New Zealand

Test coach to work for Sky NZ in October and December Fleming will plan South Africa tour in upcoming weeks England’s new Test head coach, Stephen Fleming, will return to New Zealand to work as a commentator on the Black Caps’ Test and white-ball series against India next month, despite having formally started work. Fleming is due in England this week for talks with the captain, Joe Root, and the England and Wales Cricket Board’s managing director of men’s cricket, Rob Key, after missing the three-Test series against Pakistan this summer with the batting coach, Marcus Trescothick, presiding over a 3-0 win. Continue reading...

The GuardianThe Guardian•Matt Hughes14 Sept

‘Party for sale’? Reform’s £72m donation causes backlash – podcast

There’s been a huge backlash against Reform UK after the party received £72m from two crypto billionaires over the weekend. Paul Nowak, the TUC leader, said the money showed democracy was ‘in crisis’. Labour is pushing for tighter restrictions on political donations which could be retrospective, but Reform is confident this will not affect its new war chest. How much does this money change the political landscape? And with Labour receiving millions from unions, will its new rules backfire? Please keep sending your comments and questions to politicsweeklyuk@theguardian.com . Please follow and subscribe to the Politics Weekly YouTube channel here Continue reading...

The GuardianThe Guardian•Presented by Pippa Crerar and Kiran Stacey, produced by Nada Smiljanic, music by Axel Kacoutié; the executive producer is Maz Ebtehaj14 Sept

Hunt and Kerr have lit up the summer, but star athletes remain wary over Spoty

‘It’s not a given, that’s the reality,’ Kerr says in Budapest Athletes cautious over BBC’s informal shortlist policy It should be the biggest no-brainer of the sporting year. After a summer where athletics has captured hearts and headlines, and made so many fans fall back in love with it again, either Amy Hunt or Josh Kerr should win the award for BBC Sports Personality of the Year. The bookies’ odds suggest many others think the same way: Hunt is the even-money favourite, Kerr is second, with Harry Kane a stride or two back in third. Yet Kerr knows he cannot take anything for granted. Continue reading...

The GuardianThe Guardian•Sean Ingle14 Sept

Crispin Odey loses appeal against lifetime ban from UK financial services industry

Judges uphold ruling that financier tried to ‘frustrate’ investigations into harassment claims against him The former hedge fund boss Crispin Odey has lost a legal challenge to overturn his lifetime ban from the City for trying to “frustrate” investigations into sexual harassment allegations against him. A ruling by judges at the upper tribunal upheld the ban imposed by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) in March last year , while reducing a proposed fine of £1.83m to £1.53m. Continue reading...

The GuardianThe Guardian•Kalyeena Makortoff Banking correspondent14 Sept

Uganda reverses Invictus Games withdrawal after reassurance from King Charles

Military chief had pulled country out over ‘Harry-Meghan nonsense’ but U-turned after clarification from the palace Uganda has U-turned on its decision to withdraw from the Duke of Sussex’s Invictus Games after the country’s military chief said he had been reassured by King Charles that there was “no problem” with its participation. Last week, Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba, the eldest son of the Ugandan president, Yoweri Museveni, made the surprise announcement the country would not participate in the games in a post on X. He said he was motivated by his respect for the king amid division over the “Harry-Meghan nonsense”. Continue reading...

The GuardianThe Guardian•Rachel Hall14 Sept

Oasis announce 2027 tour, including return to Knebworth 30 years after historic concerts

After 2025’s wildly lucrative reunion, the Gallagher brothers will tour the UK, Ireland and US, and revisit the Hertfordshire site of their greatest live triumph Oasis have finally confirmed new tour dates for 2027, including their long-rumoured return to Knebworth for a run of shows 30 years after they played a historic two nights at the Hertfordshire venue in 1996. “Start the celebrations!”, the band said in a statement. “After a period of reflection, The Most Damaging Pop Cultural Force In Recent British History” – a quote from a Guardian opinion piece about the band – “has declared itself fit for purpose and will once again return to lift the spirits of the people. Come witness the fitness. It shall be a sight to behold.” Continue reading...

The GuardianThe Guardian•Laura Snapes14 Sept

Australia’s dependence on gas generation during evening energy peak falls by almost 70%

Batteries now meet almost half of the grid’s dispatchable power needs during hours of highest demand Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Australia’s dependence on gas for power during the evening, when the grid is under the most pressure, has fallen by almost nearly 70% over the past year as batteries surged in, replacing the fossil fuel . Gas generation during the busy early evening, between 5pm and 8pm, fell by 67% in the year to August, as large-scale batteries continued to come online and half a million home batteries were installed under the government’s subsidy program, analysis by consultancy EnergyEdge found. Continue reading...

The GuardianThe Guardian•Petra Stock14 Sept

Gonorrhoea and syphilis rise by more than 50% in Australia with ‘concerning’ rise in cases in women

Newly collated data also shows Indigenous Australians experiencing disproportionally high rates of infection Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Rates of reported gonorrhoea and infectious syphilis have increased by more than 50% across Australia over the past decade, with experts warning of concerning rises among women. Newly collated sexual health data from UNSW’s Kirby Institute shows 42,393 gonorrhoea notifications and 5,986 infectious syphilis notifications were recorded in 2025. The figures represent 10-year increases of 57% and 56%, respectively. Continue reading...

The GuardianThe Guardian•Achol Arok14 Sept

Cloudy with a chance of rainbow: iridescent clouds brighten the sky over parts of Victoria

Rainbow clouds are not uncommon in Australia but rarely photographed, and experts say they get their colours when light is diffracted around ice crystals Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Rainbow clouds shone over parts of Victoria over the weekend, in an unusual visual phenomenon known as iridescent clouds. Photographs of the spectacle were taken by onlookers in the Melbourne suburbs of Mount Waverley and Caroline Springs. Continue reading...

The GuardianThe Guardian•Jack Larkin14 Sept

Queensland homeless man shot with Taser after being given move-on order to make way for kite festival

Exclusive: Advocate says homeless clearances should be halted after man is hospitalised during confrontation in Brisbane park Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast A homeless man was shot with a Taser by police after attempting to take his own life during a tent city clearance, sparking calls for mental health considerations when dealing with move-on orders amid Queensland’s homelessness crisis. On 1 September, Moreton Bay city council rangers gave six homeless residents 24 hours to leave Pelican Park north of Brisbane, where Martin* had been living in a camper trailer, to make way for a kite festival this weekend. Continue reading...

The GuardianThe Guardian•Andrew Messenger14 Sept

A job that changed me: Working the pool kiosk in the summer of ’82, I was excited when older boys came by – but I learned that respect is better than attention

My job made me the envy of the cool girls; it made me visible. Then Johnno, Stevo and Whack paid a visit In the summer of 1982, at the age of 14, I was hired to work in the ticket office and kiosk at the Sale Memorial Pool in Victoria’s Gippsland region. The cool girls at school, who did not usually acknowledge me, were seething with jealousy. It was a sought-after job in a time before fast-food outlets and chain supermarkets. I was anxious because I didn’t look like the girls who usually worked at the pool. The Dolly magazine cover-girl types. They were tanned, used raspberry lip gloss and Impulse body spray, and wore stretchy boob tubes over their crocheted bikini tops. Continue reading...

The GuardianThe Guardian•Allison Harding14 Sept

In Manchester, Premier League superiority is now separated by Haaland’s cutting edge

In a bad-tempered meeting at Old Trafford, United and City showed they are far from the finished product Sign up for our free newsletter here While London has a host of top-flight clubs and Liverpool have been regular contenders, the story of the Premier League can almost entirely be told with Mancunian main characters. From Manchester United’s decade-plus of dominance under Sir Alex Ferguson to Manchester City’s emergence among the oil baron class, with a grip made firmer under Pep Guardiola’s guidance, it seems one must always beat a Manchester club to the title. Never before has the trophy spent more three seasons before returning to one of these two clubs, with a pair of three-year roadshows in the mid-2000s and mid-2010s. Continue reading...

The GuardianThe Guardian•Jeff Rueter14 Sept

Australia’s outdated technology is vulnerable to AI hacking attacks, signals chief says

Abigail Bradshaw says ‘enormous’ amounts of money required to update systems that people now expect to be constantly available Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast One of Australia’s top intelligence agencies has warned that AI attacks could exploit the country’s old technology, as the government negotiates its guardrails on artificial intelligence’s rapid development. The chief of Anthropic, developer of Claude, has warned AI bots could swarm the internet within a year and called to “slow the pace” of development with support from the head of OpenAI and Elon Musk . Continue reading...

The GuardianThe Guardian•Luca Ittimani14 Sept

One Nation under fire for abandoning gas reservation plan in favour of policy benefiting Gina Rinehart

Pauline Hanson’s gas policy and the party’s relationship with Rinehart is examined in a new Guardian podcast series, The Populist Listen: The Populist: Aeroplanes and bulldozers | Episode 1 – podcast Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast One Nation has come under fire for quietly shelving support for a new domestic gas reservation policy in preference for a policy that favours the party’s billionaire patron, Gina Rinehart. The Albanese government has announced it will establish a new reservation policy for Australia’s east coast, requiring gas exporters to supply a portion of the gas they produce to the domestic market. The policy is aimed at “modestly” supplying the domestic market to put downward pressure on prices for consumers. Sign up for Guardian Australia’s Politics, really newsletter here Continue reading...

The GuardianThe Guardian•Sarah Martin Senior correspondent14 Sept

Ancestors review – messy but moving ghostly drama about the Aids crisis

Toronto film festival: Saipan standout Éanna Hardwicke is a soulful gay man looking for a missing friend in a striking yet muddled debut It’s not normal to regularly contemplate mortality in your twenties, to ask questions about where we might go after we die and whether any part of our legacy will even matter in the years following. But for gay men in the 1980s, death was everywhere. In David Turpin’s intermittently impactful debut Ancestors, the director tries to make a connection with those men who lived through the very worst years of the Aids crisis. Turpin, born in 1982, might not have the first-hand experience but he bears the scars passed on from generation to generation and like many young gay men coming of age in the years after, likely experienced a watered down version of the shame and fear those before him once felt. Continue reading...

The GuardianThe Guardian•Benjamin Lee in Toronto14 Sept