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You’ve heard of fast fashion – but what about fast furniture?

It’s the cheap stuff churned out in mass quantities with little regard for quality, all designed to be ditched within just a few years.

No longer must we wince through a jarring Cockney-Kiwi mix: Hollywood has finally cracked Aussie dialects. Is it the teaching, the spread of Bluey, AI – or something else?

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Australian actors have been putting on different accents for so long, and so undetectably, that one often stumbles upon surprise Aussies in films and shows. Sarah Snook was not the only Australian in Succession, for example; Nate Sofrelli, the political strategist and Shiv’s erstwhile lover, was played by compatriot Ashley Zukerman. Then there’s Geraldine Viswanathan (Thunderbolts*, Drive-Away Dolls), Dichen Lachman (Severance), Dacre Montgomery (Stranger Things), Yvonne Strahovski (The Handmaid’s Tale) – the list goes on.

But the reverse – foreign actors convincingly portraying Australians – has been rare; quite often attempts have ended up a jarring melange of cockney, South African and New Zealand English.

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As some colleges, including Yale and Tulane, revive protests this spring, campuses respond with disciplinary action

Over the first two days of May, a total of six Swarthmore College students were interim suspended for the creation of a campus encampment earlier in the week. The students in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, were suspended without due process and were told to evacuate from campus, said Swarthmore’s Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) in a 2 May statement.

Of the six students who were temporarily suspended, four were people of color and three were first-generation, low-income students, the statement continued: “This is part of a disturbing trend of Swarthmore exploiting the vulnerabilities of student protesters on the basis of racialized discrimination.” The students on interim suspension are banned from attending college events or stepping foot on campus. Swarthmore SJP did not respond to a request for comment by the publication date.

• World Surf League mid-season cut delayed until after ninth tour stop
• Bells Beach the first of three Australian events to open season

Australian surfers are the big winners in a revamped 2026 World Surf League calendar that has axed the divisive finals day to decide the world champions.

The Pipe Pro at Pipeline in Hawaii will return as the men’s finale for the first time since 2019, while it will be the season-ending women’s event for the first time.

Upgrade from ‘suspected’ threat will mean greater surveillance of party that came second in last election

• AfD ‘extremist’ label sets up political high-wire act for Merz

Germany’s domestic intelligence service has designated the far-right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD), the biggest opposition party, as a “confirmed rightwing extremist” force, meaning authorities can step up their surveillance as critics call for it to be legally banned.

The Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV) previously considered the anti-immigrant, pro-Kremlin party a “suspected” threat to Germany’s democratic order, with three of the AfD’s regional chapters in eastern statesand its youth wing classed as confirmed extremist.

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Under a perfect blue sky perhaps more reminiscent of home than the customary grey of London, ex-pats in Britain have been queueing up to vote at Australia House.

The wait to cast a ballot has been up to 30 minutes with the line snaking out of the entrance and up and down the pavement.

Syria says at least one civilian killed in latest strikes, while most Druze leaders rebuff Israeli protection

Israeli warplanes have carried out a series of airstrikes outside Damascus and across Syria, after warnings from Israeli officials that the country would intervene to protect the Syria’s minority Druze sect.

The airstrikes targeted a Syrian military site in the Damascus suburb of Harasta, as well as hitting unknown targets in Deraa province in south Syria and Hama province in north-west Syria. At least one civilian was killed and four people were injured as a result of the Israeli bombings late Friday night, according to Syrian state media.

After Google lost its first monopoly trial, government asks it to sell off units of its core internet ads business

Google on Friday faced a demand by the US government to break up its hugely profitable ad technology business. The request came after a judge found the tech giant was commanding an illegal monopoly for the second time in less than a year.

“We have a defendant who has found ways to defy” the law, US government lawyer Julia Tarver Wood told a federal court in Virginia, as she urged the judge to dismiss Google’s assurance that it would change its behavior. “Leaving a recidivist monopolist” intact was not appropriate to solve the issue, she added.

• Norris ‘more confident than I have ever been’
• Mercedes’ Kimi Antonelli takes debut sprint pole

Lando Norris wants only to focus on his racing as he attempts to re-establish his challenge for the Formula One world championship this season. The McLaren driver insists he has never been so confident in his own ability before this weekend’s Miami Grand Prix, where he qualified in third place for Saturday’s sprint race and Mercedes’ Kimi Antonelli took his debut F1 sprint pole.

The British driver opened the season strongly with a win in Australia and led the championship until the last round in Saudi Arabia when he was overtaken by his teammate Oscar Piastri, who has now won three of the opening five meetings.

• Securing league crown has enabled earlier preparation
• Slot: ‘It definitely helps to attract new players as well’

Arne Slot believes the emphatic nature of Liverpool’s title triumph and the emotional celebrations that followed will help the club beat off competition for their main transfer targets this summer.

The Liverpool head coach gave his players two days off as reward for clinching a record-equalling 20th league title on Sunday, when a party was held at Anfield after the 5-1 rout of Tottenham. Slot’s celebrations continued with his wife’s birthday meal on Monday before his focus switched back to business on Tuesday.

Manchester City and Kevin De Bruyne know how to time a run perfectly, even if their long-lasting relationship is coming to an end. The Belgian’s dart into the box and clinical finish secured a fourth Premier League win in a row, at the expense of Wolves, to put City into third place and a step closer to qualifying for the Champions League.

City will be as pleased with the hard-fought victory, inspired by a humorous Neil Warnock team talk at training on Thursday, as Wolves are disappointed to leave with nothing. They rattled the woodwork twice and were the more dangerous team inside the box but when it comes to critical moments, there are few better in world football than De Bruyne as his experience outweighs his physical decline.

The prince has offered Buckingham Palace an olive branch after years of recrimination and lost litigation

• Prince Harry says king ‘won’t speak to him’ and he would ‘love’ to be reconciled

Prince Harry and the Duchess of Sussex made the decision to step away from royal duties in September 2020 as tensions mounted between the Sussexes and the rest of the royal family over their independence and treatment of the duchess.

Now after losing a legal challenge over his security arrangements, Harry has opened the door to reconciliation and said that he had forgiven his family for the “many disagreements”.

Going to the Mill was bought by the literary editor of the Manchester Guardian and had remained in the family

A rare painting by LS Lowry bought for £10 has sold at auction for more than £800,000.

The painting, Going to the Mill, was bought by the literary editor of the Manchester Guardian, Arthur Wallace, for £10 in 1926 and has been in the same family ever since.

Territory’s voluntary move comes as Trump administration makes good on pledge to end lawsuits against oil and gas

Puerto Rico has voluntarily dismissed its 2024 climate lawsuit against big oil, a Friday legal filing shows, just two days after the US justice department sued two states over planned litigation against oil companies for their role in the climate crisis.

Puerto Rico’s lawsuit, filed in July, alleged that the oil and gas giants had misled the public about the climate dangers associated with their products. It came as part of a wave of litigation filed by dozens of US states, cities and municipalities in recent years.

• World No 5 beats Lorenzo Musetti 6-3, 7-6 (4)
• Draper will face Casper Ruud on Sunday

When he arrived in Madrid two weeks ago, Jack Draper was still just trying to find his rhythm on clay, a surface he knew he could play well on but one that had so far brought him nothing but misery.

Now, after another of the best fortnights of his career, the 23-year-old will play for one of the biggest clay titles of all. He continued his sublime breakthrough run on Friday night by holding on in a bruising encounter with the 10th seed Lorenzo Musetti to reach the Madrid Open final with a 6-3, 7-6 (4) win.

State Man secured his third straight victory in Champion Hurdle while Nicky Henderson said it was ‘a tough place to be’ after another poor showing by Constitution Hill

State Man, who was denied a repeat success in the Champion Hurdle at Cheltenham in March when he fell at the final flight, gained a measure of compensation here on Friday evening as he recorded a third successive win in Punchestown’s equivalent of the two-mile championship event. His task, though, was certainly made easier by a bitterly disappointing performance from Constitution Hill, the 2023 Champion Hurdle winner and odds-on favourite here, who beat only one of his five opponents home.

The race was billed as a rematch of the last meeting between Constitution Hill, State Man and Golden Ace in the Champion Hurdle, which proved to be one of the most dramatic runnings of a championship event in living memory. Constitution Hill, unbeaten in 10 starts and odds-on there as well, fell midway through the race while State Man crashed out with the race at his mercy, leaving Jeremy Scott’s outsider, Golden Ace, to take the spoils.

Joseph Czuba, 73, killed Muslim boy and severely injured his mother in vicious attack days after war in Gaza began

An Illinois landlord who killed a six-year-old Muslim boy and severely injured his mother in a vicious hate-crime attack days after the war in Gaza began was sentenced on Friday to 53 years in prison.

Joseph Czuba, 73, was found guilty in February of murder, attempted murder and hate-crime charges in the death of Wadee Alfayoumi and the wounding of his mother, Hanan Shaheen.

With the pandemic in the rearview mirror it was clearly a boost for Fifa and Saudi Arabia but harmed grassroots sport and player welfare

Sound the trumpets, beat the drum, let loose the buttock-rockets of hope. One of the strangest and most unsatisfying things about the Covid‑19 pandemic, among a great many deeply strange and unsatisfying things, is that it never actually had a shared end date or ceremonial send-off.

Jarringly so, because this was a period in the national life built around a rigid roster of public events. The numerical rules. The weekly banging of pots in honour of people you secretly consider to be serfs. Such unlikely figures as Matt Hancock appearing in public every day in order to say inauthentic-sounding things about public health, all the while resembling the doomed subcommander of an imperial space galleon who keeps announcing that he’s got the situation under control, sir, just as the bridge behind him is cleaved in two and he’s sucked out into a skull-popping deep space inferno.

Rubio calls Viv Ansanm and Gran Grif ‘threat to US national security’ and says support for groups could lead to charges

The United States has designated a powerful Haitian gang alliance, whose members have taken control of almost all the capital city as a “transnational terrorist group”.

The criminal coalition known as Viv Ansanm (Live Together), and another faction, the Gran Grif gang, which in October took responsibility for a shocking massacre of at least 115 people in the agricultural town of Pont-Sondé, were both covered by the move on Friday.

Real-life anguish or confected entertainment? One thing is clear – the soap opera endures because millions still love to watch it

Well, isn’t this a plot turn? You switched on for the latest cinematic episode of Prince Harry fights the fight – not against the Mirror this time, not against Murdoch either, but against those who have stripped him of his security protection – and then the script goes to places that no one expected.

He loses his legal challenge in the court of appeal over the degree of security he is entitled to on the public purse while in the UK – that was pretty much expected. But then, in the second instalment of Britain’s longest-running potboiler, he exclusively opens an anguished heart to the BBC, post the appeal court verdict, and all sorts of dramatic twists ensue.

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Education, health, climate and more on chopping block and 13% rise – to over $1tn to Pentagon – in ‘skinny budget’

Donald Trump is proposing huge cuts to social programmes like health and education while planning substantial spending increases on defense and the Department of Homeland Security, in a White House budget blueprint that starkly illustrates his preoccupation with projecting military strength and deterring migration.

Cuts of $163bn on discretionary non-defense spending would also see financial outlays slashed for environmental and renewable energy schemes, as well as for the FBI, an agency Trump has claimed was weaponised against him during Joe Biden’s presidency. Spending reductions are also being projected for the Drug Enforcement Administration and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.

Incoming chancellor must now decide whether to ban flourishing far-right party amid widespread discontent

• German spy agency labels AfD as ‘confirmed rightwing extremist’ force

The decision by Germany’s domestic spy agency to call the far-right Alternative für Deutschland party “extremist” amounts to the starkest move yet by authorities to try to stop the advance of the populist political force.

Friday’s classification by the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV) will open up the possibility for the security services to monitor the country’s largest opposition party, including by recruiting people to inform against it and enabling interception of its communications.

Judge paused proceedings during Miriam Haley’s fourth day on witness stand over alleged assault by ex-movie mogul

A woman who alleges Harvey Weinstein forced oral sex on her broke down under intensely personal cross-examination during her fourth day on the witness stand in the criminal retrial of the disgraced movie mogul.

The judge paused proceedings early on Friday afternoon to give Miriam Haley a chance to compose herself after an angry and tearful exchange with Weinstein’s defense as she was questioned on her account of his alleged assault.

To mark the release of his new film, hundreds of people who sort of look like the actor gather outside Prince Charles cinema

On a sunny, bustling late afternoon outside a cinema in Soho, central London, more than 100 people have gathered, a number of whom sort of, if you squint, look a little bit like the actor Nicolas Cage.

There is a Raising Arizona Cage, moustachioed and with a Hawaiian shirt. There are several Con Air Cages in white vests, one of whom has a toy bunny in a small cardboard box. Several can genuinely claim an uncanny likeness to the actor; one or two others might uncharitably be said to be closer to Cage’s character in Face/Off, who surgically swaps his own distinctive features for the face of someone else – in that case, John Travolta – who looks nothing like him.

FTSE 100 records its longest winning streak as Washington releases better-than-expected hiring figures

Markets on both sides of the Atlantic rose on Friday after hiring in the US slowed less than expected in April, offering a glimmer of hope that the world’s largest economy was in a better-than-feared position to withstand the fallout from Donald Trump’s tariffs.

On Wall Street the S&P 500 was up 1.5% and the Dow Jones rose 1.3% by early afternoon on Friday, while European markets closed sharply higher after official figures showed the US workforce grew by 177,000 last month.

Labour-Conservative dominance challenged by Nigel Farage’s Trump-aligned party, which has control of at least six county councils

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Britain’s anti-immigrant and Trump-aligned Reform UK party has made sweeping gains in English local elections, challenging the traditional political dominance of the country’s two main parties, Labour and the Conservatives.

Nigel Farage, the Reform leader, claimed his party had overtaken the Tories as the UK’s main opposition after Reform won control of at least six county councils, one mayoralty, and narrowly defeated the governing Labour party in a parliamentary byelection in what had been considered a safe seat.

Neighboring Guyana has also laid claim to the mineral rich Essequibo, and Venezuela plans to elect officials to govern it

Venezuela’s government has said it “categorically” rejected a ruling from the U N’s top court ordering the South American country to refrain from holding elections for officials who supposedly would oversee a resource-rich region in neighboring Guyana that both countries claim as their own.

The government of Nicolás Maduro, the Venezuelan president, in a statement underscored its historical position to not recognize the jurisdiction of the international court of justice and asserted that international law does not allow the body to “interfere” or “attempt to prohibit” an election.

Lydia Mugambe stopped young Ugandan woman holding down steady job and made her work as her maid, court told

A UN judge has been jailed for six years and four months after forcing a young woman to work as a slave in the UK.

Lydia Mugambe, 50, was found to have taken advantage of her status in relation to the Ugandan woman in the “most egregious way” while Mugambe studied for a PhD in law at the University of Oxford.

Sea lion grooving along to hits such as Boogie Wonderland helps show scientists rhythm is not exclusive to humans

Ronan the sea lion can still keep a beat after all these years.

She can groove to rock and electronica. But the 15-year-old California sea lion’s talent shines most in bobbing to disco hits such as Boogie Wonderland.

The funeral of Pope Francis, the blackout in Spain and Portugal, May Day rallies and Salah’s selfie: the past seven days as captured by the world’s leading photojournalists

Heidy Sánchez says she was told her 17-month-old, who has health problems and is breastfeeding, couldn’t go with her

A mother deported to Cuba reportedly had to hand over her 17-month-old daughter to a lawyer while her husband, a US citizen, stood outside unable to say goodbye.

Heidy Sánchez was told she was being detained for deportation to Cuba when she turned up at her scheduled Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) check-in appointment in Tampa, Florida, last week.

Results show gains for rightwing Reform UK party and move away from traditional Labour/Conservative duopoly

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A series of elections took place across England on Thursday, with the results now coming in. It can seem a confusing picture, but clear lessons are already emerging.

Nato for higher education – a mutual defense pact is a long-shot approach, but it might just convince the bully in the White House to back off

Higher education is under attack from the person who inhabits the White House. Universities are being threatened with an array of punishments, including the cutoff of their federal contracts and grants, the loss of their nonprofit status and a tax on their endowment. The Trump administration is demanding a say in whom they admit, whom they hire and even what courses they teach.

It’s a grim message – abandon your fundamental values, or else. The idea of an “existential moment” has become a cliche, but this situation warrants that grim description. Academic freedom, the lifeblood of higher education, is being threatened.

David Kirp is professor emeritus at the University of California-Berkeley and the author of The College Dropout Scandal

After losing personal security challenge, Duke of Sussex says he wants to make peace as he does not know how long Charles has to live

The Duke of Sussex has said it is “impossible” for him to bring his wife and children back to the UK after losing his legal challenge over personal security, and revealed he would “love” a reconciliation with his family.

In an emotional interview with the BBC, Prince Harry said his father, King Charles, would not speak to him “because of the security stuff”, but said he wanted reconciliation as life was “precious” and he did not know how long his father, who has been diagnosed with cancer, had left to live.

Liberal PM will also meet with US president on Tuesday amid tensions over threatened annexation and tariffs

King Charles has accepted an invitation to open Canada’s parliament on 27 May, in “an historic honour that matches the weight of our times”, the country’s prime minister, Mark Carney, said on Friday.

In his first news conference since an election dominated by Donald Trump’s threats to Canada’s sovereignty, the prime minister also confirmed he would meet the US president at the White House on Tuesday.

In this week’s newsletter: AI impostors are charming fans out of fortunes – here’s how ​​TV’s Scam Interceptors catch the criminals

This week’s newsletter is written by Nick Stapleton and Mark Lewis, presenter and producer respectively on BBC’s Scam Interceptors. If you haven’t seen Scam Interceptors, it’s a very entertaining factual series in which Nick and his team of ethical hackers attempt to disrupt scamming attacks on the public as they happen. In the show’s fourth series, now airing daytime on BBC One, one of the scams disrupted involves a worryingly convincing Reese Witherspoon deepfake. So we thought we’d ask Nick and Mark to tell us all about their brush with (fake) celebrity, and share some pointers on how to spot a deepfake before it convinces you to empty your bank account. – Gwilym

Ever wanted to have a deep and meaningful with your favourite Hollywood celebrity? Go on. Who is it? Pedro Pascal? Aubrey Plaza? Jeff Bridges (Nick). Beyoncé (Mark). Well, we’ve got great news for you. Thanks to the seemingly unbothered-by-scams social media giants and the absurdly rapid growth of free-to-use generative AI, you can. The only downside is that they will probably be a version of that celebrity being controlled by a scammer who wants to extort money from you.

As health institutions collapse and Maha influencers spread food fears, experts say orthorexia is on the rise

Katie*’s struggles with disordered eating began when she was just 11.

A gymnast, she put a lot of value in being petite. Katie, 28, who lives in Utah, remembers longing for candy as a child but “feeling like I couldn’t eat a single Skittle”.

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Americans are beginning to worry about their future amid a shrinking economy, warnings of empty shelves – and the president’s failed promises

He says it’s the “best 100-day start of any president in history”, but you can file that along with his boast about crowd sizes and his claim to have won the 2020 election. In truth, the first three months of Donald Trump’s second presidency have been calamitous on almost every measure. The single biggest achievement of those 100 days has been to serve as a warning of the perils of nationalist populism, which is effective in winning votes but disastrous when translated into reality. That warning applies across the democratic world – and is especially timely in Britain.

Start with the numbers that matter most to Trump himself. A slew of polls appeared this week, but they all told the same story: that Trump’s approval ratings have collapsed, falling to the lowest level for a newly installed president in the postwar era. He has now edged ahead of his only rival for that title: himself. The previous low watermark for a president three months in was set by one Donald Trump in 2017.