Venice best actress winner says she signed on at Danish job centre days before her victory 15. September 2026 (12:37) Mathilde Arcel, who won the Volpi Cup on Saturday for her role in Golden Lion winner Woman Unknown, said job offers have now begun to arriveThe winner of this year’s best actress prize at the Venice film festival has revealed that she is on unemployment benefits and had to fly to back to Copenhagen to report to the job centre before receiving her award.On Saturday night, Danish actor Mathilde Arcel won the prestigious Volpi Cup for her first leading role in a feature film, May el-Toukhy’s post-second world war drama Woman Unknown, which also won the Golden Lion award for best film. Continue reading...(The Guardian)
Lithuania briefs EU allies after drone shot down by Nato jets overnight – Europe live 15. September 2026 (12:03) Minister says discussions are ongoing on how to strengthen the alliance’s eastern flank after security incidents intensify across Europe, including in Denmark and PolandWe are also getting a bit more detail from the Netherlands, as the Dutch broadcaster NOS showed long, thin pipes being removed from the tracks after causing widespread disruption to railway services.“At this stage, it appears to be a deliberate disruption of train services caused by human action. It is not yet known who is responsible or what the motive is“, the infrastructure operator ProRail said in the latest update to its statement on the incident. Continue reading...(The Guardian)
Pensioners are ‘big winners’ with triple-lock set to rise by 3.9%, lifting state pension to £13,000 – business live 15. September 2026 (11:57) Wage growth – used to set triple-lock pension – slows to 3.9%, meaning state pension should hit £13,000 next year‘Costing billions’: is the pensions triple lock a lifeline or simply unaffordable?If the state pension rises to £13,000 next year, it will probably breach the UK’s tax-free personal allowance (currently £12,570) – the amount you can earn before paying income tax.However, pensioners who don’t receive any other income should still be exempt from paying tax if the state pension exceeds the personal allowance.In the 2025 Budget the government announced the personal allowance would be frozen at its current level up to April 2031.It also announced that pensioners whose sole income is the basic or new state pension would not have to pay small amounts of tax via simple assessment from 2027/28 if the new or basic state pension exceeded the personal allowance from that point. To date the government has not published any further details of how this is to be done. Continue reading...(The Guardian)
One of Sydney’s largest councils joins ban on ‘pervert’ glasses at local swimming pools 15. September 2026 (11:38) Councillors say locals have been raising concerns about people secretly filming in change rooms, swimming pools and around schoolsGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastOne of Sydney’s largest councils has joined the City of Brisbane and the City of Yarra to issue a ban on AI smart glasses at public pools as concerns mount over the potential for predators to exploit the new technology.On Tuesday evening, Canterbury-Bankstown voted overwhelmingly in favour of banning the tech at its local pools, with its mayor, Bilal El-Hayek, describing them as “pervert glasses”. Continue reading...(The Guardian)
Louise Haigh: UK must heed warnings from AI experts 15. September 2026 (11:33) First secretary to set out benefits of AI to union conference while vowing government will take safety seriouslyUK politics live – latest updatesMinisters must “heed the warnings” from industry leaders about the threat posed by AI as the government looks to capitalise on the technology, the first secretary, Louise Haigh, will say on Tuesday.Labour MPs and peers have called for the government to further cooperate with international partners to build regulations for the technology after three Anthropic researchers warned that artificial intelligence could wipe out humanity within the decade. Continue reading...(The Guardian)
Parents seek out school uniform deals, cutting average spend to £54.53 15. September 2026 (11:01) Overall grocery inflation jumps to 2.3%, as Ocado and Lidl gain market shareBusiness live – latest updatesParents and carers spent 12.5% less on school uniform in the run-up to the start of this academic year, turning to promotions and second-hand items to keep expenses down as families struggled with the cost of living crisis.The average spend on school uniform was £54.53 in the four weeks to 6 September, down an eighth from £62.29 in the same period last year, according to the market research company Worldpanel by Numerator. Overall grocery inflation picked up to 2.3% from 2.1%. Continue reading...(The Guardian)
Australia’s Indigenous population estimated at 2.2m before ‘demographic catastrophe’ of colonisation 15. September 2026 (11:00) Study finds earlier numbers were underestimated, suggesting impact of diseases and massacres were much greater than previously thoughtGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe number of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in Australia before colonisation was dramatically underestimated, according to new research that suggests many more of them were killed.Modelling by a national research group puts the population levels before the 1788 first fleet arrived at 2.2 million, compared with early estimates of 250,000 people. Continue reading...(The Guardian)
Make NHS and military uniforms in UK, fashion firms urge Burnham 15. September 2026 (10:10) More than 1,200 people, including Ben Fogle, sign letter saying domestic contracts will help preserve UK manufacturingBusiness live – latest updatesLondon fashion week is only days away, but one industry organisation has turned its attention to clothing that is a little less catwalk-worthy – the uniforms worn by British defence forces and NHS staff.On Wednesday afternoon, the thinktank Fashion Roundtable will hand deliver a letter to Downing Street urging Andy Burnham to commit to manufacturing these uniforms in the UK. Continue reading...(The Guardian)
Jaguar Land Rover in talks to sell Defender to Nato countries 15. September 2026 (09:40) Carmaker builds on relationship with British armed forces by seeking to cash in on Europe’s rearmament drive Business live – latest updatesJaguar Land Rover is in talks with Nato countries about selling them the newly revamped Defender military vehicle, as the UK-based carmaker seeks to tap into Europe’s defence spending boom.It is also among carmakers bidding for a UK defence ministry contract worth £900m to replace an ageing fleet of Land Rovers that have been out of production since 2016, competing with General Motors and the UK’s Ineos. Continue reading...(The Guardian)
Leading UK retailers ‘breaking law’ by not refunding customers for returned goods, Which? finds 15. September 2026 (09:00) Consumer group says online shops routinely failed to reimburse delivery costs of unwanted purchases or cost of itemsLeading retailers are breaking the law by failing to properly refund customers for returned goods, a Which? investigation has found.Some of the UK’s biggest online shops routinely failed to reimburse delivery costs when customers returned unwanted purchases, while others failed to refund the cost of the goods themselves. Continue reading...(The Guardian)
