Morning Mail: Phillip Hughes, Manus Island, Brisbane storm, RET, canoes

Phillip Hughes’s family pays tribute to ‘hero’ cricketer.

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Flags flew at half mast from Lord’s to the Sydney Cricket Ground as the cricketing world led tributes to Phillip Hughes and rallied behind bowler Sean Abbott, whose bouncer struck the Australia batsman on the neck.

With three of Hughes’ state teammates due to play, the first Australia-India test on 4 December may be cancelled; New Zealand and Pakistan have suspended their third test.

Mike Selvey writes that it is time for cricket to take stock and calm down.

Australian news and politics

• An asylum seeker on Manus Island says he has been raped twice in detention in the past four months, but fears going to police because he has been told he will be jailed for being gay.

• Labor has refused to resume talks with the Coalition over the renewable energy target, because the government has offered no specific concessions to break the deadlock between the major parties.

• Tony Abbott has defended the defence minister David Johnston after he said the government-owned shipbuilder could not be trusted to build a canoe, despite a Senate censure – the first passed against a cabinet minister since 2005.

• A radiologist wanted in the United States on a child sex abuse charge was hired to provide medical care for asylum seekers on Christmas Island.

• Victorian Labor has vowed to fight for $3bn in funding that Tony Abbott says would be withheld if the party won the election and cancelled the East West link.

• Brisbane is cleaning up after a huge storm yesterday in which golf ball-sized hailstones, destructive winds and torrential rain smashed parts of the city.

Around the world

Protesters kneel down with their hands up in front of Los Angeles police officers. Photograph: Damian Dovarganes/AP

• With relative calm in Missouri, hundreds of protesters took to the streets in California for a third night to show solidarity with the family of Michael Brownin Ferguson.

• Jordan is attempting to crush support for the Islamic State, prosecuting those who show any allegiance to the group on Facebook and Whatsapp.

• A suicide attack on UK diplomats in Kabul has killed at least six people including a British embassy guard.

• Writer PD James, the creator of much-loved detective Adam Dalgliesh, has died aged 94.

More from around the web

• Among the most read on the Guardian this morning: Lenore Taylor writes that the government’s GP co-payment strategy is foundering – and so is its de-barnacling strategy.

• Most of the Australian media leads this morning on the tragic death of Phillip Hughes.

• The Army has been mobilised to help cleanup after Brisbane’s freak storm, the Courier Mail reports, and Brisbane Times reports Campbell Newman saying the storm was the biggest to hit the city since 1985.

• Perth has set a new world record for Krispy Kreme doughnut sales, Perth Now reports.

• The NT News reports on an epic battle between a woman and a cane toad that came up her toilet.

One last thing

Not a mosque. Photograph: George Rose/Getty Images

British anti-immigration party Ukip has rebuked the BBC for bias in holding a poll in front of a London mosque; the mosque in question was Westminster Cathedral.

Have an excellent day – and if you spot something I’ve missed, let me know in the comments here or on Twitter @newsmary.

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