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The latest in our series of Guardian writers picking their go-to happy movies is a look back at 1998’s unlikely buddy comedy

US president whose subsequent decades of tireless humanitarian work brought him the Nobel peace prize

Chris Banffy tells the NSW coroner that he had his plane land so that he could speak directly to RFS personnel after seeing signs that a back-burn was threatening to jump containment lines.

A Rural Fire Service commander tells an inquest into the 2019-20 bushfire disaster that he did not ignore concerns raised by a supervisor about the decision to conduct a back-burn that jumped containment lines when the weather changed.

"It’s a matter of finding the kind of transport my great-grandad would have had to look for. It could be a friendly farmer with a tractor and trailer or we could be walking.”

A senior government lawyer has told a royal commission into robodebt that independent legal advice could have led to the scheme being stopped entirely.

Tesla got into the EV game early and was mocked for it. Now, automakers appear to have been blindsided, and some are doing everything they can to catch up.

A West Australian kebab shop asks for "girls only" in an employment ad with the owner saying it is because girls are "more gentle and friendly".

PORTLAND, Ore. — Michelle Farris never expected to become homeless, but here she was, sifting through garbage and towering piles of debris accumulated along a roadway on the outskirts of Northeast Portland. Farris, 51, has spent much of her adult life in Oregon, and has vivid memories of this area…