The Australian teenager faces a struggle to reach the final after being drawn against five sub-20 second sprinters An unenviable draw and his struggle to get out of the blocks will almost certainly end the debut of Gout Gout at the world championships in his semi-final on Thursday, but the teenager remains upbeat about his prospects having survived his first major international test. The Australian overcame a ponderous first 30m to finish third in his heat in 20.23sec, the 12th fastest time across all qualifiers for the semis. Continue reading...

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Flood waters are expected to take weeks to flow into Lake Eyre and north-east South Australia after widespread wet weather * Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast An unusually slow-moving weather system has dragged monsoonal rain from tropical north Queensland to the state’s south-western outback, already dumping a year’s worth of rain in places in a matter of days – with the promise of more to come. So widespread is the deluge that, by Sunday, the entire sunshine state was expected to be sodden with more than 100mm of rain, Dean Narramore, senior meteorologist at the Bureau of Meteorology said on Tuesday morning. Sign up for Guardian Australia’s breaking news email Continue reading...

Security leak triggers bipartisan anger after Atlantic reveals officials inadvertently broadcast highly sensitive military plans * White House inadvertently texted top-secret Yemen war plans to journalist A catastrophic security leak is triggering bipartisan outrage after the Atlantic revealed that senior Trump administration officials accidentally broadcast highly sensitive military plans through a Signal group chat with a journalist reading along. On the Senate floor on Monday, the minority leader, Chuck Schumer, called it “one of the most stunning breaches of military intelligence I have read about in a very, very long time” and urged Republicans to seek a “full investigation into how this happened, the damage it created and how we can avoid it in the future”. Continue reading...

Even Republicans who once said violent rioters should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law declined to criticize the presidential clemency for violent offenders, saying it was time to move o...