Guardian Australia

10 hours ago | theguardian.com | Arwa Mahdawi

Avoid (having a miscarriage in) West Virginia“911. What’s your emergency?”“Hello, I would like to report the fact that I am having a very heavy period. Can you send a police officer over right away to collect my menstrual matter and check whether I’ve broken any laws?”The above is not a transcript of an actual conversation in West Virginia but, the way things are headed, it could be a glimpse of what’s to come.

10 hours ago | theguardian.com | Morwenna Ferrier

If the biggest feud of the week belongs to Donald Trump and Elon Musk, then the longest running is arguably “Beckxit”. The name given to the fallout between one of the most famous couples in the world – David and Victoria Beckham – and their less famous eldest son, Brooklyn and his wife, Nicola Anne Peltz, was coined by the Daily Mail this year.

14 hours ago | theguardian.com | Rosanna Greenstreet

Born in the West Midlands, Lee Child, 70, studied law before working in television. After losing his job following a corporate restructuring, he published Killing Floor, the first in the Jack Reacher series, in 1997. His novels have been adapted into two films, starring Tom Cruise, and an Amazon Prime series. He now writes with his brother Andrew and they headline Theakston Old Peculier crime writing festival in Harrogate next month. The 30th Reacher thriller, Exit Strategy, is out in November.

14 hours ago | theguardian.com | Simon Woolley

The toppling of the statue of the British enslaver Edward Colston, five years ago today, felt like a historic moment. Bringing down this one statue and symbolically hurling it into Bristol harbour, protesters – predominantly white – drew international attention to the barbarity of African enslavement, its generated wealth that turbocharged the UK’s global power and the legacy of slavery, whose long historical tail had led to the murder of George Floyd less than two weeks before.

16 hours ago | theguardian.com | Hollie Richardson |Jack Seale |Ali Catterall |Ellen Jones |Simon Wardell

Billy Joel at the BBC8.40pm, BBC TwoIt’s basically a Billy Joel night for megafans to get lost in on BBC Two, with his 100th show at Madison Square Garden last year and a vintage recording from 1978 airing later in the evening. But first: a warm-up with these archive clips of Joel performing over the years, with the likes of Uptown Girl, Piano Man and Just the Way You Are, along with interviews and appearances.