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19 hours ago | theguardian.com | Nour Haydar |Karishma Luthria |Miles Herbert |Camilla Hannan |Hannah Parkes

The Greens were on a high – until they weren’t. This election left the minor party almost entirely wiped out in the House of Representatives and without its leader Adam Bandt. Ahead of a vote on who will take the party forward, the former Greens leader Richard Di Natale speaks to Nour Haydar on what lessons can be learned from the election result and where to now for the minor party• You can support the Guardian at theguardian.com/fullstorysupport

20 hours ago | theguardian.com | Angela Giuffrida

The Italian tennis player Jannik Sinner has met Pope Leo XIV, a few days after the newly elected pontiff, who is passionate about tennis, confessed that he wouldn’t want to face a match with the world number one. Along with his parents, Sinner, who is currently taking part in the Italian Open tennis tournament in Rome, had a private audience with Leo on Wednesday in a room next to the Vatican’s Paul VI Hall.

20 hours ago | theguardian.com | Keza MacDonald

Much has been made of the fact that the year’s most recent breakout hit, an idiosyncratic role-playing game called Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, was made by a small team. (It has just sold its two-millionth copy). It’s a tempting narrative in this age of blockbuster mega-flops, live-service games and eye-watering budgets: scrappy team makes a lengthy, unusual and beautiful thing, sells it for £40, and everybody wins. But it’s not quite accurate. The Guardian’s journalism is independent.

21 hours ago | theguardian.com | Rowena Mason

A Labour peer and trade envoy for Keir Starmer has apologised for breaking the House of Lords code of conduct by writing to the Treasury to promote a cryptocurrency firm that was paying him. Iain McNicol, a former general secretary of the Labour party, was found to have breached the rules by offering a paid parliamentary service on behalf of Astra Protocol in June 2023.

21 hours ago | theguardian.com | Ed Pilkington

Sean Duffy, the Trump administration’s transportation secretary, has made a startling admission that he switched flights for his wife this week to help her avoid flying out of beleaguered Newark Liberty, one of the busiest airports in the New York area. Duffy’s disclosure on Monday runs counter to his repeated assurances to the American public that it is safe to fly from Newark, despite a spate of dramatic outages affecting the airport’s radar systems.