Good morning, this is Helen Sullivan bringing you the main stories and must-reads on Wednesday 26 September.

Top stories

“I didn’t expect that reaction, but that’s OK.” Donald Trump’s speech at the UN general assembly was interrupted by laughter from world leaders as the US president claimed that “in less than two years, my administration has accomplished more than almost any administration in the history of our country”, in one of the most remarkable moments in the history of the annual UN summit. The Guardian’s world affairs editor, Julian Borger, reports: “In the course of the bombastic address, Trump highlighted the achievements of his presidency, lashed out at enemies – Iran foremost among them – and railed against multilateralism in its spiritual home, the UN general assembly.”

Trump said: “America is governed by Americans. We reject the ideology of globalism and we embrace the doctrine of patriotism.” Just over a year after threatening to “totally destroy” North Korea, he thanked its leader, Kim Jong-un, for his “courage, and for the steps he has taken”. After the speech Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, took to the stage and quickly made a veiled comment directed at the US president by criticising governments that ignore the suffering of Palestinians and have withdrawn aid to help them.

Bill Cosby has been sentenced to three to 10 years in prison for sexual assault. As Judge Steven O’Neill prepared to sentence Cosby for attacking the Temple University women’s basketball administrator Andrea Constand at his suburban Philadelphia estate in 2004, he declared Cosby a “sexually violent predator”. The classification means that the 81-year-old comedian must undergo monthly counselling for the rest of his life and report quarterly to authorities. His name will appear on a sex offender registry sent to neighbours, schools and victims. Cosby was convicted in April of three counts of aggravated indecent assault.

Kerryn Phelps wants Scott Morrison to release the Ruddock review on religious freedom before the Wentworth byelection. She says the report is “being concealed from the public using cabinet privilege as an excuse”. The high-profile independent told Guardian Australia’s politics podcast that the prime minister needed to release his proposed legislation before the 20 October contest “so people in Wentworth know what they are voting for”. Phelps said voters in Sydney’s eastern suburbs were upset at the way Malcolm Turnbull was treated by his colleagues, and many Liberal voters felt alienated from the party’s policy direction. “They don’t like the actions of the hard right, there is anger against people like Tony Abbott and Peter Dutton and Eric Abetz and Mathias Cormann for the way they moved against Malcolm Turnbull and forced this byelection,” she said.

Gay former military personnel deserve a national compensation scheme, a leading military historian says. On Tuesday Assoc Prof Noah Riseman sent a policy brief to the defence minister, Christopher Pyne, saying many lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender service members suffered great emotional and financial distress under past military policies. Australian defence personnel dishonourably discharged from the military on the basis of their sexuality should be eligible for financial redress similar to that available for survivors of institutional child sexual abuse, and are owed a national apology, Riseman says.

A new study reveals how corporate sponsorship shapes research agendas. The findings, published by University of Sydney researchers in the American Journal of Public Health on Wednesday, highlight the influence of the alcohol, tobacco, pharmaceutical, food, mining and chemical industries on the agenda of academic researchers. Corporate sponsorship of academic research has already been the subject of extensive study, but Wednesday’s paper seeks to understand how it works at a higher level. “They use the same strategies,” the lead author, Alice Fabbri, told Guardian Australia. “They fund research that can be used to promote their products or distract from the harms of their products, or to drive the research away from policies that will tend to harm them.”

Sport

So far, Manchester United and Derby County are 2-2 in their Carabao cup match. Find out the latest on this and other matches in our live blog.

The Brownlow medallist Tom Mitchell says he’s eyeing team success with Hawthorn, and perhaps the chance to lead the AFL powerhouse after winning the sport’s biggest individual accolade.

Thinking time

In her new book, Michael Hutchence’s sister writes about the effects of his traumatic brain injury. Hutchence was shoved by a taxi driver in 1992 and fractured his skull. Tina Hutchence says she was moved to write Michael: My Brother, Lost Boy of INXS because she felt that he had become a tragic caricature in the hands of other biographers – and she’s counted at least nine. “There has been so much written about TBIs in the US over the last five years, looking at football players and boxers. It made sense to me the more I read, because Michael’s personality changed dramatically.”

“Cleavage is over.” For decades, the mantra of Milan fashion week has been that sex sells. In the wake of #MeToo, it’s reinventing itself, writes Jess Cartner-Morley. “Paris does intellectual and chic, London does weird and innovative, New York does polished and commercial, and Milan does sex and glamour. Simple. But the impact of #MeToo, working in an unlikely pincer movement with the rise of the modest pound, as luxury fashion’s Middle Eastern customer base continues to outpace other markets, is pushing sexy dresses on to the wrong side of history.”

Who posed for the “Mona Lisa of vaginas”? A new discovery by a French researcher challenges the theory that the model for Gustave Courbet’s 1866 painting L’Origine du monde was the Irishwoman Joanna Hiffernan. Instead, experts say they are 99% sure the honour belongs to the Parisian ballet dancer Constance Queniaux. The French historian Claude Schopp discovered the Queniaux connection when he was going through letters for a book. One particular passage perplexed him: “One does not paint the most delicate and the most sonorous interview of Miss Queniault (sic) of the Opera.” It was only when he consulted the handwritten original that he realised there had been a mistake in its transcription. “Interview” was in fact “interior”.

Media roundup

The Australian defence force has paid $1.29m for data mined from Australian social media accounts, the Daily Telegraph reveals. The Australian is leading with the government being “within striking distance” of a budget surplus before the election. A major Asic report has found that, on average, big banks took more than five years to repay customers for misconduct, reports the Australian Financial Review.

Coming up

The Australian Bureau of Statistics will release statistics on causes of death in Australia in 2017 and the environment minister, Melissa Price, will announce recycling targets.

Edward Ford, the man arrested in August over the death of the Queensland teenager Larissa Beilby, is due to make his second appearance in court. Beilby’s body was found in a barrel in the back of a ute.

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