Morning Mail: Sydney housing costs beat New York, ‘crumbly’ concrete checks, criminal complaint over World Cup kiss

Sydney’s expensive housing and rental market puts it behind only a handful of other places. Photograph: James D Morgan/Getty Images for Destination New South Wales

Morning everyone. Sydney can boast many world-leading features, but unfortunately an increasing cost of living is one of them. That’s highlighted today by a new study that shows only five other world cities are more expensive and it’s costing the local economy dear. Find out which cities they are, along with why government around Australia are urgently checking the state of their concrete buildings.

Elsewhere, Spanish footballer Jenni Hermoso has filed a criminal complaint over that World Cup kiss, scientists have created a “complete” model of a human embryo out of stem cells and 17 people are dead after Russian missiles hit a crowded Ukrainian market.