Teenager charged in London with woman’s murder after UAE extradition
Enzo Bettamio alleged to have stabbed Kamonnan Thiamphanit in April 2024 at a property in BayswaterA teenager has been charged with murder over the de...
Security vetting stepped up after MP is given bodyguard with far-right links
Extra social media checks brought in amid growing threat to politicians from extremistsThe security company that provides bodyguards for MPs has tight...
Met investigates hundreds of officers after using Palantir AI tool
Met says AI software unearthed rule-breaking ranging from work-from-home violations to suspected corruptionThe Metropolitan police have launched inves...
Conspiracy theory over UFOs and missing scientists spreads from web to White House
Claim of nefarious plot draws attention of lawmakers and president – but are disappearances and deaths really linked?Are the disappearances or deaths ...
California’s jet fuel supply drops to three-year low as Middle East turmoil squeezes global oil market
Industry analysts say fuel price surge could lead to canceled flight routes that could snarl travelers’ plansCalifornia’s jet fuel supply has dropped ...
What counts as the woods? Judge axes Nova Scotia’s ban that defied ‘commonsense definitions’
The court sided with a Canadian hiker who deliberately challenged the order imposed to curb spread of wildfiresAs wildfires raged across Nova Scotia l...
Mississippi school kids stop school bus on highway after driver passes out
Students aged 12 to 15 steered bus to safety and called for help after driver lost consciousness from asthma attackMiddle school students in Mississip...
Roommate charged with murder in deaths of University of South Florida doctoral students
Hisham Abugharbieh was arrested after standoff with police and charged with killing Zamil Limon and Nahida BristyThe man who was detained after two Ba...
Russian airstrikes kill at least seven people in Ukraine overnight
Dnipro bore the brunt of the attacks but Odesa and Kharkiv were also targeted in largest onslaught for several daysRussian drone and missile strikes a...
ICE planning facility for children and families on Pfas-contaminated site
Toxic ‘forever chemicals’ found at least 41m ppt in groundwater at former military facility in LouisianaDonald Trump’s Immigration and Customs Enforce...
Partygate v Mandelson: Keir Starmer faces attack from his own playbook
Some familiar, arcane terms are returning to the fore as the Tories study the tactics Labour used against Boris JohnsonThe lexicon of a British parlia...
Louisiana judge in abuse case belatedly recuses himself after ruling in favor of church on whose finance panel he sits
Kendrick Guidry, alone among judges, initially ruled that the state supreme court’s decision to uphold a ‘lookback window’ for abuse claims did not se...
Staff decry ‘constant turbulence’ under Trump’s labor secretary, as she blames ‘deep state’ in resignation
Lori Chavez-DeRemer resigned amid allegations of an affair and steering grants to politically connected figuresThe secretary of the Department of Labo...
Palermo ‘honoured’ by rumours Dua Lipa and Callum Turner might marry there in June
Italian newspapers claim singer and actor, who is tipped to be next James Bond, are planning ‘wedding of the year’ in the cityLast July, Dua Lipa shar...
RAF Typhoons scrambled in response to Russian drone threat near Nato air space
Overnight incident in Romania did not lead to hostilities as potential target stayed within Ukrainian airspaceTwo RAF Typhoons have been scrambled fro...
‘Astonishing’ discovery could help save children from deadly disfiguring condition
A previously unknown species of bacteria found in patients with noma could be key to creating treatments for the neglected tropical diseaseThe “astoni...
Criminalisation of climate protesters in UK is counterproductive, research finds
Study of 1,300 campaigners finds arrests, fines and jail terms increase determination of activists to take direct actionThe criminalisation of direct ...
West Midlands police confirm deaths in blaze on Friday eveningTwo young children have died in a house fire in Wolverhampton on Friday evening, West Mi...
‘Racism is a cancer’: Indigenous leaders condemn orchestrated booing at Anzac Day ceremonies
Uncle Jack Pearson, an army captain, says heckling ‘not in the Anzac spirit’ after welcome to country booed in Sydney, Melbourne and PerthIndigenous s...
‘Athens cannot operate as a giant hotel’: mayor vows to rescue capital from overtourism
Haris Doukas warns that with 700,000 residents and 8 million tourists, people are being pushed out of their neighbourhoodsIn the heart of ancient Athe...
Middle East crisis live: Witkoff and Kushner head to Pakistan for Iran negotiations
Iranian foreign minister has landed in Islamabad but his ministry says there will be no direct negotiations with the US envoyThe Israel Defense Forces...
Cory Bernardi repays more than $40,000 for flying on Gina Rinehart’s plane during SA election campaign
Former Liberal party senator, who was elected to state upper house in March, says flights ‘worth every cent’Get our breaking news email, free app or d...
UK schoolboys’ fatal hike remembered in Black Forest 90 years on
Relatives of London pupils and German villagers mark anniversary of ‘English misfortune’ that Nazis turned into propaganda coupOn 17 April 1936, the b...
How the Walsall rapist John Ashby exposed his misogyny rapping online
The 32-year-old jailed for life for a racially motivated sex attack on a Sikh woman had a collection of hate-filled uploadsJohn Ashby is a man who did...
‘Cries of delight’ as Sumatran orangutan filmed using canopy bridge to cross road for first time
After a two-year wait, video of a young male crossing above a road gives hope that critically endangered species can survive habitat fragmentationThe ...
Walking the dog and braving the paps: the art of the doorstep photo, from Keane to Mandelson
Former US ambassador and Labour peer joins a long line of people who have gone out to meet awaiting paparazzi head-onFor a man at the centre of a stor...
Inside Chornobyl: 40 years after disaster, nuclear site still at risk in Russia’s war
In February 2025, a cheap Russian drone tore through Chornobyl’s confinement shelter. Workers warn the site of the world’s worst nuclear accident is n...
Hanged under the cover of war: letters and videos tell stories of Iran’s death row victims
Testimony emerges from Babak Alipour, who spent three years on death row before being taken to gallows in March Writing from his cell in the Rajai Sha...
Altman apologizes after OpenAI failed to alert police before fatal Canada shooting
OpenAI said the company had identified an account using abuse detection efforts, but determined at the time it didn’t meet threshold for legal referra...
US military kills two more people in strike on alleged drug boat in Pacific
Small boat destroyed in video posted on social media as US campaign has killed at least 178 people since SeptemberThe US military announced on Friday ...
