Toxic chemicals in pet flea treatments harming wildlife, UK study warns
Flea treatment chemicals fipronil and imidacloprid also implicated in lower cognitive scores in children with autismToxic chemicals found in pet flea ...
AI will help make a Nobel prize-winning discovery within a year, says Anthropic co-founder
Jack Clark describes ‘vertiginous sense of progress’ and ‘profound changes’ to society alongside risks of technologyAn AI system will work with humans...
Australia’s unemployment rate jumps to 4.5% in ‘tentative signs labour market is buckling’
Surprise rise in jobless rate will give Reserve Bank more reason to delay another interest rate hike at June meetingFollow our Australia news live blo...
Ex-DoJ prosecutor charged with sending sealed Jack Smith Trump report to personal email
Carmen Mercedes Lineberger accused of hiding files related to Trump documents investigation as bundt cake recipeA former Department of Justice prosecu...
Papua New Guinea warns against fishing in New Ireland after mystery deaths of marine life
Initial testing found evidence of metals in water samples, months after province’s residents began reporting unusual numbers of dead fish washing asho...
Voters across parties believe UK net migration is rising despite sharp drop
Study, published as latest migration figures are released, shows incorrect perceptions driving immigration debatePeople mistakenly believe net migrati...
Manchester shows biggest fall in inner-city deprivation in boost for Burnham
City made outsized contribution to falling levels of deprivation between 2010 and 2025, thinktank finds Manchester has recorded the biggest fall in in...
Nvidia’s revenue blows past Wall Street expectations as AI boom accelerates
Many analysts view company’s financial performance as a broader referendum on AI buildoutNvidia continued its years-long streak of beating Wall Street...
‘We will not go back to Jim Crow’: thousand of Mississippians rally for voting rights
Demonstration, held at historic location where the ‘Mississippi Plan’ was enacted, comes as southern states race to dilute Black voting powerThousands...
Australia news live: Penny Wong rebukes Israel over “shocking and unacceptable” treatment of flotilla activists
Australia’s foreign minister condemns video posted by Israel’s national security minister taunting detained activists. Follow today’s news liveGet our...
Man charged with stealing camera equipment from Bondi shooting victim in aftermath of terror attack
Police allege an attender at the Hanukah event before the shooting stole a deceased 61-year-old’s camera equipment then pawned itGet our breaking news...
Tennessee man jailed over Charlie Kirk post wins $835,000 settlement
Larry Bushart was jailed for 37 days over a Facebook post after the assassination of conservative activist Charlie KirkTennessee officials will pay $8...
Murder inquiry launched after fatal assault on London bus driver
Police say 64-year-old was attacked after confrontation near Battersea BridgeA murder investigation has been launched after a bus driver died after an...
Young Americans demand court halt Trump’s biggest rollbacks of pollution protections
Suit says administration is impinging on rights to life and liberty by worsening planet-warming and toxic pollutionEighteen American youth are demandi...
Sinkhole shuts down runway at New York LaGuardia airport
Officials say sinkhole discovered at about 11am as emergency crews rush to complete repairsA sinkhole was discovered at New York’s LaGuardia airport o...
Michael Bay to direct film based on US military rescue mission in Iran
Director of Armageddon and Transformers to team up with Universal Pictures for drama based on recent eventsMichael Bay is set to direct a military dra...
Canada faces calls for investigation into death of woman after plasma donation
International student Rodiyat Alabede, 22, died due to a ‘perfect storm’ of lax safety protocols, advocates sayPatient advocates in Canada have called...
UK radio station apologises for accidentally announcing king’s death
Announcement made due to computer error at Radio Caroline’s main studio in EssexA radio station has apologised for “any distress caused” after acciden...
Burnham to back Shabana Mahmood’s immigration changes, allies say
Exclusive: Greater Manchester understood to support home secretary’s push to limit legal and illegal migrationAndy Burnham is backing Shabana Mahmood’...
Israeli security minister stirs diplomatic outrage with flotilla activist abuse video
Far-right figure Itamar Ben-Gvir shares footage of himself taunting bound international detaineesIsrael’s far-right national security minister, Itamar...
Badenoch says Labour ‘just want a better salesman’. It would be a good start
Starmer has a reasonable list of achievements in power but has undermined himself with a lack of political storytellingNet migration down by three-qua...
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the US and Israel’s unlikely choice to lead Iran
Populist former president’s falling-out with the Tehran regime allegedly drew him into a takeover plotUS and Israel hoped to install Ahmadinejad as Ir...
Starmer’s top advisers knew about ‘indefensible’ journalists probe, documents reveal
PM’s former chief of staff, Morgan McSweeney, among aides who were briefed on investigation into journalists writing about Labour TogetherKeir Starmer...
Aardvark calf born at Chester zoo is ‘doing brilliantly’ after bottle-feeding
Births of the mammals extremely rare in captivity, say keepers, with ‘Womble’ only the second calf born at ChesterInside a heated incubator at Chester...
Norwegian court blocks extradition to Greece of migrant rights activist
Case hailed as human rights victory as Tromsø court says Tommy Olsen’s actions are lawful and protected under international treatiesThe decision of a ...
Ian Cheshire says media regulator must address perception it has been complacent and slow on online safetyOfcom’s incoming chair has vowed to take on ...
US indicts former Cuban president Raúl Castro as it intensifies pressure
Charges filed in Miami against 94-year-old for allegedly shooting down exiles’ planes in 1996The United States has issued a federal criminal indictmen...
Russian jet causes ‘dangerous’ near collision after flying close to RAF spy plane
UK government calls incident ‘unacceptable’ after Su-27 jet comes within six metres of unarmed spy plane over Black SeaA Russian jet flew within six m...
Former health minister with terminal cancer urges MPs not to bring back assisted dying bill
Exclusive: Ashley Dalton said rejected amendments could have made bill stronger but it became a ‘pretty dangerous set of affairs’A former public healt...
