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Annual State of the UK Climate analysis finds last four years in UK are in top five hottest on recordThe UK’s climatic extremes are becoming increasingly normal, a report has found, with last year the hottest on record and further “unprecedented changes” likely to break the record again soon.Data stretching back to 1884 shows the UK has never experienced a year as hot as 2025, according to the ann...
Former Labor leader, now University of Canberra vice-chancellor, also said he was shocked by some evidence given at the royal commission on antisemitism. Follow today’s news liveGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastShorten shocked by testimony given to royal commission on antisemitismFormer Labor leader Bill Shorten, now the vice-chancellor of the University of Canberra, said...
Fire broke out last Thursday in the southeastern province of Almería, which is home to many foreign residentsSeven Britons are among 12 foreign nationals killed in wildfires in southern Spain, authorities said.Officials said 12 of the 13 victims were foreign nationals after completing postmortem examinations after the fires that swept through Andalusia. Continue reading...
Donald Trump claims shipping route is open for all except Iranian ships as US issues new Iran-related sanctions TuesdayUS launches third night of strikes on Iran as Trump announces Hormuz blockade Resurgent oil and fuel prices could cement a fourth interest rate rise in Australia this year if Donald Trump’s renewed conflict with Iran is not resolved within a week, economists warn.US missile strike...
Clarence Frazier Jr charged with murder over killing of Drew Hanson and could face death penalty if convictedA federal agent was fatally shot while trying to help authorities capture a man who failed to show up to his sexual battery trial in Louisiana, according to the US justice department.Clarence Frazier Jr, 48, was charged with murder in the killing of deputy US marshal Drew Hanson, authoritie...
Sunshine Protection Act has bipartisan support, including backing of Trump and some Democratic co-sponsors, and will head to the Senate nextThe US House of Representatives on Tuesday voted overwhelmingly to approve a bill that would end the practice of changing clocks twice a year and make daylight saving time permanent.The bid to end clock-changing, dubbed the Sunshine Protection Act, has biparti...
Sunshine Protection Act has bipartisan support, including backing of Trump and some Democratic co-sponsorsThe US House of Representatives on Tuesday voted overwhelmingly to approve a bill that would end the practice of changing clocks twice a year and make daylight saving time permanent.The bid to end clock-changing, dubbed the Sunshine Protection Act, has bipartisan support, including the backing...
Bid to end clock-changing has bipartisan support, including backing of Trump and some Democratic co-sponsorsThe US House of Representatives on Tuesday voted overwhelmingly to approve a bill that would end the practice of changing clocks twice a year and make daylight saving time permanent.The bid to end clock-changing, dubbed the Sunshine Protection Act, has bipartisan support, including the backi...
Elena Kagan and Amy Coney Barrett appear before House lawmakers in rare testimony to ask for more protectionSupreme court justice Amy Coney Barrett told House lawmakers that a sharp rise in threats against her and other justices is increasingly affecting her personal and family lives.Barrett and fellow supreme court justice Elena Kagan made the case for increased security in rare House testimony t...
‘Enchanted’ visitors queued for hours to see two of largest – and smelliest – plants flower in San MarinoTwo corpse flowers have bloomed at a southern California research institution, where thousands of visitors had the rare chance to watch two of the world’s largest – and most odorous – plants flowering at the same time.The two titan arums, named Odorysseus and Odora, attracted more than 7,000 pe...
Two of largest – and smelliest – plants flower at Huntington library and gardens, as ‘enchanted’ visitors queue for hoursTwo corpse flowers have bloomed at a southern California research institution, where thousands of visitors had the rare chance to watch two of the world’s largest – and most odorous – plants flowering at the same time.The two titan arums, named Odorysseus and Odora, attracted mo...
Midnight to 6am block on some apps is latest stage of Labour’s bid to protect young people from online harmsSixteen and 17-year-olds are to be encouraged to observe a midnight social media curfew, in the latest stage of Labour’s bid “to protect the next generation” from online harms, including poor sleep caused by night-time scrolling.From next spring, Britain’s oldest children will be urged to re...
Death of unidentified 28-year-old man marks third immigration enforcement-related death in one weekA person died during an encounter with federal immigration officials on Tuesday morning in Florida, a state highway patrol spokesperson confirmed, marking the third death in one week linked to immigration enforcement operations.Officials with Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), which is a compone...
Chief executives of Australia’s 100 biggest companies earned a median $4.8m in the 2025 financial year. Follow today’s news liveGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastLuca has more on ACSI’s CEO pay report, which reveals that Life360’s founder Chris Hulls was the top-paid chief executive of an Australian-listed company in 2025’s financial year.Hull earned $47.7m in realised pay...
Donald Trump claims shipping route is open for all except Iranian ships as US issues new Iran-related sanctions TuesdayUS launches third night of strikes on Iran as Trump announces Hormuz blockadeResurgent oil and fuel prices could cement a fourth interest rate rise in Australia this year if Donald Trump’s renewed conflict with Iran is not resolved within a week, economists warn.US missile strikes...
Andrew Bailey warns that US will not be able to achieve its ambitions aloneThe Bank of England governor has called for international cooperation to tackle growing AI threats, warning that the US and Trump administration would not be able to achieve their ambitions alone.Andrew Bailey’s comments come weeks after the US president, Donald Trump, temporarily banned foreigners from using Anthropic’s po...
Chuck Schumer says Republicans are ‘ignoring the nation’s most urgent national security crisis’ amid US exchange of fire with IranUS politics live – latest updatesSign up for the Breaking News US newsletter emailSenate Democrats on Tuesday blocked the advancement of a must-pass defense bill in protest of Donald Trump’s resumption of hostilities with Iran.The hold up of the National Defense Authori...
An immigration officer shot and killed the 26-year-old Colombian man afte reportedly ramming into his carThe man killed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents in Maine on Monday has been identified as Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero, an ICE spokesperson said in a statement.An immigration agent shot and killed the 26-year-old Colombian man on Monday morning in Biddeford, Maine, after re...
Bill marks a full-circle moment for the PM-in-waiting and encapsulates what he says his government will be aboutAndy Burnham has always said he took his first steps out of Westminster in 2009, when he walked out to address furious Liverpool fans at the Kop on the 20th anniversary of the Hillsborough disaster.They chanted “Justice for the 96” for a full two minutes before the then culture secretary...
US president claims shipping route is open for all except Iranian ships after another night of strikes on IranUS launches third night of strikes on Iran as Trump announces Hormuz blockadeResurgent oil and fuel prices could cement a fourth interest rate rise in Australia this year if Donald Trump’s renewed conflict with Iran is not resolved within a week, economists warn.US missile strikes on Iran ...
A boy, 16, and girl, 15, were charged with murder after the family members were shot at three different locations Two teenagers were charged with murder Tuesday in the killings of five members of an Illinois family who were shot at three different locations.A 16-year-old boy will be prosecuted as an adult, while the case against a 15-year-old girl will start in juvenile court before a possible tra...
At London briefing, Caricom Reparations Commission decries fact region remains ‘most colonised part of world’The main reparations committee for Caribbean nations has called on the UK to return the British Virgin Islands and for King Charles to commit to decolonising Britain’s remaining overseas territories, warning of a “resurgence of colonisation” around the world.In a visit to the UK this week, ...
Alistair Burt will bring diplomatic clout to complex cases involving human rights violations and arbitrary detentionThe Foreign Office has appointed a special envoy for British citizens detained overseas, a new role to deal with “complex consular cases” such as that of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, the British-Iranian dual national who was imprisoned in Tehran for six years.Alistair Burt, the former ...
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says they are scouring food supply chain for culprit, which may be lettuceWhat is cyclosporiasis, the parasitic illness causing ‘explosive’ diarrhea?Federal health officials said they expect the outbreaks of cyclospora – a parasite that causes watery, explosive diarrhea – across the US to continue through August as they scour the food supply chain for the...
A collision of online conspiracy theories came for two of the most powerful Republicans in the Senate in recent daysIt was Russia. It was Israel. Could it have been Iran? Or maybe it was a Covid-19 booster. What about the Clintons?After US senator Lindsey Graham died suddenly over the weekend from what a preliminary medical examiner report said was an aortic dissection, conspiracy theories spread ...
Lawsuit alleges administration coordinated with online surveillance groups to ‘criminalize solidarity with Palestine’Mahmoud Khalil filed a lawsuit on Tuesday against Trump administration officials and several pro-Israel groups, accusing them of conspiring to target him and others as punishment for their support of Palestinian rights.The former Columbia University graduate student became the face ...
Lindsey Graham’s younger sister appointed by South Carolina’s governor three days after senator’s deathDarline Graham Nordone: Lindsey Graham’s sister and interim US senatorDarline Graham, the sister of the late Republican senator Lindsey Graham, was sworn in to fill his Senate seat on Tuesday after, just three days after his sudden death.Graham was appointed by Henry McMaster, South Carolina’s go...
Younger sister Graham was appointed by Henry McMaster, South Carolina’s governorDarline Graham Nordone: Lindsey Graham’s sister and interim US senatorDarline Graham, the sister of the late Republican senator Lindsey Graham, will be sworn in as his replacement on Tuesday to finish out the remainder of his term.Graham was appointed by Henry McMaster, South Carolina’s governor. Continue reading...
One social media user described the opening of its first outlet in Monterrey as ‘like the dog teaching a duck to fly’A US chain’s plan to sell its version of Mexican food to Mexicans with a first branch south of the border has prompted bemusement, skepticism and anger among local people.Chipotle Mexican Grill, known for its customisable burritos, tacos and bowls, has more than 4,000 locations worl...
As Ann Widdecombe’s death raises concerns over security, politicians reveal extent of problemJess Phillips has received so many death threats she has to remind herself not to be blase. One night she received more than 600 rape threats. In 2019, a man forced his way into her office. The same year a white supremacist sent her a picture of Jo Cox, her friend and fellow Labour MP who was murdered in 2...
