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Argentina will stop Falklands exploiting offshore oilfields, foreign minister says

Pablo Quirno says move is part of Argentinian government’s strategy to peacefully assert sovereignty over the islandsArgentina’s foreign minister has told an audience that included the British ambassador that his government would stop the Falkland Islands from exploiting its offshore oilfields as part of a strategy to take sovereignty.During a speech at a thinktank event in the Argentinian capital...

Argentina to stop Falklands exploiting offshore oilfields, country’s foreign minister says

Pablo Quirno says move is part of government’s strategy to peacefully assert sovereignty over the islandsArgentina’s foreign minister has told an audience that included the British ambassador that his government would stop the Falkland Islands from exploiting its offshore oilfields as part of a strategy to take sovereignty.During a speech at a thinktank event in the Argentinian capital, Pablo Quir...

Russia plague quarantine following lab death: Should we be worried?

Plague is still endemic to Siberia, the location of the first known prehistoric human outbreak.

Greenpeace catches Hong Kong geopark ‘golden week’ visitors damaging marine life

Around 100 incidents of visitors catching sea cucumbers and digging up sea snails and clams were recorded in a single day at a popular spot in Hong Kong’s Unesco-listed geopark during National Day “golden week”, a green group has found, following similar incidents last year. The Po Pin Chau section of the High Island Geo Trail in Sai Kung was also strewn with rubbish on a separate day, Greenpeace ...

Belgian physicist wins Nobel for turning Antarctic ice into a telescope

Belgian Francis Halzen, 82, turned a cubic kilometre of Antarctic ice into the world's largest neutrino detector. On Tuesday, his hunt for "ghostly messengers" from the distant universe won him the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics.

School protests sweep France in most violent student demonstrations in decades

Demonstrations swept across France on Tuesday as teachers and parents took ⁠to the streets with high school pupils on the biggest day of what Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu described as the most violent student demonstrations in decades. Police fired tear gas and water cannons to disperse violent groups on the fringes of marches in Paris, Strasbourg, Rennes and Toulouse, among other cities. The ...

French school unrest: students, teachers march on biggest day of protests

Students, teachers and parents marched ⁠in cities across France on Tuesday and protesters blockaded hundreds of schools, in the biggest day of action in a wave of demonstrations demanding the government tackle understaffed and dilapidated classrooms. In Marseille, Nantes and Lyon, the street protests began peacefully mid-morning, with the largest demonstration expected in Paris in the afternoon. Y...

Former UN food agency official claims he was fired for highlighting hunger in Gaza

Benjamin Davis appealing against dismissal from FAO, after being accused by director general of playing ‘political games’A former senior UN food agency official has alleged he was fired last week for his work highlighting hunger in Gaza, and has launched an appeal against his dismissal.Benjamin Davis said the leadership of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) had refused to renew his contra...

Saudi-Iran war risk grows as Riyadh resumes Yemen bombing

Iran and Saudi Arabia are edging dangerously closer to direct conflict, analysts warn, after Riyadh resumed major air strikes on Yemen’s Tehran-allied Houthi rebels this week, ending a four-year lull. More than 100 Saudi warplanes bombed rebel positions on Monday, enabling Yemeni government forces to retake much of the Red Sea coastal territory the Houthis seized last month. The Houthis had been a...

‘This is state violence’: Paris students rage at politicians and heavy-handed policing

Unprecedented protests that began in low-income banlieue are turning ugly, with investigations under way into police brutalityBefore dawn on Tuesday outside the Lycée Sophie-Germain in central Paris, hundreds of teenagers dragged wheelie bins, metal barriers and shopping trolleys to build a barricade outside the front door of their secondary school.Climbing to the top of the piles of bins, pupils ...

On the barricades with wheelie bins and shopping trolleys: Paris students rage at politicians and police

Unprecedented protests that began in low-income banlieue are turning ugly, with investigations under way into police brutalityBefore dawn on Tuesday outside the Lycée Sophie-Germain in central Paris, hundreds of teenagers dragged wheelie bins, metal barriers and shopping trolleys to build a barricade outside the front door of their secondary school.Climbing to the top of the piles of bins, pupils ...

Australia faces summer of extreme weather, Anthony Albanese warns at pre-Cop

Prime minister tells delegates in Tuvalu and Fiji that ‘super El Niño’ brewing in the Pacific shows climate change is ‘here right now’Anthony Albanese has warned Australia faces a hazardous summer, likely including floods, cyclones and extreme heat, due to the immediate threat of the climate change and a rising “super El Niño”.Speaker alongside national leaders at a climate summit in Fiji, the pri...

Ancient DNA reveals an unknown extinct bovine related to modern yaks

Vietnamese police arrest 12 suspected of snatching cats for meat

Police in Vietnam’s Ho Chi Minh City have arrested 12 men suspected of running a ring that stole and resold about 2,700 cats for meat

Nigerian Air Force says plane carrying 25 crashed with no survivors

Officials say there were no survivors among 25 people on board a Nigerian Air Force plane that crashed in southern Nigeria’s Ondo state

Spain’s gov't approves new urgent housing measures after night of unrest in Barcelona

Spain's government has approved urgent measures on the country's housing crisis

India opposition leaders briefly arrested in protest against election chief

Protesters are demanding the resignation of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar.

Russia says nearly 900 Ukrainian drones downed, fuel depot reportedly burns

Russia's Defense Ministry says air defenses intercepted nearly 900 Ukrainian drones over multiple regions overnight

Philip Ingram sees Russia, China and Iran stepping up ‘gray zone’ activities across UK and Europe

François Picard is pleased to welcome Philip Ingram, journalist and former British military intelligence officer. The events surrounding RAF Fairford are not an isolated incident, explains Ingram. It's part of a much wider security issue in which conventional military operations, intelligence activity and gray-zone tactics increasingly overlap.

OpenAI’s Jason Kwon gave even-toned, reassuring answers to the Australian government. Did … ChatGPT write this?

Kwon’s answers were provided in a helpful, quiet and calm manner, but his mea culpa left the audience not much the wiserOpen AI’s Jason Kwon flew 15 hours from San Francisco to Sydney to give the company’s first in-person mea culpa after it admitted – in an unsigned email, to a public departmental inbox – that one of its AI agents had accessed a Services Australia website without authorisation and...

OpenAI delivers a mea culpa to the Australian government in person – but answers still elude

Jason Kwon’s answers were provided in a helpful, quiet and calm manner. For a company under intense scrutiny, there were no missteps Open AI’s Jason Kwon flew 15 hours from San Francisco to Sydney to give the company’s first in-person mea culpa after it admitted – in an unsigned email, to a public departmental inbox – that one of its AI agents had accessed a Services Australia website without auth...

Montana student compares banana and plantain starch to make stronger bioplastic

Rye Lynn Rost, a seventh grader from Montana, created bioplastics using starch from plantains and bananas. She discovered that plantains have more starch and higher tensile strength than bananas. Rye performed tests by comparing both bioplastics against plastic parafilm to evaluate their strength. Her project focuses on making sustainable bioplastics that are durable in environmental conditions ov...

Pro-Palestine Greens challenge Labour’s grip on Starmer’s former seat

Green Party leader Zack Polanski hopes to shake Labour, which has held Holborn since the seat was created in 1983.

Iran's Houthi allies deny losing ground as Mideast crisis engulfs Yemen

Iran's Houthi allies deny losing ground to Yemen's Saudi-backed military, but oil prices ease despite the Middle East crisis erupting in a battle over control of another key waterway.

Democrats upbeat as unpopular Trump imperils Republican midterm hopes

Polls show GOP candidates trailing Democrats in Senate races, and Republicans also struggling in House contestsThirty days remain until the midterm elections, and Donald Trump and his Republican allies are pulling out all the stops to maintain control of Congress.Super Pacs aligned with the GOP have already spent hundreds of millions of dollars on advertising and voter outreach in races expected t...