Brazil's Lula-Bolsonaro showdown unfolds in Trump's shadow — with the Amazon at stake

Police confirm investigation into period the man reportedly spent in Australia before alleged attempted terrorist attack. Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news…

US president urges Americans to call Tom Cotton to support bill to make daylight saving time permanent. Donald Trump on Saturday put pressure on the US senator Tom Cotton of…

OpenAI is equipping high-end subscribers with always-on agents, known as Dots. It's a bold move from a company that continues to deal with reports of its agents breaking past…

Smit Machchhar says in video call with Indian PM that he realised if he did not get up ‘passengers would lose their lives’. The Indian pilot who helped thwart an apparent attempt…

Pyongyang fires towards sea a day after Kim Jong-un sister denounces South Korea for claiming North’s mines wounded South’s soldiers in DMZ. North Korea fired a ballistic missile…

The Pope has repeated his warnings about artificial intelligence - saying concerns the technology could go rogue are not "fake news"

Michael Kotlikoff described the allegations of a woman who says she was drugged and gang raped as "deeply disturbing"

Glaciers in Switzerland have lost 5.5% of their ice volume in 2026 after a "devasting year" marked by intense heatwaves and low snowfall, according to a study

Final jobs report before the midterm elections also shows the US unemployment rate rose slightly to 4.2%. US employers added just 29,000 jobs in September, a sharp drop from last…

Six people were on board the Canadian-registered air ambulance jet travelling from Bermuda to Boston

The meeting at the White House came as some tech bosses and experts have called for tighter rules around AI

There is no greater treachery than this failure to face up to the climate crisis. How can we now fend off despair?. The Independent Planning Commission’s published reasons for…

Imagine the UK with a 20-year investment plan, with green homes and fast transport. We already have the tools to make it happen. You’ve just left school. What’s your future?. I…

Shadow justice secretary says despite U-turn Labour are still ‘restricting juries by the back door’, as Conservative conference begins in Birmingham. Carla Denyer , the former…

A third runway would fly in the face of reason. If we are to prioritise human life over short-term ‘growth’, we need to use planes less, not more. If a third runway is built at…

‘AI factories’ developer on track to launch the second-biggest IPO in Australian history, but investors warn its forecasts are ‘a little bit of a fairytale’. Get our breaking news…

OpenAI’s hack of Medicare suggests safeguarding civilisation is the task facing leaders in this extraordinary new era. Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news…

Indika Bambrick Samarasinghe, 18, appears in court on dangerous driving offences after car struck Knights supporters lining streets to farewell their team. Get our breaking news…

Two troops of chacma baboons are breaking into homes and shops but animal rights activists insist coexistence is the answer. Cape Town’s city council has said it will “imminently”…

Aidan Hamilton and Robert Strang died after apparently ingesting kratom product last month. Federal authorities investigating the recent deaths of two University of Mississippi…

Three little letters - bnb-side’s name is a play on the local b-side arts festival, but Silicon Valley colossus sees threat to global brand. In one corner is bnb-side, a six-room…

Across videos, standup and cartoons, humorists are skewering big tech’s attempt to make AI ubiquitous and inevitable. “Best case scenario, we never have to do any admin again,”…

Dozens of projects are in development across US despite concerns over environmental and health risks. The plan to bury carbon under remote Indiana farmland is supposed to be a…

Polluting facilities in Monterrey, which has close ties to the US, are pumping toxic heavy metals into the city’s air and threatening residents’ health. Leer en español en Quinto…

Sunday’s general election is too close to call, with the incumbent president facing the son of the man who attempted a coup against him. Sunday’s election in Brazil could hardly…

As the UN warns traditional safeguards are ‘unravelling’, Donald Trump says he will encourage, not restrain, the AI race. When the Australian prime minister, Anthony Albanese, sat…

A layoff and a leap of faith convinced Katie Teixeira she had what it takes to run her own business. In 2010, Katie Teixeira adopted a kitten found all alone in an abandoned…

As bird flu reshapes agriculture, small farms operate under strict rules. Just a single case could tank their business. Joshua Beebe often starts his day by cleaning the tires of…

Authorities crack down on trade they says risks spiralling out of control – but operators say they are being targeted unfairly. On the edge of Piazza Navona, one of the grandest…

With a month until the midterm elections, President Trump is hitting the campaign trail in an effort to ramp up voter turnout across traditionally red states, as rising costs and…

Treasurer says ‘very substantial and intensifying pressure’ on federal budget as he points finger at private sector for driving up inflation amid Middle East conflict. Get our new…

Many hoped that the march of technology would usher in an egalitarian utopia – but some foresaw the threat it would pose to liberal society. Why did nobody listen?. By Jill…

The man was beaten with hammers until he transferred hundreds of thousands of pounds of cryptocurrency

Exclusive: Clare Matterson, the head of the Royal Horticultural Society, talks about the charity’s £2.3m roadworks compensation, community gardening and her high hopes for Andy…

Now a $15bn industry, astrology is more mainstream in the US than ever. But its practitioners are still debating: who gets to have authority on the celestial bodies?. “The dwarf…