Pope Leo XIV thanks wellwishers in first event after cancer surgery

Bernard Baudoux, Mayor of the French town of Aulnoye-Aymeries, says masked settlers attacked him in occupied West Bank

The kingdom of Hyrule has been prettified, the soundtrack is newly orchestrated and our hero feels strikingly different under the thumbs … we play a hands-on demo of Nintendo’s…

Donald Trump has endorsed Benjamin Netanyahu ahead of the Israeli elections later this month, calling him a "great warrior prime minister"

Family post emotional statements to Instagram a month after their son and brother died at a rehab facility. Cindy Crawford and Rande Gerber have said they are “beyond heartbroken”…

Judge orders government to notify her by 8pm ET Sunday whether its position changed from Friday’s court filing. Donald Trump posted on Truth Social on Sunday that “restoration…

Former Reagan White House staffer Mark Weinberg offers advice to the incoming U.S. press secretary by reflecting on the lessons learned from predecessors Jim Brady, Larry Speakes,…

Chancellor says government will study responses to public consultation, with airports being ‘big part of jobs and growth’. John Healey has said there is a pro-growth case for…

Forest clearance at smallest total since records began in 1988 in success for Lula ahead of presidential run-off. Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon has fallen to its lowest…

Parts of southern England have entered "severe drought", while about 30 million people are under hosepipe ban

The rupture between President Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky over last week's diesel deal deepened Wednesday after an Elon Musk -owned satellite system used by…

The Atlantic writer Josh Tyrangiel says Musk and Bezos each want to colonize the moon, mine its resources and launch thousands more satellites. He says their only real competition…

Gulf ministers urge action against Houthis as fighting displaces more than 233,000 people across Yemen

Prices can get sticky. That helps explain why recessions hurt so much — and what policymakers can do about them

Archaeologists say the wreck is up to 4,700 years old, dating to the Early Bronze Age

The emissions might occur elsewhere, but they generate global harm that scientists can now quantify. Sign up for climate and environment editor Adam Morton’s free Clear Air…

For more than three decades, Michael Gove has been a leading figure in British Conservatism. As a journalist, government minister and now editor of the Tory bible, the Spectator,…

Global cooperation seems unlikely despite AI increasing the risk of digital fraud and the need to protect the financial system. Rogue French fridges were an unlikely talking point…

Insurers are taking on more risk than they should. If – or when – a major disaster hits, the catastrophe will have far-reaching consequences. I work for a major insurer, assessing…

Kwon’s answers were provided in a helpful, quiet and calm manner, but his mea culpa left the audience not much the wiser. Open AI’s Jason Kwon flew 15 hours from San Francisco to…

Greens senator for WA says complaints regarding his behaviour towards women not about ‘accountability’ but rather ‘factionalism’. Get our breaking news email , free app or daily…

If cinemas must run 20 minutes of adverts before a feature, they could at least be honest about it. Or, I have a better solution …. Do you remember the last time you were lied to?…

While anglers cannot take endangered sand tiger sharks, a loophole lets private firms catch the fish to sell abroad, profiting from Delaware Bay’s conservation success. Shortly…

The Norwegian government has given a permit to a mining company to release waste into Førde fjord despite a 17-year battle by campaigners and a supreme court ruling against it.…

The tech bros and their highly paid sock puppets are banking on us giving in to their ‘inevitability doctrine’. But in Australia, and around the world, resistance is rising. Of…

Markus Zusak’s novel The Book Thief secures second place, while Trent Dalton’s Boy Swallows Universe rounds out podium dominated by men. Cloudstreet, Tim Winton’s sprawling…

Every decade, the BBC’s continued existence must be secured through an elaborate multi-year negotiation with the government. But what does charter renewal actually involve – and…

Tech billionaires have raised more than $340m to defeat Prop 40, a one-time 5% wealth tax that will fund healthcare and education. Tech billionaires have been dumping hundreds of…

A modern-day prospector promised rural Imperial thousands of jobs and millions in tax revenue – but his plan has set off a firestorm of resistance. Sebastian Rucci zoomed in on a…

Facing a slump in the polls, Argentina’s president is making economic attacks on the islands’ oil industry, and suggesting its key fisheries industry could be next. A dozen local…

Australian ​brothers Jake ​and Callum Robinson, and ​their ‌American friend Carter Rhoad, were killed while on a surf trip in Baja California in 2024. Get our breaking news email…

Interior minister says ‘the Republic will not yield’ to France’s worst protests in years. A dispatch here from Sam Jones, our reporter in Madrid, as protests have spread to Italy…

Wikipedia’s 68m articles have been consulted trillions of times. Not bad for a website that has barely changed since it was founded 20 years ago. A few years ago, I was struck by…

Volodymyr Zelenskyy has warned that the US formally siding with Russia would be a "historic mistake" - as Ukrainian drones attacked oil facilities in St Petersburg

Former White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney said he expects current chief of staff Susie Wiles to leave her post after the midterm elections, but her departure would be on her…

Westminster appears to be waking up to warnings over AI safety, with concerns over its use by extremist groups and bad actors. “I have this sense that, within a few months, AI is…