Iran’s president hits out at ‘bully’ Trump in UN speech but signals willingness to talk

Kirsten Gillibrand says acting US navy secretary told her of attempted suicides after carrier strike group’s lengthy deployment as part of US war in Iran. This blog is now closed.…

Islamic State-inspired bombings of churches and hotels in 2019 was one of the country’s worst ever attacks. A court in Sri Lanka has convicted 15 men on terrorist charges for…

Polo, with sustained winds of 165mph, is churning 215 miles south of Zihuatanejo but is unlikely to directly hit Mexico. A tropical storm off the south-west coast of Mexico has…

Prime minister says he told Sam Altman he was disappointed it had taken OpenAI ‘way too long’ to disclose breach. Anthony Albanese says an artificial intelligence agent developed…

Donald Trump wrote in ‌a social media post on Saturday that he is creating an "AI Force" to ‌oversee regulation of AI and will announce an AI "czar" in the near future

Rescuers search for missing in collapsed homes after storm causes landslides, travel chaos and power outages. Typhoon Dujuan has killed at least four people and injured 22 in…

The local authorities reportedly seize Tigray's airports following reports of recent drone strikes

The son of Israel's ambassador to the US has reportedly been seriously injured in a ramming attack in the occupied West Bank

A British businessman and an adviser to a quango funded by the UK government have each been jailed for 16 years after brokering illegal arms deals to send fighter jets and weapons…

Australia criticised OpenAI for taking "too long" to tell them about the breach which happened in June

As President Trump and China's President Xi prepare to meet, Rush Doshi of the Council on Foreign Relations explains the current state of U.S.-China relations and what to expect…

Three news outlets filed lawsuit in attempt to regain access to the White House after having badges disabled. In what will be one of the largest battles yet between the press and…

Venezuela’s Interim President Delcy Rodriguez says her country must abandon the ‘extremism’ of the past

Former White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci said Wednesday that former Trump White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt would have advised President Trump to…

At least 11 people have been killed in a mass shooting at a house party in South Africa

The UK has jammed satellites to defend itself from hostile threats, the BBC has been told

The leaders of the US and China are expected to discuss trade, AI and Iran in their third in-person meeting in a year

OpenAI's Sam Altman has called for risk evaluation standards, as have Anthropic's Dario Amodei and Hugging Face's Clement Delangue

A district judge tossed an election interference lawsuit by President Trump against the Des Moines Register, parent company USA Today Co. (formerly Gannett) and pollster Ann…

Follow the day’s news live. Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast. More than 600 Qantas ground crew workers have begun a 24-hour strike this morning across…

Former US vice-president still has optimism for climate advocacy two decades after groundbreaking documentary. Two decades after the release of his groundbreaking documentary An…

The Eyre peninsula site is ‘precious and important’ habitats for southern emu-wren and home to 80% of the mallee whipbird population. Get our breaking news email , free app or…

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…

Digital-age Australian psychodrama tracks the shut-in mania of dangerously disaffected male fan, but doesn’t get inside his mind. If the parasocial phenomenon is a kind of hell,…

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…

With nearly £30m of funding, I’m giving communities power over local energy. They know the gravity of global heating, and they want to be part of the solution. Andy Burnham: UK…

The move comes after Jamaica’s culture minister Olivia Grange travelled to the UK earlier this month to lodge the historic petition. King Charles has referred a landmark slavery…

For the first time in recent history there’ll be no pre-game entertainment at the NRL grand final. But everyone has a different story about what actually went down. Emma, the NRL…

The park is the most highly visited and strong winds make trash problem worse, with gusts blowing away items. Hold on to your hats – Yellowstone national park staffers have…

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…

As animal behaviorists increasingly use AI in their research, they grapple with how to wield the technology responsibly. I’m sitting in a small boat in Shark Bay, Australia,…

Latest data also shows unemployment at highest level since the pandemic, which analysts doubt will stop RBA hiking interest rates. Follow our Australia news live blog for latest…

But Kyriakos Mitsotakis says he cannot accept any arrangement that recognises British Museum’s ownership of the sculptures. Kyriakos Mitsotakis: Britain would not cut up the…