Pope Leo to undergo surgery in coming days after nodule discovered on his lung

A boat has capsized off the coast of Djibouti leaving at least 139 migrants dead and 84 missing, a United Nations agency has reported

Committee recognises work of South African who chaired UN commission that concluded Israel was guilty of genocide in Gaza. The Nobel peace prize has been awarded to Navi Pillay,…

Storm expected to make landfall on US’s northern Gulf coast with risk of flash floods and isolated river flooding. Isaias has become the first Atlantic hurricane of the 2026…

Tennessee inmate Christa Pike was released from the hospital and is back in prison more than a week after she survived the state's attempt to execute her by lethal injection , her…

Newly established commission identifies 17 catastrophic threats to human health but says ‘realistic route to act’ on each exists. Humans could become extinct by the year 2100 due…

Defence secretary backs Ukrainian president and says priority is to maintain western unity over Russia conflict. Britain stands behind Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the defence secretary…

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky told Axios in a phone interview on Friday that President Trump's decision to unilaterally lift sanctions on Russia and allow it to export…

Alonzo Lunsford tells the BBC the punishment befits the crime but he has some doubts whether the public should be able to watch it

Hammam al-Hammami is believed to have been targeting the passenger terminal at Ben Gurion airport near Tel Aviv. The co-pilot who tried to seize control of a passenger jet flying…

Three men have been found guilty of murdering two Australian brothers and their American friend during a surfing trip in Mexico

Government spokesperson says defence minister also mentioned in ‘exceptionally concerning’ threat. Poland’s police said on Sunday that they had received information about a…

Kenyan breaks Melbourne Marathon record by two seconds. ‘I’m happy to run with the gen Zs,’ 41-year-old says. Marathon’s greatest competitor, Eliud Kipchoge, has sent a message to…

A spokesperson for the tech company did not specify what kind of behavior would be considered abusive. Anthropic has barred users from exhibiting “sustained and needless abusive…

The Justice Department (DOJ) is investigating five major TV networks for alleged antitrust violations after the outlets briefly pulled their pool coverage. Sources told The New…

Third strike on Yandex facilities in a week comes as Russia and Ukraine escalate attacks on tech infrastructure

The AI firm instead claims the researchers were fired for mishandling sensitive information

Philadelphia police said the tip was "flagged as spam", but criticised the tech company for taking more than two months to detect and report the breach

Vice President JD Vance said Thursday that the Trump administration is suspending Microsoft , Adobe and several other IT firms' ability to hire foreign-born workers for permanent…

Climate change is blamed for dramatic decline of chinstrap penguins living on a remote volcanic island

The Atlantic hurricane season, which runs from 1 June to 30 November, has been unusually quiet this year

Leftwing Hitler Mussolini Simeon Flores beats far-right candidate in election in remote district of Andes. A businessman called Hitler Mussolini Simeon Flores has been elected the…

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…

Cooperation between One Nation and the Liberals ‘up to Angus Taylor’, Hanson says at conservative conference. How would that work?. Get our new political email , free app or daily…

The UK state is dumping its responsibilities on our doorsteps, while green-lighting policies that lead us closer to crisis. Would you mind fixing the NHS? And while you’re at it,…

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…

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…

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…

A new global biodiversity report strikes an encouraging note. But we cannot rest on our laurels – and resilience is key. The new Living Planet Report is out. Published every two…

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…

This is no scoffing matter. The accelerating proliferation of advanced nuclear weapons is bringing ‘end times’ closer by the day. Humankind has fearfully and sometimes joyfully…

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…

A farm labor contractor exposed laborers on H-2A agricultural visas to heat-related health hazards, but is still bringing hundreds of migrant farm workers to North Carolina. It…

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.…

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…

Protesters spent months occupying an ancient cottonwood. Then a tense standoff with US border patrol came to a head. A 200-year-old cottonwood tree near the US-Mexico border ,…