South Korea president calls for military independence in wake of Trump call to cut joint drills

Belgium wildfire creeps closer to German border, as 104 firefighters and 36 vehicles from France help with Spain wildfire effort. As flagged earlier, Belgium’s King Philippe is…

Ministry of Defence rebuffs threats, saying UK ‘committed to providing equipment Ukraine needs to defend itself against Putin’s illegal invasion’. Moscow has threatened the UK…

The Palestinian American whose home in the occupied West Bank has been besieged by Israeli settlers traveled to his property on Monday to join other family members who have been…

An American tourist has been killed by a lightning strike after hiking in a restricted part of Mount Etna

Congressional Democrats are planning a new push to constrain President Trump 's war powers after he threatened Monday to "bomb the shit" out of Oman. Why it matters: War powers…

Operator granted UK track access for as many as 20 daily return trains to Paris, Brussels and Amsterdam from 2030. Business live – latest updates. Virgin Trains has been granted…

The family of a Palestinian-American man remain holed up in his West Bank home for more than a week, after Israeli settlers laid siege to the house and the Israeli army then…

E Jean Carroll secures another legal victory as US Supreme Court refuses Donald Trump’s appeal over 1996 abuse claims

President, who has decried mail-in ballots amid false claims of election fraud, issued March order to curb voting by mail. Donald Trump voted by mail in Florida’s Republican…

The Trump administration temporarily paused border wall construction at Big Bend National Park in Texas while U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Rodney Scott visits…

The alleged shooter, also a student, later took his own life

Vaccination rates among American kindergartners decreased during the 2025–2026 school year for all tracked vaccines , the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported on…

Senior Fifa figure Kevin Lamour is sacked by football's world governing body three weeks after criticising its president Gianni Infantino

Government MPs agree to more than a dozen amendments made with the Coalition. Follow today’s news live. Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast. Chalmers…

From Aboriginal rock art to colonial encounters, sharks have been a figure of fear and fascination throughout the long human history of this continent. Is there a more primal fear…

Nurses collapsing, builders with heatstroke, bus drivers in cabs that reach 44C. The new PM wanted to spend the summer talking about the cost of living – he should change his…

Wynd Kaufmyn, 69, chained and locked the front doors of OpenAI’s headquarters last year with members of StopAI. An activist who blocked the entrance to one of the world’s biggest…

The gigantic aquatic acrobats are exciting Brazil’s tourists as numbers recover from whaling. But some marine biologists question how booming tourism and conservation can coexist.…

Brent crude climbs above $91 a barrel. Grocery inflation in the UK has slowed to the lowest rate in almost two years, bringing some relief to households, a monthly survey shows…

Jared Cooney Horvath argues that educational technology undermines how children learn and develop. Jared Cooney Horvath is on a mission. In the wake of global campaigns for…

Exclusive: Guardian analysis finds one section of report includes links to academic articles that do not exist, but authors deny the references were made up by AI. Follow our…

Pokémon outlived the moral panic of its early days in Australia and its staying power has proved that simple joy can cross borders. There’s a generation of Australians for whom…

Amid fears for jobs, some film-makers say AI could enable them to bypass studio giants and take more creative risks. Near the collonaded entrance to Sony Pictures’ historic Culver…

Nearly a decade after fighting ended in northern Iraq, the climate crisis has brought extreme heat and a water shortage, making life almost impossible. The first thing that…

Ukraine launched hundreds of drones across Russia Sunday, killing at least six people in one of Kyiv's largest aerial attacks of the war

While there are fears that people harvesting their food could put pressure on habitats, some ecologists suggest responsible foraging can boost conservation and biodiversity. Angus…

Users need discretionary income of nearly £100,000 a year to make savings on their grocery spend after paying £1,200 for GLP-1s, analysis finds. The high cost of weight-loss…

Shasta county, hotbed of US election denialism movement, set to appoint ex-Colorado clerk who served prison term. A northern California county that has become a hotbed of activism…

Assessment’s finding of a jump in UK productivity emphasises urgent need to appoint a national statistician. The keen new chancellor, John Healey, responded to last week’s…

President, 80, vows to keep far-right from power as Flávio Bolsonaro tells supporters he will ‘fight this system’. Brazil’s leftwing president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, has…

Some see them as sinister or hunt them for ritual use but these birds play a vital role in nature's cycle

Andy Burnham’s doubts about Zoom interviews apply more widely to a hiring process being transformed by AI. Almost half of UK jobseekers have found themselves pitching to an AI…

Goyt Valley, Derbyshire: My patience into dusk is rewarded with a full display of unlikely calls and aerial prowess. The setting sun spread a last Iberian glow over the hills…

Robert Smith, Olly Alexander and Paris Paloma also among signatories to letter saying exploitation of Rosebank and Jackdaw fields defies climate reality. Business live – latest…

Meta, the owner of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, has been ordered to pay $567m (£421m) to address the harm caused to children on its platforms