✓Most UK diplomats to leave East Jerusalem consulate, Israel says, as Miliband says 'vital services' to remain
Israel said in September it would act in response to UK sanctions on illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank
88% agreement · 4 independent sources
Russian strike on buses kills at least 30, say officials, as deadly attacks on Ukraine surge
83% agreement · 3 independent sources
Paramount completes $111bn acquisition of Warner Bros to form new media empire Skydance
80% agreement · 3 independent sources
South Korea to recall its ambassador to Ukraine over North Korean POW dispute
86% agreement · 3 independent sources
Maricarmen, the 87-year-old woman whose eviction shook Spain, has died
85% agreement · 3 independent sources
More top stories
✓World
Live updates: Trump media ban returns to court; WH science summit includes awards for Musk, Huang
CNN, MS NOW and Politico's lawsuit against the Trump administration's ban of the media outlets on White House grounds returns to D.C. federal court on Thursday morning. Despite a…
74% agreement · 2 independent sources
WorldTone Neutral2 min
✓World
Royal Navy serviceman accused of plotting to leak intelligence to Russia appears in court
A junior Royal Navy serviceman accused of plotting to leak classified information to Russia has appeared in court
77% agreement · 2 independent sources
WorldTone Neutral2 min
✓Syrian general accused of atrocities is protected by U.S. and Lebanon, NPR and BBC find
A former Syrian general wanted for crimes against humanity is living quietly in Lebanon, bankrolled and protected by American and Lebanese authorities, a BBC/NPR investigation has…
75% agreement · 2 independent sources
WorldTone Neutral2 min
✓Francis Halzen wins Nobel Prize in physics for work on high-energy neutrinos from space
The 82-year-old scientist, originally from Belgium, is affiliated with the University of Wisconsin–Madison. His research into capturing neutrinos at the South Pole dates back to…
76% agreement · 2 independent sources
ClimateTone Neutral2 min
✓Disney accuses Trump officials of ‘blatant violations’ of constitution amid FCC battle
Lawyers tell judge ABC being unfairly targeted as US regulator seeks review of network’s local TV station licenses. Lawyers for Disney accused the Trump administration of “blatant…
73% agreement · 2 independent sources
EconomyTone Neutral2 min
✓Japan beer giants raided over suspicions they colluded to set the price of beverages
Investigators probe Asahi, Kirin, Suntory and Sapporo breweries – which together control more than 90% of Japan’s beer market. Japanese authorities have raided the country’s four…
77% agreement · 2 independent sources
WorldTone Neutral2 min
✓Texas carries out first US execution since Christa Pike's botched lethal injections
Lawyers for Jamaal Howard had asked a judge to pause the execution after Christa Pike's botched lethal injections
77% agreement · 2 independent sources
WorldTone Neutral2 min
✓Technology
'Devastating year' as Swiss glaciers shed 5% of ice amid record-breaking heatwaves
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
74% agreement · 2 independent sources
TechnologyTone Neutral2 min
✓Canada to indefinitely bar mental illness as sole reason for access to euthanasia
Legislation is an effort by ruling Liberals to address growing clash over who has access to doctor-assisted death. Canada ’s federal government said on Wednesday it would advance…
74% agreement · 2 independent sources
WorldTone Serious2 min
✓Google told to halt work on datacentres in Finland over environmental concerns
Order on two construction sites comes after Google failed to carry out environmental impact assessments. Google has been ordered to temporarily stop work on two datacentres in…
75% agreement · 2 independent sources
TechnologyTone Neutral2 min
✓The 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics has gone to a neutrino detector in Antarctica
The Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded Francis Halzen of the University of Wisconsin Madison, who built an observatory under Antarctica
73% agreement · 2 independent sources
ClimateTone Neutral2 min
✓School protests, blockades resume in France despite PM’s promise to act
Dozens of people have been injured in the protests, including students, teachers, and police officers
77% agreement · 2 independent sources
WorldTone Neutral2 min
✓Technology
Plague risk to UK 'very low', officials say after Russian woman's death
The risk to the UK from plague is very low, the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) has said, after the death of a laboratory worker in Russia who may have been exposed to pneumonic…
73% agreement · 2 independent sources
TechnologyTone Serious2 min
✓World's largest penguin colony hit by 'alarming' decline in numbers
Climate change is blamed for dramatic decline of chinstrap penguins living on a remote volcanic island
77% agreement · 2 independent sources
ClimateTone Neutral2 min
✓'Come all the way' back to EU, French finance minister tells UK
Roland Lescure tells the BBC that being in the bloc enables members to better address the challenges facing the world
76% agreement · 2 independent sources
EconomyTone Neutral2 min
✓World
US puts inmate to death for first time since botched execution
A Texas death row inmate has been put to death by lethal injection - despite objections following Christa Pike's botched execution last week
80% agreement · 2 independent sources
WorldTone Serious2 min
There is a way to look after people, the planet – and Britain’s growth. It’s what we call the ‘wellbeing economy’ | Jamie Driscoll
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…
Single source · not yet corroborated
ClimateTone Neutral2 min
The expansion of Heathrow would be an expensive disaster for Britain and the world. Burnham needs to block it | George Monbiot
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…
Single source · not yet corroborated
ClimateTone Neutral2 min
‘The violence is off the scale’: staff and passengers at risk as assaults on trains in Great Britain soar to record high
Cases of abuse, spitting, head-butting and sexual harassment, have spiked as transport police numbers have dwindled. When a train was halted outside Exeter St Davids station on…
Single source · not yet corroborated
EconomyTone Neutral2 min
Economy
Oil and gas prices jump on Middle East shipping attacks, sending bond yields higher and stocks lower – business live
Brent crude tops $105 a barrel amid attacks on tankers and squeeze on US oil output in Gulf of Mexico as storm Isaias approaches. Here’s our wrap of the moves in markets:. The…
Single source · not yet corroborated
EconomyTone Neutral2 min
Stockpile food – and wash your hands: is that really how to prepare for environmental catastrophe? | George Monbiot
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,…
Single source · not yet corroborated
ClimateTone Serious2 min
It’s going to take more than an email to a public inbox to protect Australians from potential AI doom | Tom McIlroy
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…
Single source · not yet corroborated
TechnologyTone Neutral2 min
‘It’s hard to sell a house when it’s covered in baboon faeces’: Cape Town divided over plan to remove its monkeys
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”…
Single source · not yet corroborated
ClimateTone Neutral2 min
‘We’re not going to back down’: tiny Dorset B&B stands up to Airbnb’s legal bid to ‘monopolise’ letters ‘bnb’
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…
Single source · not yet corroborated
TechnologyTone Neutral2 min
‘Huge wave’ of carbon storage projects causes alarm in small-town USA as oil firms eye billions in subsidies
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…
Single source · not yet corroborated
ClimateTone Neutral2 min
‘That is a lie’: alleged Alan Jones victim denies family tried to get money out of broadcaster, court hears
Youngest complainant in trial alleges Jones put his tongue in his mouth and touched him on the bottom during visit to shock jock’s property. Get our breaking news email , free app…
Single source · not yet corroborated
WorldTone Neutral2 min
Revealed: Mexico’s industrial boomtown is making goods for the US. Residents say they’re ‘breathing poison’
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…
Single source · not yet corroborated
ClimateTone Neutral2 min
NSW police commissioner made last-minute bid to hold closed-door hearings into Sydney anti-Herzog protest
Police watchdog says Mal Lanyon’s timing in raising the issue was ‘regrettable’ and led to delays. Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast. The New South…
Single source · not yet corroborated
WorldTone Neutral2 min
Britons kept in dark about scale of climate crisis, say viewers of ‘first-of-its-kind’ emergency briefing
Nine out of 10 people felt motivated to act after watching film outlining threats to food security, economy and public health. The British government must be honest about the…
Single source · not yet corroborated
ClimateTone Serious2 min
Heatstroke ruined his health. Years before, it took the life of another farm worker at the same company
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…
Single source · not yet corroborated
ClimateTone Serious2 min
Veteran conservative lawyer quits Trump’s interior department and warns of ‘assault on the rule of law’
John Murdock had been working for the agency for 18 years and his resignation comes during an exodus of longtime federal workers and scientists. An 18-year veteran of the US…
Single source · not yet corroborated
ClimateTone Neutral2 min
This is one of Norway’s most pristine fjords. So why is it being used as a dumping site for mine waste?
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.…
Single source · not yet corroborated
ClimateTone Neutral2 min
When her ‘soul cat’ died, she was bereft. Now she designs memorial jewelry to help others with pet loss
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…
Single source · not yet corroborated
EconomyTone Neutral2 min
OpenAI hack on Australian government reveals anxiety at heart of global artificial intelligence dilemma
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…
Single source · not yet corroborated
TechnologyTone Neutral2 min
‘The silence was the worst part’: after culling his entire flock, US poultry farmer now fears bird flu
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…
Single source · not yet corroborated
ClimateTone Neutral2 min
Most verified today
1Most UK diplomats to leave East Jerusalem consulate, Israel says, as Miliband says 'vital services' to remain
✓ 88% agree · 4 sources
South Korea to recall its ambassador to Ukraine over North Korean POW dispute
✓ 86% agree · 3 sources
Maricarmen, the 87-year-old woman whose eviction shook Spain, has died
✓ 85% agree · 3 sources
Russian strike on buses kills at least 30, say officials, as deadly attacks on Ukraine surge
✓ 83% agree · 3 sources
Quietest reads
1'Devastating year' as Swiss glaciers shed 5% of ice amid record-breaking heatwaves
Mental load Light · Technology
Google told to halt work on datacentres in Finland over environmental concerns
Mental load Light · Technology
It’s going to take more than an email to a public inbox to protect Australians from potential AI doom | Tom McIlroy
Mental load Light · Technology
‘We’re not going to back down’: tiny Dorset B&B stands up to Airbnb’s legal bid to ‘monopolise’ letters ‘bnb’
Mental load Light · Technology