Trump loses supreme court bid to set aside 20,000 California ballots as justices refuse to take up emergency request – live

Social network and Digital Freedom Project, led by NSW state MP John Ruddick, seek to overturn ban on grounds of implied freedom of political communication. Australia’s…

Dozens of supermarkets in seven European countries dumped huge quantities of food after refrigerators and freezers were targeted in a cyber-attack

The cyber-attack, which the company describes as complex, is believed to be the largest ever of its kind

National Cyber Security Centre expects attacks on critical facilities such as power stations, airports and hospitals. AI-powered malicious software is “highly likely” to be used…

Yorkshire Water has announced its chief executive is stepping down - a day after the company was given the lowest environmental rating by regulators

Minister warns weeks without lessons are putting exams at risk as unions plan nationwide strike on Thursday. Dozens of high schools across France were blockaded again on Monday as…

Cryptocurrency exchange has begun to allow withdrawals after theft believed to have come from North Korea. Investors have pulled $3.6bn (£2.7bn) in funds from the cryptocurrency…

US President Donald Trump urged supporters to turn out ahead of Election Day

The expanded industrial action comes amid a wave of strikes and protests that have sparked unrest across Europe

South Africa to lose duty-free access, affecting $1.7bn worth of annual exports, including cars and farm products

Cryptocurrency theft is estimated to generate half of the country’s foreign currency income. North Korea plays by its own rules. The isolated, secretive and autocratic country is…

Australian workers expect the government to act to protect them from AI harms. There is a clear reform solution at hand. Get our new political email , free app or daily news…

Reserve Bank is expected to raise interest rates to an 18-year high on Tuesday, the fifth hike this year. Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast. Anthony…

PDEL, which will ringfence money for preventive policies, marks a welcome and potentially consequential addition. John Healey’s debut budget was far from a blockbuster, but it may…

‘Giving Lara Croft pistols meant we could show off her acrobatics. And when she goes to Peru, we threw in a T rex!’. I joined Core Design in the summer of 1994 and met Toby Gard,…

In 2022, I helped push through the international agreement to protect biodiversity. I know there is always a reason to stall, but ministers at Cop17 must honour that pledge. When…

On the Bering Sea, Unalaska is the US’s most productive seafood port, employing thousands of workers. But Trump’s cuts, and his disastrous war with Iran, have caused chaos – and…

My mother was a keen swimmer, and she lived with depression. I wonder if she found the same respite in the water that has helped heal me since she passed away. It was early…

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…

Sites like Kalshi and Polymarket offer faux populism as elites reap the benefits – and voters risk being misled. Online betting is a bit like Donald Trump. The prediction markets…

At more than $52m, the race has become the most expensive in US history, but residents are fed up with flooding. Aida Havel mulled her fate over coffee after working the early…

A Guardian investigation has found that despite a recommendation to slow down, leading shipping companies continue to travel above advised speeds in a key habitat for cetaceans.…

I've spent the past week trying to figure out whether Apple's $2,000 iPhone Duo is the future of smartphones or just an expensive way to do things I could already do on my regular…

From feeding schoolchildren to recycling tyres, these entrepreneurs are challenging stereotypes while solving social and environmental problems. Africa is thought to have a higher…

Warning for other Arctic communities as residents told not to use water in Longyearbyen in Svalbard, one of the world’s fastest-warming places. Residents of a remote village in…

Growing disdain for gambling and animal cruelty concerns drive sliding interest in race that once ‘stopped the nation’. Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news…

The problems run deep in South Africa’s largest city. Will voters punish the ANC in next week’s local elections?. One week before the local elections in South Africa, the…

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…

Cop17, focused on protecting nature and restoring ecosystems, concludes on Saturday with critics saying system allows ‘one idiot’ to stall progress. Calls are growing for major…

As glaciers melt and permafrost thaws, Longyearbyen, on the remote Arctic islands of Svalbard, faces climate-induced problems from tap water to housebuilding to landslides. •…

The unprecedented number of empty seats at the fifth plenum – a symbol of expulsions – serve as a symbol for the scale of the purges under Xi Jinping. China expelled a record…

What happens in California could shape how America taxes the superrich. But will its billionaire tax fill state coffers — or drain them?

Mayaya, once-remote, has become a hub for Chinese companies. But critics accuse them of exploitation and illegal exports. The pork belly hits the oil with a sizzle, and a rich…

Inkpen and Combe, Berkshire: If the price goes down, the village WhatsApp group lights up. Beyond the reach of the gas mains, there is tension about the coming winter. Many rural…

Kim Aris says ‘hearing her voice again means more than words can express’ amid loosening of detention restrictions. The son of Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi has been allowed to speak…