ICJ judge Navi Pillay wins Nobel peace prize for promoting international law

Only Iran and Afghanistan routinely carry out sentences in public, with Saudi Arabia appearing to have ended practice. US politics – live updates. If the US defence secretary,…

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…

Global sportswear brand is suing online retailer in the federal court for selling clothes featuring ‘deceptively similar’ design. Get our breaking news email , free app or daily…

Trump says the U.S. will obtain diesel from Russia, relaxing years of U.S. pressure on Moscow, to combat prices before midterms. He said he struck the deal with Russian President…

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

Trump announced that the U.S. will not attack Iran ahead of the midterms. And, a 28-year-old man is receiving treatment at the hospital after an ICE agent shot him in the neck

U.S. authorities added new torture charges to their case against former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, ramping up pressure on the ousted authoritarian leader already…

The quake caused buildings and roads to collapse but the country appeared to escape widespread destruction or deaths. A magnitude 7.7 earthquake struck southern Panama on Friday,…

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…

Analysts say board has 'failed' in its attempts to secure lasting peace in Gaza

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

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…

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

The conservative commentator currently works as a communications adviser at Trump Media & Technology Group

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

More than 664,000 customers in Florida and Alabama have been left without power as Isaias downs trees, power lines

Attack is deadliest in kingdom since it launched major military offensive with allies against Houthis in Yemen. Three Saudi citizens have been killed and several other people were…

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…

Exclusive: Federal government under scrutiny as documents reveal serious security lapses at Melbourne and Villawood immigration detention centres. Get our breaking news email ,…

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,…

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”…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Mark Zuckerberg's Biohub is partnering with Google and the federal government in its ambitious effort to use AI for generating vast quantities of biological data that can predict…