Voting rights advocates welcome supreme court decision to stop Trump administration from restricting mail ballots– as it happened

Wage growth – used to set triple-lock pension – slows to 3.9%, meaning state pension should hit £13,000 next year. ‘Costing billions’: is the pensions triple lock a lifeline or…

Miki Zohar accuses Oscar-winning directors Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor of ‘treason against the state’. ‘They know the house they are bombing is full of children’: NAZA’s…

Danish prime minister Mette Frederiksen condemns ‘reckless action from Russia towards Denmark’s military’. A Russian warship has fired two emergency flares at a Danish helicopter…

Anthropic says it has blocked efforts to use its artificial intelligence models to carry out cyber attacks and research which could have led to the creation of biological weapons

Alarming warnings from industry insiders increase pressure for curbs on artificial superintelligence. Does artificial superintelligence really pose a risk greater than nuclear…

Nobody could have predicted that today's main global headline would be Trump's desire to see a unified Ireland

Search and rescue agency says 107 people brought to safety from vessel hit by bad weather in Java Sea. Rescue workers in Indonesia said at least six people had died and 130 others…

The US president's comments come after Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark told the BBC an AI "kill switch" may need to be mandatory

Crude jumps above $107 a barrel amid concerns over Middle East conflict and out-of-control government borrowing. Nervous investors across big economies have been dumping…

Annualized inflation rate was 3.4%, same as July, and core inflation, which omits energy and food prices, rose to 2.4%. US consumer prices remained stubbornly high in August as…

Public offering of Aliko Dangote’s Nigerian oil refinery business could swell his net wealth by two-thirds. The fortune of Africa’s richest person could swell by two thirds to…

America has deployed weapons in space to guard against "hostile adversary action", the US military confirmed for the first time

August was the world's joint hottest month ever recorded - at 1.65C above pre-industrial times, according to scientists

The US president said "negative forces" were airing concerns about "things that won't happen"

Senator McConnell casts his first vote since June, pledging presence for crucial Senate decisions

McKinley Lewis is a long-serving aide and trusted adviser to Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.), who has become an influential conservative voice in the Senate Republican Conference. Scott…

The complacency is staggering: just another hot summer, a flooded street, a crop failure. We are accepting this extraordinary deterioration as normal. Recently, I overheard a…

Long-awaited Thrilwall inquiry finds three babies may have survived if hospital had acted over concerns raised. Three babies may have survived if hospital had acted over Lucy…

There are several answers, and none of them will be provided by tech. One thing we must do is identify the ingredients for human flourishing. Imagining the future as almost…

Witness tells court he sent Jones friendly messages after two alleged assaults because he had been generous to him. Listen to the podcast Alan Jones on Trial. Get our breaking…

Union statement comes after Nigel Farage says a Reform UK government would stop unions funding Labour if they block £72m donations to his party. The Liberal Democrats have said…

Southbank Centre, London Wang’s avatar performs music from Ravel and Debussy to Prokofiev and Liszt while dizzying virtual worlds take shape around her in this virtual reality…

Between 2000 and 2018, extreme heat caused more deaths in Australia than all our bushfires, floods, storms and cyclones combined. Follow our Australia news live blog for latest…

One of the biggest upheavals in a millennium is on its way, strengthened by the climate crisis. We need leaders who make things better not worse. If you think you have heard…

The Syrian rock hyrax depends on the fragile landscapes of the border region. Alongside other environmentalists, I have been documenting the destruction of its habitat. Wars are…

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…

Digital-age Australian psychodrama tracks the shut-in mania of dangerously disaffected male fan, but doesn’t get inside his mind. If the parasocial phenomenon is a kind of hell,…

Even if the legislation passes, tech companies may still find ways to frustrate its intent and keep Australians hooked on their feed. Social media could become a “choose your own…

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…

Police in Bali believe the two young children died as a result of violence, while a 57-year-old man is believed to have taken his own life. Indonesian police are investigating the…

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…

Today’s blog is closed. Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast. The South Australian premier, Peter Malinauskas , says there is optimism that steel making…

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…

The distinctively British RPG is returning courtesy of the makers of Forza Horizon – with comedy talent such as Richard Ayoade and Natasia Demetriou voicing sweary characters. We…

Some of the everyday struggles animating voters have a climate link lurking in the background. When Florida governor Ron DeSantis signed a law erasing the words “climate change”…