Elon Musk’s SpaceX has said it wants to save humanity from the “same fate as the dinosaurs” as it starts a record-breaking $1.75tn (£1.3tn) initial public offering (IPO). In a prospectus filed with US financial regulators, SpaceX stated its goal was to help mankind spread to other planets to avoid the “non-zero probability of extinction-level events” that could wipe out life on Earth.
Erased Israeli Settlers' Brutal War on Palestinian Communities in the West BankScroll downCredit: Avishay Mohar, B'TselemHagar ShezafShare on FacebookShare on TwitterShare on WhatsAppThese images appear again and again – from the ground, from the air, and on maps: dozens of Palestinian communities wiped off the landscape, while illegal Israeli settler outposts continue to spread across the West Bank.Since October 7, 2023, this phenomenon has intensified significantly. Unlike the war in Gaza, there is no discussion in Israel about ending this parallel campaign of dispossession.
Republicans leave town with no legislative text or plan for reconciliation bill to fund Trump’s deportation plans or ballroom dream
Iran has announced it is expanding its control over the Strait of Hormuz into foreign territory, angering neighbouring countries. A map defining its claim for the new area, stretching into the coastal waters of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Oman, has been published by the Persian Gulf Strait Authority, an Iranian body established to oversee maritime traffic.
A batch of documents relating to Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor's appointment as trade envoy in 2001 released by the government reveals the Queen expressed her "wish" for her son to get a "prominent role".
The centre was burned by local youths who became angry while trying to retrieve the body of a friend
Artificial intelligence built by OpenAI has cracked a decades-old conjecture by Paul Erdős, which mathematicians have hailed as a monumental moment for AI in mathematics
The Philippines justice chief has ordered the enforcement of an International Criminal Court warrant for a senator wanted on an alleged crime against humanity charge
Disruption to exports through the waterway has sparked fears of a global economic crisis
The contestants on Channel 4’s Married at First Sight (MAFS) UK are discouraged from ever referring to it as a reality TV show. The term producers would rather hear them use, at least while the cameras are rolling – and the cameras are nearly always rolling – is “the experiment”.
A group of expert Finnish divers may have solved the mystery surrounding the deaths of five Italians who perished while exploring deep-sea caves in the Maldives.
A first-person video that an official said is legitimate offers a brutal glimpse into the latest deadly assault on an American house of worship.
A real estate broker says in a lawsuit that an organization denied her the opportunity to purchase land in an Arkansas development because of her Jewish ancestry, and because she has a Black husband and biracial children
By issuing a prohibition on federal investigations that might threaten Trump’s finances, the Justice Department has placed the president and his family in a new category.
The young apprentice steps quickly along the narrow alleyway, her wooden “geta” sandals clip-clopping on the flagstones of Pontocho, one of five traditional geisha districts in the ancient Japanese capital of Kyoto. A “maiko”, or trainee geisha, she keeps her head demurely angled down beneath her elaborate wig and her stunning kimono ripples in the evening breeze.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was injured in an Israeli strike on his home that was launched to free him from house arrest, according to reports
When a cohort of truck drivers parked at petrol stations and lay-bys near four Russian air bases last June, it marked the first step in a plan that had been 18 months in the making. Ukrainian security services were using the vehicles as a modern-day Trojan horse.
Russia has fired missiles armed with depleted uranium warheads at northern Ukraine, causing radiation levels to spike around bomb sites. The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) said it found harmful levels of radiation emanating from an unexploded R-60 air-to-air missile after an attack on the village of Kamka in the Chernihiv region last month.
Ben Gvir’s video of bound flotilla activists showed Israel without the mask.
The Lithuanian president was forced to hide in an underground bunker on Wednesday morning after Nato jets were scrambled to intercept an attack drone flying towards Vilnius. In the first evacuation orders in a European capital since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Gitanas Nauseda rushed to a shelter alongside Lithuania’s parliament.
The size of the outbreak in its initial days is worrying researchers. The next few weeks will determine how large it grows, they say.
TUI has severed its sponsorship deal with Married at First Sight after the Channel 4 show was plunged into scandal by rape and sexual abuse allegations.
The Supreme Court has ruled in favor of owners of Cuban property that was confiscated by Fidel Castro’s government more than 65 years ago
The ‘Anti-Weaponization Fund’ is an extraordinary example of bald self-dealing is stealing almost $2bn in taxpayer money and handing it out to his friends. That’s the upshot of the president’s recent following a $10bn lawsuit he brought in his personal capacity against the IRS, an agency that he oversees. Trump brought the suit over leaks of some documents from his tax returns to the press. To resolve the suit, the justice department will create a fund of nearly $1.8bn – a wildly outsized figure compared with Trump’s somewhat flimsily alleged injuries – that can be doled out to Trump allies. The Guardian as “loosely controlled and secretive”, but members of the Trump administration have January 6 nsurrectionists as possible awardees.The so-called “Anti-Weaponization Fund” will be administered by four commissioners appointed by Trump’s attorney general and one appointed “in consultation” with congressional leadership – Trump, who can fire the commissioners, will have ultimate control. It will have the authority to issue formal apologies for alleged mistreatment of conservative political actors by previous administrations – ie, those few who were prosecuted or sued during the Biden era. When Trump leaves office, any remaining money will not be available for his successor to use similarly, but will instead be distributed back to the federal government. But I doubt that there will be any remaining money. We may never know either way: there is no requirement that the fund’s work be made public, and required reports to the attorney general on its conduct are to be confidential. In addition to the creation of this massive slush fund, the agreement also requires that the IRS of Trump and his family.Moira Donegan is a Guardian US columnist
Southampton were guilty of a 'deplorable approach' in putting pressure on junior staff members to spy on opposition teams, authorised by head coach Tonda Eckert.
Iran warned on Wednesday, May 20, that war in West Asia would spread far beyond the region if the United States and Israel resumed their attacks after President Donald Trump threatened to strike again unless a deal is reached.
European authorities have grown concerned about a rise in Iranian intelligence activity in Europe in the wake of the U.S.-Israeli war in Iran.
Ben-Gvir’s video of flotilla activists reveals a state so accustomed to impunity that it documents its own cruelty.
Russia’s massive war games in Belarus are an attempt to regain military initiative by threatening armageddon, writes world affairs editor Sam Kiley
The Israeli minister’s taunting of abducted activists triggers a global condemnation forcing Israel into damage control.
In a video released by his office, National Security Minister Ben-Gvir taunts zip-tied activists, causing condemnation.
WARNING: Graphic content. A new Reuters investigation has exposed the full scale of the killings committed by Abu Lulu and other commanders.
Anyone cutting checks to Trump’s allies or throwing out tax investigations should start lawyering up, experts tell Alex Woodward
The President continued to keep things on a knife's edge with Iran, as we head toward three months since the US started striking the Middle Eastern nation.
The Kremlin confirmed that the drills across Russia and Belarus, involve preparations linked to the Iskander-M tactical missile system - capable of carrying nuclear warheads.
At least three people have died in La Paz after roads were closed and supplies depleted amid protests in the city, according to Bolivia's government.
Mount Everest is becoming clogged with climbers trying to reach the summit, with record queues forming across the snowy flanks of the world’s highest peak. Drone footage shows hundreds of climbers in single file, heading from a tented encampment towards the 29,032ft (8,849m) summit.
The Bhirombhakdi dynasty controls Boon Rawd Brewery, the company behind Singha beer, one of Thailand's most recognisable brands.
The government is in thrall to the sunk-cost fallacy. Scrap the project, and use the money for a renaissance in urban transitSo it is official, as if that makes a difference. After a 15-month review by the new chief executive, the transport secretary, Heidi Alexander, has revealed that HS2 will now cost and trains may not start until 2039. Alexander called the original design a “massively over-specced folly” and called the increase in time and costs “obscene”. Indeed it possibly ranks as the wildest white elephant in British history. In comparison, Donald Trump’s White House ballroom is a garden shed, and Dubai’s Burj Khalifa a mere sandcastle.This week, Alexander, the ninth transport secretary since HS2 was proposed, admitted the project made her angry. As she dusted off her department’s latest defence of its appalling conduct of this fiasco, she tried to feign surprise. She has been in office 18 months. Don’t tell us she did not know.Simon Jenkins is a Guardian columnist
Sky News looks at why the flotilla movement exists, who is involved, what they claim to be doing and why it is controversial.
Two 14-year-old boys targeted one of their victims, 15, on Snapchat before luring her to an underpass where they laughed and filmed themselves as they raped her.
Neither have "committed to any significant changes", instead maintaining their feeds are "already safe for children", the watchdog said.
When Donald Trump stepped back on to Air Force One at the end of his state visit to Xi Jinping’s China, there was one person he wanted to call. “I have to speak to the person that right now is, you know who he is, that’s running Taiwan,” he told reporters on the plane.
The outbreak has been linked to 139 deaths
Russia says it has sent nuclear munitions to Belarus and that it plans to test nuclear-capable missiles as part of major drills this week
Ukrainian drones have struck another Russian refinery, igniting a fire and producing massive black smoke
The US could capture Raúl Castro as it did Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro, the acting attorney general appeared to suggest. Mr Castro, 94, the former president of Cuba, has been indicted on murder charges over the shooting down of two planes operated by a US-based Cuban exile group in 1996, the US department of justice said.
Amid the unpredictability of President Trump's Middle East policies, Turkey is calling “regional ownership” and pursuing new security pacts.
Democrats intend to make corruption the defining theme of the Trump administration. If they win the House, investigations will be constant.
Some lawmakers and legal experts say the department has violated federal law with its addendum to the settlement.