Military chaplains say promotions are tied to pushing Pete Hegseth’s Christian ideology
Active-duty faith leaders fear the defense secretary is rewarding ‘ideological conformity’ to elevate a narrow view of Christianity

Palestine Action has advertised training days encouraging potential terrorists to “work out with a hammer” instead of carrying flags. The proscribed group’s training sessions took place days after it emerged that Ann Widdecombe, a former MP, had died in an alleged hammer attack.
Demonstrators are turning encounters with police into Subway Surfers-style videos
Prime minister has announced ‘strict punishment’ for those responsible for exam fraud that first triggered protests

For 'cockroach' protesters, reels and memes became a way of documenting fear, making sense of violence and refusing to let it have the last word.

Gen Z protesters are now receiving the backing of mainstream politicians, with opposition leader Rahul Gandhi dragged away from a protest outside PM Narendra Modi’s home. Alisha Rahaman Sarkar reports from Delhi

After the United States slashed its foreign aid funding last year, more than 280,000 aid workers worldwide lost their jobs

Associated Press reporter Kristen Gelineau, who has been covering the impact of the U.S. foreign aid cuts, reported and wrote the story of how the cuts have prompted scores of unemployed aid workers in Nepal to turn to sex work to survive

For years, aid workers in central Nepal visited the shadowy spot alongside a darkened highway where transgender sex workers gather each night, offering them free tests and counseling. Today, those aid workers still visit this spot — but this time, as sex workers themselves.

After the United States slashed its foreign aid funding last year, more than 280,000 aid workers worldwide lost their jobs

The President’s Emergency Plan for Aids Relief has saved 26m lives globally, but slashing of funds and dismantling of USAID have forced clinics to shut in dozens of countriesNo part of the United States’ anti-HIV programme has escaped unscathed from Donald Trump’s funding cuts, despite pledges from the administration to protect care that saved lives around the world, a new report has found.Funding cuts to the President’s Emergency Plan for Aids Relief (Pepfar) have caused “severe and devastating” disruption globally, with thousands of staff laid off and many clinics closed, according to research being presented next week at the in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It warns that changes in US policy risk reversing progress in the fight against HIV/Aids.

Scientists say coming event threatens to kill coral across large stretches of reef and wipe out some species in particular areas

Large genome databases have markedly improved our understanding of marine microorganisms1,2,3,4,5. Although these resources have focused on prokaryotes, genomes from many dominant marine lineages, such as Pelagibacter and Prochlorococcus, are conspicuously underrepresented.

Research identifies 808,585 viral genomes belonging to what scientists estimate to be 362,802 different virusesGet our , or More than a decade after the was comprehensively mapped, scientists have now identified the vast communities of microbes that make up the Great Barrier Reef.Analysing DNA from seawater samples of 48 reefs, researchers have mapped the microbiome of the Great Barrier Reef, documenting more than 360,000 distinct viruses as well as more than 500 new bacterial species not previously known to science.

A ‘reasonable worst-case scenario’ suggests need for large-scale movement of populations away from reshaped coastUp to 13 million people in the UK face the long-term risk of coastal flooding due to the climate crisis, scientists have warned, with a “reasonable worst-case scenario” suggesting the need for the large-scale movement of populations away from a dramatically reshaped coast.Even if today’s global pledges to cut carbon pollution are met, about 1.4 million more people will be exposed to coastal floods in 2200 and 1.7 million in 2300 due to the sea level rise driven by melting ice caps and warming oceans.

The agreement offers the Saudis the same options Trump has sworn Iran will never haveThe stark contrast between Donald Trump’s with Saudi Arabia and his nuclear for Iran would be comical if not so tragic. Trump has handed the Saudis the same nuclear options he swore Iran would never have.To make matters worse, Trump seems to have offered the Saudis this sweetheart deal to make amends for his war of choice with Iran. Meanwhile, he continues to bomb Iran in a push to the strait of Hormuz, which was closed until Trump launched his counterproductive war.

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.

Pre-Covid, the movie landscape was dramatically different: YouTubers weren’t dominating the box office, video game spin-offs rarely made an impact and Winnie-the-Pooh wasn’t yet the star of a slasher movie. Why such a flurry of innovation – and what will be next? Cinema has always been a medium of research and development. At any given point, the industry is searching for yet another breakthrough that can drive it into the future. Synchronised sound in the 1920s. Technicolor in the 1930s. The invention of the modern blockbuster in the 1970s.Conversely, the consensus is that, if the 2020s has a defining trend, then it is one of decline. The theatrical experience is under attack from all angles: streaming, YouTube, a once-in-a-century health crisis that shut cinemas down entirely. And yet, if you look closer, this has actually been one of the most innovative decades that cinema has ever seen. Whether down to technology or desperation, the film industry has spent these last few years figuring out new ways to make films that simply could not have existed even at the turn of the decade.

The High Court will next week decide whether to halt England’s controversial puberty blocker trial before it begins recruiting children as young as 11. Campaigners are asking a judge to stop the study from enrolling participants from August 1, arguing that regulators acted unlawfully in approving an experiment that would allow 11-year-old girls and 12-year-old boys to be given puberty blockers.

When Seen Aromi's memoir documenting the joys of singlehood hit the shelves in early 2024, it became an instant bestseller. Women young and old, single or married, those with children and without seemed to relish So What if I Love My Single Life!, drawing "second-hand satisfaction" from Seen's confident retorts to unsolicited advice, or finding in it the freedom to be "unapologetically single".

The FCDO’s annual report was quietly released just as Starmer was leaving office – it continues a long-term shift from supporting countries most in need to seeking something in returnSomewhere on the new British prime minister’s desk sits a document. It was quietly published last week, in the dying hours of his predecessor’s government. The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office’s cements how the UK aid budget will be allocated until 2029.It was released at the moment of least political scrutiny: parliament rising for the summer, one prime minister exiting Downing Street, the other waiting for the keys. Anyone asking whether the new PM, Andy Burnham, will – or even can – restore Britain’s 0.7% aid commitment should begin with this document, which appears designed to lock in three more years of retreat from the world’s poorest communities before Burnham could take office.

Nolan Xavier Wells, 18, mysteriously disappeared during a Fourth of July party on Horn Island, of the coast of Mississippi, and his body was found washed up on the beach two days later.
An independent autopsy commissioned by the family of Nolan Xavier Wells found the 18-year-old’s cause and manner of death to be “undetermined”

Civil rights attorney Ben Crump says a forensic pathologist 'cannot rule out foul play' in the death of Nolan Wells after the results of a second autopsy came back inconclusive.

Nearly three weeks after the 18-year-old was found dead off an island near the Mississippi coast, there have been no conclusive answers as to what happened.

Wells' family are seeking answers after the teenager was found dead in Mississippi waters earlier this month.

Independent exam of Black teen found cause and manner of death ‘undetermined’ as family questions timelineNolan Wells’s cause of death and manner of death are both “undetermined, pending investigation”, according to an independent autopsy, announced on Wednesday by Wells’s family’s attorney, Ben Crump.The results came nearly three weeks after Wells, an 18-year-old college freshman, was found dead.

The family of Nolan Wells, 18, has demanded demanded a thorough and urgent investigation after the teen was found dead following a boat trip with friends.

Investigation continues after college freshman was found dead on Mississippi island after 4 July boat trip with friendsTwo weeks after Nolan Xavier Wells was found dead, his family is still searching for answers.On 4 July, Wells, an 18-year-old Mississippi college freshman, and a group of friends took a boat out to Horn Island, a barrier island a few miles off the Mississippi Gulf coast.
Israeli politicians warned the deal could cause a ‘crazy arms race’ in the Middle East
An accord lacking ‘gold standard’ safeguards on enrichment would carry proliferation risks

Claim casts further confusion over deal to launch US-supported civilian nuclear programme in Saudi Arabia.

The US energy department said the "peaceful nuclear cooperation agreement" would help establish "a decades-long, multi-billion-dollar partnership".

Nuclear experts say it throws fuel on the smoldering fire of atomic proliferation, creating a destabilizing situation that could raise the risk of nuclear war.

The agreement has been explored since the Obama administration, but concerns over how security would be monitored prevented prior agreements.

President Trump has put Saudi Arabia on the path to enriching uranium on its own soil, a demand South Korea has been making for years.

Concerns are growing over a nuclear arms race in the Middle East.

In Europe, Asia and the Middle East, countries seek nuclear capabilities to hedge against aggressive neighbors and a receding Washington, potentially creating a more freewheeling era.

The accord is intended to further bind the United States with the Saudi government as the war with Iran strains the relationship.

The Trump administration is expected to announce an agreement with Saudi Arabia on a civilian nuclear program. Such deals, known as 123 Agreements, are designed to prevent the development of weapons.

Another day, another Trumpian tug at the fibres that stitch together the post-war world order. Donald Trump, the US president, has approved a deal with Saudi Arabia to introduce a civilian nuclear power programme in the kingdom.

On Wednesday, Alexander, 66, issued a public apology to Stodden , 31, over the segment, which was filmed when she was just 17 and he was 52.

Jason Alexander said he "truly regrets" the Funny Or Die sketch he appeared in with Courtney Stodden.

The actor, who is one of the writers credited for the Funny or Die sketch, said he was ‘deeply sorry for any harm or distress’ caused by the 2012 skitSeinfeld star Jason Alexander has apologized to the model Courtney Stodden for a decade-old comedy sketch in which he rubbed a mobile phone on her breasts when she was 17, saying, “It was inappropriate and I truly regret it”.Stodden made international headlines in 2011 when she married her ex-husband, The Green Mile actor Doug Hutchison, when she was 16 and he was 51. Though she was a minor, the marriage was legal due to her parents giving their permission. Stodden and Hutchison divorced in 2020.

Alexander rubs a phone against the actress’s breasts in the Funny or Die comedy sketch, which was published when she was 17.

Stodden, now 31, was the target of tabloid scrutiny and public shaming at the time due to her age-gap marriage to The Green Mile actor Doug Hutchison, who married her when she was 16 and he was 50.

President of the Dorowa Babuje Youth Council in Barkin Ladi Local Government Area of Plateau State, Pam Fom, was on Wednesday, July 22nd, 2026, reportedly ambushed and shot by suspected Fulani militias a day after he granted an interview condemning an attack on the community by terrorists on Tuesday, where two youths were killed. Conflict journalist, […]

With the outbreak of this year’s war, Iraq’s balancing act between the two antagonists has collapsed, exposing a perilously fragile stateOne week after the United States and Israel killed Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and ignited a regional war, drones started flying over Basra in southern Iraq. They were targeting Iraq’s oil industry. They hit an oilfield operated by BP, as well as a cargo terminal at Basra airport and a large compound that houses foreign companies that service the oil sector. Another attack on 6 March hit the same compound, striking offices and warehouses used by Halliburton and KBR, two US companies that have been in Iraq since the 2003 invasion. The attack sparked a massive fire that lit up the night sky.In the wider war, it was not a particularly notable day – but in Iraq the strikes laid bare just how weak the state had become and “how easily sovereignty could be violated”, as one senior Iraqi security official put it to me. For 40 years, the US, Iran and Israel existed in an uneasy equilibrium of neither peace nor war. As this has come to a sudden, dramatic end, Iraq finds itself caught in the middle.

Far-right minister Itamar Ben-Gvir was among thousands who gathered at Jerusalem’s most sensitive holy siteIsrael’s far-right minister of national security, Itamar Ben-Gvir, joined thousands of Jewish extremists who stormed Jerusalem’s most sensitive holy site on Thursday.Escorted by armed police, they prayed, waved the Israeli flag and sang the national anthem in a provocative display of political power.

Industrial poultry farming is killing our rivers. But rather than stop it, the government has been facilitating it. Will Andy Burnham end this ecocide?There’s a slightly mean question I often ask British people with an interest in the living world: can you name the environment secretary? I don’t intend to show them up: it’s not them I’m testing. I watch the brows knit, a finger go up, the mouth open and close. “It’s, you know, the one who … no, they went, didn’t they? That other one …” It’s been like this for seven years.Why? Because throughout this period, we’ve not had environment secretaries. We’ve had portals through which corporate lobbyists may pass. The last incumbent to represent the wider public interest (and I can scarcely bring myself to type these words) was Michael Gove. In his other roles, he’s widely remembered with loathing and disgust. Out of office, he continues to , as editor of the Spectator. But in this role, to general astonishment, he placed the public good above special interests.George Monbiot is a Guardian columnist

Titouan Bernicot was born on a tiny atoll called Ahe in the Tuamotu Archipelago in the South Pacific, north-east of Tahiti. His parents, who are French, were pearl farmers – the kind of beautiful black pearls you find in that area of French Polynesia.

A White House adviser has accused China's Moonshot AI of a "large scale" effort to steal the capabilities of top US artificial intelligence (AI) models. US President Donald Trump's Science and Technology adviser Michael Kratsios said Moonshot AI carried out the campaign through what is known as distillation - when a weaker AI model extracts answers from a stronger one.
The deal is expected to last 30 years and involve US firms in developing the program

The men were convicted over alleged plan to stage coup and organise deadly demonstrations over fuel prices last yearTwo Russian men have been found guilty by an Angolan court of terrorism and spying, after being accused of planning a coup and helping to organise deadly demonstrations in the southern African country last year.Lev Lakshtanov and Igor Ratchin were sentenced to eight and 11 years in jail respectively. They had denied the charges, claiming they were in Angola for cultural and business activities.

Reid, 57, had been teasing a segment set to speak on RNC chair Lara Trump's recent warning that homegrown antisemitism is on the rise when she made the major flub.

In interview, billionaire says instead of running ‘Doge’ he should’ve ‘worked on my companies’ and shares extreme predictionsElon Musk has admitted he became too consumed by politics during his volatile alliance with Donald Trump and his brief appointment as the president’s financial axman, running the so-called “department of government efficiency” (Doge).The world’s richest person, and briefly its after his SpaceX company floated on the New York stock exchange in June, made the confession in a with the Economist published on Thursday. He shared his positions on subjects from foreign wars to AI, and made a number of eye-opening predictions for the future.

Saudi Arabia aims to join the region's nuclear club after it signs a deal with the US.

The firm hacked by ChatGPT maker OpenAI's rogue artificial intelligence (AI) has called the attack 'a wake-up call'.

What a strange country this is, where the King can pardon a long-dead killer, Ruth Ellis, while Lucy Letby, convicted in a dubious case, sits in jail while the rusty wheels of justice fail to turn

Fresh off a series of victories across the US, the Democrats’ hard Left are on the cusp of their biggest victory yet. Abdul El-Sayed, a progressive former health official, is locked in a struggle with Representative Haley Stevens, the establishment pick, to win the party’s Senate nomination in Michigan.

Reports suggesting the new British PM might allow drilling in the North Sea have excited Donald Trump, divided locals.

Apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide, has called for the immediate convocation of a Sovereign National Conference to produce what it described as a constitution that genuinely reflects the aspirations, diversity and democratic ideals of Nigerians. In a statement issued on Wednesday and signed by its factional President-General, Chief Omenazu Jackson, the group argued that none […]

The price of Brent crude soared after Iran’s Houthi allies in Yemen claimed strikes on two Saudi tankers. The House cast a second vote to rein in President Trump’s war powers, with four Republicans joining Democrats to rebuke the president.

Anthony Albanese claims to understand why Australians are losing faith in politics and turning towards populism. He might start by examining his own conduct.

Before his speech on Thursday, Anthony Albanese was riding the escalator when it suddenly stopped.

Wayne Swan's warning about One Nation marks a notable shift in tone from Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.

Anthony Albanese has attended a dinner at the home of a Chinese billionaire, who pledged $1million to the Labor Party.

The Trump administration has forged a new agreement with Saudi Arabia that could potentially provide the kingdom with uranium enrichment capability for its civilian nuclear program