The former head of MI6 has said a top civil servant must be investigated after he discussed Britain’s nuclear deterrent with a think tank that has ties to China’s spy agency. Sir Richard Dearlove said Parliament’s intelligence committee should “scrutinise” meetings attended by Stephen Lillie, the Foreign Office’s former defence chief.
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.
Middlesbrough will face Hull in Saturday’s final after being reinstated at the expense of Southampton
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
The teenage killers’ manifesto contains ominous echoes of the past, and is a dark warning of our future.
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”.
Healthcare workers and aid groups in eastern Congo have appealed for more supplies and staff to respond to the outbreak of a rare type of Ebola, as armed groups continued to threaten safety of the region already grappling with displacement and humanitarian crisis
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.
While there is no denying the magnitude of his achievements, his legacy is also tied up in politics, propaganda and hard powerWell, that’s that then. Put out more flags. Mount the iconic Jedi‑style woollen cardigan in the club museum. .In , it now seems highly likely the scheduled final year of Pep Guardiola’s Manchester City contract will be spent trawling the high-concept food ateliers of the Iberian peninsula, debating spatial architecture with a Slovenian Cluedo grandmaster over hummingbird martinis, and generally recharging after a decade of unceasing devotion to victory.
Critics claim scheme is an illegal use of taxpayers’ money
l-2-Hydroxyglutarate (l-2-HG) is a low-abundance metabolite in mammals because the mitochondrial enzyme l-2-HG dehydrogenase (L2HGDH) oxidizes l-2-HG to 2-oxoglutarate (2-OG) to prevent its accumulation1. In humans, a lack of L2HGDH activity leads to l-2-HG accumulation and causes l-2-hydroxyglutaric aciduria2.
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
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.
Hungary’s new prime minister had been in power for just 12 hours when the first missiles struck Zakarpattia. For more than four years, while Viktor Orbán was in office, Vladimir Putin held off striking this part of Ukraine, which is home to about 100,000 ethnic Hungarians.
Ben-Gvir’s video of flotilla activists reveals a state so accustomed to impunity that it documents its own cruelty.
The Israeli minister’s taunting of abducted activists triggers a global condemnation forcing Israel into damage control.
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.
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.
Two teenage gunmen live-streamed themselves shooting three people dead at a mosque and apparently left behind a 75-page hate-filled manifesto. Cain Clark, 17, and Caleb Vasquez, 18, described themselves as “disciples” of a man who had carried out a mass shooting against Muslims in New Zealand and praised Adolf Hitler.
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.
One of the suspects is accused of working for the intelligence service of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards
Prospectus for tycoon’s sprawling empire reveals his plan to keep control – and ambition to colonise MarsElon Musk’s SpaceX has for a highly anticipated $1.75tn (£1.3tn) flotation next month as he seeks investor backing for his quest to make life “multiplanetary”.SpaceX is a sprawling business, encompassing the eponymous rocket launch company, the Starlink satellite broadband service, Musk’s xAI artificial intelligence startup and the social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter.
The Bhirombhakdi dynasty controls Boon Rawd Brewery, the company behind Singha beer, one of Thailand's most recognisable brands.
Although the reduction of fossil fuel emissions remains of the utmost importance to mitigate climate change, maintaining and enhancing carbon sinks in forests have been widely promoted as nature-based climate solutions1,2,3,4. However, disturbances that could result in losses of forest carbon stocks are poorly accounted for when estimating the potential role of forests in climate mitigation5,6,7.
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
While Canada may be clinging to fossil fuels, much of the world is moving onCasual international observers would be forgiven for assuming Canada is in the comforting hands of a climate champ. After all, while climate policy rollbacks reign supreme in Donald Trump’s America, Canada is now led by a man who, while serving as governor of the Bank of England, delivered a celebrated 2015 speech, “”, warning the global investment community of the financial risks of climate change; who went on to serve as ; and whose 2022 book Value(s) had much to say about the “existential threat” of climate change. A man who recently dazzled the world with his on how middle powers can stand up to global bullies.Look, we get it. Next to the US president, Carney seems so debonair, thoughtful and calm – a lifeline of stability in a volatile new world.Seth Klein is a Canadian climate writer and activist, author of the book , and former team lead of the . His newsletter can be found .
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.
If you want an example of the reckless foolishness of the Net Zero madness foisted upon Britain, look no further than Labour's decision to ease sanctions on Russia's murderous regime.
Hull City are exploring a case to be automatically promoted to the Premier League after Southampton’s “spygate” play-off final expulsion. Acun Ilicali, the club’s owner, said he is considering his options after his lawyers told him “we should go directly to the Premier League”.
This live blog is now closed. You can read our latest full report here:The Jordanian military announced it had shot down a drone of unknown origin in its airspace on Wednesday, AFP reports.No casualties were reported.
The president has also purchased stocks from companies with business before the administration
Raúl Castro was armed forces minister when Cuban military jets shot down two civilian planes operated by exiles of the communist country.
The charges, likely to remain symbolic, are related to the deadly downing of two jets in 1996 and come as the Trump administration has ratcheted up pressure on Cuba.
Castro, 94, last appeared in public in Cuba earlier this month, and there is no evidence that he has since left the island or that the government would allow him to be extradited
On May 18, the Metropolitan Police apologised to me. After five months of internal review, after a formal complaint, after legal action paid for by people who don’t even know me, Insp Matt Hume of the directorate of professional standards put his name to a document admitting that the service I received was “not acceptable” and that aspects of the investigation “lacked the diligence one would expect from the Metropolitan Police”.
A country that used to plead for aid is now one of the West’s most valuable security assets.
Exclusive: Body-cam footage shared with the Guardian shows agents forced workers out of a van in what a judge has called ‘unlawful’ arrestNewly released body-camera footage shows US immigration officers stopping a van of farm workers in Oregon, smashing their windows and using facial recognition software to try to identify one of them.Videos from a 30 October 2025 operation were disclosed in court as part of an ongoing class-action lawsuit challenging Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) . Lawyers for one of the detained farm workers shared the footage with the Guardian.