Follow the day’s news liveGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAustralia’s immediate neighbours are trusted more than historic allies, according to a new survey AAP reports on, which shows the United States is increasingly considered a “threat”.Only half of ...
Russia plans to build own version of US billionaire’s satellite communications to help attack UkraineVladimir Putin praised Elon Musk’s genius and said he was in touch with Starlink’s controlling shareholder as Russia develops its own satellite communications for its military to ...
Passengers describe carriages full of seriously injured people after crash that has claimed at least 68 livesAt least 68 killed in Toledo train crash – full reportEurope live – latest updatesJosimar Medina woke a little before 9am on Wednesday to find himself airborne and hurtlin...
Use our interactive tool to see how you have been affected by John Healey’s tax and spending announcementsHealey keeps income tax thresholds frozen. How much more will you pay?Budget 2026: key points at a glanceBudget 2026 live – latest updates Continue reading...
Fishing town in disbelief the morning after its footballing minnows beat mighty Arsenal on penaltiesOn a wet and windy night on the north-west coast of England, a League Two side sensationally knocked the Premier League champions out of the Carabao Cup. But this is not just a fai...
Payments to 20m homes part of package to cut energy bills and ease cost of living crisis, paid for by bank windfall tax‘A pretty grim picture’: outlook for UK living standards slashed despite Healey’s budgetBudget 2026: key points at a glanceBudget 2026 live – latest updatesJohn ...
Individual known in court as PPT is seeking a permanent injunction, with lawyers citing his risk of suicideTwo news organisations have a duty to the public and their sources to publish allegations of exploitative sexual behaviour by a well-known figure despite claims he is “highl...
Both Obama and Trump are on the campaign trail, but only one of them appears to be descending into madnessThis was originally published in This Week in Trumpland. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every Wednesday.Barack Obama versus Donald Trump. It is the presidential election...
Twin brothers, 22, from Ghana and a 53-year-old American woman targeted older adults in 25 US states, officials sayThree people have pleaded guilty in a $9m romance fraud scam that targeted elderly Americans.On Monday, the US attorney’s office in the northern district of Ohio ann...
Trump heads to Ohio while Vance travels to North Carolina; Republican US senator Lisa Murkowski endorses Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins, breaking with her partySign up for the Breaking News US emailFor months, Mary Peltola’s campaign for Alaska’s Senate seat has denied any connection to...
Huerta co-founded United Farm Workers union with Cesar Chavez, improving pay and conditions for farm workersSign up for the Breaking News US newsletter emailDolores Huerta, a celebrated 1960s labor union leader and civil rights activist, died on Wednesday in California at the age...
The $72.5m suit alleges Scott Jennings falsely told listeners Piker had a ‘plan of returning our country to lynchings’The prominent socialist political commentator and influencer Hasan Piker is suing his conservative counterpart Scott Jennings for $72.5m over comments on a podcas...
Warnings of escalating clampdown on press freedom come after Cairo court convicts Attalah of managing an unlicensed websiteLina Attalah, a prominent Egyptian journalist and the editor-in-chief of the news outlet Mada Masr, has been released from detention by Egypt’s authorities a...
Jean Kaseya, of the Africa CDC, warns of the illness spreading like Covid unless more funding is secured to increase preparedness and possible treatmentThe “unprecedented” spread of the Ebola outbreak means it could reach the UK and other countries, according to one of Africa’s t...
Commanders suspected of sexual violence during the largest and fastest slaughter of civilians in more than 30 years have been subjected to travel ban and asset freezeSenior Sudanese commanders implicated in a “campaign of rape” have been targeted by the UK on the first anniversar...
Exclusive: Coordinated airstrikes on territory held by al-Shabaab are driving the civilian population to find refuge alongside a river where rising water levels are a threat to safety. Is it a deliberate military strategy?The water was rising rapidly. It had already reached Cayni...
Rapid Support Forces strike five power stations in three states controlled by Sudanese armySudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces have launched a coordinated drone attack against five power stations, causing mass power outages across the country’s east, a government official s...
Far-right senator and family land in US after crossing from Brazil into Argentina and then flying via EcuadorA jet carrying the Brazilian far-right senator Flávio Bolsonaro has landed in Miami, Florida, where the losing candidate in Sunday’s presidential election runoff left the ...