Discover

T

The Guardian · World

Australia has been galvanised by ‘melon-gate’. So what is the luxury fruit at the centre of the PM’s controversy?

Shizuoka Crown melons are part of an important cultural gifting practice in Japan, where they are hand-patted by growers to achieve an even shape and textureThe melons at the centre of a national imbroglio involving the Australian prime minister have the sweetness of a watermelon, the snap of a hone...

Isabella Lee 1 week ago

Read

T

The Guardian · World

CPS director apologises for failings in case of rapist-murderer Simon Levy

Stephen Parkinson says court should have been told that sex offender was being investigated for even more serious offencesThe director of the Crown Prosecution Service has apologised and vowed to increase staff numbers after conceding that the court deciding whether to release Simon Levy on bail sho...

Angus Thomson 1 week ago

Read

T

The Guardian · World

Unemployed young people to join AI boot camps to get job-ready

Pilot scheme will provide three weeks of training as part of UK government’s latest attempt to address Neets crisisYoung people out of work or at risk of unemployment in the UK are to join “AI boot camps” where they harness the technology to get a foothold in the workplace.The government’s latest at...

Dan Milmo Global technology editor 1 week ago

Read

T

The Guardian · World

US government extensively spied on anti-ICE protesters and leftwing groups, records reveal

DHS sent undercover agents to meetings, infiltrated chats and obtained financial records in vast operation into groups opposing Trump’s immigration crackdownNewly disclosed records reveal the US government extensively spied on prominent leftwing organizations and on protesters as part of a vast oper...

Sam Levin in Los Angeles and Rachel Leingang in Minneapolis 1 week ago

Read

T

The Guardian · World

Nigel Farage set for decisive but arguably empty victory in Clacton

Leader of Reform UK on course to defeat Count Binface and an assortment of fringe candidates as polls close in Essex Voting has closed in one of the UK’s more unusual and least tense byelections, with Nigel Farage set for a decisive if arguably empty victory against dozens of independent, fringe, ex...

Peter Walker Senior political correspondent 1 week ago

Read

T

The Guardian · World

Massachusetts teen accused of killing mother and brother used ChatGPT

District attorney says Arjun Aravind, 17, used internet and AI to search for fantasy stories regarding killing of his familyA Massachusetts teenager accused of killing his mother and younger brother is being held without bail as authorities investigate a double-murder case that prosecutors say is co...

Marina Dunbar 1 week ago

Read

T

The Guardian · World

Australia news live: KPMG apologises to whistleblower as firm fronts inquiry over ethical failures

Parliamentary committee continues investigation into KPMG audit leaks. Follow today’s news liveGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastNSW Police have declared a critical incident investigation into the death of a man who allegedly barricaded himself inside a home and started a fi...

Martin Farrer 1 week ago

Read

T

The Guardian · World

Flock Safety attempts to curb police abuse of its surveillance cameras after scandals

CEO announces measures after reports that system is used to target immigrants or people seeking out-of-state abortionsFor nearly a decade, the company Flock Safety has gradually built out a network of cameras across the US that allows law enforcement to conduct about 20bn license plate scans every m...

Johana Bhuiyan 1 week ago

Read

T

The Guardian · World

Who will be the next White House press secretary?

Karoline Leavitt’s abrupt departure has sparked a tough race inside Trump’s circle for the prominent positionKaroline Leavitt’s surprise resignation as the White House press secretary is set to trigger a sharp-elbowed race inside Donald Trump’s world for one of the most prominent positions in the Tr...

Shrai Popat in Washington 1 week ago

Read

T

The Guardian · World

Russian plot to kill Ukrainian American thwarted in Warsaw, says Polish PM

Donald Tusk says it is first time ‘someone on the order of Russia’ has sought to attack US citizen in Nato countryA Russian plan to kill a Ukrainian American citizen in Warsaw was thwarted by Poland before it could be carried out, the Polish prime minister has said.Donald Tusk said it was the first...

Associated Press 1 week ago

Read

T

The Guardian · World

Donald Trump deputizes US private companies to conduct cyber-attacks

President signed memorandum giving private sector a role in combating ‘transnational criminal organizations’Donald Trump signed a memo on Wednesday that aims to give private companies the power to carry out offensive cyber-attacks against foreign criminal entities.The president ⁠signed a ​national s...

Nick Robins-Early and agency 1 week ago

Read

T

The Guardian · World

Kennedy Center board votes again to renovate building and inscribe Trump’s name on it – report

The center has until next week to present plan to judge who had blocked earlier rehab and name changeUS politics live – latest updatesThe board of the John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington is said to have voted once again to move forward with Donald Trump’s controversial plan t...

Lucy Campbell 1 week ago

Read

T

The Guardian · World

Israeli troops force families from homes amid settler terror campaign in West Bank

Former PM of Israel calls events ‘concerted and meticulous attempt at ethnic cleansing’ against PalestiniansIsraeli troops have forced two Palestinian families to leave their besieged West Bank homes, the day after a top Israeli commander personally promised he would end a violent settler campaign t...

Emma Graham-Harrison in Jerusalem 1 week ago

Read

T

The Guardian · World

Several homes ablaze as firefighters try to contain West Midlands grassfire

About 60 crew responding to blaze covering about 16 hectares near Stourbridge golf courseSeveral homes were ablaze and two people were receiving treatment as firefighters attempted to contain a grassfire in the West Midlands on Thursday.The region’s fire service was alerted to an extensive grassfire...

Angus Thomson 1 week ago

Read

T

The Guardian · World

Behind England’s bumper A-level results lie record levels of regional disparities

Need for Burnham to tackle regional inequality could not be clearer as London becomes ‘educational outlier’Andy Burnham has put regional inequality at the top of his agenda as prime minister, and nowhere is the need for doing so clearer than in education.As England’s A-level results were published o...

Sally Weale Education correspondent 1 week ago

Read

T

The Guardian · World

Top Forbes editor reportedly fired after receiving $6m from business associate

Randall Lane left his job last month after accepting money from founder of firm that does business with magazineThe top editor of Forbes left his job last month and was reportedly dismissed for accepting $6m from the founder of a firm that does business with the magazine.The New York Times reported...

Associated Press 1 week ago

Read

T

The Guardian · World

Fossils show huge carbon emissions harm forests, not ‘green the planet’

Study of 56m-year-old leaves counters claims from Trump administration members of ‘benefits’ of fossil fuel pollutionAdding huge quantities of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere is set to cause the Earth’s forests to wither and die rather than flourish, according to a new study that counters erroneo...

Oliver Milman 1 week ago

Read

T

The Guardian · World

Government could pay higher rents to spread asylum accommodation across UK

Greater use of private rental properties would form part of PM’s plan to spread accommodation more evenly across UKMinisters are considering paying higher prices for housing asylum seekers in private rental properties as part of Andy Burnham’s plan to spread accommodation more evenly across the coun...

Rowena Mason Whitehall editor 1 week ago

Read

T

The Guardian · World

UK universities face ‘financial crisis’ amid collapse in international students

Higher education figures call on Labour to reverse tax on fees and warn institutions at risk of ‘going under’University leaders are warning of financial turmoil in British higher education after new figures suggested a collapse in international student numbers would deprive the sector of vital incom...

Richard Adams and Rowena Mason 1 week ago

Read

T

The Guardian · World

BAE Systems to pay $36m penalty after 104 violations of US arms export rules

State department says it has reached administrative settlement with company’s US arm to resolve breachesThe UK defence company BAE Systems is to pay a $36m (£26.7m) civil penalty after breaching US arms exports regulations more than 100 times.The US Department of State announced on Thursday that it...

Graeme Wearden 1 week ago

Read

T

The Guardian · World

Ukraine ‘proposes deal with Russia to halt attacks on civilian ships in Black Sea’

Kyiv said to have suggested agreement in apparent attempt to reopen crucial grain corridor, according to ReutersUkraine has proposed a deal with Russia that would see both sides halt their attacks on civilian ships in the Black Sea, Reuters has reported, in an apparent attempt to reopen a crucial gr...

Luke Harding, Andrew Roth in Washington and agencies 1 week ago

Read

T

The Guardian · World

Edinburgh international film festival showcases a Scottish industry in rude health

This year’s festival is superpowered by a strong year for Scottish cinema, showing it can thrive under the ‘four dimensional perpetual catch-22’ of global ambitions• Borges, ballet and BDSM: Peter Bradshaw’s 10 must-see movies at Edinburgh international film festivalNow that its disastrous collapse...

Andrew Pulver 1 week ago

Read

T

The Guardian · World

Pete Hegseth dismisses reports of deteriorating conditions on USS Abraham Lincoln

Defense secretary said conditions on aircraft carrier deployed in support of Iran war have been ‘completely misrepresented’The US defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, insisted a wave of reports describing deteriorating conditions and mental health struggles onboard the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Linco...

Joseph Gedeon in Washington 1 week ago

Read

T

The Guardian · World

Nearly 100 children detained as adults under UK-France migration deal

Figures emerge in critical letter to Home Office from organisation appointed to scrutinise detention facilitiesNearly 100 children have been wrongly identified and detained as adults under Shabana Mahmood’s “one in, one out” deal with France, the Guardian can disclose.Home Office staff said that of...

Rajeev Syal Home affairs editor 1 week ago

Read