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Britain's seventh PM in a decade pledged major changes in bid to see off populist forces that are making large gains.

Lockheed Martin introduced a cheaper Patriot interceptor as the U.S. and partner nations grapple with the exorbitant costs of shooting down cheap drones.

Former England captain and manager Kevin Keegan dies at the age of 75, seven weeks after he revealed he had been diagnosed with stage four cancer.

Hong Kong-listed Seacon Shipping has returned to Tsuneishi Group’s Chinese shipyard for two bulk carrier newbuildings worth $66m. The Qingdao-based owner will pay $33m per ship, with one vessel scheduled for completion in 2028 and the second in 2030. The filing lists the pair at around 26,700 gt each – equivalent to the yard’s 42,200 …

The US has escalated attacks on Iranian roads, bridges and power plants, and Iran too, has responded.

Trump has expressed sadness and vowed to hit Iran 'very hard' to honour killed US soldiers.

Russian strikes on the Odesa region have killed 28 people in July alone, local authorities say.

The Palestinian armed group's Qatar-based chief negotiator replaces Yahya Sinwar, who was killed by Israeli forces in Gaza in 2024.

Anduril's autonomous attack rotorcraft, dubbed Thunder, is designed to operate with current and next-generation crewed attack helicopter platforms.

As trade tensions with China reach boiling point, EU officials are ramping up engagement with Beijing in search of an off-ramp. Quietly behind the scenes, though, Europe is preparing for a trade war. In Brussels, a steely determination has set in to ensure the bloc’s manufacturing heartlands are not deindustrialised by the “China Shock 2.0”. With some industries already haemorrhaging jobs, the EU’s resilience-building and de-risking plans are now laced with deterrents as Brussels looks to...

Chinese start-up Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3 has narrowed the country’s artificial intelligence gap with the US to “a matter of weeks”, fuelling jitters in Silicon Valley over its lead in frontier AI as China doubles down on its open-source strategy. The Beijing-based unicorn released the Kimi K3, a massive 2.8 trillion-parameter large language model, late last week. According to the company, the model featured native vision capabilities and was built for long-horizon coding, knowledge work and...

The outgoing president has called for protests as he continues to dispute the results of last month's election.

Hunter Biden argued the attorney general missed opportunities to pursue legitimate investigations into Trump's post-2020 election actions.

The AI model repository explained that their systems were breached by an autonomous AI agent.

The alert from the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center said there are a couple of steps involved in the elaborate scam.

Former NFL star running back Le'Veon Bell was reportedly arrested in Ohio for failing to pay child support.

Major retailers are recalling several popular items due to risks of choking, burns and death. Here's what's included in the recall, and what to look for.

The couple previously broke up in 2015, but rekindled their romance the following year.

A hobbyist using a metal detector discovered a remarkably well-preserved 2,700-year-old bronze sword in Poland’s Gdansk Forest District.

Portland will see temperatures spike to near 100 degrees Tuesday and Wednesday.

The trial for a sex discrimination case brought by a former employee enters its second and perhaps final week. Here's your First Look at Monday's news.

Former Colorado State Rams football head coach Leon Fuller, who also coached in the NFL and played at Alabama, has died, CSU announced. He was 87.

A popular actress and her husband have called it quits after nearly a decade of marriage

For those born in 1960 or later, Full Retirement Age is age 67.

Today, I’m talking with Harvard professor and New Yorker staff writer Dr. Jill Lepore about her new book, The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State, which comes out on August 25. Jill is one of the best writers there is at identifying institutional patterns in history, and Decoder is a show about systems, so […]

American forces have started the ninth consecutive night of strikes against Iranian targets.

There are a ton of deals available to shop today thanks to Best Buy’s “Black Friday in July” sale lasting all week. The sale typically aligns closely with Prime Day each year, but of course, Amazon’s shopping holiday happened much earlier than we expected. So it’s nice to have some deals in July. One of […]

The FBI told CNBC that an individual set off "an incendiary device" outside 26 Federal Plaza, which contains a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement office.

The new AI chip, called "Frozen v2," would embed parts of Gemini's architecture directly into the silicon, according to the report.

"Something's coming. Something we may not be able to deter."

JetBlue Airways won takeoff and landing slots for up to 12 roundtrip flights at LaGuardia Airport.

The prospect of Burnham, considered more left-leaning than Starmer, replacing the incumbent prime minister sent jitters through bond markets earlier this year.

AMD is taking aim at Nvidia with Helios, its first AI rack system, and has landed Microsoft as a new customer, joining Meta, OpenAI and Oracle.

CEO Kelly Ortberg signalled Boeing is focused more on stabilizing its existing business than rushing to develop a successor to its bestselling 737 MAX.

Bald eagle found hurt in California after fight with other birds, says group, as eagle called Jackie not seen on cameras A beloved female bald eagle missing for several days in California ’s Big Bear Lake is believed to have been found alive but injured after a fight with other birds, according to the advocacy group that operates a live, viral nestcam. Friends of Bear Valley said on Facebook on Sunday that observers first spotted the eagle on the ground last Thursday, then witnessed it involved a “short ground altercation with two other subadult eagles” on Friday. Continue reading...

Lawmakers weakened community air monitoring as industry pushed back against greater scrutiny Kimbrelle Kyereh lives just a few hundred feet from the massive chemical storage tanks in St Rose, in south-eastern Louisiana . Oily fumes sometimes drift into her home, bringing headaches, nausea and insomnia. On one such night, she grabbed her son at 3am and fled to an all-night Ihop. In 2023, after years of coping with the noxious odors, Kyereh began collecting air samples in her yard for a local environmental justice group. But soon after, Louisiana passed an industry-backed law that sharply restricted how that kind of data could be used. Ten of Louisiana’s heaviest air-polluting facilities, based on self-reported data shared with the EPA, operate without a single public air monitor within…

Drivers in West Midlands say buses ‘unbearable’ during heatwaves, raising employee and passenger safety fears Bus drivers in the West Midlands have spoken out about the “horrendous” working conditions they have experienced during heatwaves, which led to 40C temperatures in their cabs. The UK was hit by high temperatures and dry weather in three successive heatwaves, with temperatures topping 37C last month when the country recorded its hottest ever June day . Last week, the Met Office warned climate extremes were becoming the “new ‘normal’ for the UK”. Continue reading...

Two elephant-sized South American sauropods were unusually well built for standing on their hind legs. Digital tests showed that their robust femurs handled the enormous forces better than those of larger species, especially while the dinosaurs were young. The upright pose may have helped them reach treetops, frighten predators, or impress potential mates.

More than 3,000 solar panels power Jack’s Solar Garden, cool the land and help it turn a profit The Guardian receives support for visual climate coverage from the Outrider Foundation. The Guardian’s coverage is editorially independent Continue reading...

EPA tosses out scientific research carried out under Biden and says toxic sludge not a significant threat to public The Trump administration has killed proposed regulations for sewage sludge contaminated with Pfas and spread on farmland as fertilizer, a practice that has sickened farmers , destroyed their livelihoods , killed livestock , polluted water supplies , and poisoned meat and food products sold to the public. The proposed regulations would largely have ended the use of sludge, also called biosolids , in the nation’s food system. But the Environmental Protection Agency tossed out its scientific research from less than two years ago that formed the basis of the proposed regulations. It justified the decision by declaring that sludge was not a wide threat to the public because it…

Researchers have uncovered a surprising culprit behind sleep loss in Alzheimer’s disease: the brain’s own immune cells. In mice with amyloid plaques, overactive microglia triggered inflammation that kept the brain from getting enough deep, restorative sleep. Temporarily removing most of these cells restored more than two hours of sleep per day, even though the plaques remained unchanged.

A quantum problem once described as impossible for classical computers has now been solved using relatively modest hardware. Researchers used tensor networks to compress the overwhelming wave function created by hundreds of entangled qubits, allowing some calculations to run on a laptop. Their results matched both theoretical predictions and simulations performed with a quantum computer. The method could open new paths for exploring quantum dynamics and materials.

The Guardian goes on the ground with Brazilian forces fighting to eradicate mining that has destroyed protected areas of Indigenous land The jerry-built bordello at the foot of Vila Cururu, an illegal gold-mining settlement at the heart of Brazil’s most desecrated Indigenous territory, was a hive of depravity until just a few weeks ago. Inebriated prospectors huddled around wooden tables, swigging beer and Scotch whisky, and ogling pole-dancing sex workers before going with them to shacks behind the brothel. Continue reading...

The hills and basins of Seattle, Washington, have been sculpted by glaciers and modified by humans.

Originally adopted to hide traces of baldness and venereal disease, today the wig has become an indispensable part of English courtroom uniforms.

The Limberlost Cabin was the home of famed Indiana author Gene Stratton-Porter, who designed and lived in the home in Geneva, Indiana, from 1895 to 1913. Mrs. Stratton-Porter was born in nearby Wabash County, Indiana, in 1863. After marrying Charles Darwin Porter in 1886, the couple moved to Geneva in 1887 after the birth of their daughter, Jeanette. The cabin is a two-story home with fourteen rooms. Mrs. Stratton-Porter was fascinated with nature and roamed the nearby swamps and marshes. It was here that she began writing many of her 26 books. Several of her novels were set in the Limberlost Swamp and include The Girl of the Limberlost , Laddie , and Freckles . She also wrote Birds of the Bible and Moths of the Limberlost , both based on her nature studies. Eight of her novels were…

Scientists long believed that these whales, which swim throughout the Southern Hemisphere, mainly feasted on krill and small crustaceans called copepods, which are disappearing from the warming ocean. A new study suggests that the cetaceans have a more varied, flexible diet

Tom McKievick says his job is challenging yet entertaining, a good combination for a perspective career. Yet when he saw the newspaper ad for the job at Fredericka Manor senior living community in Chula Vista, California, all the way back in 1976, he wasn’t intending to embark on a career. Now, 50 years later, the […] The post Senior Center Worker Celebrates 50 Years at a Single Job Without Taking Any Sick Days appeared first on Good News Network .

Ernest Hemingway wrote some of his earliest works at Paris café Closerie des Lilas, which remains open nearly 100 years later.

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1,000 feet below the North Sea, blast after blast brings Norwegian engineers closer and closer to completion of the longest undersea road tunnel on Earth. No one better to do it than Norway either, given that their citizens already built the world’s longest undersea road tunnel: the 9-mile-long Ryfylke. The Rogfast—short for Rogaland Fixed Link—will […] The post Longest Undersea Road Tunnel to Shorten Travel Times by 5 Hours and Feature ‘Great Hall of Lights’ appeared first on Good News Network .

A new analysis of their bones suggests they were buried alongside arrows, maces and daggers because they had repeatedly used those weapons in life

With Morgan Rogers set to become the third £100m-plus Premier League transfer of the summer, BBC Sport looks at how the market keeps growing.

⚽ Latest World Cup news as tournament comes to close ⚽ Player guide | Golden Boot | Follow on TikTok | Mail us Back to the action on the field, or rather slightly adjacent to it. A lacklustre “closing ceremony” in which Tom Cruise was drowned out by the crowd got proceedings under way in New Jersey. A half-time show no one asked for filled the gap in the middle that didn’t need to be plugged. And finally, having kept his physical distance all tournament, US president Donald Trump tried to steal the show just as the curtain was falling. “I think I heard a match commentator say that the last team that beat Spain was Scotland. Does that mean Scotland have won the World Cup?!” asks Peter Oh . Continue reading...

Spain's victory in Sunday's World Cup final attracts a peak audience of 15.8 million on BBC One and BBC iPlayer.

Clarín says team ‘gave it their all’ in losing effort La Nación: ‘They are the pride of the nation’ After Argentina lost 1-0 to Spain in the World Cup final on Sunday, in what is likely to be Lionel Messi’s last World Cup, the nation’s media celebrated the team while admitting that the Europeans had been the better side. The cover of Clarín, the country’s best-selling newspaper, showed a photo of Messi crying under the headline: “They gave it their all: [there is] nothing to blame them for.” In its editorial, the outlet said that “beyond the final result, and setting aside the strictly sporting aspects, there was, as never before, a special bond between the people and their national team”. Continue reading...

Watch the closing montage of the BBC's coverage of the 2026 Fifa World Cup featuring all the highs, lows and colour from the biggest World Cup ever.

If we have learned one thing from Gianni Infantino's Fifa tenure, it is that more is better. That could mean 64 teams at the World Cup.

Spain manager Luis de la Fuente and his players react to winning their second World Cup title after beating Argentina 1-0 after extra time in the final.

BBC Sport reporters pick their best moments of the tournament - and you can vote for yours.

Our picture editor chooses his favourite images from the tournament including Lionel Messi’s cathedral, that delicious diving header from Jude Bellingham and a humbling scene in Gaza What makes a great World Cup photograph? Now there’s a question with myriad answers. Composition, newsworthiness, emotional resonance, expert timing and luck can all contribute to varying degrees. But one thing they all share is the power to capture attention. On the Guardian sport picture desk, we have received more than 500,000 World Cup photographs over the past six weeks, with so many gems among them. Here, with much applause to the photographers who created them and a slight bias towards England, are my favourite images of the tournament. Continue reading...

Spain's Lamine Yamal takes the glory of World Cup victory as the great Lionel Messi's evening ends in tears.

Football appeared a sideshow for much of the last afternoon of a tournament nurtured to indulge the cult of the individual It ended almost as Gianni Infantino and Donald Trump had planned. Earlier on a seemingly endless World Cup final day, the trophy had, in a scene perfectly of a piece with the event’s excess, been let out of a Louis Vuitton trunk. Now they shuffled up to the podium together and presented it to a beaming Rodri, fumbling the moment slightly when Trump lingered for Spain’s team photo. After shrugging off anything resembling embarrassment they had made their exit, golden glitter sparkling on a bobbly pitch and the reverberations from a football event of unprecedented scale pulsing far beyond this concreted mini-state in New Jersey. How to make sense of a heady,…

Game’s greatest player will not see his legacy sullied by defeat to Spain but his team’s display destroyed the game Playing on the grandest stage in sport for the last time, Lionel Messi seemed almost certain to provide one last memorable moment in this World Cup final. Yet as the sun ducked behind the west stand of New York New Jersey Stadium on Sunday, it became clearer and clearer that Argentina had lost the magic they had carried through this tournament. And as Spain gradually wrested control, one was left to confront reality: Messi, and Argentina, had finally run out of time, having long since given in to their worst instincts in a 1-0 defeat . Continue reading...