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EasyJet says US takeover bid would be ‘highly opportunistic’
Airline's shares hit highest level in three months as investment group Castlelake says it is considering offer
Mandelson private messages to be released today – UK politics live
Sources predict toe-curling' revelations as more than 1,000 pages of documents relating to his appointment as US ambassador to be published
Labor to highlight ‘risk’ of One Nation to cost of living in bid to dent Pauline Hanson’s popularity
Labor MP Mike Freelander says party must continue to help under-pressure workers, including considering further income tax cutsLabor will seek to highlight Pauline Hanson's record of opposing cost-of-living relief for working people as it tries to prevent One Nation further eroding its voter base.As the government grapples with how to deal with Hanson's surge, one Labor MP predicted One Nation's support had peaked and the right-wing populist party wouldn't be able to replicate its polling success at a federal election. Continue reading...
Middle East crisis live: Kuwait reports missile and drone attack as Trump claims war will ‘all work out well’
Kuwaiti state media report sirens sounding across the country as US president hits out at chirping' critics and says they should sit back and relax'
‘Imminent threat’: charges laid against 13-year-old who allegedly planned attack on Queensland school
Alleged threat on regional school north of Brisbane was quite well advanced', Queensland counter-terrorism police sayQueensland counter-terrorism police have charged a 13-year-old with planning an attack on a regional school north of Brisbane.The teenager was arrested last Thursday after allegedly making threats at a business in Maryborough, armed with a knife. Continue reading...
Colombia’s far-right presidential candidate Espriella wins first round of vote ahead of runoff
Lawyer and Trump admirer has risen rapidly in the polls and will face Ivan Cepeda in election runoff in three weeksThe far-right lawyer Abelardo de la Espriella won the first round of Colombia's presidential election on Sunday and will face senator Ivan Cepeda, the candidate backed by leftwing president Gustavo Petro, in the runoff.With 99.97% of ballots counted, the outsider and Donald Trump admirer Espriella secured 43.7% of the vote - just over 10.3m votes - compared with 40.9% (about 9.6m votes) for Cepeda, a philosopher and human rights activist who has served as a senator since 2014. Continue reading...
Queensland police shoot pet dog after running it over as distressed residents watch on
Graphic videos on social media appear to show upset onlookers after police accidentally ran over animal in Mount Isa street
Hastie says falling house prices might not be ‘all that encouraging’ for recent buyers – as it happened
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Striped rock dismissed as natural in 1928 reclassified as UK’s oldest cave art
Scientific dating proves streaks on walls of Bacon Hole, near the Mumbles in south Wales, is Palaeolithic rock artIn 1912, the Guardian reported on the discovery of Palaeolithic rock art on the walls of Bacon Hole, a cave near the Mumbles in south Wales - only for the painted panel's authenticity to be dismissed by 1928.A series of horizontal bands in red pigment were subsequently deemed no more than a natural phenomenon and the newspaper added an updated statement: It was later established that the red streaks ... turned out to be red oxide mineral seeping through the rock and not prehistoric art." Continue reading...
Wildfires devastating richer areas but fewer hectares burned globally – study
Megafires' in California, Canada, South Korea and Europe in 2025, but changes to farming slowed spread in parts of AfricaDevastating" wildfires ripped across the wealthier parts of the world in 2025, a study has found, even as globally, the area ravaged by flames fell.Catastrophic blazes claimed lives, homes and jobs last year in California, Canada, Europe and South Korea. But the 335m hectares burned was the second-lowest since 2002, the review found, largely owing to the expansion of African farms that have fragmented landscapes and hampered the spread of large savannah fires. Continue reading...
Iran targets American base in region after US strikes Iranian air defences
Attacks reported in Kuwait - home to a US military base - and around the strait of Hormuz in latest exchange of fire as peace negotiations continue
Toxic identity politics ‘tearing’ us apart, says former Oldham council leader
Exclusive: 25 years after race riots in north of England, Arooj Shah says extremist groups and lies about grooming scandal are poisoning OldhamIdentity politics is tearing communities apart", the former leader of Oldham council has warned, in the week marking the 25th anniversary of race riots across the north of England.Arooj Shah quit as leader of the Greater Manchester borough earlier in May, after the local elections left the council with no group in overall control. Continue reading...
Charities decry UK plan to use AI to assess age of young asylum seekers
Coalition of more than 100 organisations says move could lead to more children ending up in adult detention facilitiesA coalition of more than a hundred refugee children's organisations has said controversial plans to use AI to assess the age of young asylum seekers could lead to more children wrongly ending up in adult prisons or detention centres.The warning follows a Home Office announcement on Friday of a contract to roll out AI facial age estimation technology on young asylum seekers whose age is disputed. Continue reading...
Three-year-old boy dies in Melbourne house fire with father badly burned during rescue attempt
Preschooler Jordan Dashwood killed in Werribee blaze with father now in a coma in hospital
Is there a pianist in the house? Audience member steps up to perform in La La Land in Sydney
Sterling Nasa had tickets to see Justin Hurwitz's La La Land in Concert. When the keyboardist suddenly fell ill, he found himself on stage performing
FCA’s Palantir deal could expose UK financial data to Trump’s US, critics fear
Exclusive: MP and campaigners say sensitive citizen and company data could be subject to US disclosure lawsThe UK's financial watchdog is being urged to prove its relationship with the US tech company Palantir will not provide the Trump administration with backdoor access to troves of sensitive citizen and commercial data.A US law that can oblige tech companies to disclose information to American authorities may apply to Palantir's deal to help the Financial Conduct Authority detect crime, Martin Wrigley MP, a member of the House of Commons science and technology select committee, has warned. Continue reading...
Mother of woman murdered by husband calls for UK animal abuse register
Annette Bramley says Holly's Law would stop perpetrators acquiring pets and raise awareness of domestic abuse linkAnnette Bramley fondly remembers her daughter Holly as being family-oriented and a lover of animals. She adored anything small and furry, or even not. I mean, she thought orangutans were beautiful," she said.When Holly ended up in a controlling and abusive relationship, her husband, Nicholas Metson, was quick to use this passion against her. He bought Holly a puppy and then tried to kill it by putting it in a washing machine at their home in Lincoln. After it was rescued by Holly, he drowned it in a bath. Continue reading...
European leaders condemn Israel’s deepening incursion into Lebanon
France has requested an emergency meeting of the UN security council, after the Israeli military captured the medieval Beaufort castleEuropean leaders have condemned Israel's expanding incursion into Lebanon, after its military captured the medieval Beaufort castle and Israel's prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, vowed to push even deeper into the country.France's president Emmanuel Macron called for an end to fighting, saying nothing justifies the major escalation under way in south Lebanon". The country's foreign minister, Jean-Noel Barrot, has requested a meeting of the UN security council for Monday. Continue reading...
Jamie Lee Curtis announces death of actor sister Kelly aged 69: ‘My first friend and lifelong confidant’
Star says her older sister, an actor and film-maker, died in her home, in nature, at peace'Jamie Lee Curtis has announced the death of her sister, the actor Kelly Curtis, at the age of 69, describing her as talented" and jaw droppingly beautiful".Jamie Lee said her sister had died in her home, in nature, at peace" on Saturday, having had roles in films including Trading Places (1983), in which the pair both appeared, Magic Sticks (1987) and The Devil's Daughter (1991). No cause of death was given. Continue reading...
Shared NHS patient records could cut 20,000 A&E visits a year, ministers claim
Modernisation bill would require GPs and hospitals in England to share data, reducing errors and duplicationSharing access to patients' health data across NHS providers in England could result in 20,000 fewer A&E visits a year and save 20m annually, the government has claimed, before the second reading of the NHS modernisation bill on Monday.The bill, which would also abolish NHS England, sets out measures including single patient records (SPR) for every person receiving health and social care in England, requiring GPs and hospitals to securely share data as part of the government's 10-year health plan. Continue reading...
Sixteen people arrested and 75 rescued from height during Arsenal bus parade
Fans estimated at hundreds of thousands fill north London streets to celebrate women's and men's teams' triumphsAbout 75 people had to be rescued from height and 16 people were arrested during Arsenal's victory bus parade on Sunday, emergency services said.What were estimated as hundreds of thousands of fans lined the streets around the Emirates stadium in north London to celebrate the Gunners winning the men's Premier League for the first time since 2004 and the women's team lifting the first ever Fifa Women's Champions Cup. Continue reading...
New bill targets domestic abusers and overhauls right to buy in England
Social housing landlords to be able to evict perpetrators, while right-to-buy tenancy requirements to riseSocial housing landlords will be able to evict domestic abuse perpetrators under a new bill, which will also increase the length of tenancy required before residents qualify for the right-to-buy scheme from three to 10 years in England.The government said the bill, which will be debated in the House of Lords on Monday, would fix the long-term decline in social housing" and offer new protections for social tenants who were subjected to domestic abuse. Continue reading...
Massive Attack to tour Australia for first time in 16 years
The Bristol trip-hop group will perform in Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney in AugustMassive Attack are set to tour Australia for the first time in 16 years.The influential British trip-hop group, made up of Robert 3D" Del Naja and Grant Daddy G" Marshall, will play Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney in August. The upcoming tour will be the band's fourth appearance in Australia and their first Australian shows since 2010. Continue reading...
Mandelson files show no mitigation of security concerns over US appointment
Exclusive: Papers to be published on Monday cast doubt on assurances provided by senior Whitehall officials
Meta legal action forces Facebook whistleblower to sit in silence at Hay festival
Sarah Wynn-Williams did not speak during event after lawyers warned of possible sanctions from tech firmFacebook whistleblower Sarah Wynn-Williams was forced to sit in silence on stage at an event at Hay festival, after lawyers advised her not to speak because of ongoing legal action brought by Meta.Wynn-Williams, whose bestselling memoir, Careless People, details her years working at Facebook, was due to appear in conversation with the investigative journalist Carole Cadwalladr and academic Tim Wu. Continue reading...
Israel seizes strategic castle in deepest incursion into Lebanon in 26 years
Experts say capture is largely symbolic, but it complicates efforts to extend the ceasefire between US and IranIsraeli troops have captured a clifftop castle as they made their deepest incursion into Lebanon in more than 26 years, further shattering a nominal US-brokered ceasefire and complicating efforts to extend the separate truce between the Washington and Tehran.After days of intense fighting and airstrikes in nearby villages, the Israeli defence minister, Israel Katz, said the military had captured Beaufort Castle, also known as Qalaat al-Shaqif, which it had used as a base during its previous occupation of southern Lebanon between 1982 and 2000. Continue reading...
Man, 27, arrested after PSNI officer hit by stolen police vehicle
Attempted murder investigation launched after police officer struck by vehicle in DownpatrickPolice have launched an attempted murder investigation after an officer was hit by a stolen police vehicle in Northern Ireland.The officer, who fired his gun during the incident at 4.45am on Sunday, had been chasing a suspect on foot after another vehicle had earlier failed to stop for police in the Fountain Street area in Downpatrick, County Down. Continue reading...
WHO calls for community cooperation to contain Ebola outbreak in DRC
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus makes appeal after protests against protocols for handling victims' bodies in Ituri provinceContaining the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo requires community cooperation and is everybody's business", the World Health Organization has said.Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the organisation's director general, made the plea on Sunday during a visit to eastern Congo where some residents have protested against stringent medical protocols for handling victims' bodies. Continue reading...
Students would save $3bn over a decade if Labor changed Hecs indexation date by five months
Exclusive: Costings commissioned by independent MP Monique Ryan show possible savings for university graduates, as Hecs debts increase by $1bn on Monday
Australian home prices fall as experts predict slump could last a year and cut values by 10%
Buyers abandon auctions and Sydney, Melbourne and Canberra median house prices end May lower than they were at the end of 2025
Nicola Sturgeon: I feel as if I’m serving a sentence for a crime I did not commit
Former Scottish first minister says she will not apologise for actions of her ex-husband found guilty of embezzlementNicola Sturgeon has said she feels as if she is serving a sentence for a crime she did not commit, as she denied ever consciously" seeing the motor home bought by her estranged husband with money embezzled from the Scottish National party.Scotland's former first minister said the luxury camper was parked round the side" of her mother-in-law's house and had been recorded in the party's accounts as motor vehicles" so its purchase had not rung alarm bells. Continue reading...
Indian man awarded almost £30,000 after UK employer failed to provide work
Tribunal orders company to pay Shabin Shaji for care work he was not given after coming to UK, in landmark caseAn Indian citizen who came to the UK to work as a care worker through the post-Brexit visa scheme has been awarded nearly 30,000 in a landmark case, because his employer failed to give him a single day of work for a year.An employment tribunal ordered the care company Swan Care Solutions Ltd to pay Shabin Shaji wages for the work he was ready, able and willing to do". Continue reading...
Death of Congolese man renews scrutiny of race relations in Ireland
Yves Sakila died after being restrained by security guards in broad daylight'Irish authorities have agreed to a second postmortem on the body of a Congolese man who died after being restrained by shop security guards on a Dublin street, prompting an outcry and comparisons to the death of George Floyd.A forensic pathologist from England is to conduct an independent postmortem this week on Yves Sakila, 35, an alleged shoplifter who was pursued and pinned to the ground in the city centre on 15 May. The police force, An Garda Siochana, is investigating. Continue reading...
Four in 10 struggle to access mobile signal on the move in the UK
Survey finds frustration with connectivity to 4G or 5G, highlighting weaknesses in digital infrastructureMore than four in 10 people in the UK struggle to access 4G or 5G on their mobile devices for at least half the time they are on the move, according to a survey that highlights the poor state of the country's digital infrastructure.The poll of more than 2,000 users of digital devices found that 45% felt frustrated with mobile connectivity outside the home at least once a week. Among 18- to 24-year-olds, that figure rose to 57%. Continue reading...
Triumph of the underdogs: New Yorkers are reveling in the Knicks and Mamdani
From watching their team win to watching their mayor in the nosebleeds, residents are feeling hopefulNew York City, hardly a city deprived of energy, is having a moment. In the past two weeks, the bars have been even more packed than usual. Several nights a week, usually at around 11pm, there has been a seemingly synchronized honking of horns.Walking around the city, it doesn't take long to find out why. People wearing New York Knicks jerseys are high-fiving each other, and Knicks flags fly from cars, windows and bodegas, as people celebrate the team reaching the NBA finals - and having the chance to overcome five decades of (mostly) failure. Continue reading...
Striking differences in benefit entitlements across UK countries, study finds
Scottish family on low income receives 15,000 more a year than identical household in EnglandThe emergence of welfare nationalism" in the UK has created striking differences in benefit entitlement that result in a Scottish family on a low income receiving 15,000 a year more in state support than an identical household over the border in England.A typical out of work couple with four children would have received 22,000 a year benefit income in York, compared with 32,000 in Belfast and 37,000 in Glasgow, according to new research on the impact of devolved welfare approaches Continue reading...
Deaths within two weeks of prison release hit record high in England and Wales
Exclusive: Experts say homelessness is primary driver of crisis that led to 77 avoidable' deaths in 2025
Could Trump’s Iran ‘excursion’ be a bigger global turning point than Vietnam?
The far shorter Middle East war has rapidly revealed the strategic weakness of US firepower in an interconnected worldIn a 1965 speech justifying the war in Vietnam, Lyndon B Johnson argued that the goal was to ensure every country can shape its own destiny" since only in such a world could the US secure its own freedom. However, he also admitted such were infirmities of man that force must often precede reason, and the waste of war, the works of peace".It was the kind of elegant justification of the country's moral mission to which successive US presidential speechwriters have turned at times of war. Continue reading...
Colombia goes to polls in election pitting outgoing leader’s ally against pro-Trump candidates
Ballots are being cast in the first round of the South American nation's presidential electionsColombians are casting ballots in the first round of the South American nation's presidential election, choosing between candidates with radically diverging visions for the future of peace in a country haunted by decades of armed conflict.The vote on Sunday, seen as a referendum on outgoing President Gustavo Petro's policies, comes 10 years after Colombia signed a historic peace pact with guerrillas of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Farc). Continue reading...
Trump’s cuts to intervention programs could increase violent crime, experts say
Community programs are more effective at reducing violence than simply making arrests, advocates sayHomicides in the US have fallen dramatically in recent years after a spike during the Covid-19 pandemic, but now some advocates for community violence intervention programs worry federal funding cuts by the Trump administration will reverse that trend.In April 2025, more than $800m in grants was cut from the Department of Justice's office of justice programs aimed at preventing and responding to gun violence, among other causes. Continue reading...
Supplier of housing for homeless linked to faith group tax avoidance scheme
Midos Management denies ties to property group accused of making millions from bogus prayer roomsA property investor who sells temporary accommodation to local councils is part of a family accused of avoiding tax by hosting bogus prayer sessions, a Guardian investigation can reveal.Publicly available records raise questions about the business interests of members of the Schreiber dynasty, who preside over a nationwide commercial property portfolio via a family-owned" investment vehicle, Midos Group. Continue reading...
Priest accuser hopes Texas conviction will keep him from victimizing others
Woman, who says Anthony Odiong pressured her into sex acts, says church officials failed to act when told of abuseThe first woman to publicly accuse a Roman Catholic priest who was convicted by a Texas jury on Friday of repeated adult, criminal clergy sexual abuse has said she can only hope he is kept from continuing to use faith as his net, his snare and a tool to manipulate current and future victims".I'm grateful to the jury for listening to the evidence and seeing the truth" about the convicted clergyman, Anthony Odiong, said the woman in a statement on Saturday, referred to in court proceedings by the pseudonym Hadassah Doe. Continue reading...
Wes Streeting calls for national insurance cut and North Sea drilling
Labour leadership hopeful says NI reduction for firms could incentivise' hiring, particularly of younger peopleWes Streeting has called for national insurance cuts for businesses, and for the government to drill for oil and gas in the North Sea.The former health secretary and potential Labour leadership candidate told the Sunday Times there should be a targeted reduction" of employers' national insurance contribution as a way to actively incentivise" hiring, particularly of young people. Continue reading...
Sky exits UAE news venture after genocide denial accusations
Sky News Arabia to retain its name in brand licensing deal after criticism of its coverage of the war in SudanSky is exiting its TV news joint venture with the United Arab Emirates, Sky News Arabia, which has been criticised for its coverage of the war in Sudan, with accusations of genocide denial.Sky and its partner IMI - the investment vehicle controlled by Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed al-Nahyan, the vice-president of the UAE and owner of Manchester City - have announced a new commercial deal in which the UK-based broadcaster will relinquish all strategic and operational ownership of the 24-hour Arabic language news and current affairs service. Continue reading...
‘Labour have lost their way’: voters in Makerfield say it’s time for a change
Andy Burnham and the Reform candidate lead the polls, but issues such as flooding and the state of the high street are main concerns locallyThe roads that connect the collection of towns and villages that make up this constituency in England are studded with turquoise banners declaring: Makerfield needs Reform."Once at the heart of Wigan's coal-mining industry, and represented by a Labour MP continuously since the 1900s, Farage's party has gained a foothold here, and with any other Labour candidate installed, this parliamentary seat would almost certainly fall to Reform. Continue reading...
Thousands without power in Perth as destructive storms hit WA
Wind gusts up to 125km/h forecast to hit city as residents urged to stay away from windows
English Green party leader Zack Polanski tells Australian colleagues to ‘connect with anger’ to counter rightwing populism
Australian Greens should take on' Pauline Hanson's One Nation, Polanski tells Victorian conference, just as he took on Nigel Farage's Reform UK
‘It’ll be like Barbenheimer’: UK gripped by new wave of Beatlemania in lead-up to four biopics
Fab Four are still making waves 60 years on - and upcoming Sam Mendes films are expected to turn the hype up to 11If anyone needed a reminder of the enduring cultural clout of the Beatles, the past few weeks have provided a glut. Firstly, there's the small matter of The Boys of Dungeon Lane, Paul McCartney's 20th solo album, billed as an adventurous and limber take on guitar music" by the Guardian.When England announced their World Cup squad, the soundtrack was Come Together, played alongside a film of fashionable young people in New York and a clip of a young, puckish John Lennon. The same week Stephen Colbert was played off from his final episode of the Late Show by a Paul McCartney rendition of Hello Goodbye. Continue reading...
Recruiter who was allowed to buy back his insolvent firm falls behind on payments after offering staff Vegas trip
Premier Group Recruitment went into administration with debts of 2.9m - including 647,000 owed to HMRCA recruitment executive - who was allowed to buy back the assets of his bust company in instalments despite it accumulating almost 3m of debt - has fallen behind on promised payments after pledging to send staff on an all-expenses paid trip to Las Vegas.The development is the latest case to raise questions about the practice of phoenixism", accounting's controversial art of liquidating companies to allow directors to rise from the ashes with a new entity, free of debts. Continue reading...
Japan defence minister rebuffs claims of ‘new militarism’ levelled by China
Shinjiro Koizumi says Japan valued as a peace-loving' nation while China expands military capabilities without sufficient transparency'Japan's defence minister took a veiled swipe at China on Sunday, pledging to keep strengthening the military despite Beijing's criticism of Tokyo's increasingly muscular security stance.Under the prime minister, Sanae Takaichi, Japan has quickened its pivot to a more proactive defence policy, further shaking off - with US encouragement - its pacifist outlook in place since the end of the second world war. Continue reading...
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