Thursday: Britain’s trade secretary says deal with Australia an ‘absolute priority’. Plus: 50 best comedians of the century Good morning, this is Richard Parkin bringing you the main stories and (...)

Pro-choice activists say decision is a death sentence, after illegal abortions resulted in 15.6% of maternal deaths in 2014 Clashes have erupted between pro-choice demonstrators and police (...)

Central bank approves quarter-point interest rate reductionTrump tweets: ‘Jay Powell and the Federal Reserve fail again!’ Under pressure from Wall Street and the White House, the Federal Reserve (...)

Teen climate activists attend a hearing to address the climate crisis and its traumatic effect on the younger generation Climate campaigner Greta Thunberg has bluntly told members of Congress to (...)

Gadget entangles suspects in fibre and billed by US maker as painless alternative to Taser A Spider-Man-like gadget that brings suspects to a halt by entangling them in cord fired from a (...)

Smashing of monster asteroid half a billion years ago thought to have caused mini ice age An enormous dust cloud that swept through the ancient solar system sent Earth into a mini ice age that (...)

Democrat denounces president’s lies after he retweeted post that falsely claimed Omar was shown partying on 9/11 anniversary Congresswoman Ilhan Omar has accused Donald Trump of putting her life (...)

Scottish lawyer at prorogation hearing says Johnson government has proved itself unworthy of trust Boris Johnson’s government is unworthy of trust because it conspired to ensure that “the mother of (...)

C-section babies pick up more hospital bacteria than those born vaginally, research shows Babies born by caesarean section have different gut bacteria to those delivered vaginally, the most (...)

Prime minister cancels trip to UN general assembly to deal with political crisis Benjamin Netanyahu and the opposition leader, Benny Gantz, have begun what could be a prolonged period of (...)

At least nine people have been wounded in eastern Afghanistan by a suicide bomber and gunmen in an attack on Wednesday, that came 24 hours after two other attacks in the country left more than 48 (...)

Five possible scenarios for rivals Benny Gantz and Benjamin Netanyahu Israelis have voted in a second election that has left the country in a political stalemate. In the coming days, the (...)