Register of British Slave Traders shows clergymen financed company that trafficked enslaved Africans on hundreds of voyagesNearly 250 years after the abolitionist Ottobah Cugoano made the Christian case for reparative justice, the archbishop of Canterbury, Sarah Mullally, visited...
Rotherham has 46 online vacancies for every 1,000 young people but there are 288 in Cotswold district council areaYoung people in Rotherham face a local jobs market with the fewest suitable opportunities in Britain, according to a report that warns stark regional divisions are fu...
Study challenges belief that temple’s curves were designed to correct optical illusions that would have ruined its clean linesA mathematician has uncovered what may be one of the longest-running myths in history after studying optical illusions and the Parthenon, the famed Greek ...
Belgian government unable to agree on evacuation of 13 students to take up scholarships at universitiesStudents who are unable to leave Gaza and take up scholarships at Belgian universities have said they are devastated after Belgium’s government hit deadlock on a plan enabling t...
Climate Change Committee says government cannot expand airport without requiring aviation industry to clean up its emissions Heathrow airport should be allowed to expand only if airlines pay for the removal of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, the government’s climate advisers ...
Extreme weather has made brittle road surfaces more likely to crack, increasing strain on infrastructureThe UK’s dilapidated roads are expected to get even worse, with motorists warned to expect a jump in the number of potholes as result of the country’s hottest summer on record....
Officials said incident occurred near the site of a deadly bus crash from earlier in the dayA helicopter crash in Los Angeles has killed at least three people, while another person has been taken to hospital with their condition unknown, according to the Los Angeles Fire Departme...
Counsel assisting inquiry suggests Anita Perrottet’s alleged advice on vaping and greyhound industry was already on public record from other sourcesA Liberal factional figure has rejected a suggestion he gave “ridiculous” evidence that Dominic Perrottet’s sister-in-law shared in ...
Supporters from around Australia back the Black Wreath, a volunteer-run centre far off the beaten touring trackAlice Springs has a population of 34,000 and exactly one dedicated live music space: a heavy metal venue called the Black Wreath. It has hosted hundreds of bands from ar...
At least five pupils at a village school in the West Bank have been killed in the last year by settlers and soldiers. Emma Graham-Harrison reports on how the school found itself on the frontline, while a teacher explains what life is like for staff and students.Waheed Abu Naim is...
The Iran-aligned militant group rejected the suggestion it had targeted Mecca, while the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation condemned the attackSaudi Arabia’s air defences intercepted and destroyed a Houthi drone south of Mecca on Tuesday before it entered prohibited airspace o...
Hiker Timothy Smith, 53, missing after late-August floods but officials decline to identify remainsHuman remains have been discovered near Arizona’s Crystal Rapids, over two weeks after a flash flood tore through the Grand Canyon, leaving two people dead and one person missing.Na...
Intelligence services allegedly attempted to pay people to surveil and kill people perceived to be aligned with UkraineRussia’s intelligence services are plotting to carry out targeted killings in the United States and in European nations supporting Ukraine, federal authorities s...
Police say personal items thought to belong to Whear recovered from waterlogged vehicleA car belonging to missing woman Yvonne Whear has been found in northern New South Wales, about seven months since the 73-year-old was last seen.Following a tip off, police divers found the car...
Delivery of the weapons had been halted two years ago over mass casualty concerns amid Israel’s bombing of GazaThe Trump administration is planning to deliver powerful 2,000-lb bombs to Israel as part of an upcoming arms deal, weapons that prompted such concerns about the possibi...
As minister says process needs to be ‘streamlined’, Greens and Lock the Gate say the legislation is ‘corrupt’ and tears up environmental protectionsGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastQueenslanders’ right to object to mining projects – including coal – woul...
Bears came through bedroom window and swiped tent at campground, causing scratch marks and puncture woundA black bear burst through a Colorado teenage girl’s window and scratched her, days after a bear also bit a camper in the state, according to wildlife officials.On Friday, a w...
More than a million people have left work to look after loved ones in the past two years, Carers UK saysAbout 1,500 Britons a day are quitting their jobs to become unpaid carers, as they try to balance their vulnerable relatives’ growing care needs with declining access to state-...