Eromo Egbejule and agencies in Abuja    Lydia Simon, recovered along with three children born in captivity, was one of schoolgirls taken in Nigerian troops have rescued a pregnant woman and her three children years after she was abducted by Boko Haram militants when she was a schoolgirl in the town of Chibok.Lydia Simon was...

Nadia Khomami Arts and culture correspondent    Images from Gaza, Ukraine, Madagascar and the US border chosen by global jury from more than , entries World Press Photo winners in picturesPhotographs documenting the wars in Gaza and Ukraine, migration, family and dementia have topped this year’s World Press Photo awards one of...

Weronika StrzyżyÅ„ska    Adding another insecticide to the protective netting has proved effective in fight against the disease that killed , in Two new types of mosquito bed nets have been found to reduce cases of malaria by up to a half, raising hopes of combating the disease, which is becoming increasingly...

Jonathan Watts    Deaths from record temperatures in Mali reportedly led to full morgues turning away bodies this monthThe deadly protracted heatwave that filled hospitals and mortuaries in the Sahel region of Africa earlier this month would have been impossible without human caused climate disruption, a new...

Patrick Greenfield    Westerners see elephants as pets, said Mokgweetsi Masisi, whose government threatened to send , elephants to Germany and the UK to demonstrate their dangersMany Europeans value the lives of elephants more than those of the people who live around them, the president of Botswana has said, amid...

Rajeev Syal and Pippa Crerar    Paul Kagame flew to UK for Champions League match while national police told citizens to restrict activities including footballThe president of Rwanda, whose police force has asked the country’s people to restrict football related activities during the year anniversary of the Rwanda massacre, is...

Kevin Rawlinson and agency    Myra Carvalho sentenced to weeks’ imprisonment and banned from seeing singer performA woman who stalked Harry Styles has been jailed and banned from seeing him perform.Myra Carvalho, who appeared at Harrow crown court sitting at Hendon magistrates court in London, was said to have stalked the...

Luke Taylor in Bogotá and Gloria Oladipo in New York    Critics condemn reckless and cruel’ expulsions and say deportees likely to be targeted by armed gangs who control much of countryMore than Haitians expelled from the United States have been flown back to Haiti on the first deportation flight since heavily armed gangs launched a bloody...

Reuters in Geneva    Coalition of civil society groups says Paris should return harsh reparations imposed on Caribbean state two hundred years agoFrance should repay billions of dollars to Haiti to cover a debt formerly enslaved people were forced to pay in return for recognising the island’s independence, according to...

Thomas Graham in Mexico City    In announcement three weeks before election, José Raà l Mulino gave no details of how he would stop migrant flowPanama’s presidential frontrunner has vowed to close the Darién Gap, the swampy jungle straddling the border with Colombia that has become an unavoidable ordeal for many US bound...

AP in Miami    Relief had been granted after president Nicol s Maduro promised to hold free and fair elections this yearThe Biden administration has reimposed crushing oil sanctions on Venezuela, admonishing the president Nicol s Maduro’s attempts to consolidate his rule just six months after the US eased...

Tom Phillips in Rio de Janeiro    Shock in Brazil after woman is arrested and charged with violating a corpse and attempted theft through fraudWhen Érika de Souza Vieira wheeled her lethargic looking uncle into a Brazilian bank, clerks quickly sensed something was amiss. I don’t think he’s well. He doesn’t look well at all, ...

Reuters    Volt Typhoon hacking campaign is waiting for just the right moment to deal a devastating blow’, says Christopher WrayChinese government linked hackers have burrowed into US critical infrastructure and are waiting for just the right moment to deal a devastating blow, the director of the FBI,...

Helen Davidson in Taipei    Company says Chinese government ordered it to remove two Meta owned apps for national security’ reasonsApple has removed WhatsApp and Threads from its Chinese App Store after the Chinese government ordered it to do so for national security reasons.Apple confirmed it had withdrawn the two apps ...

Rebecca Ratcliffe and Bethanie Harriman    President’s suggestion that his Uncle Bosie’ was eaten by cannibals harms US efforts to build Pacific ties, say local expertsJoe Biden’s suggestion that his uncle may have been eaten by cannibals in Papua New Guinea during world war two has been met with a mixture of bemusement and criticism in...

Australian Associated Press    Police say the sheep was shot dead after confronting officers called to the property in Waitakere, west of AucklandFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastAn aggressive ram believed responsible for the deaths of...

Karen Middleton Political editor    Former secretary of the home affairs department recommends preparation of a war book’ to allocate roles in the event of conflictFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastAustralia needs a comprehensive national...

Daniel Hurst Foreign affairs and defence correspondent    The US talks of Aukus as binding’ the allies for decades to come, but Richard Marles says Australia must become more self reliant’Australia’s defence overhaul has accelerated some projects and cut others and has already prompted a plea from China to abandon a cold war mentality .But as the...

Daniel Hurst Foreign affairs and defence correspondent    Exclusive: Minister says he has spoken out on Israel’s military operations so others believe their concerns have somewhere ... to be vented and aired’Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastEd Husic has conceded many Muslim and Arab Australians do not feel the...

Australian Associated Press    Three brothers and family friend died at the scene in Clackline in the state’s wheatbeltThree brothers, one of them only nine years old, and a family friend have been killed in a car crash in the Western Australian wheatbelt region.The brothers, aged , and nine, died at the scene in Clackline...

Australian Associated Press    Broken Hill’s only newspaper, The Barrier Truth, closes due to cashflow problems, with staffer saying loss is really sad for the community’Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastBroken Hill’s only newspaper has closed after almost years of operation in a...

Sarah Basford Canales and Daniel Hurst    Acting foreign minister Katy Gallagher says government is worried about potential for further escalation of conflict in the region’Middle East crisis: live updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastThe Australian government has urged all parties to exercise...

Cait Kelly and Emily Wind (earlier)    This blog is now closed.Australia extremely concerned’ after Israeli airstrikes on Iran confirmed by USNine year old among four killed in car crash in Western AustraliaGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastThe NSW police commissioner, Karen Webb, is speaking to...

Andrew Messenger    Large quantity of illicit psilocybin allegedly discovered at Marsden home as investigations continue into separate and unrelated deaths suspected to be mushroom relatedFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news...

Lisa O'Carroll, Aletha Adu and Rowena Mason    Labour also turns down European Commission’s proposal, which would have allowed young Britons to live, study and work in EURishi Sunak has rejected an EU offer to strike a post Brexit deal to allow young Britons to live, study or work in the bloc for up to four years.The prime minister declined the...

Agence France-Presse in Stockholm    Report says man carrying knife at time of arrest after attack left two women seriously injuredSwedish police have shot and arrested a man who allegedly injured three women with a sharp object in Vasteras, a town in central Sweden.The women, aged between and , were taken to hospital, police...

Ashifa Kassam European community affairs correspondent    Idea Angela Rawlings had a decade ago for Snà fellsjökull has snowballed into a full blown campaign with a team of peopleStanding in the shadow of Iceland’s Snà fellsjökull, a , year old glacier perched on a volcano and visible to half the country’s population on any given day in ,...

Angelique Chrisafis in Paris    Gabriel Attal says state needs real surge of authority’ in speech in Viry Châtillon, where year old killedThe French prime minister, Gabriel Attal, is facing criticism for his proposed crackdown on teenage violence in and around schools, after he said some teenagers in France were addicted to...

Pjotr Sauer    Two Polish citizens detained earlier on suspicion of attacking Russian opposition figure Leonid Volkov in LithuaniaA Belarusian national has been detained in Poland on suspicion of ordering the attack on a top Russian opposition leader, Leonid Volkov, on Moscow’s behalf, the Polish prime minister,...

Jack Simpson    Trade bodies say ongoing confusion about when checks will come in is incredibly challenging’UK to delay start of health and safety checks on EU importsBusinesses have described Britain’s Brexit border plans as being in complete disarray after it emerged the introduction of some checks on EU...

Peter Beaumont in Jerusalem    International moves target two high profile individuals with connections to senior figures in far right politicsThe latest US and EU sanctions against individuals implicated in pro settler violence in the occupied Palestinian territories represent a significant escalation in international moves...

Patrick Wintour Diplomatic editor    Tit for tat attacks present Sunni monarchies with complicated choices over region’s futureIran’s missile and drone attack on Israel had, by the end of this week, become one of the most interpreted events in recent modern history. Then, in the early hours of Friday, came reports of Israel’s riposte....

Emma Graham-Harrison in Jerusalem    Country’s leaders took time to weigh response to Iran’s strike under gaze of allies urging restraintMiddle East crisis: live updatesJust before dawn on Friday the explosions of air defence systems woke Iranians across the historic city of Isfahan. The breaking news alerts that followed roused...

Julian Borger in Washington and Peter Beaumont in Jerusalem    Tit for tat attacks have breached taboo of direct strikes on each other’s territory but Tehran has no immediate’ plans to retaliateMiddle East crisis live updatesWorld leaders urged calm on Friday after Israel conducted a pre dawn drone sortie over Iran following a cycle of tit for tat attacks...

Lisa O'Carroll in Brussels and Peter Beaumont in Jerusalem    Far right group Lehava and several individuals accused of violence targeted in dual announcementsMiddle East crisis live updatesThe EU and the US have imposed tough new sanctions against key figures alleged to be behind extremist violence by Israeli settlers against Palestinians in the West Bank...

Bethan McKernan in Jerusalem    Israeli prime minister’s main concern is his political survival but a multi front war is still a strong possibilityMiddle East crisis live updatesIn the aftermath of Iran’s unprecedented salvo of missiles and drones fired directly at Israel at the weekend, Benny Gantz, a centrist member of the...

Hannah Ellis-Petersen South Asia correspondent    Experts say Indian PM is hoping to be bigger than Gandhi’ as he aims to win a third term in officeAs the distant rumble of a helicopter drew closer, cheers erupted from the gathered crowds in anticipation. By the time India’s prime minister finally stepped on to the stage, bowing deeply while...

Hannah Ellis-Petersen in Delhi    First phase in world’s largest democratic exercise begins, with million people eligible to vote over six week periodVoting has begun in India’s mammoth general election, as Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata party hopes to increase its parliamentary majority amid allegations that the country’s...

Reuters    Scientists estimate Vasuki indicus was up to m long, weighed a tonne and would have constricted its preyFossil vertebrae unearthed in a mine in western India are the remains of one of the largest snakes that ever lived, a monster estimated at up to metres in length longer than a T rex...

Rebecca Ratcliffe South-East Asia correspondent    Military spokesperson says Nobel laureate is among prisoners to be moved out of prison as a precaution during hot weatherMyanmar’s detained former leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been moved from prison to house arrest, according to the military junta.A spokesperson said the measure was taken due to...

Agence France-Presse in Ahmedabad    Two men from Bishnoi gang, whose leader has threatened to kill Salman Khan, arrested over Mumbai shootingTwo members of a criminal gang have been arrested by Indian police for firing at the home of the Bollywood actor Salman Khan in retaliation for the star’s killing of two antelopes.The Bishnoi...

Diane Taylor    Families of those who helped British forces could be deported from Pakistan despite promise to resettle them in UKAfghan families who helped UK forces and then fled to neighbouring Pakistan are in danger of being deported back to the Taliban due to Home Office delays in bringing them to the UK.In...

PA Media    Police officer had stopped Gideon Falter from walking near pro Palestinian march while wearing kippah skull capThe Metropolitan police has apologised after an officer used the term openly Jewish to an antisemitism campaigner who was threatened with arrest near a pro Palestine march.Gideon Falter...

PA Media    Force reviewing available information after claims that Menzies used political donations to pay off bad people’Allegations that the MP Mark Menzies misused campaign funds have been referred to Lancashire police. The force said it was reviewing the available information after receiving a letter ...

Donna Ferguson    Paolo Barone found guilty of voyeurism after taking photos of sleeping woman on train to St Albans in A Thameslink train driver who took photos up a woman’s skirt while she was asleep on a train has avoided jail, despite being found guilty of voyeurism.The driver, Paolo Barone, was on his way...

Rowena Mason and Patrick Butler    Charities say high rates of people signed off work are caused by crumbling public services after years of underinvestmentRishi Sunak has been accused of making mental ill health another front in the culture wars, as critics warned his plan to curb benefits for some with anxiety and depression...

Rob Davies    Environmental groups say bosses should hang their heads in shame’ as firm bows to pressure from shareholders to cut costsUnilever is to scale back its environmental and social aims, provoking critics to say its board should hang their heads in shame .The consumer goods company behind brands...

Kiran Stacey Political correspondent    Former Tory chair turned political biographer and publisher is behind books that have put former PM and Labour’s deputy in the spotlightsIf this week’s tetchy exchanges between Keir Starmer and Rishi Sunak at prime minister’s questions proved one thing, it was the ability of the veteran businessman...

Victoria Bekiempis in New York, Richard Luscombe and agency    Images of person in flames shown on television and social media amid ex president’s hush money trialTrump trial live updatesA man was in critical condition in a New York hospital on Friday after setting himself on fire outside the lower Manhattan courthouse where Donald Trump is on trial in a...

Associated Press    Cases listed in federal documents raise alarms around emergency pregnancy care, especially in states with strict abortion lawsOne woman miscarried in the restroom lobby of a Texas emergency room as front desk staff refused to admit her to the hospital.Another woman learned that her fetus had no...