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From 44m ago 31 drones shot down over Belgorod, Bryansk and Kursk overnight, says Russian Ministry of Defence Dozens of Ukrainian drones attacked three Russian regions overnight, according to the Russian Ministry of Defence, which claimed to have shot down 31 unmanned aircraft in what it described as a ‘terrorist attack’. The ministry wrote on […]

Three fishers died after a Philippine fishing boat collided with a foreign commercial vessel in the disputed South China Sea, the Philippine coast guard has said. The coast guard said the incident happened at about 4.20am on Monday in waters off Scarborough Shoal, according to a crew member on board. Ten fishers survived the incident […]

A long, thin, pearly white tusk found while walking in Bedfordshire was identified (with the help of a warden from the local country park) as having fallen from the jaw of a Chinese water deer (Hydropotes inermis). The deer is a shy Asian species that is firmly established in the east of England. Like the […]

When the captain of the Indian women’s cricket team was banned for two matches and fined for smashing the stumps with her bat in an angry outburst in July, the social media reaction was swift and harsh: Harmanpreet Kaur was called “pathetic” for her anger on the pitch, and labelled “disgusting and stupid”. This is […]

The Conservatives have embraced the spirit of opposition with the arrogance of a party that is used to being in government. Their conference in Manchester is a festival of complaint about the condition of Britain undisturbed by contrition for having presided over its decline. Taxes are too high, they say, and borders are too porous. […]

As campaign videos go, it’s arguably one of the less sophisticated. To the booming soundtrack of Wagner’s Ride of the Valkyries, a man with a strong foreign accent makes a phone call from the German embassy in Warsaw. His request: to arrange a call between Germany’s chancellor and Jarosław Kaczyński, the leader of Poland’s ruling […]

Only about one in eight UK fisheries have been awarded “green” status for sustainability in the latest edition of the Good Fish Guide. Of the 337 wild fisheries around the British Isles included on the list, which is compiled by the Marine Conservation Society (MCS) and updated twice a year, only 13% were regarded as […]

A new vaccine against malaria – which kills 600,000 people every year, mostly children – is to be injected into babies’ arms in 18 countries where the disease is most deadly. That’s joyous news. But the unbridled enthusiasm the announcement has generated says as much about the sorry state of malaria control as the brilliance […]

We are raiding the Guardian Long Read archives to bring you some classic pieces from years past, with new introductions from the authors. This week, from 2019: On 5 October 1999, two trains collided at speed in west London, killing both drivers and 29 passengers. Barrister Greg Treverton-Jones, who survived the crash and worked on […]

As the sister of a leading Swedish gang member, Faysa Idle had a target on her back. To her, Stockholm felt like a war zone. She couldn’t go anywhere without being followed, she was banned from entering certain neighbourhoods and she was constantly frightened. “It felt like I didn’t live in Sweden any more. In […]

At least one-tenth of the money donated to the Conservative party and its MPs since 2010 has come from property developers, real estate tycoons and others connected to the construction industry, an exclusive Guardian analysis reveals. Meanwhile, housebuilders and property developers have benefited by billions of pounds from delays to low-carbon building regulations in the […]

A climate researcher has been threatened with the sack by his employer after refusing to fly back to Germany at short notice after finishing fieldwork in the Solomon Islands archipelago. On Friday Dr Gianluca Grimalda, an environmental campaigner who refuses to fly on principle, was told by his employer, Germany’s Kiel Institute for World Economy, […]

The bus leaves Monday to Friday at 8.30am sharp outside the Sant Antoni market in Barcelona’s Eixample district, but this is no ordinary vehicle; it has hundreds of wheels, dozens of drivers – and no passengers. This is the Barcelona bicibús, the fun, safe mode of transport that makes going to school feel like a […]