Satellite imagery shows further destruction of homes, businesses and places of worship since fragile ceasefire An update to Google Maps has revealed the extent of devastation during the three-year Gaza war and the severity of the continuing humanitarian crisis faced by the territory’s 2.3 million inhabitants. The images were taken in June this year and show further destruction of homes, businesses, places of worship and infrastructure since a fragile ceasefire came into effect almost 12 months ago. Continue reading...

Alpine regions in Europe experiencing extreme glacier collapse due to heat-trapping effects of fossil fuel pollution

Metra’s diesel-engined commuter trains are familiar sights in and around Chicago, and so is the smell of spent diesel that surrounds them – but a new battery-electric FLIRT locomotive from Stadler is about to change all that, and it’s set to arrive this week. more…

It’s easy to be cynical, but it would be false. Something extraordinary is happening here.

A Labour leader is out of control. The world needs a containment strategy now

Tesla’s “Full Self-Driving (Supervised)” broke the speed limit in 55% of the 30 km/h segments a Belgian road safety group tested in Brussels, averaging 44 km/h where the legal limit is 30 km/h. The results land less than two weeks before EU member states vote on approving FSD across the whole bloc. And speeding is exactly the issue Sweden and France have already flagged. more…

El Niño poses critical threat to nations’ defences, says Ed Miliband in presentation to global foreign ministers

He said AI is helping workers produce more output, but the quality of it is so bad that their colleagues have to spend more time fixing it

A consultation on the gas field - located 150 miles northeast of Aberdeen - closed last month, with the prime minister set to make a decision.

Why do BMW and Audi owners often seem to drive like idiots? Is it the car that makes them behave aggressively behind the wheel, or are specific types of people drawn to such cars as well being more li...

Researchers have found that it isn't just the total sleeping time, but the amount of time spent in REM sleep, that is linked to a lower risk of over 80 diseases.

Scam emails are increasingly using psychological tricks, such as using near-identical URLs such as miсrosoft.com

Number of private jets has surged in recent years, but they do not pay commensurate portion of fees to FAA operations

When Mohammad Abdul Zinati, 15, rushed to help a man wounded in a bomb attack, he had no time to react before he too was hit Mohammad Abdul Zinati was walking home from school through the rubble of Salah Khalaf Street, in northern Gaza City, when he stopped at a supermarket where a group of classmates and friends had gathered. Shortly before 3:30pm, an explosion tore through the air. Along with several others, Mohammad rushed into the street to see what had happened. Continue reading...

Give Republicans Congress and Trump promises you $5,000. That extraordinary bargain raises a question America confronted nearly 90 years ago: how far can government power reach into the voting booth?

Farage is trying to create an oligarchy...

A cascade of regret and apocalyptic short-term forecasts hit social media this week

It happened. An OpenAI agent broke out of its secure testing environment, hacked its way online, then broke into a second company's servers to access data. Anthropic and Meta’s AI agents did the same

Billionaires like Elon Musk and Sam Altman are racing to see who can conquer AI first – at all costs.

This is a disgrace. Brave RNLI volunteers being called scum for risking their lives to save others at sea is just plain wrong. So I've signed an open letter of thanks for the RNLI letting them know th...

Green leader says ministers must stop ‘hiding the truth’ about threat to UK security from climate and nature crisis Zack Polanski will challenge Andy Burnham’s government to publish an unredacted version of an explosive report by the UK’s spy chiefs that found the collapse of overseas ecosystems would have catastrophic consequences for the UK’s national security. The Green party leader in England will demand that the prime minister come clean about the scale and impact of the climate and nature crisis and call on the government to publish in full the report that warns the UK faces devastating security consequences. Continue reading...

German voters have decided that roughly 90 years is probably a sufficiently long cooling-off period before allowing the far right another opportunity to demonstrate what it can do for the nation.

Braverman believes parents will tip her off if heads don't follow her anthem and hymns rules

Ireland has provisionally experienced its hottest summer on record, according to new figures from Met Éireann.

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America’s defenses are being drained, Ukraine is being abandoned, and Russia and Iran are growing stronger. At what point does incompetence stop being an explanation?

America has spent decades paying for earlier interventions in oil-rich nations. Trump is now risking another cycle of rebellion, bloodshed, and blowback...

Being subservient to the interests of the wealthy now means that his hands are tied, and he will be unable to tackle Britain’s most pressing issues, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot