Rights group says Youssef al-Manasif was tortured and first met his lawyer five years after arrest for non-violent crimes A young man faces imminent execution in Saudi Arabia for attending protests and funerals when he was aged 15 to 17, say human rights groups, in the latest example of the kingdom’s surging use of the death penalty for non-violent crimes. Youssef al-Manasif was arrested in 2017 and accused of crimes including joining demonstrations for religious freedom by the Shia minority and attending funerals that the Saudi authorities deem to be protests. He was convicted and sentenced to death by the specialised criminal court, a secretive tribunal set up for terrorism-related cases. Continue reading...

More than 11,400 drivers last year were fined for offences they did not recognise as RAC says system needs reform

US research says nitrogen dioxide in restaurants that cook with gas can exceed WHO limits, which also affects diners

Analysis of countries’ broadcasting rules confirms Ofcom code is highly unusual, amid concerns about impartiality The UK has been confirmed as an outlier in Europe for allowing Nigel Farage and other serving politicians to present TV shows covering current affairs, according to an unprecedented analysis of broadcasting rules. Farage is one of a series of Reform UK figures who are permitted to present shows on the rightwing network GB News. The Reform MP Lee Anderson and former candidate Matt Goodwin also have regular slots on the channel. Continue reading...

Rising from bluebell woodlands and framed by rolling hills, this cluster of pink and brown brick towers in Croydon is a bittersweet winner of the prestigious RIBA Stirling prize

Reform says all of those people filmed by ITV are under investigation having resigned or been suspended.

The seventh edition of an annual report analyzing Earth’s "planetary vital signs” indicates that Earth systems are rapidly destabilizing, some at an accelerating rate.  The report, published today in ...

India’s voluntary carbon market has startups, farms, and self-audited private registries. Big tech is buying from it anyway

We have no choice but to take on the fossil fuel industry. Those who won't acknowledge this are peddling fake solutions to climate change.

Researchers say ‘AI worms’ could soon infiltrate internet-connected devices amid calls for increased guardrails Anthropic is warning that some of its artificial intelligence models could soon become “self-replicating” and find ways to infiltrate internet-connected devices, such as smart fridges and automatic vacuum cleaners. Once this happens, the company said, the models could power themselves within these devices without the need of datacenters. Such self-replication would represent a major loss of control of a runaway AI model. Continue reading...

Developer Low Carbon says the 2,400 acre West Oxfordshire Energy Plant would produce 500MW.

No matter how much America’s allies urge the president to back Ukraine, he cannot forgive its leader for showing up his dealmaking impotence

AR7 report was scheduled for 2028 in time for Cop33 summit but some petro-states and major developing countries want to postpone it

Nine out of 10 people felt motivated to act after watching film outlining threats to food security, economy and public health

Analysis showed how much the UK could have grown if it had not exited the EU.

A road safety trial captured images of almost 19,000 violations in just two weeks from cameras set up in two locations.

A notoriously stubborn agricultural waste product, rice husk is now being repurposed as a sturdy and resilient construction material.

How countries with hot climates, fast-growing economies, expensive energy, and fragile grids turn to solar.

A new report traces the financial connections behind conservative media’s latest attack on climate science.

Exclusive: Firms made more than £340m last year from processing industrial and commercial wastewater at sewage works that are unable to remove many chemical pollutants

Scientists have found a surprising way to regrow damaged knee cartilage by blocking a protein that becomes more abundant with age. In old mice, the treatment restored naturally lost cartilage and also...

Green party debate over the motion ‘Zionism is racism’ comes amid renewed arguments over the meaning and history of a contested term