Moscow’s imperialist strongman believes decadent European democracies can be cowed. Our job is to prove him wrong, says Guardian columnist Timothy Garton Ash

Protesters spent months occupying an ancient cottonwood. Then a tense standoff with US border patrol came to a head

A landmark report reveals that the world must change the way it produces food to avoid a biodiversity collapse

The Tory leader’s proposal to slash the tax would shovel £6bn of taxpayer money to the already-wealthy

No other politician in the world gets taken "seriously but not literally". It's unreasonable to expect Americans to all possess a Donald Trump decoder ring

As trawlers compete with Greenland sharks for halibut and cod, conservationists and fishers clash over what to do about misunderstood species

Editorial: Three-quarters of nations have rightly abolished capital punishment in law or practice, but killing by the state has surged in the US

National Trust has transformed Sandilands in Lincolnshire into a nature reserve with wetlands and wading pools

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

The US president has moved fast to create the conditions for an authoritarian regime. America can fight back, but is running out of time, explains world affairs editor Sam Kiley

New report shows key indicators of Earth’s health are ‘outside the safe operating space’ as climate disaster looms

Freedom oppressed: the journalists caught up in Trump’s ICE crackdown

What is Trump’s third-country deportation policy and who does it target?

Banished to alien lands: Trump’s secret deportation deals

Steven Kolb of the Council of Fashion Designers of America was filmed during an altercation at New York fashion week

Ian Dunt: The village that ‘roared’ has swallowed the far-right’s lies

The British-American novelist and playwright who regularly appeared on panel shows will be remembered for her ‘warmth, humour and generosity’, says her husband

The British-American novelist and playwright who regularly appeared on current affairs shows will be remembered for her ‘warmth, humour and generosity’, says her husband

The European Union wants Canada to become the block's first 'associate member', as the country's trade war with Donald Trump escalates.

US president insists that fears expressed by top experts are a hoax – and that humanity can sleep easy while he’s at the wheel

AI probably thinks a world that can elect Trump as president is so messed up it deserves to be put out of its misery

Hey Ed Sheeran,

From cult figures guaranteed to generate nostalgia in grownups to today's kids' heroes, Michael Hogan chooses his favourites

"Slow Horses" has been renewed for an eighth season at Apple TV.

Jack Clark, co-founder of AI firm Anthropic, says artificial intelligence could become a "major risk to society", after a number of tech bosses call for a slowdown in AI development.

Stock markets fall in the US, Europe and Asia as Anthropic boss Dario Amodei says AI development should be slowed to "to reduce the risk that something goes seriously wrong".

Many members of the Israeli establishment – from former prime ministers to judges, generals and academics – vehemently oppose the actions of settlers in the West Bank, writes Alan Rusbridger. You woul...