Museums have closed and festivals lost funding – but Labour will restore Britain’s creative superpower status, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

Plan to break up Noaa claims its research is ‘climate alarmism’ and calls for commercializing forecasts, weakening forecasts

Open letter calls for green policies that empower farmers, after months of protests jeopardise future of flagship biodiversity deal

Global warming and international trade offering increasingly hospitable environment

For first time since August 2021 people expect position to be better in a year, Paul Thwaite adds

Rain in Kenya, Tanzania and Burundi kills at least 90 people and damages farmland and infrastructure

It may have looked like something you’d see a bank teller use, but it withstood heavy battering. And it ran the coolest games

South Dakota governor includes bloody tale in campaign volume – and admits ‘a better politician … wouldn’t tell the story here’

Gary Roden resigns as general manager after tickets cancelled and gigs forced to reschedule in Manchester

China, Russia and the US are among the top five countries developing the technology, new figures show

Baby Sabreen al-Sakani’s mother of the same name, her father Shukri and three-year-old sister Malak have all now died following attack

Agents of the National Police, in a joint operation with the Mossos d’Esquadra and EUROPOL, have dismantled the largest workshop for the manufacture of counterfeit 2-euro coins in Spain. The joint operation with Mossos d’Esquadra and Europol, lau ...

The suspect was caught when he allegedly broke into a neighbor’s apartment seeking to kill his seventh victim

Ash Regan, former SNP MSP, writes to Yousaf with items needed to secure her vote and says SNP has ‘lost its focus’ over the years

Soiled seas and huge dividends: where has the £64bn borrowed by firms since privatisation gone, asks Guardian columnist George Monbiot

Snap’s share surged 21% in after-hours trading as app’s users increased by 422 million, bringing in $1.2bn in revenue

Shares surge after tech giant issues first ever dividend and posts revenue of $80.5bn, up 15% since last year, despite staff turmoil

Elon Musk’s X says it opposes demands from Australia’s eSafety commissioner that it remove the content globally

Artists from Dua Lipa to Nia Archives are tapping the boisterous energy of mid-90s music – and even embracing the union jack. Can they avoid the genre’s laddish lows?

Two 22-year-olds charged with immigration offences as part of investigation into deaths