The Labour leader needs to stop counting the cost of investing in railways – and see the costs of not doing so, says Dr Tom Haines-Doran, author of Derailed

This is the sort of food invented for British people that you’d have got at a Cantonese restaurant back in 1994

Speaking to experts and people on the ground in Pas de Calais reveals a different narrative to that told by Rishi Sunak

Group banned plants ‘removed from habitat’ from its shows – causing uproar from enthusiasts

Exclusive: Environmental groups say bank is misleading public over ‘sustainable’ financing for Eni as company vastly expands fossil fuel production

Teenager remanded in youth custody for trial in May after playground stabbing in Carmarthenshire

Infant dies five days after caesarean delivery after mother killed by Israeli airstrike in Rafah

Four others also charged in connection with investigation, says Crown Prosecution Service

MeToo founder Tarana Burke said she was “devastated” for survivors in the wake of Harvey Weinstein’s rape conviction being overturned at the Court of Appeals in New York on Thursday, 25 April. The activist launched the movement in 2017 ...

A woman who accused Harvey Weinstein of sexual harassment says the decision to overturn his rape conviction is “devastating but unsurprising”. Weinstein was found guilty in 2020 of raping and assaulting two women, and is currently serving 2 ...

Egypt has sent a high-level delegation to Israel with the hope of brokering a cease-fire agreement with Hamas in Gaza

A gang of monkeys raided a pickup truck for oranges in a notorious macaque-infested town in Thailand. Footage shows the marauding troop swarming the back of a white pickup truck to steal fruits in front of the Phra Prang Sam Yot temple in Lopburi pro ...

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’