German big wave surfer Sebastian Steudtner has surfed what is possibly the biggest wave ever measured at 28.57 metres (93.73ft). Steudtner’s attempt came off the coast of Nazare, Portugal, two months ago on Saturday 24 February. The height of the w ...

Volunteers rushed to rescue three sacred Torah scrolls buried beneath the rubble of a destroyed synagogue after it burned down in upstate New York. Members of a volunteer safety patrol ran into the charred building to dig out a safe containing the ho ...

The robbery from a GardaWorld warehouse on Easter Sunday was like something from a movie – and police appear to be puzzled by how it went down

Mitcham residents say the Burn Bullock had been ‘disgracefully neglected’ prior to the blaze destroying much of the building

As tensions with China rise, scientists at America’s leading universities complain of stalled research after crackdown at airports

Minute-by-minute report: Join John Brewin for the first leg in this blockbuster repeat of the 2021 final

Possible move in autumn statement come as experts sound alarm about dire state of UK public services

 

A Nigerian chess champion has played the game non-stop for 58 hours to break the world record. Tunde Onakoya, 29, hopes to raise $1 million for children’s education across Africa with his marathon attempt that began in New York City’s Times Squar ...

 

Gaza hospital officials say an Israeli airstrike on a residential building has killed at least nine people

Bodycam footage shows the moment a man was rescued after falling into the Hudson River on Manhattan’s West Side. The New York Police Department (NYPD) and Fire Department New York (FDNY) responded to a call for help shortly after 7am. Arriving on t ...

The debonair duo have remixed U2 and Britney, and angered Kanye West. Still on each other’s wavelengths after almost a decade away, they’re resuming their quest to make ‘the most dramatic music possible’

It’s three decades since the government’s attempt to ban raves radicalised an oddball coalition of dance fans, squatters and ‘new age’ travellers. What became of the protesters who tried to kill the bill?

The prospect of home loan rates staying high for longer is not the tonic for lenders’ financial results it once was

Ex-president reduced to silence in court, including this week, when he was forced to face opinions of New Yorkers during jury selection

Chain changes ‘That’s why mums go to Iceland’ line to reflect fact other people also do grocery shopping

Recordings of healthy fish are being transmitted to attract heat-tolerant larvae back to degraded reefs in the Maldives

The pseudoscientific term, made notorious by George Floyd’s murder in the US, will no longer be used by the police watchdog

Pro-Palestinian students interrupted a dinner held by a top free speech defender at Berkeley. A polarized and very public controversy has followed