Children crying out for stability are paying the highest price for Britain’s chaotic and exploitative residential care, says the Guardian columnist George Monbiot

Last year British taxpayers spent 800 years waiting to speak to HMRC. This is the price of a world digitised on the cheap, says freelance journalist Elle Hunt

Workers in Tuscaloosa vote against bid to unionize, as UAW president Shawn Fain hails impact of campaign despite defeat

Last summer’s strikes, as writers and actors took on the studios, led to historic change – but how is the industry faring now?

Companies such as OpenAI and Meta push ahead, but it is clear that biggest changes are yet to come

Hospice patient Lynne Cottignies welcomes proposals to make it legal to help eligible people end their lives. Many others have serious concerns

Vermont State University confers doctorate in ‘litter-ature’ upon tabby for being keen hunter of mice and beloved figure on campus

Ukraine’s president says air defences must quadruple to halt Russian advance as morale falls among troops

Local health director says cryptosporidium in Brixham ‘more or less dealt with’ but new cases likely because of delayed symptoms

The US military has begun moving aid ashore in Gaza, as the UN says truck convoys by land remain the most efficient way of getting aid in

Jan Leike, a key safety researcher at firm behind ChatGPT, quit days after launch of latest AI model, GPT-4o

In thrall to a character who may not truly exist any more, the Labour leader kicked off his election campaign in Purfleet, says author Tim Burrows

Campaigners say move to electronic permits by the end of the year is a ‘recipe for disaster’ that could leave immigrants without proof of status

Watch live as the suspect in the attack on Slovakia’s prime minister is set to appear in Special Court on Saturday 18 May.

The firm says the tanker was hit by a missile and a fire broke out on board

There were chaotic scenes as lawmakers shoved, tackled and hit each other in a day-long brawl in Taiwan’s parliament. Daytime scuffles escalated into a nighttime brawl as lawmakers fought over proposed reforms to the chamber, just days before Pres ...

Party leader’s general election campaign announcement sparks New Labour comparisons

Researchers say their findings strengthen the case for identifying people with type 2 diabetes at the earliest opportunity.

A rare squid has been filmed wrapping its arms around a camera deep below the ocean surface, where conditions are near pitch black. The Taningia Danae, at a depth of more than 1km, is seen spreading its tentacles over the camera lens. Scientists from ...

There was more business than usual and some bemused regulars after El Califa de León was rewarded for its ‘exceptional’ offering