International Energy Agency says 17m vehicles will be sold this year, up more than 20% compared with 2023

Plan to expand Ruaha national park has been beset by allegations of abuse, leading bank to withhold final $50m of $150m budget

While conflicts in Gaza and Ukraine have captured global attention, the civil war in Sudan has been largely ignored. That can’t be allowed to continue, says the Guardian’s Nesrine Malik

Letter: The Jubilee 2000 saw $130bn of debt written off, and yet we now find ourselves in a renewed global debt crisis, says Maria Finnerty of Cafod

A fossil of the "largest snake to ever have existed" has been found in western India. Twenty-seven vertebrae belonging to a 15-metre-long non-venomous creature scientists have named Vasuki indicus - longer than a T Rex - were discov ...

Judge makes interim order after eSafety commissioner orders social media outlet to remove footage of Wakeley stabbing

Commitments to gender equality in politics are being tested, with just a handful of countries holding elections in which women have a reasonable chance of becoming leader

For the first time, government military spending increased in all five geographical regions, Sipri thinktank finds

global vehicle deliveries fall for first time in four years amid growing competition, while Cybertruck faces recall

IMF has revised up growth forecasts but medium-term prospects remain poor as globalisation goes into reverse

Grim milestone comes as G7 leaders urge Netanyahu not to press ahead with Rafah invasion

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

Influenza is still the biggest threat to global health as WHO raises fears about the spread of avian strain

As militias targeted the Masalit community in a wave of ethnic violence, one man offered shelter and an escape route across the border

We’re keen to hear what people make of the proposal to resume freedom of movement between the EU and UK for young people aged between 18 and 30

Critics condemn ‘reckless and cruel’ expulsions and say deportees likely to be targeted by armed gangs who control much of country

Westerners see elephants as pets, said Mokgweetsi Masisi, whose government threatened to send 30,000 elephants to Germany and the UK to demonstrate their dangers

The moment a suspect associated with a UK-founded website used to defraud victims on an “industrial scale” was arrested at an airport was caught on police bodycam footage. LabHost, a scammer site set up in 2021 by a criminal network, obtain ...

In announcement three weeks before election, José Raúl Mulino gave no details of how he would stop migrant flow

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