watch live as Sir Keir Starmer launches Labour's six "first steps" in a pre-election pitch to voters on Thursday, 16 May.

watch live outside a hospital where Slovakian prime minister Robert Fico is being treated on Thursday, 16 May, after he was shot in the stomach in an assassination attempt yesterday.

Russian president seeks to deepen pivotal relationship as West pressures Beijing to cut support to Moscow’s defence industry

watch the moment members of the US Naval Academy’s first-year class complete the annual greased climb in Annapolis, Maryland. Every year, freshmen - known as “plebes” - form a human pyramid to attempt to climb a 21-foot granite obelisk to repla ...

The Ontario-born writer turned the ‘classic New Yorker-style short story’ into the highest form of literature, by taking an obsessively detailed interest in the people who lived in her small Canadian town

watch live as members of the US Naval Academy's first year class attempt the annual climb of a granite obelisk coated in a thick layer of vegetable shortening in Annapolis, Maryland.

watch live as Julian Assange's wife and supporters hold a briefing in London on Wednesday, 15 May, ahead of an extradition hearing.

Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington ‘taking very serious look’ at whether Mar-a-Lago meeting justifies legal action

watch as passengers flee down emergency slides from a Delta Air Lines plane that caught fire. The Airbus A321neo had just arrived at the Seattle Tacoma International Airport from Cancun, Mexico when the 189 fliers were ordered to evacuate. CCTV foota ...

watch live as Rishi Sunak faces Sir Keir Starmer at Prime Minister's Questions on Wednesday, 15 May, as age limits are set to be imposed for the first time on when children can be taught about sex education.

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The practice of recording firsthand observations about nature goes back centuries and provides an invaluable resource

Philippines coast guard and navy watch as wooden boats head to Scarborough shoal to place buoys and hand food packs to local fishers

Sarah Thornton had dismissed them as ‘dumb boobs’ until a double mastectomy changed everything. Her new book, Tits Up, explores what our beliefs about breasts mean – from feeding babies to bra design and Baywatch

Report from public spending watchdog comes soon after similar data from parliamentary committee

It is responsive enough to obscure the fact that it is not a sentient being. It comes with biases; it is a corporate product. Remember that, says technology writer Chris Stokel-Walker

Research by The Independent on Israeli airstrikes is backed by a Human Rights watch report – as Israel says it works to prevent harm to humanitarian teams. Bel Trew reports

A brawl broke out in Georgia's parliament on Tuesday, 14 May, as politicians to approve the third and final reading of a bill on "foreign agents" that has caused a political crisis. The legislation, which has caused weeks of mass pr ...

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watch live as GCHQ director Anne Keast-Butler gives a keynote address at a cyber conference in Birmingham on Tuesday, 14 May.