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Pacific island nation’s leader says 2007 video showing him saying 'Heil Hitler' does not reflect his beliefs.

Brazil’s presidential election is heading to a run-off after Bolsonaro and Lula both fell short of the 50% needed to win

Sian and Simon Romsey lost thousands after paying a deposit for extensive building work.

Dad discovers he has cancer after he was accidentally kicked in the testicles.

Abuse material monitor says number of AI images assessed this year is already 40% higher than last year’s total

AI-generated child sexual abuse material is proliferating online, with the amount of illegal material investigated this year already exceeding the total for 2025.

Analysts at the Internet Watch Foundation have found more photorealistic child sexual abuse material in the first half of 2026 than for the whole of the prior year. The UK-based IWF, which monitors abuse material globally, said it had assessed 6,310 AI images that met the legal definition of child sexual abuse, 40% higher than last year’s total of more than 4,500.

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Plans to shed as many as 2,000 employees have been announced in stages, and staff fear further cuts in 2027

Morale at the BBC has been severely dented by a gradual “bloodletting” that has seen plans to shed as many as 2,000 staff slowly announced over several weeks, members of the corporation’s staff have warned.

More internal meetings have been called for this week to discuss further details of the cuts, which aim to save £500m. Some staff already fear that further waves of cuts will follow soon after in the new year.

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Exclusive: Cop31 leader calling for global curbs on climate-heating gas has landfills producing some of world’s worst plumes

Two or three nights each week, the smell descends. Residents of villages on the rural outskirts of Istanbul don’t know what the smell is, but they have been plagued by it for years: a smell so bad they have to sleep with their windows closed even during hot summer nights. They know the source, too: the huge Silivri municipal waste dump a few miles away that is belching out stinking gases as food and other organic waste rots.

“The smell is not subtle. It suffocates you,” said Kemalettin Özenç, sitting outside a tea shop in the village of Yolçatı. “It’s worse when the air is still: sometimes families linger until midnight out here. Even when you go inside it’s inescapable.”

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Natural History Museum and British Museum among cultural institutions leveraging collections and exhibitions

They are often free to visit but museums are bolstering their finances by putting their stamp on everything from upmarket hotel suites to trendy jumpsuits and virtual reality experiences.

Forget buying a T-shirt. If you can afford the “from £724” price tag, you can spend the night in the Natural History Museum family suite at the Park Plaza London Riverbank hotel, which has an interior inspired by the museum’s founder, Sir Richard Owen, complete with Tyrannosaurus rex bunk beds.

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Working-age adults such as my son, who is autistic, face a fragmented and unreliable system, yet ministers talk only of a national care service for older people

Seemingly brilliant conference speeches are often followed by a hangover, and so it has arguably proved with Andy Burnham’s. It was, it has to be said, something of a triumph, but there is now a familiar sense of nagging angst over how his big idea of a national care service is actually going to work. But equally, it doesn’t seem unreasonable to be more generous and patient. The policy issues are vast. The new PM’s commitment to serious change is clear. And having been urgently needed for years, the basics of what he wants – personal, home-based care delivered free at the proverbial point of need – will be on their way if Labour wins the next election.

Here, though, is a question that is much less finely balanced. Neither Burnham’s speech nor the much shorter address given by Yvette Cooper, the new health and social care secretary, contained a single mention of what roughly half of England’s social care budgets are spent on: provision for working-age disabled adults. Why not? I get the politics: fixating on older people’s care and the pensions triple lock makes everything clear and relatable. But England’s fragmented, unreliable system for younger disabled adults is in need of the same radical level of reform, and it’s the source of just as much fear and worry for the people who either depend on it, or eventually will do.

John Harris is a Guardian columnist

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A spice-rich twist on a classic soup, and poached eggs with garlic yoghurt and green chutney

While purists might scoff and find the combination of spices in my French onion soup a little blasphemous, do give it a shot. Nigella seeds are the best flavour-enhancer for onions, while using ghee instead of butter adds a warm, nutty, caramel flavour. Then, my Indian-inspired twist on çılbır, the classic Turkish breakfast of poached eggs with yoghurt. It features my go-to poached egg method, which I learned from Nigella Lawson.

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Cost of living crisis and drop in international students hits market for purpose-built accommodation

“It was dead in the middle of summer, it was a shock,” says Nathalie Sriwiboonrattan. The fourth-year game design student at Abertay University was at home with her family thousands of miles away in Thailand when she discovered the owner of her Scottish studio flat had abruptly gone bust.

“I was like, my hands are tied. I’m not in the country. I don’t know what to do,” she says. Sriwiboonrattan was forced to act quickly to secure new housing for the academic year, which has just begun, paying £850 to have her possessions moved.

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Moody's predicts that the world's aging populations will have fundamental impacts on the global economy and lead to difficult policy decisions. 

Google's Android Security State Libraries Enable Component-Level Security Verification  infoq.com

Millions of Brazilians took to the polls on Sunday for the first round of the country's presidential elections.

Millions of Brazilians took to the polls on Sunday for the first round of the country's presidential elections.

Lessons will be "totally or partly suspended" in some high schools after clashes between riot police and student protesters, France's education minister says.

1. Three takeaways as Flames' dismal start continues in Seattle  Calgary Herald
2. Flames Defeated By Kraken  NHL.com
3. NHL: Flames 1, Kraken 6  TSN
4. Samoskevich scores twice and Kraken beat Flames 6-1 in home opener as Calgary stays winless  CTV News
5. Flames on Sportsnet: Calgary vs. Seattle  Sportsnet.ca

1. Three takeaways as Flames' dismal start continues in Seattle  Calgary Herald
2. Flames Defeated By Kraken  NHL.com
3. NHL: Flames 1, Kraken 6  TSN
4. Samoskevich scores twice and Kraken beat Flames 6-1 in home opener as Calgary stays winless  CTV News
5. Flames on Sportsnet: Calgary vs. Seattle  Sportsnet.ca

Alejandro G Iñárritu’s film may be about to become one of the biggest bombs Hollywood has ever seen – but it is destined to be re-evaluated with time

• This article contains spoilers for Digger

I feel for film critics, I really do. Tom Cruise’s latest film Digger put them in an impossible position: you can’t really talk about it without spoiling what makes it, in my eyes, a masterpiece. Or completely terrible – as many, many critics have argued over the last week, without being fully free to say why.

That is not their fault: media screenings around the world opened with a plea from Warner Bros to not spoil the film’s central reveal. This seems like it may have been a misstep, because curiosity and Cruise alone were clearly not enough to get bums on seats. Digger is now projected to lose around $150m, after taking a paltry $20m globally in its opening weekend. Warner Bros is trying to make the best of a bad situation, first crowing about the stinker reviews – “insufferable” and “smug” have been repeated a lot – then pivoting to a new sell: the Yanks don’t get it, so it must be good.

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1. US withdraws B-1 bomber aircraft from UK’s Fairford base amid Iran fears  Al Jazeera
2. US removes all bombers from RAF Fairford base  BBC
3. US bombers pulled from RAF Fairford base after suspected terror plot  The Guardian
4. US removes all Air Force bombers from UK base following new threat  CNN
5. U.S. removes all bombers from British air base after suspected terror attack  ctvnews.ca