Minimum global corporate rate of 15% agreed by 136 countries as Yellen also says US will raise debt ceiling on 3 DecemberThe US treasury secretary, Janet Yellen, said on Sunday she was confident Congress would approve legislation to implement the globa…
‘Freedom’: exhibition celebrates Barcelona’s 1970s counterculture
Underground recalls brief but intense flowering of movement in city following death of FrancoWhen Spain’s repressive dictatorship finally came to a close with the death of Francisco Franco in 1975, the counterculture that had been bubbling away for yea…
Squid Game’s success reopens debate over who should pay for rising internet traffic
Demand for capacity grows on back of hit Netflix shows, online games and moreThe breakout success of the Korean drama Squid Game has prompted a local broadband provider to launch legal action to force the maker, Netflix, to help pay for the huge surge …
Capsule of 1765 air reveals ancient histories hidden under Antarctic ice
Polar Zero exhibition in Glasgow features sculpture encasing air extracted from start of Industrial RevolutionAn ampoule of Antarctic air from the year 1765 forms the centrepiece of a new exhibition that reveals the hidden histories contained in polar …
Animal blessings, smoke bubbles and Billie Eilish – the weekend’s best photos
The Guardian’s picture editors select photo highlights from around the world Continue reading…
At least 16 die as plane full of skydivers crashes in central Russia
Six people in ‘very serious condition’ after being rescued from wreckage of aircraft in TatarstanAn aircraft carrying skydivers has crashed in central Russia, killing 16 people and severely wounding six others, the country’s health ministry has announc…
Covid live news: Wales to keep home working and mandatory masks until 2022; Australia planning to allow international travel
Welsh first minister expects Covid measures to continue until next year; Australia’s PM planning to fast-track international travelSee all our coronavirus coverageDr Abdul Qadeer Khan, the man regarded as the “father of Pakistan’s nuclear bomb”, has di…
Pakistani nuclear weapons scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan dies aged 85
PM pays tribute to ‘national icon’ who turned country into atomic power but later admitted smuggling nuclear secretsAbdul Qadeer Khan, considered to be the father of Pakistan’s nuclear weapons programme and later accused of smuggling technology to Iran…
Will October again be memorable for wrong reasons as economic risks build? | Larry Elliott
Bad things happen in this month and, as IMF prepares for annual meeting, signs of a crisis loomBad things happen in October. It was in this month 13 years ago that the global banking system came close to imploding. There was a stock market bloodbath in…
Agony of Ecuador’s brutal prison massacre endures for bereaved relatives
At least 119 inmates died in a Guayaquil jail after local gangs’ links with Mexican cartels brought a new level of horrorIt was in mid-morning when María Elena Villacís got a WhatsApp message from her brother Darwín, who was jailed in the Litoral penit…