Man allegedly caught 74-year-old who had died while spearfishing in his net but failed to report itA fisherman in Greece has been arrested after allegedly catching a dead spearfisherman in his net and throwing the body back into the sea.The alleged inc…
Far-right journalist quits French TV show amid election rumours
Éric Zemmour is about to begin a book tour, but has not yet announced his candidacy for presidentThe French far-right journalist and commentator Éric Zemmour has stepped down from his nightly TV show, heightening speculation that he could make an outsi…
Covid live: UK and EU urged to stop blocking vaccine patent waiver; ‘sudden and severe wave’ in Syria’s Idlib
Médecins Sans Frontières says waiver would allow faster production; cases in Syria’s rebel-held Idlib province have soared since mid-AugustUK children aged 12 to 15 to be offered Covid jabCovid passports: what are European countries doing?US senators c…
‘They will kill you’: a future leader of Afghanistan on the price he paid for freedom
Mohammad Zaman Khadimi was forced to make an impossible choice as he fled the Taliban for sanctuary in AustraliaOn an August morning, Mohammad Zaman Khadimi walked out of class and into a world entirely changed.“I heard the news that the Taliban were c…
20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks – in pictures
People across the USA and the world commemorate the victims of the September 11, 2001 attacks Continue reading…
Abimael Guzmán, leader of Peru’s Shining Path, dies aged 86
Founder of Maoist insurgents that terrorised Peru in 1980s and 1990s dies in military prison where he was serving life sentenceAbimael Guzmán, the founder and leader of the Shining Path, the Maoist insurgents which terrorised Peru in the 1980s and 1990…
Alt-right finds new partners in hate on China’s internet
Populists and nationalists are spreading anti-Muslim, anti-feminist messages – but also backing the Communist party lineIn the early days of the 2016 US election campaign, Fang Kecheng, a former journalist at the liberal-leaning Chinese newspaper South…
Dismissed and derided when they stood, it’s time to reassess the twin towers | Rowan Moore
Twenty years after their destruction, we can finally see Yamasaki’s landmark pillars in all their gloryFew buildings illustrated architecture’s power to be different things to different people at different times than the twin towers of the World Trade…
Putin’s crackdown: how Russia’s journalists became ‘foreign agents’
Will an oppressive new law stifle independent media outlets – or lead to a weakening of the president’s authoritarian regime?Usually the bad news is dumped late on Friday when most Muscovites are heading out for the evening: a new list of names of jour…
Iran nuclear talks to resume as IAEA head returns to Tehran
Rafael Grossi will meet with Iranian officials, in his first visit to the country since president Ebrahim Raisi took officeIran says that the head of the International Atomic Energy Organisation (IAEA) is due to arrive in the country for talks with Ira…