Category: Politics

Ukraine has fired UK-made Storm Shadow missiles into Russia for the first time since the beginning of the conflict, multiple sources have told the Guardian. The decision to approve the strikes was made in response to the deployment of more than 10,000 North Korean troops on Russia’s border with Ukraine, which UK and US officials […]

Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature 16 min: A peach of a ball sets Kaneryd off, she crosses in but Celtic manage to get their first to clear it. The Sweden international is a threat every time she is on the ball. Share 14 min: Celtic are […]

A Thai woman alleged to be among the worst serial killers in the kingdom’s history has been convicted and sentenced to death for poisoning a friend with cyanide, in the first of her 14 murder trials. Sararat Rangsiwuthaporn, 36, described as an online gambling addict, is accused of swindling thousands of dollars from her victims […]

The defence secretary, John Healey, has announced he will scrap £500m of British navy vessels as part of cost-saving measures in what was described as a “black day” for the new government. Two former Royal Navy flagships, a frigate and two support tankers will be decommissioned, with the savings reinvested into the defence budget. Healey […]

I was following orangutans in Borneo with my wife, Cheryl Knott, a primatologist who has spent 30 years working in Gunung Palung national park, in the Indonesian part of Borneo. I am a biologist by background, and did my PhD research in rainforest ecology in Borneo, before I went into photography and film-making. I saw […]

“I don’t believe in America being the beacon of democracy,” says the documentary film-maker Nanfu Wang. “America sliding into autocracy is not something that is unimaginable.” Terms such as democracy and autocracy have been thrown around a lot since the re-election of Donald Trump as US president. But Wang speaks with unusual authority on this […]

A painting by René Magritte shattered an auction record for the surrealist artist on Tuesday, selling for more than $121m at Christie’s in New York. The seminal 1954 painting had been valued at $95m, and the previous record for a work by Magritte was $79m, set in 2022. After a nearly 10-minute bidding war on […]

Severn Trent has nearly tripled its profits even as the FTSE 100 water company said it had failed to meet a drinking water safety risk standard. The company, which serves 4.7m customers stretching from Bristol and mid-Wales to the Humber, said it would be “in penalty this year” over a measure of water quality known […]

Elite sport is that peculiar amalgam of ritual, repetition, ingrained twitches, drilled skill, known strengths and feared limits. But it matters not a jot without passion – and sometimes even that is not enough. At 38 and in reasonable if not optimum shape, Rafael Nadal brought all of those elements together in Málaga on Tuesday […]

National Education Association says nominating McMahon as education secretary shows Trump ‘could not care less about our students’ futures’ The president of the National Education Association (NEA) said that the president-elect’s decision to name Linda McMahon as his pick for education secretary in his upcoming administration, shows “that he could not care less about our […]