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A student who was booked on the Air India flight to London Gatwick that crashed on Thursday missed boarding the plane by 10 minutes due to traffic.Bhoomi Chauhan, a Bristol-based business administration student, was on holiday in western India and had booked to travel home on flight AI171.However, the 28-year-old …

Karen Bass says Los Angeles being used as a 'test case' and 'an experiment'. Los Angeles mayor Karen Bass has accused the federal government of using her city as a “test case” for the federal government taking over from local and state authorities and said the intervention was completely unwarranted. …

Israel's defence minister says Madleen passengers will be shown video of 7 October attacks. Israel’s defence minister, Israel Katz, has congratulated the Israeli army on the “quick and safe takeover” of the Madleen, the Gaza-bound aid vessel. Confirming that the passengers onboard – including climate activist Greta Thunberg and French …

Israel threatens Hamas with ’annihilation’ as Trump says Gaza ceasefire 'very close'. Israel has said Hamas must accept a hostage deal in Gaza or “be annihilated”, as Donald Trump announced that a ceasefire agreement was “very close”. It comes amid dire conditions on the ground, with the United Nations warning …

Hamas said it has submitted its response on a ceasefire proposal presented by Donald Trump’s Middle East envoy, Steve Witkoff, to mediators. The Palestinian group said in a statement that under the deal, it will release 10 living hostages and 18 bodies in return for Israel’s release of a number …

“We have people who can write about this,” the journalist Gary Younge remembers an editor once telling him about a column he had written on Bosnia. “Can you add an ethnic sensibility to this?”For Younge, being one of the few black columnists in the British press has not been easy; …

The results of the election rerun could alter the future of the country, which is suffering under political divisions

Deep in the jungle region of Chapare, Bolivia’s coca country, the former president and socialist icon Evo Morales is holed up in a compound surrounded by supporters armed with sticks and homemade shields.“It was like I was in a movie set, but like a low-budget movie set of a Bolivian …

The election of George Simion would be a troubling – but understandable – repudiation of the country’s pro-EU establishment

The reigning WTC champions have included four pace bowlers in the 15-player squad with Pat Cummins returning as captain, while Josh Hazlewood is again under an injury cloud heading into the decider.

From riding a steampunk elephant in Nantes to exploring a ghost fishing village, you’ll find no shortage of out-of-this-world experiences in Brittany and Normandy

Less than 1% of the government’s biosecurity budget goes on tackling invasive species, despite the danger they pose to British wildlife, figures suggest.Conservationists warned the funding to address non-native plants and animals was failing to match the risk they posed to “cherished” native species, from water voles to ladybirds, as …

A second man has been arrested in connection with the death of a 60-year-old man onboard a cruise ship.James Messham, from Shoreham-by-Sea, West Sussex, died after an “altercation” on the MSC Virtuosa as it was in British waters on Saturday 3 May during a short trip to Belgium.A 57-year-old man …

Frederick Augustus Voigt was the Manchester Guardian’s Berlin correspondent between 1920 and 1932.In this episode, two fellow former Berlin correspondents, Helen Pidd and Philip Oltermann, discuss Voigt’s incredible reporting on the rise of Nazi Germany.“I think he saw that it was important not to give the Nazis the ‘both sides’ …

She managed tours for Bob Dylan, delivered drugs for the Rolling Stones, and was at George Harrison’s house when the Beatles split. Now Chris O'Dell tells all in a new documentary.

Daniel Farke described Leeds’s Championship title triumph as “a proud day and an emotionally moving day”. At the other end of the table, Luton suffered a second successive relegation after a 5-3 loss at West Brom.As the Leeds players and fan...

The head of the UK’s biggest union has urged staff at Reform UK-controlled councils to sign up after Nigel Farage warned workers to seek “alternative careers”.Farage said during a speech on Friday that he would advise council staff working on diversity or climate change initiatives to seek “alternative careers very, …

From hot-air ballooning over the Loire to hiking through Brittany’s enchanted forests, lose yourself in the beauty and adventure of France’s northern Atlantic coast.

Even though it came out only last year, I was so impressed with Álvaro Enrigue’s You Dreamed of Empires that I am on my second reread. As all around me institutions fall and norms fail, I feel the moment requires audacious re-imaginings of history or possibilities of thought, and on …

Neiyerver Rengel’s captors came one sunny spring morning, lurking outside the apartment he shared with his girlfriend and pouncing as soon as he emerged.The three government agents announced the young Venezuelan man had “charges to answer” and was being detained.“Everything’s going to be OK,” the man’s girlfriend, Richely Alejandra Uzcátegui …