theguardian.com

A leading Jewish American philosopher has been disinvited from taking up a prestigious professorship at the University of Cologne after signing a letter expressing solidarity with Palestinians and condemning the killings in Gaza carried out by Israeli forces.

Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman found liable last March for trying to discourage Black New Yorkers from voting in 2020 election...

Up to 500 ‘drop-and-forget’ bombs containing foreign components being fired every week, government analysis finds...

Net migration to New Zealand hit a near record high in 2023 after a new temporary work visa was introduced after the pandemic...

Roberta Metsola, the European parliament president, wrote on X: “History made. We have delivered a robust legislative framework on how to deal with migration and asylum in the EU. It has been more than 10 years in the making. But we kept our word. A balance between solidarity and responsibility. This is the European way.”

Australian limits on acceptable levels of these toxic chemicals in drinking water ‘orders of magnitude’ higher than in US...

The Arizona governor, Katie Hobbs, a Democrat, called for an Arizona supreme court ruling to be repealed that permits enforcement of an 1864 law banning almost all abortions. Speaking at a press conference the governor said: ‘The near total civil war-era ban that continues to hang over our heads only serves to create more...

Canada, the Netherlands, Japan, Spain and Belgium have all announced they would stop shipping weapons to Israel. In Denmark, a court case is pending which could result in the government having to suspend the export of F-35 fighter jet parts to the US, be

The engineer, identified as Sam Salehpour, told the newspaper that sections of the fuselage of the Dreamliner were improperly fastened together and could eventually break apart mid-flight.

Huge gravity of these dense stars, which have burned all their own fuel, rips apart smaller planetary bodies...

Lawmakers in more than a dozen states have considered efforts to give legal rights and protections to embryos and fetuses...

Nicaragua told the ICJ that it was “pathetic” for Germany to provide Palestinians with humanitarian aid while supplying the arms that killed them, and that Germany seemed “not to be able to differentiate between self-defence and genocide”.

The 51-year-old man had smuggled his work into the display at Munich’s Pinakothek der Moderne “in the hope of achieving his artistic breakthrough”, the German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung reported, citing police sources.

Five-decade UK study finds that aggression at school leads to better-paying jobs, while those with emotional instability went on to earn less...

Each pregnancy is linked with an additional two to three months of biological ageing, researchers say...

For months, aid groups have struggled to get food to an estimated 300,000 people in northern Gaza, where the world’s global authority on food security recently predicted a famine was either already happening or would begin before July....

The last time Brood XIX and Brood XII emerged from underground at the same time, Thomas Jefferson was president...