Cern aims to build €20bn atom-smasher to unlock secrets of universe (www.theguardian.com)
Research lab submits plans for next-generation model at least three times size of Large Hadron Collider...
Ex-CIA software engineer sentenced to 40 years for giving secrets to WikiLeaks (www.theguardian.com)
A former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) software engineer who was convicted for carrying out the largest theft of classified information in the agency’s history and of charges related to child abuse imagery was sentenced to 40 years in prison on Thursday....
Fascist salute not a crime unless a risk to public order, Italy’s top court says (www.theguardian.com)
X to be investigated for allegedly breaking EU laws on hate speech and fake news (www.theguardian.com)
Scottish minister blames sons watching football for £11,000 iPad roaming bill (www.theguardian.com)
Idaho mother and son charged with kidnapping over out-of-state abortion (www.theguardian.com)
Revealed: almost everyone in Europe is breathing toxic air (www.theguardian.com)
Guardian investigation finds 98% of Europeans breathing highly damaging polluted air linked to 400,000 deaths a year
Strikes aren’t bad for the US economy. They’re the best thing that could happen (www.theguardian.com)
Auto workers, writers, actors, Starbucks workers, Amazon workers, UPS drivers, flight attendants – labor isn’t a ‘special interest’. It’s all of us
Elon Musk says Twitter, now X, could charge all users subscription fees (www.theguardian.com)
Revealed: undercover UK police officer deceived woman into 19-year relationship (www.theguardian.com)
An undercover police officer used his fake identity to deceive a woman into a 19-year relationship in which they became partners and had a child together, the Guardian can reveal....
‘It’s already way beyond what humans can do’: will AI wipe out architects? (www.theguardian.com)
‘It’s already way beyond what humans can do’: will AI wipe out architects?::It’s revolutionising building – but could AI kill off an entire profession? Perhaps not, finds our writer, as he enters a world where Corbusier-style marvels and 500-room hotels are just a click away
Deadly global heatwaves undeniably result of climate crisis, scientists show (www.theguardian.com)
Israeli weapons packed with shrapnel causing devastating injuries to children in Gaza, doctors say (www.theguardian.com)
French artists, DJs and musicians unite to fight threat of far-right government (www.theguardian.com)
‘No pride in occupation’: queer Palestinians on ‘pink-washing’ in Gaza conflict (www.theguardian.com)
“Israel presents itself as an LGBT haven in the region, but for Palestinians it offers neither refuge nor solidarity”
Two more US officials resign over Biden administration’s position on Gaza war (www.theguardian.com)
Alexander Smith, a contractor for the US Agency for International Development (USAID), said he was given a choice between resignation and dismissal after preparing a presentation on maternal and child mortality among Palestinians, which was cancelled at the last minute by USAID leadership last week....
Europe must get ready for looming war, Donald Tusk warns (www.theguardian.com)
The Polish prime minister, Donald Tusk, says Europe is entering a “prewar” era, cautioning that the continent is not ready and urging European countries to step up defence investment....
‘Madness’: Netanyahu’s handling of US relations under scrutiny after UN vote | Benjamin Netanyahu (www.theguardian.com)
Puberty makes teenagers’ armpits smell of cheese, goat and urine, say scientists (www.theguardian.com)
Internet providers have left rural Americans behind. One county is fighting back (www.theguardian.com)
The Shamima Begum ruling proves it: some UK citizens are less equal than others (www.theguardian.com)
Any British person who has a foreign-born parent will feel their status is more precarious after the court of appeal decision...
Russia arrests US dual national over alleged $51 Ukrainian charity donation (www.theguardian.com)
Israel says it will launch Rafah assault if hostages not freed by Ramadan (www.theguardian.com)
A member of Israel’s war cabinet has said the country will launch its threatened ground offensive against Rafah, the last place of relative safety in Gaza, if Hamas does not release its remaining Israeli hostages by the beginning of the holy Muslim month of Ramadan in just under three weeks....
Biden criticises Israel military campaign in Gaza as ‘over the top’ (www.theguardian.com)
US President Joe Biden has suggested that Israel’s military response in Gaza has been “over the top” and said he is seeking a “sustained pause in the fighting” to help ailing Palestinian civilians....