Viral videos of Tesla drivers using VR headsets prompt US government alarm (www.theguardian.com)
US transportation secretary Pete Buttigieg on Monday said human drivers must pay attention at all times after videos emerged of people wearing what appeared to be Apple’s recently released Vision Pro headset while driving Teslas....
Social media algorithms ‘amplifying misogynistic content’ (www.theguardian.com)
Researchers say extreme content being pushed on young people and becoming normalised
Rumoured split in Hamas leadership as hope grows for ceasefire deal (www.theguardian.com)
When the leader of Hamas in Gaza, Yahya Sinwar, launched his devastating assault on Israel on 7 October, the militant group’s exiled leadership, like the rest of the world, was apparently caught unawares....
Israel tells families of 31 hostages their relatives are dead as Hamas mulls truce deal (www.theguardian.com)
Israel has said it has informed the families of 31 people held in the territory since 7 October that their relatives are dead. The news came as the Qatari prime minister said Hamas had given a “generally positive” response to proposals for a deal trading a break in the fighting and release of Palestinian prisoners for the...
Orbán boycotts parliament session called to ratify Swedish Nato bid (www.theguardian.com)
Hungary’s ruling Fidesz party has boycotted a session of parliament called by the opposition to ratify Sweden’s Nato membership, even as a group of western ambassadors arrived in the building to urge a vote....
Ancient sea sponges at centre of controversial claim world has already warmed by 1.7C (www.theguardian.com)
Findings in leading scientific journal that globe has breached key warming milestone challenged by climate science experts...
Louisiana governor accused of using public records law to intimidate EPA and ‘Cancer Alley’ community (www.theguardian.com)
Louisiana’s far-right government has quietly obtained hundreds of pages of communications between the Environmental Protection Agency and journalists, legal advocates and community groups focused on environmental justice. The rare use of public records law to target citizens is a new escalation in the state’s battle with the...
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...
Yazidi woman held by IS for 10 years freed by Kurdish fighters in Syria (www.theguardian.com)
Iraqi, 24, rescued with her children from al-Hawl camp after being abducted then raped and forced into marriage...
‘The situation has become appalling’: fake scientific papers push research credibility to crisis point (www.theguardian.com)
Last year the annual number of papers retracted by research journals topped 10,000 for the first time. Most analysts believe the figure is only the tip of an iceberg of scientific fraud....
Nayib Bukele re-elected as El Salvador president in landslide win (www.theguardian.com)
Voters reward Bukele for gang crackdown that has transformed security in central American country...
‘If Instagram didn’t exist, it wouldn’t have happened’: a mother’s search for her trafficked daughter (www.theguardian.com)
Four years after Robyn Cory’s daughter was groomed at 15 on Meta’s platform and sold for sex by a gang, she is still missing...
US corporations push to neuter laws used to hold opioid firms accountable (www.theguardian.com)
Rightwing pressure group Alec seeks to limit public nuisance laws used to take on big business from tobacco to climate crisis...
Parisians vote in favour of tripling parking costs for SUVs (www.theguardian.com)
Overnight Israeli airstrikes kill scores in Gaza as fears grow of push into Rafah (www.theguardian.com)
Israeli airstrikes across Gaza killed scores of people overnight, as fears grow of the military campaign intensifying in the southern city of Rafah, a tiny pocket of the territory where more than a million people are sheltering....
Comments on Weibo giraffe post bemoan state of Chinese economy (www.theguardian.com)
Protests as Atlanta council adopts new rules for referendum on Cop City (www.theguardian.com)
Houthis may sabotage western internet cables in Red Sea, Yemen telecoms firms warn (www.theguardian.com)
Telecom firms linked to the UN-recognised Yemen government said on Sunday they fear Houthi rebels are planning to sabotage a network of submarine cables in the Red Sea critical to the functioning of the western internet, and to the transmission of financial data....
Parisians vote in favour of tripling parking costs for SUVs (www.theguardian.com)
Zelenskiy set to replace senior officials amid Ukraine leadership ‘reset’ (www.theguardian.com)
Comments come as speculation continues president is preparing to fire commander of armed forces Valerii Zaluzhnyi...
‘They told me we’re all Russians’: fears grow over ‘re-education’ of Ukrainian children (www.theguardian.com)
During the 14 months for which Veronika Vlasenko attended school in Russia, she was regularly told by teachers and fellow students that she would never be able to go home to Ukraine. “Every day they said to me that I would be staying here for ever and would never leave Russia,” she said. “They told me that Ukraine...
CNN staff say network’s pro-Israel slant amounts to ‘journalistic malpractice’ (www.theguardian.com)
Insiders say pressure from the top results in credulous reporting of Israeli claims and silencing of Palestinian perspectives