What the Tesla tycoon wants his billions can’t buy: being able to get a true laugh

Families say the housing contractor’s strict timing rules dampen holiday spirit on the base

Nasa chief Sean Duffy confirms 1969 landing was indeed real after US celebrity on TV show says ‘I think it was fake’

The king is reduced to a blustering CEO, Prince William to his head of HR. This de-princing could leave the entire House of Windsor facing redundancy, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

The Times thought they were interviewing ex-NYC mayor Bill de Blasio. They were actually talking to a wine importer

From a red-throated loon touching down on water, to good and bad hair days, and an airborne squirrel, here is a selection of the finalists in this year’s Nikon Comedy Wildlife awards

Combination of seven new roles, including six in the US, spanning sports and business coverage, visuals, video and more

Primatologist said in interview released after her death she would also put Putin, Xi and Netanyahu on that spaceship In a lifetime studying the behavior of chimpanzees, Jane Goodall became something of an authority on the aggressiveness of alpha male adults. Now, in an interview released just days after her death, the famed primatologist reveals what she would do with Donald Trump, Elon Musk and other human beings she saw as showing similar traits: launch them on a one-way trip into space. The insight into Goodall’s thinking comes in the Netflix documentary Famous Last Words, recorded in March and kept under wraps until her death last week at the age of 91. Continue reading...

Barbara Lagoa’s husband, Paul Huck, is an attorney whose law firm has business with the Florida government

The latest find is likely from the 16th century and could have originated as far away as the Caribbean

Bride finally tracks down awkward-looking stranger she and husband noticed only when looking through photos

Nasa dismisses theory by Harvard astronomer who suggested an object from beyond the solar system could be a relic from a distant civilization

Parviz Sabeti crafted an anonymous new life for his family – but now he faces a $225m lawsuit for atrocities committed in prisons in Tehran and elsewhere

Haul for Abu Dhabi aquarium leads state officials to agree to review the issuing of ‘marine special activity licenses’

Saturnine frontman blames ‘disagreeable and vexatious characters’ for decision to cut ties with band

Prestigious Stuttgart Ballet likely to face 80% empty seats at DC’s premier arts venue as audiences ‘vote with their feet’

The state’s elimination of vaccine mandates is a courageous first step toward decluttering itself of any excess kids.

It has been the talk of Somerville, Massachusetts this summer, with the winner announced later today. Will it be the candidate who promises free kibble or the one who speaks gnomically of ‘CRIME’?

Weapon valued up to $3m and items from movies including Alien and Armageddon for sale in three-day online auction

Joseph Ladapo, a long-time vaccine skeptic, says that every state vaccine requirement would be repealed

A professor teamed up with student musicians to inspire interest in data about the ‘catastrophic scale’ of the crisis

Temporary halt for facility in Florida Everglades comes as attorneys argue whether environmental laws being violated

Exclusive: Incident raises questions of exploitation of public services, but Secret Service says it was requested for ‘safe navigation’

Suspect allegedly stabbed New Jersey brothers Abed and Mohammed Assad because they gave him eggplant not egg