Nobel Peace Prize winner María Corina Machado on life in hiding, Venezuela’s fight for democracy and why US military strikes may be “the only way.”

Greek authorities have removed more than 300,000 inactive university students from public university records.

Kenya's Lilian Odira produced a storming finish to win an astonishing women’s 800 metres world gold on Sunday, smashing her personal best by almost two seconds and erasing the 42-year-old championship record.

Melissa Jefferson-Wooden helped the United States to victory in a rain-drenched 4x100 metres relay on Sunday to become the second woman to sweep all three sprint titles at one World Athletics Championships.

President Donald Trump plans to sign an executive order on Thursday that the White House said would encourage city and state efforts to move homeless people from the streets into treatment centers.

French President Emmanuel Macron said today that France will recognize a Palestinian state in September. Follow for the latest developments.

America’s love for coffee has made the dark brewed beverage the most popular drink in the country. Here’s a look at US coffee-drinking habits and why your cup of coffee could be more expensive very so...

Nvidia on Wednesday hit $4 trillion in market value, making it the first publicly traded company to hit that milestone.

Wounded healers are drawn to helping professions – but unrecognised, this archetype can be detrimental to oneself and others * The modern mind is a column where experts discuss mental health issues they are seeing in their work Bec* first came in for therapy for burnout. She was a psychiatric nurse and worked at a public hospital in an inpatient unit. She sobbed during our first session, full of guilt at having had to take leave after collapsing in tears during a shift. She said she was letting her patients and team down by being away. The strength of Bec’s anguish at letting people down felt disproportionate to the circumstances, and I noticed that she wasn’t concerned about her tears and collapse, just about the impact of her time off on others. I probed deeper, trying to understand this. Continue reading...

I saw that my toddler was annoying some passengers but the words of encouragement made a stressful situation a lot more bearable * Read more in the kindness of strangers series I had my eldest child when I was 19, and being a young mum can be tricky – I was used to feeling judged by other people in public. One evening, I was on a crowded train home in Melbourne at peak hour, which is also witching hour for toddlers. My two-year-old son just started losing it, so I was distracting him with silly noises and games. It was largely working and he was mostly laughing and squealing with delight. I registered that it was annoying some passengers, but the alternative would have been much louder and annoying for us all. Making matters worse, no one offered me a seat, so we were standing up and bumping into other people, who were getting pissed off. Continue reading...

State’s environment minister warns bloom unlikely to disappear any time soon, as testing for toxic algae being done at 14 Adelaide sites * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast * Get Guardian Australia environment editor Adam Morton’s Clear Air column as an email South Australia’s toxic algal bloom has arrived on Adelaide’s beaches, deepening public concern about the unfolding catastrophe, which has affected the state’s coastline since March. Until recently, city beaches had escaped the worst of the deadly bloom of Karenia mikimotoi algae, which had devastated marine life from the Fleurieu peninsula, to Kangaroo Island, the Yorke peninsula and the Ramsar-listed Coorong, amid warmer than normal sea temperatures. Continue reading...

It would be easy to mock Donald Trump for blinking. Again.

Israel and Iran trade strikes on sixth day of conflict. Follow for live updates.

For the first time since the global outbreak of Covid-19, researchers claim to have pierced North Korea’s ironclad information blockade to reveal how some ordinary citizens endured the pandemic.

President Donald Trump is under fierce pressure from inside Israel and his own MAGA base as he ponders the most fateful national security decision of either of his presidencies — whether to attempt a ...

Bogey, bogey, bogey, par, bogey, bogey. It’s a helluva way to start the most important of your life.

Amid ongoing strikes between Israel and Iran, Trump is publicly and privately making clear his desire to keep the United States out of the fray for now.

Elon Musk called President Donald Trump Monday night, two sources told CNN, before saying early Wednesday that he regrets some of his social media posts about the president during their very public bl...

White smoke has risen above the Sistine Chapel, the signal that cardinals have chosen a new pope on the second day of the conclave. Follow here for the latest.

The thousands of satellites operated by companies from Starlink to Telesat will eventually burn up in the atmosphere when they reach their useful end of life. Scientists are sounding the alarm about t...