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A major new report on New Zealand’s environment has revealed a worrying outlook for its unique species and highlighted declining water health, while also noting some improvements in air quality. The ministry of the environment’s three-yearly update, Our Environment 2025, collates statistics, data and research across five domains – air, atmosphere and climate, freshwater, land, … Read more

Surgeons are hailing an “astonishing” medical breakthrough as a woman became the first in the UK to give birth after a womb transplant. Grace Davidson, 36, who was a teenager when diagnosed with a rare condition that meant she did not have a uterus, said she and her husband, Angus, 37, had been given “the … Read more

Family and friends of former US congresswoman Mia Love gathered Monday in Salt Lake City to honor the life and legacy of the first Black Republican woman elected to Congress after she died of brain cancer last month at age 49. The former lawmaker from Utah, a daughter of Haitian immigrants, had undergone treatment for … Read more

The government of South Sudan said on Monday that an individual at the centre of a deportation row with the US, which South Sudan refused to allow into the country at the weekend, is a citizen of neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). South Sudan said the individual was a man named Makula Kintu, not … Read more

A Danish chef couple who attracted international acclaim with a “forest resort” in Sweden have been tracked down to Guatemala after apparently going on the run from tax authorities, leaving behind 158 barrels of human waste. Flemming Hansen and Mette Helbæk founded their purportedly eco-friendly retreat, Stedsans, in Halland, southern Sweden, after claiming to have … Read more

Cabinet ministers and more than 70 parliamentarians staged a show of solidarity with two MPs who were detained and barred from entry to Israel in what was the first time British MPs had been banned from the country. The health secretary, Wes Streeting, and the chief secretary to the Treasury, Darren Jones, joined the photocall … Read more

Clem Burke, the drummer whose backbeats powered Blondie to huge chart success across multiple decades, has died aged 70. He died following what his bandmates Debbie Harry and Chris Stein called “a private battle with cancer”, in a tribute posted to Instagram. They added: “Clem was not just a drummer; he was the heartbeat of … Read more

One of the Conservatives’ biggest donors has stopped funding the party in a move insiders believe will result in the closure of its northern HQ, the Guardian can reveal. Richard Harpin, the founder of home repairs business HomeServe, has ended his donations to the Conservatives, according to two Tory sources. The decision is a major … Read more

Autopsies conducted on 15 Palestinian paramedics and civil emergency responders who were killed by Israeli forces in Gaza show they were were shot in the upper body with “intent to kill”, according to the Palestinian Red Crescent, which is demanding an international investigation into the attack. The killings took place in the southern Gaza Strip … Read more

Donald Trump has threatened to impose an additional 50% tariff on imports from China on Wednesday unless the country rescinds its retaliatory tariffs on the United States by Tuesday. The news comes on the third day of catastrophic market falls around the globe since Trump announced his trade war last Wednesday with tariffs on the … Read more