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Turkish comedian gets jail term for calling Erdogan 'dictator' but released ahead of appeal

A Turkish court has sentenced a comedian to more than 19 months imprisonment on charges of insulting religious values and President Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Europe

Aldi to invest £900m in UK and open 40 more stores next year

Supermarket chain declares ‘increasing confidence’ in its growth plans after posting record annual revenue of £19bn

Americas

In 2005, Walmart pledged to protect one acre for every acre it developed; 21 years later, the programme has helped protect more than 2.2 million acres

In 2005, Walmart made a commitment to help permanently conserve one acre of wildlife habitat in the United States for every acre of land developed by its

Poachers caught with loaded guns and headless deer in California forest

State wildlife officers uncovered an illegal hunting operation in Angeles National Forest

Europe

Farmer who alerted police to RAF Fairford suspected bomb plot says there was ‘no follow-up’

Woman who spotted suspicious vans and masked men says authorities did not contact her after five men were arrested

Foie gras, live dolphins and toasters: China and US cut reciprocal tariffs on $30bn of goods

World’s biggest economies release lists of products in latest move away from trade war – but no strategic goods are included

From launch to a fiery splashdown, Starship completes orbit test

A thunderous lift off, rapid satellite deployments and a fiery ending. That's how SpaceX's 14th launch of its Starship rocket panned out today.

Texas man accused of crashing his car through a grocery store so he could use the bathroom

A 60-year-old man was arrested on criminal mischief charges

Europe

Healey offers upbeat vision but sheds little light on how it will be paid for

With the budget only a month away, the chancellor gave little indication of where money will come from to reindustrialise Britain

Wyoming spent $1.8 million to buy an 80-year-old hot-springs water park inside a state park; after closing it, officials may now spend another $1 million to demolish almost everything

For generations, Star Plunge has been part of the rhythm of Thermopolis, Wyoming, where tourists arrive for the mineral-rich waters of Hot Springs State

Multiple generations honoured at MTV VMAs as Taylor Swift, Madonna win, Dolly Parton and Nirvana remembered

Taylor Swift became the most-awarded artist in VMA history, Madonna won multiple times and people paid tribute to the late Dolly Parton at the 2026 MTV Video Music Awards.

Children sickened in E. coli outbreak linked to recalled raw milk cheese

The warning came after two children under the age of five in San Diego County became sick

Base jumper dies in Utah after wingsuit fails in remote mountainous region

Identity of man, 27, being withheld pending family notification after 700ft plunge

Stevie Wonder releases four unheard songs from Songs in the Key of Life sessions

Previously unreleased material comes as Wonder marks 50th anniversary of album with arena tour

Florida’s python team followed 40 tagged male snakes and ended the season with 177 Burmese pythons removed and more than 4,100 eggs taken from the ecosystem

A season of tracking Burmese pythons across the difficult terrain of southwest Florida ended with 177 snakes removed and more than 4,100 eggs taken out of

Asia

Scientists built a sunflower-inspired cooling system that delivered 135% more cooling power at solar noon than a fixed horizontal surface

Researchers in China have developed a radiative cooling system inspired by the way sunflowers track the sun, with experiments showing a 135% increase in

Europe

Schools forced to shut amid burst Thames Water pipe ‘leaking 750 litres a second’

Leak causes outages and low pressure in parts of London and Surrey, affecting 6,000 properties and leaving some without water

Americas

US response to UN pandemic talks ‘severely weakens’ global planning, says leading health expert

The US says it is unable to support a major global text on pandemic prevention and preparedness put forward at UN general assembly

Americas

Underpaid workers building US Consulate in Milan will split $35M payout from US firm

An American company building the new U.S. Consulate in Milan has agreed to pay millions to compensate foreign workers who earned less than $2 an hour

Plan for controversial Sydney data centre scrapped after push-back

Goodman Group, the property giant behind the Project Mars data centre, says the decision is due to changes to the "policy and regulatory environment".

At 98, Iowa man Paul Little finally received his high school diploma 80 years after leaving school in 1946 to support his family

Paul Little was supposed to leave Dallas Center High School in Iowa with his graduating class in 1946.

Australian court rejects activist’s bid to prosecute King Charles for genocide

The ruling by three judges leaves Uncle Robbie Thorpe with one final domestic option

Europe

A man shoots and kills his uncle at a school in southern Turkey

A man has shot and killed his uncle at a school in southern Turkey, raising concerns about safety at educational facilities

World News in Brief: Refugee funding, US migration policy triggers ‘cascade’ of rights violations, world forests report, restorative justice in Colombia

Support for water and sanitation at the biggest camp in the world for Syrian refugees is under threat from a lack of funding – combined with the impact of climate change – the UN Children’s Fund, UNICEF, said on Monday.