Transgender woman treated as ‘hostile invader’ when joining women-only app Giggle for Girls, court hears | Sydney
A transgender woman was treated “as a hostile invader” and directly discriminated against twice when she was excluded from a women-only social media app, a court has heard. Giggle for…
Ukraine calls for greater pressure on Russia ahead of Witkoff visit – Europe live | Ukraine
Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature Diageo warns of costly impact of US tariffs Lisa O’Carroll Diageo, maker of Guinness, Smirnoff vodka…
Tuesday briefing: What fraught talks to reach a ‘Paris agreement for plastic pollution’ could bring | Plastics
Good morning. Not only does plastic waste clog up waterways, beaches and strangle sea life, it also causes havoc inside the human body. Tiny fragments – invisible to the human…
100 Gaza children hope to be evacuated to UK for urgent medical care | Gaza
More than 100 critically ill and injured children in Gaza hope to come to the UK as soon as possible after the government announced a scheme to provide those in…
‘We’re the party of ambition’: Plaid Cymru sets out to topple Labour | Welsh politics
It is fair to say that Rhun ap Iorwerth, the leader of Plaid Cymru, was on safe ground at the national Eisteddfod in Wrexham this week. More than once, festivalgoers…
More than 40 arrested at protest against Gaza war at Trump hotel in New York | New York
More than 40 people protesting the war and worsening humanitarian crisis in Gaza were arrested outside the Trump International hotel in New York City on Monday evening. The protest, organized…
Australia news live: SA lead smelter to get $135m rescue package; First Nations group sues to block Olympic stadium | Australia news
Nyrstar gets $135m bailout from federal, state governments The metal producer Nyrstar will get a $135m bailout from a coalition of the federal government and the governments of South Australia…
‘I’m upset, angry and disgusted,’ Epstein accuser tells BBC
Jeffrey Epstein accuser Haley Robson has told BBC Newsnight that speculation Ghislaine Maxwell could be pardoned has left her “angry and disgusted”. Maxwell, the convicted associate of sex offender Epstein,…
Brazil judge orders house arrest of former president
Brazil’s Supreme Court has ordered that the former right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro be put under house arrest. He is standing trial over allegations he plotted a coup, which he denies.…
The BBC visits the Korean survivors of the Hiroshima bomb
Hyojung Kim BBC Korean in Hapcheon BBC/Hyojung Kim Lee Jung-soon, 88, is one of many nuclear bomb survivors who now lives in Hapcheon, South Korea At 08:15 on August 6,…