‘Race against time’: Japan earthquake death toll rises as rescue teams search for missing

Military mobilises thousands of personnel after quake on southern Kyushu island that registered a maximum 7 on the Japanese shindo intensity scale ...

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France and Spain brace for fresh heatwave as warnings issued over risk of new wildfires – Europe live

Authorities fear progress in containing the fires in the Gironde and Madrid regions may be set back by temperatures expected to hit the low 40s ...

Football transfer rumours: Eli Junior Kroupi to boost Barcelona attack?

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Why US military prosecutes alleged rapes of women in UK as ‘sexual assaults’

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Burnham says it’s ’shameful’ politicians have failed to fix social care – UK politics live

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‘The shaking was terrifying’: stories of survival and loss emerge after Japan earthquake

Rescuers pulling people from the wreckage in southern Japan in a haunting repeat of disaster that struck 10 years ago ...

Dua Lipa to interview Zadie Smith at London Literature festival

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Commonwealth Games 2026: swimming, athletics and weightlifting on day six – live

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'People are waiting to be rescued': race under way to find Japan quake survivors – video

Japan's prime minister said the race to find survivors of Tuesday's earthquake was a 'race against time' ...

‘They targeted us directly’: how the Israel-Lebanon war became deadly for healthcare workers

At least 135 medics in Lebanon have been killed by Israel’s bombardment since March ...
Opinion

As wildfires rage, the world is backsliding on climate action. This can’t go on

Five years ago, I wrote an open letter asking climate scientists to speak out. Now governments are in retreat, it is surely time to act, says climate professor Bill McGuire ...