The Guardian Articles

There are times when Westminster politics feels unimportant. A diverting sideshow at best. After Donald Trump’s overnight announcement that he wanted the US to own Gaza, to displace 1.8 million Palestinians to Egypt and Jordan, who have already said they don’t want them, and to turn the territory into a …

Local elections in nine councils across England are to be postponed for a year as part of devolution measures which will see local government in the areas reorganised, Angela Rayner has announced.

The communities secretary, who is also the deputy prime minister, said her department had agreed to delay elections …

Keir Starmer has decided not to travel to Paris for next week’s international summit on artificial intelligence, despite the presence of other world leaders including Emmanuel Macron, Narendra Modi and JD Vance.

Sources have told the Guardian that the prime minister will not attend the summit, the latest in a …

Nobody knows when the federal election will be (not even Anthony Albanese, I suspect; he might have thoughts, but he will also be ready to move should events dictate). But everyone knows what the election will be fought about – cost of living.

Got a new infrastructure proposal? Great, link …

The Norwegian oil company fighting to open a giant new oilfield off Shetland has cut billions of pounds from its green spending plans in favour of producing more fossil fuels.

Equinor set out plans on Wednesday to halve its investments in low-carbon energy while producing more oil and gas, becoming …

The families of the Nottingham attacks victims have called for individual doctors responsible for Valdo Calocane’s treatment to be named and held accountable.

At a press conference on Wednesday, after the

publication of a report

Ransomware payments fell by more than a third last year to $813m (£650m) as victims refused to pay cybercriminals and law enforcement cracked down on gangs, figures reveal.

The decline in such cyber-attacks – where access to a computer or its data is blocked and money is then demanded to …

The gun attack that left

11 people dead

The suspected gunman was among the dead and six people were hospitalised after …

Spanish police investigating an online gang, which swindled prospective puppy-buyers out of more than €150,000 (£125,000) by duping them into paying for nonexistent dogs and fictitious vets’ bills, have arrested six people and frozen 14 bank accounts.

Officers from the Policía Nacional began looking into the gang – which was …

The Google owner, Alphabet, has dropped its pledge not to use artificial intelligence for purposes such as developing weapons and surveillance tools.

The US technology company said on Tuesday, just before it

reported lower than forecast earnings