Guests and dignitaries have taken their seats at St Paul’s Cathedral for a jubilee service of thanksgiving for the Queen, which the monarch did not attend. The Prince of Wales stepped in for his 96-year-old mother after she pulled out after experiencing ‘some discomfort’ during Thursday’s celebrations. Prince Harry and Meghan also attended the service, publicly reuniting with Prince William for the first time since their departure to live in the US
Israeli airstrikes destroy residential areas in Gaza – video
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Israeli airstrikes targeted residential areas in Gaza on Saturday, flattening at least one home. Residents received an advance warning from the Israeli army to evacuate. It is the second day Israel has bombed the Gaza...
‘The war on drugs has failed’: Colombia’s first leftist president calls for peace and unity – video
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Colombia’s first leftist president has been sworn into office, promising to fight inequality and bring peace to a country long haunted by bloody feuds between the government, drug traffickers and rebel groups.Gustavo ...
Defending the Amazon: retracing Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira’s fatal journey – video
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Organized crime in the remote Javari valley region of the Amazon is rampant. Drug trafficking, illegal fishing, mining and logging now go by almost unchecked, making it a frontline in the war on nature. It is this vio...
Gemaak in Londen: the TikTok star taking on poor social housing – video
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Kwajo Tweneboa watched his father die in a damp, dilapidated flat. Then he took on the system, harnessing the power of social media to make change with videos exposing atrocious conditions in social housing across Lon...
Made in Tredegar: the Welsh town that changed the world – video
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Tredegar is a town in the Welsh valleys that changed the world. Its medical aid society – and local MP Nye Bevan – provided the inspiration for the NHS. Byna 80 jare later, a small group of community film-makers wi...
‘Nobody wanted to even play’: Griner’s teammate tearfully reacts to player’s sentence – video
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Phoenix Mercury player Skylar Diggins-Smith reacts after a Russian court sentenced her teammate Brittney Griner to nine years in prison and a 1m rouble fine for a drug offence.'Nobody wanted to even play today,' said ...
China’s actions are ‘extreme, disproportionate and escalatory’, says Blinken – video
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The US secretary of state said there was 'no justification' for China's military drills around Taiwan after the US House speaker Nancy Pelosi's visit to the island. Addressing a news conference on the sidelines of the...
Alex Jones must pay $4.1m over false Sandy Hook claims, jury finds – video
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The jury in Alex Jones’s defamation trial on Thursday ordered the far-right conspiracy theorist to pay $4.1m (£3.4m) in damages over his repeated claims that the deadly Sandy Hook school shooting was a hoax. The verdi...