Host Turkey celebrates new oilfields as UN climate summit prepares to host world leaders from more than 90 countries
We’ve just heard from Patricia Espinosa, the former UN climate boss (succeeded by Simon Stiell) and now we are hearing from former US secretary of state and climate ambassador, John Kerry.
Kerry has congratulated Brazil for keeping the fossil fuel transition issue alive, and the room has erupted in cheers.
Continue reading...Conservative leader launches Welfare That Works policy document outlining benefit reductions of £36bn
Badenoch and Whately are now taking questions.
Q: [From Rob Powell from Sky News] We are running a report on the Netherlands, where youth unemployment is much lower than in the UK, but the amount they spend on getting people into work is much higher. Do you want to spend more on job training and support?
Continue reading...Conservation group acquires former US president’s family farm with plans to transfer it to the state in 2028
Jimmy Carter’s family farm has been acquired by a group dedicated to permanently protecting the south-west Georgia land where the late former president’s conservation ethic took hold, officials announced on Monday.
A statement from the Conservation Fund said it plans to open Carter’s family farm – on about 2,458 acres (995 hectares) outside his home town of Plains, Georgia – to the public for hunting, fishing and other outdoor recreation as soon as 2027, with the group set to transfer the land to the state’s natural resources department in 2028.
Continue reading...Sea Lion project in the North Falkland basin threatens to deepen sovereignty dispute
Argentina has told an international tribunal that Britain’s approval of oil drilling off the Falkland islands has dramatically deepened a sovereignty dispute that led to war four decades ago.
At the start of an historic legal clash at the Hamburg-based International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (Itlos), an Argentine legal team argued that the oil project must be suspended.
Continue reading...The SS United States will sink off Florida coast to become an artificial reef, ending long-running wrangle over its fate
Final preparations were under way on Tuesday to sink the world’s fastest ocean liner in the Gulf of Mexico as an artificial reef, concluding a decades-long wrangle over the fate of the transatlantic icon.
A fleet of five tugboats moved the rusting hulk of the SS United States from a quayside in Mobile, Alabama, on Monday for its short journey to 25 miles off the coast of Destin, Florida, where it will be scuttled in a precision operation on Wednesday afternoon.
Continue reading...Exclusive: Ellen Sandell says Labor’s decision not to back progressives in key inner-seat could hand power to right-wing coalition in close election
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The Victorian Greens say Labor’s “frankly unforgivable” decision not to preference the minor party in a key inner-city seat could hand the upcoming election to a Liberal-One Nation coalition.
The party’s leader, Ellen Sandell, lambasted Labor’s decision on Tuesday to run an open ticket in Prahran, an inner Melbourne seat currently held by the Liberals’ Rachel Westaway on a tiny 1.3% margin.
Continue reading...New data comes after Republicans’ midterms losses – which were largely seen as a rebuke of the party over high prices
US inflation rose 0.4% from September to October, slightly above expectations but still a cooldown in price increases as the cost of gas dipped during the month.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics did not release the usual year-over-year inflation figure as part of the consumer price index (CPI), which measures the price of a basket of goods and services, as data was not collected in October 2025 during the government shutdown.
Continue reading...GLP-1 products such as Ozempic and Mounjaro spread but many in poorer countries struggle to get basic diabetes treatment
The gold rush into GLP-1 weight-loss drugs risks diverting pharmaceutical firms’ attention away from diabetes treatments such as insulin, the head of the Access to Medicine Foundation has warned.
GLP-1 blockbuster medications such as Novo Nordisk’s Ozempic and Eli Lilly’s Mounjaro have revolutionised obesity and diabetes treatment but there has been a greater focus by companies on weight loss, according to a report from the Netherlands-based non-profit group.
Continue reading...Arrest made by anti-corruption body set up to investigate alleged graft during former PM’s 16-year rule
Hungarian authorities have detained a brother of Viktor Orbán as part of an investigation into people-smuggling, the prime minister, Péter Magyar, has said.
The Hungarian anti-graft body, the national asset protection and recovery office, said in a statement that a joint operation with police had led to the arrests of four people and searches of homes in Budapest and Pest county.
Continue reading...Former prime minister faces death penalty upon return after being sentenced in absentia over deaths in 2024 uprising
Sheikh Hasina is “confident” she will return to Bangladesh in December, according to exiled members of her party, after the disgraced former prime minister applied for a new passport this week.
Hasina has been living in self-imposed exile since August 2024 when she was toppled from power by a mass uprising against her authoritarian rule. She crossed the border to India, where she has since been allowed to live freely in Delhi.
Continue reading...Department store group kept buying new products and fell months behind in payments to some brands despite discussions with administrators
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David Jones’s administrators have revealed they reviewed its finances six months ago and discussed restructuring the retailer three months before it fell into administration.
The new timeline raises questions over the department store group’s decision to keep buying new products and fall months behind in payments to some brands before it revealed last Thursday it could not pay its debts.
Continue reading...Errors in entry and exit records leave some Britons wrongly flagged as having overstayed post-Brexit 90-day limit
The writer Jojo Moyes is facing a two-year EU travel ban and €10,000 (£8,300) fine because of glitches with the bloc’s digital security controls.
She is one of a number of UK travellers who say their trips to the EU have not been properly recorded since the introduction of the EU digital entry and exit system (EES).
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