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Paul Manafort: judge sends ex-Trump chair to jail for violating bail terms
Trump praises Kim on Fox & Friends: 'I want my people to do the same'
'Heartbreaking': fire guts Glasgow School of Art for the second time
Cristiano Ronaldo hits hat-trick as Portugal deny Spain in six-goal thriller
Apple signs up Oprah Winfrey in $1bn programming push
Australia rules out moving its Israel embassy to Jerusalem
Delhi's air pollution is now so bad it is literally off the chart
Rising clarinet star's ex-girlfriend must pay $375,000 for trying to sabotage his career
Trump attacks FBI 'scum' as he falsely claims DoJ report exonerates him
Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes charged with criminal fraud
Social mobility in richest countries 'has stalled since 1990s'
Banksy print stolen from unauthorized exhibit in Toronto
US drone strike kills Pakistan Taliban leader, say officials
£720m Large Hadron Collider upgrade 'could upend particle physics'
Rise of the machines: has technology evolved beyond our control?
The Rise and Fall of the British Nation and These Islands review – the fate of 'bullshit Britain'
The 20 photographs of the week
Body of British botanist found in South Africa
White House says Trump will support GOP immigration bill he condemned
Peace has come to Colombia but poverty remains – in pictures
A historic handshake … but what did the Trump-Kim summit really achieve?
'Never again': Malcolm Turnbull vows to get even with Labor over 'Mediscare'
Japanese brewery gave donation to Myanmar army chief during Rohingya crisis
What is the current state of the migration crisis in Europe?
Rollercoaster dangles from tracks after Florida incident hospitalised six – video
Russia inquiry: how Trump's inner circle could bring him down – video explainer
Trump: I want Americans to sit up to attention like North Koreans – video
Eid al-Fitr celebrations around the world – in pictures

Paul Manafort: judge sends ex-Trump chair to jail for violating bail terms

Posted: 15 Jun 2018 10:49 AM PDT

Judge Amy Berman Jackson says Manafort, 69, 'abused the trust placed' in him as former Trump aide taken into custody

Paul Manafort, formerly Donald Trump's campaign chairman, was taken into custody on Friday after a federal judge determined he had violated the terms of his bail as he awaits trial on multiple federal felony charges.

Trump praises Kim on Fox & Friends: 'I want my people to do the same'

Posted: 15 Jun 2018 12:42 PM PDT

President called North Korean leader a 'strong head' and said Obama had been 'essentially ready to go to war' with the country

An "antsy and bored" Donald Trump reportedly attempted to bring his summit with Kim Jong-un of North Korea forward by a day, asking aides after his arrival in Singapore last Sunday: "We're here now. Why can't we just do it?"

'Heartbreaking': fire guts Glasgow School of Art for the second time

Posted: 16 Jun 2018 02:12 AM PDT

Mackintosh building restoration was nearly finished after smaller 2014 blaze

The Glasgow School of Art has been devastated by a huge fire, only four years after parts of the building were destroyed by a smaller blaze.

Cristiano Ronaldo hits hat-trick as Portugal deny Spain in six-goal thriller

Posted: 15 Jun 2018 12:58 PM PDT

After all the fall-out, the football: a classic clash, Portugal's manager Fernando Santos had called it the day before and it turned out he was not far off. Twice Portugal led, twice Spain equalised and then took a lead that felt like a liberation. But, with one minute to go, Cristiano Ronaldo curled in a wonderful free-kick to complete a hat-trick and give a superb night an unexpected ending.

For all that other stuff sometimes seems to eclipse the game and for all it can feel as if the garnish has eaten the steak in the words of one Spanish coach, the game fights back. Football tends to find a way.

Apple signs up Oprah Winfrey in $1bn programming push

Posted: 15 Jun 2018 06:58 PM PDT

Tech giant's partnership with Oprah looks to challenge rivals Netflix and Amazon in internet-based video

Apple has announced a multiyear deal with Oprah Winfrey to create original programming, a coup in the battle for A-list talent and projects in the booming digital entertainment market.

"Together, Winfrey and Apple will create original programs that embrace her incomparable ability to connect with audiences around the world," Apple said in a statement.

Australia rules out moving its Israel embassy to Jerusalem

Posted: 15 Jun 2018 08:30 PM PDT

Julie Bishop will not follow US lead, despite pressure from her party to do so

Australia will not be following Donald Trump's lead and moving its embassy to Jerusalem, Julie Bishop has said, despite strong support from the party's base.

The Liberal party's youth arm had called on the government to relocate its embassy from Tel Aviv to Israel's legislative capital, and to suspend all aid to Palestine "until it terminates its 'Martyr's fund".

Delhi's air pollution is now so bad it is literally off the chart

Posted: 15 Jun 2018 06:39 AM PDT

Dust storms come months before the start of city's traditional 'pollution season'

Smog more toxic than can be measured by monitoring devices has blanketed the Indian capital this week, months before the start of Delhi's traditional "pollution season".

A thick haze was visible across the city from Tuesday and some government pollution monitors have recorded concentrations of 999 – the highest they can measure – as dust storms kicked up in nearby Rajasthan state blanketed the region.

Rising clarinet star's ex-girlfriend must pay $375,000 for trying to sabotage his career

Posted: 15 Jun 2018 12:57 PM PDT

Ontario court calls case of Eric Abramovitz, whose girlfriend faked a rejection letter from his dream school, 'despicable interference'

By the age of 20 Eric Abramovitz had become a fixture in Canada's classical music competitions, winning radio features and solo performances for a number of orchestras.

So when the young clarinetist applied for a prestigious scholarship in Los Angeles to study under a renowned music instructor, he was surprised to receive a rejection letter.

Trump attacks FBI 'scum' as he falsely claims DoJ report exonerates him

Posted: 15 Jun 2018 09:17 AM PDT

President, in blatant mischaracterization of official justice department report, claims it found 'total bias' at FBI

Donald Trump has falsely claimed a report issued on Thursday by a Department of Justice watchdog "totally exonerates" him of allegations of collusion with Russia or obstruction of justice.

Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes charged with criminal fraud

Posted: 15 Jun 2018 03:13 PM PDT

Ex-president of blood-testing startup also charged
Pair appear in federal court hours after Holmes quits as CEO

Elizabeth Holmes, the founder of the startup Theranos, and the former company president, Ramesh Balwani, have been criminally charged with fraud for allegedly making false claims about the effectiveness of the company's blood testing.

The pair appeared before the US district court in San Jose on Friday, hours after Holmes stepped down as CEO of the company, and were charged with two counts of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and nine counts of wire fraud. Both were released on $500,000 bail and ordered to surrender their passports.

Social mobility in richest countries 'has stalled since 1990s'

Posted: 15 Jun 2018 09:33 AM PDT

OECD report says it could take 150 years for a child from a poor UK family to earn national average

Income inequality has increased and social mobility stalled across the world's richest countries since the 1990s, trapping families on low incomes at the bottom of the earnings ladder, according to an in-depth report by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.

The Paris-based body, which counts 34 countries as members, said barriers to social mobility were harming economic progress by shutting out vital workers and undermining political stability as people became cynical about their prospects.

Banksy print stolen from unauthorized exhibit in Toronto

Posted: 15 Jun 2018 10:54 AM PDT

Police investigating theft of Trolley Hunters print from exhibit curated by the artist's former manager

Canadian police have launched an investigation after the theft of a Banksy print from an unauthorized exhibit of the guerrilla graffiti artist's work in Toronto.

"We were called about a break and enter in the city's west end," said Constable Jenifferjit Sidhu on Thursday. "At some point last Sunday a Banksy print was removed from the exhibit."

US drone strike kills Pakistan Taliban leader, say officials

Posted: 15 Jun 2018 06:49 AM PDT

Kabul and Islamabad say Mullah Fazlullah killed along with two others in Afghanistan

A US drone strike in north-east Afghanistan has killed the leader of the Pakistani Taliban, Mullah Fazlullah, according to Pakistani and Afghan officials.

A spokesperson for Afghanistan's ministry of defence said two other Taliban militants were also killed in the strike in Kunar province. Fazlullah led the insurgency in Pakistan's Swat valley between 2007-09 and ordered some of the most shocking attacks in the country's history, including an assault on a school that killed 132 children and the shooting of the young activist Malala Yousafzai.

£720m Large Hadron Collider upgrade 'could upend particle physics'

Posted: 15 Jun 2018 03:33 AM PDT

Collider will be far more sensitive to anomalies that could lead to entirely new theories of the universe

A massive project to supercharge the world's largest particle collider launched on Friday in the hope that the beefed-up machine will reveal fresh insights into the nature of the universe.

The 950m Swiss franc (£720m) mission will see heavy equipment, new buildings, access shafts and service tunnels installed, constructed and excavated at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at Cern, the particle physics laboratory on the edge of Geneva.

Rise of the machines: has technology evolved beyond our control?

Posted: 15 Jun 2018 04:00 AM PDT

Technology is starting to behave in intelligent and unpredictable ways that even its creators don't understand. As machines increasingly shape global events, how can we regain control?

The voice-activated gadget in the corner of your bedroom suddenly laughs maniacally, and sends a recording of your pillow talk to a colleague. The clip of Peppa Pig your toddler is watching on YouTube unexpectedly descends into bloodletting and death. The social network you use to keep in touch with old school friends turns out to be influencing elections and fomenting coups.

The Rise and Fall of the British Nation and These Islands review – the fate of 'bullshit Britain'

Posted: 16 Jun 2018 01:00 AM PDT

Even a historian identified with optimism about the UK despairs about the country's current predicament. Is revival possible?

Earlier this decade we all watched as France entered one of its terminal historical crises. Now it is Britain that has lost definition – or should that be England, or the United Kingdom? No longer can a national intellectual such as George Orwell set down a few thoughts about our aversion to conscription and fascism and our liking for a drink, as he did in 1941 in The Lion and the Unicorn, and we will all nod because we recognise ourselves. What united the inhabitants of Grenfell Tower with the billionaires of Kensington Palace Gardens and the parishioners shuffling into the church of St Mary Abbots every Sunday, other than their residency of the same London borough?

John Major's "long shadows on county grounds, warm beer, invincible green suburbs" were greeted with sniggers when the Tory prime minister brought them up in a speech in 1993 (he also mentioned Orwell). Nowadays we measure ourselves against flattering abstractions – liberty, enterprise, tolerance – but these are universal values and may be found more abundantly elsewhere. Only as individuals, or as groups holding little flags of race, gender or sexuality, can we put who we are into words.

The 20 photographs of the week

Posted: 16 Jun 2018 12:44 AM PDT

The eruption of the Fuego volcano in Guatemala, demonstrations in Gaza and Nicaragua, a rescued raccoon in St Louis, and Cristiano Ronaldo at the World Cup – the week captured by the world's best photojournalists

Body of British botanist found in South Africa

Posted: 15 Jun 2018 07:58 AM PDT

Rachel Saunders went missing with her husband in February while looking for rare seeds

Police in South Africa have identified the body of a British botanist who disappeared earlier this year while searching for rare seeds in a remote nature reserve.

Rachel and Rodney Saunders are thought to have been looking for rare plant seeds near the oNgoye Forest in KwaZulu-Natal province when they were last confirmed alive in mid-February.

White House says Trump will support GOP immigration bill he condemned

Posted: 15 Jun 2018 03:43 PM PDT

Administration reverses course after president tells Fox News he 'wouldn't sign' carefully negotiated Republican measure

Hours after Donald Trump plunged congressional Republicans into chaos by declaring his opposition to their carefully negotiated immigration proposal, the White House announced he would support the effort.

House Republican leaders had planned to hold votes next week on two immigration measures: a hardline proposal authored by the House judiciary committee chairman, Bob Goodlatte, and a plan touted as a compromise between the moderate and conservative factions of the Republican party.

Peace has come to Colombia but poverty remains – in pictures

Posted: 16 Jun 2018 12:00 AM PDT

As Colombia votes in a presidential runoff election on Sunday Colombians daily struggles in the aftermath of 50 years of conflict are captured by the Danish photographer Mads Nissen, who has documented the civil war in Colombia since 2010, in his book We Are Indestructible. Featuring the government army, guerrilla rebels and paramilitary groups, Nissen's work provides a portrait of a war-torn country navigating the complexities of newfound peace

Colombia's polarised election raises fears for fragile peace

A historic handshake … but what did the Trump-Kim summit really achieve?

Posted: 16 Jun 2018 12:00 AM PDT

The US-North Korea meeting produced a deal light on detail but has an unconventional approach opened the door to peace?

It says a lot about the world of diplomacy in 2018 that the most expert commentary on Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un's Singapore summit came from a tearful former basketball player, Dennis Rodman.

'Never again': Malcolm Turnbull vows to get even with Labor over 'Mediscare'

Posted: 16 Jun 2018 12:24 AM PDT

PM promises party faithful he will counter 'Labor lies' with social media tactics of his own

Still smarting over Labor's 2016 "Mediscare" campaign, Malcolm Turnbull laid out a key strategy for the upcoming election: build a social media army to counter any and all "Labor lies".

Japanese brewery gave donation to Myanmar army chief during Rohingya crisis

Posted: 15 Jun 2018 04:14 AM PDT

Japan urged to examine payment made by Kirin subsidiary at height of ethnic cleansing campaign in Rakhine state, which firm claims was for victims

The Japanese government has been urged to investigate "immoral" payments, made by a subsidiary of one of the country's most popular breweries, that appear to have gone to Myanmar's military.

Kirin Holdings Company has admitted its offshoot, Myanmar Brewery, made a payment late last year, during the height of the ethnic cleansing campaign against the Rohingya population in Rakhine state.

What is the current state of the migration crisis in Europe?

Posted: 15 Jun 2018 06:34 AM PDT

Three years since the peak of the crisis, here is how things stand as tensions rise again

Three years after Europe's biggest influx of migrants and refugees since the second world war, tensions between EU member states over how to handle irregular immigration from outside the bloc – mainly from the Middle East and Africa – are rising again.

Rollercoaster dangles from tracks after Florida incident hospitalised six – video

Posted: 15 Jun 2018 12:40 PM PDT

A rollercoaster in Florida derailed causing two passengers to fall more than 30 feet to the ground. According to the Daytona Beach fire department, the two passengers who fell are in a serious condition with at least six people in total taken to hospital

Florida rollercoaster derails hurling two riders 34ft to ground

Russia inquiry: how Trump's inner circle could bring him down – video explainer

Posted: 15 Jun 2018 09:59 AM PDT

Donald Trump and his team have been under investigation for months by former FBI-head Robert Mueller. Mueller is investigating whether the Trump campaign colluded with Russia to help win the 2016 election and defeat Hillary Clinton. Mueller is also looking into whether the campaign and the president have sought to obstruct justice. Trump's inner circle has been under increasing pressure from the investigation, but can it hold?

Paul Manafort: ex-Trump chair taken into custody after violating bail terms

Trump: I want Americans to sit up to attention like North Koreans – video

Posted: 15 Jun 2018 09:34 AM PDT

In an interview with Fox & Friends on the White House lawn, Donald Trump says that when the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, speaks, 'his people sit up to attention', adding: 'I want mine to do the same.' He also described Kim as a 'strong head' of his country