158 years each: Mexican court jails three men for killing surfers on Baja trip
More than two years after three young surfers vanished from a remote stretch of Mexico’s Pacific coast, a judge in Baja California has sent each of the men convicted of…
Neto double sinks Everton, but Chelsea’s win is overshadowed by Martinez scare
Chelsea’s afternoon on Merseyside will be remembered less for the scoreline than for the long, uneasy pause in the second half. Pedro Neto struck twice to give Xabi Alonso’s side…
Handshakes at the hospital door: Pope Leo heads home four days after lung surgery
Pope Leo XIV is back behind the Vatican walls. The 71-year-old left Rome’s Gemelli hospital on Saturday afternoon, just four days after surgeons removed part of his right lung to…
Old allies, new deal: UAE reportedly returns to Yemen’s war at Saudi Arabia’s side
Less than a year after walking out of Yemen in anger, the United Arab Emirates is preparing to step back in. According to sources in Yemen cited by the Guardian,…
Fuel, schools and fury: France’s day of protest ends with hundreds detained
Saturday was supposed to show that French anger over prices reaches far beyond the capital. By evening the interior ministry was counting 272 detentions nationwide and talking of an “escalation…
Davidovich Fokina turns the tables on Zverev and reaches the Shanghai final
Alexander Zverev looked on course for another final when he took the opening set in Shanghai, but Alejandro Davidovich Fokina had other ideas. The Spaniard, seeded 25th, fought back to…
A fat-cutting enzyme may help the ageing brain keep its memory
Why do some people keep a sharp memory well into old age while others slide into decline? A team at Mass General Brigham in Boston thinks part of the answer…
El Niño drowns South America’s river country: thousands flee, cattle swim to safety
Where Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay meet, the great rivers have burst their banks. Days of torrential rain tied to an unusually powerful El Niño have lifted all three main waterways…
From his hospital bed, Pope Leo calls Putin to plead for besieged Oleshky
Pope Leo XIV is still recovering in Rome’s Gemelli hospital, but that has not stopped him from picking up the phone to Moscow. On Friday the pontiff spoke with Vladimir…
Trump freezes the Graham Act: Russia sanctions he signed himself are put on ice
Barely a month after putting his signature on one of the toughest Russia packages Congress has produced, Donald Trump has switched most of it off. With a decree signed late…