Iranian foreign ministeras comments come after world leaders urge calm

The latest figures from the Gaza health ministry, which is run by Hamas, said 37 Palestinians were killed and 68 injured in Israeli strikes in the past 24 hours.

According to the statement, at least 34,049 Palestinians have been killed and 76,901 have been injured in Israeli strikes on Gaza since 7 October.

Man identified by police as Max Azzarello, from Florida, dies the day after incident outside lower Manhattan courthouse

A man has died after setting himself on fire outside the New York courthouse where Donald Trumpas hush-money trial is taking place.

NBC News and other US media reported the manas death early on Saturday. NBC News quoted New York City police as saying the hospital where the man was taken had declared him dead.

Exclusive: Former head of policy at illegal migration taskforce details ainhumane conversationsa

A senior civil servant has said Cabinet Office officials making policy on small boats referred to abloody migrantsa and were expected to aleave their humanity at the doora.

Rowaa Ahmar withdrew a tribunal claim alleging aunrelenting and systemica racism in the department on Wednesday but said she stands by the substance of it.

Local people say archipelagoas outdated industry made life unaffordable and prompts environmental emergencies

Thousands of people will join protests across the Canary islands on Saturday to call for an urgent rethink of the Spanish archipelagoas tourism industry and a freeze on tourist numbers, arguing that the current, decades-old model has made life unaffordable and environmentally unsustainable for local people.

The protests a which will take place under the banner aCanarias tiene un lAmitea (The Canaries have a limit) a are being backed by environmental groups including Greenpeace, WWF, Ecologists in Action, Friends of the Earth and SEO/Birdlife.

Exclusive: Whistleblowers point to broader sewage scandal, with wastewater systems manipulated to divert sewage

Whistleblowers say UK water companies are knowingly failing to treat legally required amounts of sewage, and that some treatment works are manipulating wastewater systems to divert raw sewage away from the works and into rivers and seas.

It is well known that water companies are dumping large volumes of raw sewage into rivers and seas from storm overflows but an investigation by the Guardian and Watershed Investigations reveals that the industryas adirty secreta is bigger, broader and deeply systemic.

Party hopes smaller content creators with loyal following online will attract voters missed through TV and radio

Labour has appointed a dedicated employee to work with influencers and seed positive messages about Keir Starmeras party on TikTok and Instagram, as the UKas political parties prepare to target amicroinfluencersa during the general election campaign.

During previous British elections, political parties often asked big-name celebrities to send a supportive tweet or attempted to win over YouTubers with millions of followers. But this election, the focus is shifting from a top-down approach towards winning over more aauthentica influencers with smaller but loyal followings.

Actor and wife Katherine Schwarzenegger dismantle 1950 Zimmerman house designed by architect Craig Ellwood

Chris Pratt has drawn ire from architecture aficionados after news broke that the actor and his wife, Katherine Schwarzenegger, had razed a historic, mid-century modern home to make way for a sprawling 15,000-sq-ft mansion.

Last year, the couple purchased the 1950 Zimmerman house, designed by the architect Craig Ellwood, in Los Angelesas Brentwood neighborhood for $12.5m. The residence, with landscaping by Garrett Eckbo a who has been described as the pioneer of modern landscaping a had previously been featured in Progressive Architecture magazine.

Labour also turns down European Commissionas proposal, which would have allowed young Britons to live, study and work in EU

Rishi Sunak has rejected an EU offer to strike a post-Brexit deal to allow young Britons to live, study or work in the bloc for up to four years.

The prime minister declined the European Commissionas surprise proposal of a youth mobility scheme for people aged between 18 and 30 on Friday, after Labour knocked back the suggestion on Thursday night, while noting that it would aseek to improve the UKas working relationship with the EU within our red linesa.

Paolo Barone found guilty of voyeurism after taking photos of sleeping woman on train to St Albans in 2022

A Thameslink train driver who took photos up a womanas skirt while she was asleep on a train has avoided jail, despite being found guilty of voyeurism.

The driver, Paolo Barone, was on his way home from a shift in September 2022 when he saw that the woman, 51, had fallen asleep on a train travelling from London Blackfriars to St Albans in Hertfordshire.

Nick Bostromas Future of Humanity Institute closed this week in what Swedish-born philosopher says was adeath by bureaucracya

Oxford University this week shut down an academic institute run by one of Elon Muskas favorite philosophers. The Future of Humanity Institute, dedicated to the long-termism movement and other Silicon Valley-endorsed ideas such as effective altruism, closed this week after 19 years of operation. Musk had donated APS1m to the FIH in 2015 through a sister organization to research the threat of artificial intelligence. He had also boosted the ideas of its leader for nearly a decade on X, formerly Twitter.

The center was run by Nick Bostrom, a Swedish-born philosopher whose writings about the long-term threat of AI replacing humanity turned him into a celebrity figure among the tech elite and routinely landed him on lists of top global thinkers. OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman, Microsoft founder Bill Gates and Tesla chief Musk all wrote blurbs for his 2014 bestselling book Superintelligence.