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The progressive Democrat from Queens is the son of a famous film-maker and poised to take on frontrunner Andrew Cuomo

Who would steal 22 tonnes of posh cheese, or £37,000 of smoked salmon? A rise in fraudulent orders for luxury foodstuffs has rattled the UK industry, leaving artisan producers with unpaid bills and a truckload of questions…

Number of Brits crossing Atlantic down 14.3% from 2024 – and the travel industry fears decline could continue

Amid reports of escalating settler violence in the West Bank, the UN rights office, OHCHR, briefed the Palestinian rights committee at UN Headquarters in New York, which also featured a screening of the Oscar winning documentary No Other Land.

The strange sight is actually two galaxies, with the light of the second warped around the one at the front as a result of its massive gravity.

China is quietly tailoring its global investment strategy to slow India's rise as a manufacturing rival. As companies move supply chains out of China, Beijing is channelling outbound investment to select countries, while deliberately steering it away from India. China's inbound foreign direct investment (FDI) has collapsed by 99% since 2021. Yet rather than pulling […]

Caste – an outlawed hereditary hierarchy – has continued to shape Indian society in overt and subtle ways. But calls for a full nationwide caste census have been met with resistance, sparking debate over India's path to equality.

They are beloved by A-listers and surging in popularity. But claims that NAD+ infusions are a fix for addiction are unproven, risky – and possibly illegal, an Observer investigation reveals

The UK leader has been advised to choose his words carefully at this week's crucial White House meeting

Accepting the presidential nomination, the Arizona senator tells the Republican National Convention that Americans have been betrayed

Who could have guessed?

21WIRE | Recent elections in Belarus are being denounced as "fraudulent" by Western governments.

London mayor calls for stricter laws on harmful online content and takes aim at Elon Musk

The idea, proposed in the '70s by the late John Wheeler, once seemed outlandish. But could he be right?

Photos from the James Webb Space Telescope have revealed more than 40 stars within the gravitationally lensed "Dragon Arc" galaxy, 6.5 billion light-years from Earth. It is the largest group of individually imaged stars ever seen at such a distance.

The man who became infamous for the armed storming of a pizzeria in Washington, D.C. over a conspiracy theory was killed by North Carolina police in a traffic stop, reported the Charlotte Observer on Thursday.The incident occurred on Saturday as Edgar Maddison Welch sat in the passenger seat of a GM...

The Velázquez masterpiece, on loan to the Norton Simon Museum from the Prado Museum in Madrid, is loaded with royal intrigue and mystery.

50 years ago, Stephen Hawking showed that black holes emit radiation and eventually decay away. That fate may now apply to everything.

South Korea's president faces calls to resign or to be impeached after he briefly imposed martial law over the country. And, tips on how to avoid falling victim to porch pirates this holiday season.

This astronomer's unit measures distance, not time.