Thousands forced to evacuate as wildfires sweep across southern France

Thousands of people are being evacuated from areas of southern France as firefighters battle huge wildfires.

Will the war on Iran affect ASEAN’s efforts to tackle regional issues?

Renewed fighting between the US and Iran has overshadowed the ASEAN gathering in Manila.

The fight for the future of foldable phones is here

Samsung has owned the market for foldable phones. Now Apple is getting in on it. NBC News chief tech analyst Joanna Stern breaks it down.

Fever's Clark earns 7th tech; one away from ban

Fever guard Caitlin Clark is one technical foul away from an automatic one-game suspension after she picked up her seventh of the season after jawing with Connecticut’s Saniya Rivers on…

Besieged by lobbyists, will UK ministers protect our ecosystems? No, they’ll chicken out | George Monbiot

Industrial poultry farming is killing our rivers. But rather than stop it, the government has been facilitating it. Will Andy Burnham end this ecocide? There’s a slightly mean question I…

Guyana ferry disaster: families demand answers as around 100 feared dead

Officials say 76 of the roughly 179 people believed to have been aboard survived, and 53 bodies have been found so far.

Courtney Stodden Is Fighting for Something Bigger Than Jason Alexander’s Apology

It took fourteen and a half years, but Jason Alexander finally apologized. On Wednesday, the “Seinfeld” actor issued a public apology to Courtney Stodden for a “comedy” sketch the two…

Nicaragua's parliament plans to eliminate elections to codify President Ortega's declaration

Nicaragua’s lawmakers announced plans to abolish elections in the Central American country, following through on President Daniel Ortega’s declaration over the weekend that there would be no more elections, which…

Growing lineup of cute mascots helps US military connect in Japan

From a smiling cartoon cargo plane to a soon-to-be-named tanuki, American military installations in Japan are increasingly embracing the country’s beloved culture of mascots.

Nobody in Europe knows or cares what Kemi Badenoch thinks. That’s a big mistake | Simon Nixon

The opposition leader wants to pull the UK out of the ECHR, wrecking treaties from the Good Friday agreement to the Gibraltar deal Sitting in Brussels, or one of the…