Wasp spider seen in north of England latest ‘climate refugee’ amid global heating

• Prime ministers from Australia and Iceland addressed the global climate crisis ahead of a United Nations meeting. • These leaders discussed the specific environmental impacts on their nations while other world leaders avoided the issue due to inflation and war.

• The United Nations is shifting its strategy in the Sahel region toward diplomacy and humanitarian aid as the 81st UN General Assembly begins. • The UN Office for West Africa and the Sahel (UNOWAS) now operates as a special political mission focused on mediation and conflict prevention rather than a peacekeeping operation with troops.

• World leaders are gathering in New York for the 81st annual United Nations General Assembly to address widening global conflicts and a trust deficit. • Some actors are controlling fuel and food supplies to create scarcity and increase costs on a global scale.

• World leaders are gathering for the UN General Assembly to address ongoing wars, the risks of artificial intelligence, and the need for institutional reform. • The organization continues to manage humanitarian relief, refugee assistance, peacekeeping, and diplomacy.

• World leaders gathered in New York on Tuesday for the 81st UN General Assembly to begin high-level debates on global crises and governance. • The agenda focuses on regulating artificial intelligence, addressing climate change, and managing conflicts in Ukraine, Sudan, and the Middle East.

• World leaders will gather for the UN General Assembly to discuss global crises and ongoing wars. • Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is scheduled to speak on Thursday, while the US denied a visa to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.

Son of supermodel Cindy Crawford and entrepreneur Rande Gerber died at a rehabilitation facilityThe death on Sunday of Presley Gerber, the 27-year-old son of supermodel Cindy Crawford and entrepreneur Rande Gerber, is being investigated as a suspected overdose, according to police.Gerber died at a rehabilitation facility, Los Angeles county medical examiner records show. An autopsy was performed, but more testing was required before investigators could give a cause of death for Gerber, which the medical examiner did not immediately do.The Associated Press contributed Continue reading...

Ashleigh Boyd died in a car crash months after Adan Manzano, a TV reporter, was killed in Louisiana while preparing to cover the Super BowlA Kansas school teacher’s fatal car wreck on Monday reportedly led to a vehicular homicide conviction for the motorist who crashed into her – a verdict delivered just four days after a Louisiana jury found a woman guilty of the drugging death of the educator’s widower while he prepared to cover the 2025 Super Bowl for Telemundo.Todd W Armstrong’s one-day bench trial in an 11 April 2024 traffic collision that killed Ashleigh Boyd in Topeka, Kansas, resulted in the judge, Andrew Holmes, finding him guilty of vehicular homicide, according to the victim’s father, Brian Hinck. Armstrong, who had pleaded not guilty, was tentatively scheduled for sentencing in November, Hinck said. Continue reading...

Roman Badanin and Mikhail Rubin, who were forced to move abroad in 2021, tell of president capable of ‘limitless cruelty’At 6am on 29 June 2021, the Russian journalist Roman Badanin was woken by a knock on the door of his family’s Moscow apartment. “Come quickly, someone has scratched your car in the courtyard,” a voice shouted from outside. As he opened the door, masked men pushed their way in.Across the city, a similar raid was happening at the home of Badanin’s colleague Mikhail Rubin. The masked men were officers of the FSB, the Russian intelligence service, instruments of the “climate of fear and violence” that the journalists say Vladimir Putin has imposed on Russia in their forensically detailed biography of the Russian president. Continue reading...

Study shows trade deficit ran at more than €1bn a day in July, days before Xi Jinping’s summit with Donald TrumpBusiness live – latest updatesConsumers and businesses in the EU are spending three times more on Chinese imports than their counterparts in China are buying from the bloc, a study has shown.Customs data showed the gap between the EU’s imports from China and exports to China, the trade deficit, ran at more than €1bn (£860m) a day in July. Continue reading...

Former chancellor, now senior figure at OpenAI, says UK needs datacentres to maintain ‘sovereignty’ over AI techUK politics live – latest updatesDatacentre nimbys are holding Britain back, George Osborne has said in reaction to nationwide protests about the giant water-and-energy guzzling structures.The Tory former chancellor is now the head of AI for countries at OpenAI, an artificial intelligence company and the developer of ChatGPT. His job is to represent the company to governments around the world, and he also has a role in enabling the building of datacentres and other infrastructure. Continue reading...