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Tokyo prosecutors expected to challenge decision to free businessman after charges he underreported his income Carlos Ghosn has been granted bail by a court in Japan, more than three months after the

In International Women’s Day speech, former Liberal party deputy stops short of recommending gender quotasIt was seeing herself as the only woman in a 19-strong cabinet room, where the prime minister

Fears Chinese-backed project will flood forest that is home to the most critically endangered species of apeEnvironmentalists in Indonesia have lost a court challenge to a Chinese-backed dam project

Donald Trump is becoming increasingly impatient about removing all US troops from Afghanistan, 18 years after the invasion that followed September 11. As peace talks continue, Fawzia Koofi, a female

‘History is being squeezed out’ of a curriculum focused on Stem subjects, educators sayAustralian history teachers want to cover the history of massacres against Indigenous people during the colonial

Lisa Neville says ‘intensity of this fire was enormous’ after blazes destroyed 11 properties in state’s east Fuel reduction burns would not have stopped bushfires that have destroyed 11 properties in

Twenty other states plan to sue separately against Trump’s effort to block a rule that would shift funding to faith-based groupsCalifornia and 20 other Democratic-led states announced they were

Sackler family, the company’s wealthy owners, are under mounting pressure to address their role in the opioid crisisPurdue Pharma, the maker of OxyContin, is exploring filing for bankruptcy to address

Li Keqiang tells annual political gathering the nation will face ‘a graver and more complicated environment’China has set its lowest growth target in nearly three decades as premier Li Keqiang warned

Name change committee is evaluating 60 suggestions, with the top contender put to a referendumThe Cook Islands is considering replacing its colonial-era name with a new one that recognises the

Calls for help from underground fade one week after wooden support beams of the illegal mine buckled under shifting soilHopes are fading for up to 100 Indonesian miners trapped inside an illegal gold

Man becomes second person in world to be cleared of virus after stem cell donationA London patient with HIV has become the second person ever to be free of the virus after a bone marrow transplant,

Letter to Guardian signed by 39 notable figures says strict laws are ‘so plainly unjust’A group of actors, artists and other notable figures including Jodie Whittaker, Jude Law, Anna Friel and Antony

Anatoly Antonov said it is ‘impossible to win a nuclear war’ as Russia suspends participation in INF treaty with USRussia’s ambassador to the US has warned that arms control is “in crisis” and claimed

Jane Philpott, the treasury secretary, announced her resignation days after Jody Wilson-Raybould testified officials pressured her A second minister has resigned from Justin Trudeau’s cabinet amid a

Danish research again dispels link with vaccine at a time of surging measles cases globallyThe measles, mumps and rubella vaccine does not cause autism, according to a major study carried out in an

Deeply personal Paris fashion week show highlights brand’s support for designer Lee Alexander McQueen died in 2010, but not before he had predicted the trajectory of fashion this decade with

Five victims have died in London, three in Birmingham, one in Manchester and one in SunderlandTen teenagers have been killed in knife attacks in the first two months of 2019, according to a list

Perry never quite escaped the shadow of Beverly Hills, 90210. But this was not a failing – it was proof of how seminal the show, and Perry’s handsome rebel Dylan McKay, was to a generation Teen pinups

Labour MP says idea could get dozens more MPs representing leave-voting areas to back dealTheresa May is considering demands from Labour MPs for a parliamentary vote on the UK’s future relationship