Rapidly escalating war enters fifth day and spreads as far as Indian Ocean with sinking of Iranian vessel off Sri Lanka
Exclusive: Schemes worth hundreds of millions of pounds to protect biodiversity and oceans likely to be substantially reduced
Rising oil and gas prices may affect increase of £300 a year for typical working-age households, says leading thinktank
As Americans embrace ‘alternative’ remedies, people online joke that they’re ‘Chinamaxxing’ their wellness routines
The Pentagon chief claims Tehran ‘cannot outlast’ US as strikes intensify and civilian toll climbs
Ban on student visas from Sudan, Afghanistan, Myanmar and Cameroon comes into force on 26 March
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Former diplomat Arthur Snell says a heating planet is accelerating conflict and migration – and fostering a new age of empire. Democracies are dangerously unprepared, he warns
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Jordan Fein’s revival finds hypnotic power in Miller’s 1994 play, as Pearl Chanda and Eli Gelb bring haunting emotional force to a story of paralysis and denial
US defense secretary was evasive when asked about the airstrike that Iranian officials say killed at least 165 students
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The war will have incalculable implications for Europe – and yet, the chancellor has held back from publicly challenging an increasingly erratic Donald Trump