5 d. ago The Asian country that has seen its number of children fall for 44th year running

Children under 15 now make up just 11.1% of Japan's total population

Politics

9 d. ago Trump wants to improve the US birth rate. His tariffs are making it even more expensive to have kids

Baby shops and parents alike are concerned about the tariffs

Politics

1 week ago MP calls for independent football regulator to play role in setting ticket prices

Labour MP Ian Byrne urged the government to ‘tackle the issue of the pricing out of working class supporters’ from football games

Sport

1 week ago Trump’s assault on climate make UN talks an ‘uphill battle’, says Cop30 chair

Environmental rollbacks and tariffs makes meeting challenging, says summit president André Corrêa do LagoCrucial United Nations climate talks this year will be a “slightly uphill battle” due to economic turmoil and Donald Trump’s removal of the US from the effort to tackle global heating, the chair of the upcoming summit has admitted.Governments from around the world will gather in Belem, Brazil, in November for the Cop30 meeting, where they will be expected to announce new plans to deal with the climate crisis and slash greenhouse gas emissions. Very few countries have done so yet, however, and the world remains well off track to remain within agreed temperature limits designed to avert the worst consequences of climate breakdown. Continue reading...

Events

1 week ago UN climate talks will be ‘uphill battle’ amid Trump rollbacks, says Cop30 chair

Tariffs and environmental cuts will make meeting challenging, says summit president André Corrêa do LagoCrucial United Nations climate talks this year will be a “slightly uphill battle” due to economic turmoil and Donald Trump’s removal of the US from the effort to tackle global heating, the chair of the upcoming summit has admitted.Governments from around the world will gather in Belem, Brazil, in November for the Cop30 meeting, where they will be expected to announce new plans to deal with the climate crisis and slash greenhouse gas emissions. Very few countries have done so yet, however, and the world remains well off track to remain within agreed temperature limits designed to avert the worst consequences of climate breakdown. Continue reading...

Politics

1 week ago Ronnie O’Sullivan’s snooker retirement stance confirmed as he progresses at Crucible

Ronnie O'Sullivan eased into the last eight of the World Snooker Championship with a 13-4 win over Pang Junxu as he eyes a record eighth Crucible crown, but has dropped a major retirement hint

Politics

1 week ago Britain's most expensive postcode for renters revealed — and it isn't in London

New data out today shows London rents have hit a 14th record high despite a slight drop in competition for homes

Politics

1 week ago Sky's TV, Netflix and 300Mb broadband bundle drops to record low in spring sale

Sky has reduced its Essential TV and Full Fibre 300 broadband bundle to £35 per month - its lowest ever price - in a flash sale that includes 300Mbps broadband for the price of 150Mbps

Culture

1 week ago Hiroshige: artist of the open road at the British Museum: 'spellbinding and cinematic'

Hiroshige was one of Japan’s most popular print artists during the Edo period and this new exhibition shows how his visual language helped shape the arts

Culture

2 w. ago They became the internet’s most hated couple with their pronatalist lifestyle. Now they’re telling Trump how to up the birth rate

Simone and Malcolm Collins started out with two elite degrees, a startup and a progressive vision for the future. Now, they’re the internet’s most hated couple, raising their kids inside a new religion in rural Pennsylvania and professing admiration for the ‘new right’. Is there nuance behind the ragebait? Holly Baxter reports

Politics

2 w. ago A silent majority of the world’s people wants stronger climate action. It’s time to wake up | Mark Hertsgaard and Kyle Pope

About 89% of the public want their governments to do more to tackle the climate crisis – but don’t know they’re the majorityThe Guardian is joining forces with dozens of newsrooms around the world to launch the 89% Project – and highlight the fact that the vast majority of the world’s population wants climate action. Read moreA superpower in the fight against global heating is hiding in plain sight. It turns out that the overwhelming majority of people in the world – between 80% and 89%, according to a growing number of peer-reviewed scientific studies – want their governments to take stronger climate action.As co-founders of a non-profit that studies news coverage of climate change, those findings surprised even us. And they are a sharp rebuttal to the Trump administration’s efforts to attack anyone who does care about the climate crisis.Mark Hertsgaard and Kyle Pope are the co-founders of the global journalism collaboration Covering Climate Now Continue reading...

Politics

2 w. ago The New Baby Boom: How the White House is looking to jumpstart the nation’s birth rate

More details are expected from White House in May report

Events

2 w. ago I was so high on gas and air while giving birth that I asked the midwives to rate how much fun they were having

Emma, a Birmingham City University student, shared her experience in a video on TikTok which has gone viral, with more than 116,000 likes.

Society

3 w. ago New RFK assassination files are released with 10,000 pages of investigative notes into 1968 killing

Latest record drop contains more than 10,000 pages related to the government’s investigation into the late senator’s assassination

Events

3 w. ago Japan’s population drops to record low as government looks to tackle birth rate issue

Japan’s population fell for the 14th straight year amid concerns over the ageing population

Politics

last month US egg prices break record high for third consecutive month even as inflation drops

The 12-month inflation rate at 2.4%, down from 2.8% in February, was largely fueled by a sharp fall in gas pricesThe price of eggs continues to soar for American consumers, rising by almost 6% in March even as overall inflation fell slightly.Breaking a record high for the third consecutive month, the average cost of a dozen large eggs hit $6.23 in March – more than double the price just 12-months earlier, according to new figures released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics on Thursday. This surpassed the previous record highs of $5.90 a dozen in February, and $4.95 in January. Continue reading...

Economics

last month Egg prices continue to increase despite bird flu outbreak slowing

U.S. egg prices increased again last month to a new record-high of $6.23 despite a drop in wholesale prices and no egg farms having bird flu outbreaks last month

Science