49 h. ago World's largest aircraft with cheeky nickname won't need a runway to land

The £60 million Airlander 10 mega airship is the size of a football pitch and can carry up to 100 passengers. It doesn't need a runway and can land on grass, gravel, sand or even water

Politics

67 h. ago 'Largest humanitarian crisis' explained as UK demand justice for war

UK Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper has called the conflict dividing Sudan the "worst humanitarian crisis of the 21st century" as more than 30 million people are left in desperate need of lifesaving aid

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3 d. ago British crown was world’s largest buyer of enslaved people by 1807, book reveals

Exclusive: Author of The Crown’s Silence tells how navy and monarchy protected slave trade for hundreds of yearsThe British crown and the navy expanded and protected the trade in enslaved African people for hundreds of years, unprecedented research into the monarchy’s historical ties to slavery has found.The Crown’s Silence, a book by the historian Brooke Newman, follows the Guardian’s 2023 Cost of the crown report, which explored the British monarchy’s hidden ties to transatlantic slavery. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Heathrow becomes world's largest airport to fully scrap 100ml liquid limit

Heathrow Airport has completed the £1billion rollout of new scanners, which means passengers can keep liquids and large electronic devices in their hand luggage when going through security.

Society

4 d. ago Japan pauses restart of world’s largest nuclear power plant one day after it went online

Operator says it does now know when the problem at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant in Niigata province will be solved, after an alarm sounded during start-upThe restart of the world’s largest nuclear power plant was suspended in Japan on Thursday just a day after it went online for the first time in about 14 years, with the operator saying it does not know when the problem will be solved.The Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant in Niigata province had been closed since the 2011 Fukushima disaster, but operations to relaunch it began on Wednesday after it received the final green light from the nuclear regulator. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago World’s largest nuclear power plant suspended just hours after it resumed operations

Fourteen other nuclear reactors have restarted across Japan since 2011

Economics

4 d. ago Half the world’s 100 largest cities are in high water stress areas, analysis finds

Exclusive: Beijing, Delhi, Los Angeles and Rio de Janeiro among worst affected, with demand close to exceeding supplyHalf the world’s 100 largest cities are experiencing high levels of water stress, with 39 of these sitting in regions of “extremely high water stress”, new analysis and mapping has shown.Water stress means that water withdrawals for public water supply and industry are close to exceeding available supplies, often caused by poor management of water resources exacerbated by climate breakdown. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Inside the world’s largest renewable energy park – proof the green transition isn’t dead

Stuti Mishra reports from a site in western India that’s roughly seven times larger than the city of Paris and combines solar and wind power to produce energy around the clock. Nothing on this scale exists anywhere else in the world

Events

5 d. ago World’s largest nuclear plant restarts for first time since Fukushima meltdown

The Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant is owned by the same operator of the ruined Fukushima Daiichi plant

Events

5 d. ago Europe's largest hotel operator with Marriott and Hilton sites enters administration

The company operates Accor, Hilton, and Marriott properties all across Europe.

Politics

6 d. ago Europe's largest hotel operator collapses as 8,300 workers to be affected

Revo Hospitality Group, which operates over 260 hotels across Europe under major brands including Hilton, Marriott and Accor, has entered insolvency proceedings, though 125 hotels in Germany and Austria will continue operating

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6 d. ago Tourist found dead on Australian popular beach as police fear dingo attack

The incident occurred on the world’s largest sand island, located off the Queensland state coast

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7 d. ago ‘We thought they would ignore us’: how humans are changing the way raptors behave

Experts call for tighter regulation as GPS tracking reveals how people’s behaviour affects the lives of some of the world’s largest birdsMany people look up to admire the silhouette of raptors, some of the planet’s largest birds, soaring through seemingly empty skies. But increasingly, research shows us that this fascination runs both ways. From high above, these birds are watching us too.Thanks to the development of tiny GPS tracking devices attached to their bodies, researchers are getting millions of data points on the day-to-day lives of these apex predators of the skies, giving us greater insight into where they hunt and rest, and how they die. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago China’s economy hit growth goal last year despite Trump trade war and property crisis

Economy weathered a fraught geopolitical landscape to reach 5% target but structural challenges at home ‘are not going away’, say expertsChinese authorities can say they hit their growth goals last year, but Donald Trump’s ongoing trade aggression, a slow-motion housing market collapse and unhappy consumers remain major challenges for the world’s second-largest economy.Data released on Monday showed the Chinese economy grew by 5% in 2025, steady on the year before and hitting the official target of “around” that pace. Continue reading...

Events

8 d. ago Denver's largest ranch house hits the market and comes complete with its own mountain

The property sits on 225 acres of Colorado wilderness, is the largest ranch in Denver, and is yours for a cool $5.9million.

Events

1 week ago ‘Garden of Eden’: the Spanish farm growing citrus you’ve never heard of

Todolí foundation produces varieties from Buddha’s hands to sudachi and hopes to help citrus survive climate changeIt was on a trip with a friend to the east coast of Spain that the chef Matthew Slotover came across the “Garden of Eden”, an organic farm growing citrus varieties he had never heard of. The Todolí Citrus Foundation is a nonprofit venture and the largest private collection of citrus in the world with more than 500 varieties, and its owners think the rare fruit could hold the genetic secrets to growing citrus groves that can deal with climate change.The farm yields far more interesting fruit than oranges and lemons for Slotover’s menu, including kumquat, finger lime, sudachi and bergamot. Continue reading...

Politics

1 week ago The pub that changed me: ‘The barman banned me – no process, no second chances, no appeal’

The world’s largest Wetherspoon’s has seal-spotting views, a green leather banquette and a grand central staircase. I would do anything for that pub, so imagine my surprise when I was given my marching ordersIn the most prime imaginable bit of Ramsgate beach real estate, right on the sand, stands a handsome, turn-of-the-last-century building that had claimed for the longest amount of time, some years in neon, to be a casino. I’d never been allowed in as a kid. Then in the 90s it was leaning towards defunct, by the 00s it looked a bit haunted, then there was a fire, and wham, 2017, it turned into a Spoons. It had been trailed for a few months ahead, and I’d sworn off it; the living nightmare that was Brexit was only a few months old and Wetherspoon’s Tim Martin was one of its most gracelessly triumphant fuglemen. He could keep his (incredibly cheap) pints and his (superhumanly fast) nuggets. Continue reading...

Events

1 week ago World's largest spa just 2 hours from the UK with 28 waterslides

The world's largest spa is an attraction unlike any other, with a huge variety of thermal pools, as well as a waterpark for a thrilling edge to your day of relaxation and daytime accommodation to relax in

Politics

1 week ago Guinness and Johnnie Walker owner Diageo ‘could sell Chinese assets’

Reported move would be part of new CEO Dave Lewis’s streamlining of world’s largest spirits makerBusiness live – latest updatesDiageo’s new boss, Dave Lewis, has barely started in the role, and the maker of Guinness and Johnnie Walker is already reportedly considering selling off its Chinese assets to trim down its portfolio.The world’s largest spirits maker, whose other brands include Smirnoff vodka, Captain Morgan rum and Don Julio tequila, is working with Goldman Sachs and UBS to review its operations in China, where sales have been falling, according to Bloomberg News. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Nationwide issue urgent warning as customers have money removed from accounts

Nationwide customers have had money taken from their accounts as the world's largest building society issued a warning

Economics