Lithuanian schoolchildren will be taught how to build and operate drones under a new national programme aimed at strengthening the Baltic state’s resilience against potential future threats from Russia. In a joint initiative announced on Tuesday by the defence and education ministries, more than 22,000 people, including 7,000 children, will learn drone skills as part of a wider effort to “expand civil resistance training”. The scheme will be tailored to…

Authorities in Alaska’s capital, Juneau, are urging residents to evacuate as record floodwaters are expected to surge downstream from a basin dammed by the Mendenhall Glacier. Officials warn the event, driven by climate change and glacial retreat, could be the most severe on record. The annual summer flooding, known as a glacial lake outburst flood (GLOF), occurs when water trapped by the glacier’s ice dam escapes. This year’s event is…

Elon Musk has threatened to sue Apple on behalf of his artificial intelligence start-up, xAI, accusing the iPhone maker of favouring OpenAI and breaching antitrust regulations in the way it manages rankings in its App Store. The remarks prompted a barbed response from Sam Altman, the OpenAI chief executive, sparking a public spat between the two former business partners on X. “Apple is behaving in a manner that makes it…

Stricter US border controls are discouraging European tourists from visiting the country, according to Europe’s largest package holiday operator. Tui’s chief executive, Sebastian Ebel, said there had been a “significant decline” in travel to the United States, citing “the atmosphere, what you hear from border control” among the reasons for the drop. He noted that many European travellers were instead choosing Canada or other long-haul destinations such as Africa and…

The Spanish authorities confirmed the arrival of the seven children, marking the latest in a growing wave of attempts by migrants to enter Ceuta.

Nigeria is one of more than 60 countries facing increased tariffs after US President Donald Trump launched a reciprocal-tariff programme targeting individual products and countries with varying rates.

President Donald Trump has once again delayed the implementation of sweeping tariffs on China, signing an executive order on Monday to extend the deadline for higher tariffs until 10 November. The announcement came just hours before the existing agreement between the world’s two largest economies was set to expire. The move extends a temporary truce between the two nations, which had been due to end on Monday. The Chinese commerce…

United States consumer prices continued to climb in July, according to key economic data released on Tuesday, as President Donald Trump’s international tariffs started to impact costs for American consumers. The Consumer Price Index (CPI), which tracks the price changes of a basket of goods and services, revealed that prices were up 2.7% in July compared with the same month last year. While inflation had eased in the spring, the…

A leading US medical journal has issued a warning about using ChatGPT for health-related information after a man developed a rare condition following advice from the chatbot. The Annals of Internal Medicine published a case study detailing how a 60-year-old man developed bromism, or bromide toxicity, after consulting ChatGPT about removing table salt from his diet. Bromism was once a well-recognised condition in the early 20th century, thought to have…

Donald Trump has invoked section 740 of the District of Columbia Home Rule Act to place the city’s Metropolitan Police Department under federal control, ordering the deployment of the national guard and describing Washington DC as “lawless”  despite official figures showing crime at historic lows. Speaking on Monday, the US president vowed to allow officers to “do whatever the hell they want” in the face of what he called provocations.…

Villagers in Vietnam whose farms are set to be demolished to make way for a $1.5bn (£1.18bn) golf resort backed by the Trump family have reportedly been offered rice provisions and cash compensation of as little as $12 (£9.40) per square metre by state authorities. According to Reuters, thousands of villagers in Hung Yen province, south of Hanoi, will receive payouts based on the size and location of their land.…

In a Fox News interview broadcast on Sunday, Vance sought to deflect criticism of the administration’s refusal to release the “Epstein files” by blaming Democrats.