Join our live coverage as we cross the globe to enter the new year ...

National inquiry on grooming gangs will look at how police ignored girls while officials feared fuelling the far right ...

Democrat Muhammad Akbar Ali joins the Georgia state house as a legislator representing an Atlanta suburb ...

Costs, insurance delays and difficult-to-obtain mental health treatment plague the US health system ...

Exclusive: Greater Manchester police ignored claim ‘Offender J’ among men who had abused 12-year-old, paperwork shows ...

Electric vehicle maker also predicts future sales will miss Elon Musk’s ambitious targets ...

Guardian US readers share how global heating and biodiversity loss affected their lives in ways that don’t always make the headlines ...

Artwork by one of the most influential artists of 20th century raffled to fund Alzheimer’s research ...

The Body Coach app, launched during Covid lockdowns, will advertise on ITV’s channels and video platform ITVX as part of finalised deal ...

Figure represents significant expansion on earlier estimates as effort draws resources away from other DoJ cases ...

Scatological lyrics, social conscience and a shoutout from Walton Goggins – 2026 is going to be the laptop garage band’s year ...

How the tech CEO and ‘Dogefather’ made a mess of the year – from his White House tenure to an apparent Nazi salute ...