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Exclusive: Almost half of GPs have seen children up to the age of seven who have obesity, research finds Almost a quarter of GPs are seeing children aged four or under who are obese, according to a survey of UK family doctors. The “alarming” research also found that almost half (49%) of GPs have seen boys and girls up to the age of seven who have obesity, including a handful younger than a year o…

Setback for justice department as it pursues demonstrators, including Don Lemon who recorded protest as a journalist A US appeals court rejected federal justice department’s bid to charge five more people accused of disrupting a Minnesota church service on 18 January, according to court documents made public on Saturday, revealing the lengths the Trump administration has gone to prosecute those i…

News of Tracee Mergen’s decision came before agents fatally shot Alex Pretti, another US citizen in Minneapolis A supervisor in the FBI ’s Minneapolis field office who unsuccessfully attempted to investigate the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent who fatally shot Renee Nicole Good in the city on 7 January has resigned, according to multiple reports. News of agent Tracee Mergen’s resi…

Yousef Pezeshkian says nothing will be solved by trying to postpone moment footage of violent crackdown circulate The son of Iran’s president has called for the internet restrictions in the country to be lifted, saying nothing will be solved by trying to postpone the moment when pictures and video circulate of the protests that were violently crushed by the regime. With a battle under way at the …

Flood of boasts, broadsides and conspiracy theories leaves envoys sifting for the signal within the Trumpian noise How does one keep tabs on, and then interpret, a president who in a single year sent out more than 6,000 social media posts, conducted more than 433 open press events and held free-associating press conferences lasting close to two hours? The White House Stenographer’s Office calcula…

Protesters walk to Sussex market town from base where Home Office plans to house up to 500 asylum seekers Thousands of people have marched through an East Sussex market town to protest against UK government plans to house asylum seekers on a former military site. Crowds of men, women and children walked to Crowborough from the base, where the Home Office plans to house up to 500 male asylum seeke…

NEC’s move merely postpones rather than resolves questions about who can lead Labour’s fightback It is a sign that the political deck of cards is stacked against you when the only good hand is one that was never really going to be dealt. And so it was with Keir Starmer and Andy Burnham. In an ideal world for the prime minister, Andrew Gwynne’s announcement that he was stepping down from his Gorto…

Republican senator says ‘credibility’ of ICE and DHS are ‘at stake’ as calls come from both sides of political divide Pressure mounted on Donald Trump’s administration on Sunday to fully investigate the previous day’s killing by federal immigration officers of 37-year-old nurse Alex Pretti in Minneapolis. Calls for an investigation have come from all sides of the political divide after video anal…

Survey reveals ‘mismatched AI expectations’ between views of employers and staff over impact on careers More than a quarter (27%) of UK workers are worried their jobs could disappear in the next five years as a result of AI, according to a survey of thousands of employees. Two-thirds (66%) of UK employers reported having invested in AI in the past 12 months, according to the international recruit…

When organisers posted a TikTok promoting 45-minute pilates sessions, the video amassed 2m views. Now plans are afoot for female classes and youth clubs It’s early afternoon on a gloomy day at the Jamia Usmania mosque in Bradford and a group of mostly elderly men have finished their midday prayers. The assembly of mainly retired men would usually return to the familiar drumbeat of day-to-day life…

Serco employees also say they are given email addresses identical to public servants, making them indistinguishable Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Outsourced call centre staff on the national disability insurance scheme (NDIS) phone lines must pretend to be public servants, according to workers, and are responsible for deciding which funding requests are prioritised …

US readers said they were feeling anxious and helpless as authorities’ brutal crackdown has left thousands dead Recent protests in Iran have created the most serious and deadliest unrest in the country since the 1979 revolution, prompting eyes from all around the globe to shift to the Middle East. The Guardian asked Iranians living outside the country to share their views on the current situation…

Bennell-Pegg tells ceremony in Canberra she hopes to use award to inspire young people to chase their dreams Cathy Freeman leads Australia Day 2026 honours list Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast As a girl, Katherine Bennell-Pegg would lie on the dry grass in her backyard, gazing up at the stars and dreaming about one day reaching them. While she’s yet to enter space, th…

High-profile Australians celebrated alongside more than 600 civilians who have changed lives and the country Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Australia’s beloved Olympic sprinter Cathy Freeman has been recognised in this year’s Australia Day Honours list alongside a driving force of one of the Games’ youngest sports, skateboarding, a world-leading quantum scientist, a …

Family releases statement saying: ‘Alex is clearly not holding a gun when attacked by Trump’s murdering and cowardly ICE thugs’ Alex Pretti did not brandish gun, witnesses say in sworn testimony Large protests spread across US after Alex Pretti fatally shot Alex Pretti killing by federal agents: what we know so far Welcome to our live coverage of the outcry across the US following the fatal shoot…