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Hawaii Volcanoes national park closed due to eruption of one of world’s most active volcanoes, located on Big Island Amber lava exploded over 200 meters into the air as Kilauea, one of the world’s most active volcanoes, located on Hawaii’s Big Island, erupted on Thursday. Lava fountains began to erupt from the volcano after 11 am local time, according to the United States Geological Survey (USGS)…

Hyundai issues local recall due to a fault with its battery management software that could cause a fire while the car is recharging or parked Thousands of Australian drivers will be asked to check their electric vehicle batteries as part of a global recall involving more than 100,000 cars. Hyundai issued a local recall for almost 5,000 vehicles on Friday due to a fault with its battery management…

Lanre Bakare on the UK government’s decision to revoke Kanye West’s visa after Wireless festival booked him as a headliner When Kanye West was announced as the headliner for Wireless festival in London this summer, the backlash was immediate. “He’d been on a campaign of four or five years of antisemitic trolling,” Lanre Bakare , the Guardian’s arts and culture correspondent, tells Nosheen Iqbal .…

Reporters search for answers to why first lady chose to make speech – and whether president knew it was coming Melania Trump’s surprise statement denying she had any relationship with Jeffrey Epstein sparked confusion about why she had chosen to speak out, and whether Donald Trump knew that the first lady was planning to draw attention to a subject he has called for the public to move on from. Ev…

Independent MP elected to the seat of Stafford in Brisbane’s northern suburbs in 2020 and disendorsed by Labor in 2025 Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast A Queensland state politician has been found dead at his home. Jimmy Sullivan, 44, was the independent MP for the Queensland electorate of Stafford in Brisbane’s no…

Company claims law regulating AI systems, set to go into effect in June, infringes on its first amendment rights Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company, xAI, has filed a lawsuit against the state of Colorado over a new AI law set to take effect in June. The suit seeks to block the state from enforcing the law, which would impose new requirements on AI systems used in decisions involving empl…

Melissa Chiu, 54, director of Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, led the institution for 12 years A museum director at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington has announced that she is leaving to take over at the Guggenheim Museum in New York. Melissa Chiu has been director of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden on the National Mall for 12 years. In an interview on Thursday, she insis…

Closure comes weeks after former Australian of the Year and advocate for abuse survivors says she lost speaking engagements because of a ‘smear campaign’ against her Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Child sexual abuse survivor Grace Tame’s foundation has announced it is closing, citing challenges with long-term fun…

Astronauts prepare for re-entry several miles off coast of southern California after 10-day lunar fly-by mission The crew of Artemis II is set to return to earth on Friday following its historic 10-day lunar flyby mission, and Nasa leaders have described the precise logistics needed to get them home. The return will see the Orion capsule traveling at nearly 24,000mph before making a final splashd…

Prime minister touches down and says two countries ‘strategically aligned’. Follow updates live Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast A search for a fisherman who disappeared in waters off Coffs Harbour has been suspended, police said last night. Emergency services were called to Emerald Beach, Coffs Harbour, on Monday following reports that a 32-year-old man had been washe…

Kremlin proposes 32-hour ceasefire starting on Saturday afternoon – with Ukraine expected to agree to plan Vladimir Putin has declared a 32-hour ceasefire in Ukraine over the Orthodox Easter weekend, after an earlier call from Volodymyr Zelenskyy for a pause. The president’s decree, released by the Kremlin on Thursday, orders Russian forces to observe a ceasefire starting on 4pm Saturday and last…

Finbar Sullivan, who ‘loved movies and making films’, had gone to London park to use new camera, says father A film student who was stabbed to death in London’s Primrose Hill was a “beautiful, lovely, outgoing, loving” man, his father has said. Finbar Sullivan, 21, was stabbed in a fight in the north London park in the early evening on Tuesday and was pronounced dead at the scene. Continue readin…

Singer, 55, said he had broken his sobriety after three ‘devastating’ bereavements and has not drunk alcohol since Chico Slimani, a memorable X Factor contestant, was found guilty of drink-driving on Thursday, telling the court that his arrest came just hours after he broke his sobriety. The singer, 55, whose real name is Yousseph Slimani, reached the quarter-final of the TV talent show in 2005, …

New study describes what may be the first case of a unified community of chimps, in Uganda, turning on itself On a June day in 2015, primatologist Aaron Sandel was quietly observing a small cluster of the Ngogo chimpanzee group in Uganda’s Kibale national park when he noticed something strange. As other members of the chimpanzees’ wider group moved closer through the forest, the chimpanzees in fr…

Cuba accuses US of ‘extorting’ countries in pushing them to axe deals with Havana to send doctors on medical missions Cuba’s foreign minister has accused the United States of “extorting” Latin American countries by putting pressure on them to cancel decades-old deals with Havana for the supply of doctors. Bruno Rodríguez said the United States was trying to “strangle” the economy of the communist…