Photo highlights from Day 1 of the Tokyo World Athletic Championships. This is a photo gallery curated by AP photo editors.

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A new social media trend satirises the differences between those who are organised and/or stubborn, and those who are laidback and/or feckless. But are we right to separate ourselves into further personality categories, asks Ellie Muir

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As the former Eurythmics superstar publishes a new illustrated memoir of her extraordinary career, she talks to Charlotte Cripps about being diagnosed as neurodivergent, why the American dream is over for many working-class Americans, and how the pop industry is hypersexualised

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After defeat at Eden Park, can the world champions hit back in Wellington?

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Quake comes days after a massive 8.8 magnitude earthquake, the sixth strongest ever recorded, hit the region

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Great Britain, who were second-fastest of the two heats, claimed silver in the same event at the last world championships in Budapest,

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World Athletics portrayed gender testing as a common-sense way to protect the female category in track and field

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Around 50 college campuses across the country have been deluged in recent weeks with hoax calls about armed gunmen and other violence, laying bare the challenges of detecting fake threats quickly to prevent mass panic

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A 22-year-old man has been arrested in the killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, who was shot at a Utah Valley University event Wednesday

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A lot of us want to reduce our time spent on screens

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The assassination of Charlie Kirk at Utah Valley University sent shockwaves through classrooms worldwide

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The Philippine defense and military chiefs have rejected a call for the country’s armed forces to withdraw support from President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. Allegations of massive corruption in flood control projects have implicated several congressmen and public works officials and sparked pockets of street protests

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‘The idea that in California we would have law enforcement officers running around with ski masks is terrifying,’ one Democratic California lawmaker said

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Mike Andrews, an attorney for the families of more than 100 victims, tells Namita Singh that they do not buy the implication that pilot error was to blame

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Sailing could serve as warning to US and others against support for Taiwan, though China plays down any such motive

Designer Christian Siriano transformed a Macy's department store into a New York Fashion Week runway show for his latest collection

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‘You have no idea what you just have unleashed across this entire country,’ said Erika Kirk

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A relic of Carlo Acutis was stolen from a parish in western Venezuela, the coordinator of a youth group devoted to the man known as “God’s Influencer” has confirmed

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John Daly is in the PGA Tour Champions record book for the highest score on a hole

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A teenager suspected in a shooting attack at a suburban Denver high school that left two students in critical condition appeared fascinated with previous mass shootings including Columbine and expressed neo-Nazi views online, according to experts

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Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook referred to a condominium she purchased in June 2021 as a “vacation home” in a loan estimate

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