Tech executives to attend G7 summit as leaders address AI, online safety
The agenda will address the world’s crises and broad economic challenges
FRIDAY, 12 JUNE 2026, 20:53
The agenda will address the world’s crises and broad economic challenges

Accounts linked to tech firm BlackCore are alleged to have carried out ‘digital interference operations’ against John Swinney.

Ukraine will hike military wages and seek to recruit more fighters abroad, President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Friday, as the army faces a staffing shortage after four years of war with Russia.

Southwark Council in south London takes possession of a property linked to Sierra Leone’s Fatima Bio.
It’s a pulse-quickening new dance show oozing energy and rife with talent. But for those of us over a certain age, Killer Queen should perhaps come with a warning. Something like: ‘Hold on to your Zimmer frame!’

Volkswagen is pressing ahead with sweeping job cuts and cost reductions in Germany as planned, shrinking its workforce by 19,000 by the end of the year, CEO Oliver Blume is set to tell investors at the upcoming AGM.
Having no traditional wingers and no playmaker backfired on South Africa in the World Cup opener

Hockney, one of the UK’s most important and influential artists, has died at the age of 88.

Mercedes driver George Russell sets the pace from McLaren’s Oscar Piastri in first practice at the Barcelona-Catalunya Grand Prix.

The Canadian-born artist will be performing her official Fifa song at the Toronto opening ceremony.
Indian groups representing alcohol giants Diageo, Pernod Ricard, Heineken and Carlsberg, accused the southern Indian state of Telangana of breaching accounting rules over dues it owes them totalling nearly $400m.

South African dive instructor and marine teacher Silindile Mbuyazi has been named the 2026 Wayfinder Award recipient and is set to receive the award at the National Geographic Explorers Festival on 18 June in Washington, DC.

The US Supreme Court blocked Alabama from executing a death row inmate by using nitrogen gas, in a rare last-minute intervention after a lower court ruled the method was likely unconstitutional.

Sir Jeffrey Donaldson, the former Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) leader, is on trial for 18 sex abuse charges, including one count of rape, all of which he denies.
While intense El Niño conditions could hurt harvests in much of the world, the climate phenomenon is likely to boost agricultural production in Argentina, say climate specialists

Department of home affairs deports 586 Nigerians living in SA illegally

Chinese EV maker Xiaomi has filed with regulators to add an extended-range electric vehicle to its lineup, according to a notice from the industry ministry on Wednesday.
Political connections have been the focus of the Madlanga Commission of Inquiry, where a Gauteng traffic official – initially testifying about a R286m cocaine interception – was grilled on whether his message referenced the late former deputy president, David Mabuza.

Thousands of safer paths and crossings are promised to help people become more active in England’s towns and cities.
Some fans at the stadium blamed the high ticket prices for the rows of empty seats