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Cars swept away, roads submerged and residents isolated in parts of Spain's Mediterranean coast.
Cars swept away, roads submerged and residents isolated in parts of Spain's Mediterranean coast.
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<p>Witness breaks down in tears, tells court ‘I was scared’ after son declined to report alleged kissing and touching by broadcaster</p><ul><li><p>Listen to the podcast <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/series/alan-jones-on-trial">Alan Jones on Trial</a></p></li><li><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/article/2024/aug/28/weekly-beast-email-austrailan-media-diary-free-newsletter-subscribe-sign-up?CMP=cvau_sfl">Sign up for Guardian Australia’s free weekly media newsletter here</a></p></li></ul><p>The mother of the youngest alleged victim of Alan Jones has told a Sydney court she “trusted” the 2GB broadcaster and was “comfortable” her teenager was going to spend a weekend at his Fitzroy Falls property.</p><p>The young man, known as complainant A, has testified that when he was 17 he was alone at the southern highlands farm when Jones <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/oct/06/alan-jones-court-financial-help-13-year-old-ntwnfb">allegedly kissed him, put his tongue</a> inside his mouth and touched him on the bottom. “I felt violated and I felt gross,” he told the court earlier.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/oct/20/alan-jones-alleged-victim-mother-trusted-radio-host-ntwnfb">Continue reading...</a>
A group of parents claims local admission policy boosts Black and Latino students while constraining Asian applicants.
<p>The president came out in support of Senator Roger Marshall, who is facing and unexpectedly strong challenge from Democrat Adam Hamilton </p><p>The fact that Donald Trump was here at all said more about a looming electoral disaster facing his Republican party next month than anything contained in his dark and discursive 98-minute stump speech.</p><p>On Monday, amid raucous chants of “USA! USA!”, the president held his first campaign rally in Kansas for eight years. No Democrat has won a US Senate seat in this ruby-red state since 1932, the year Herbert Hoover was president, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/19/amelia-earhart-purdue-expedition-clump-of-trees-nikumaroro-kiribati">Amelia Earhart</a> was the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic and the Nazis became the biggest party in the German Reichstag.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/20/trump-kansas-rally-us-midterm-election-possibility-state-democratic-win">Continue reading...</a>
<p>In his annual speech on threats to the nation, Sir Ken McCallum, the head of the UK’s intelligence service, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk/mi5">MI5</a>, warned that AI had the potential to ‘change the stakes’ on existing and even new bioweapons. To find out why, and how, Ian Sample speaks to Dr Tom Inglesby, director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security and the Bloomberg School of Public Health. He explains what has governments so worried and what measures could be put in place to reduce the risks</p><p><strong><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/oct/14/could-ai-change-the-stakes-in-the-development-of-bioweapons">Could AI ‘change the stakes’ in the development of bioweapons?</a></strong></p><p>Support the Guardian: <a href="http://theguardian.com/sciencepod">theguardian.com/sciencepod</a></p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/audio/2026/oct/20/these-risks-are-real-the-threat-of-ai-bioweapons-podcast">Continue reading...</a>