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Boris Johnson has told  the leaders of the world’s major economies that history will judge them on whether they have the courage to “step up” and make commitments at the COP 26 climate change summit in Glasgow next month.

It’s home to some of the world’s biggest and oldest trees, and with wildfires spreading dangerously fast through California’s Sequoia National Park, firefighters have taken the desperate measure of wrapping some of their ancient trunks in flame-resistant blankets in an effort to protect them from the blaze.

According to the experts in these things, the holiday of the future could involve hurtling around the earth at a speed of 17,000 miles an hour. Sickbag included.

We’re joined from Washington by Richard Fontaine, who was foreign policy advisor to the McCain 2008 presidential campaign,

Aukus sounds like a creature from gothic sci fi. It is in fact the name of the submarine security pact signed by Australia, the UK and the US. 

A bizarre war of words has broken out between the prime minister and his chief medical adviser on the one hand and Nicki Minaj on the other. 

From New York City, we spoke to tennis legend Virginia Wade, who was the last British woman to win the US Open singles title in 1968.

Emma Raducanu’s American dream continued today with appearances on two prime time US breakfast TV shows.

Prince Andrew has hired a well known celebrity lawyer to represent him in the court case against a woman who accuses him of sexual abuse. 

From Afghanistan to the US and across the world, the repercussions of the attacks 20 years ago reverberated then as they do now. 

Families of loved ones have described the ‘unbearable sorrow’ as they remember the terrible day 20 years ago, when almost 3000 lives were lost when hijacked planes smashed into the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York City, into the Pentagon outside Washington, and a fourth crashed into a field in Pennsylvania. 

In today’s episode, Jon Snow takes us back to that fateful, generation-defining day, and recounts his visit to Ground Zero in November 2001.

At least 46 people have been killed in extreme flash flooding and tornadoes, as the remnants of Hurricane Ida swept across the north-eastern US.

We spoke to David Petraeus, former commander of US forces in Afghanistan, and began by asking what he thought of the way that the US troops withdrawal had been handled.

The justices of the US Supreme Court have voted not to halt a new law in Texas that will strip most women in the state of the right to an abortion.