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An attempt to extradite Julian Assange to Sweden has suffered a setback after a court in Uppsala said he did not need to be detained. The ruling by the district court prevents Swedish prosecutors from applying immediately for an extradition warrant for Assange to face an allegation of rape...

Apple has announced that the iPhone is going to get faster with iOS 13, the iTunes app is dead on the Mac with the new macOS 10.15 Catalina, and the iPad is getting its own operating system. On stage at the firm’s annual developer conference in San Jose McEnery Convention Center, California...

Safety regulators in the US have identified a further problem in Boeing’s grounded 737 Max model and the generation of planes that preceded it. The Federal Aviation Administration has told airlines to check more than 300 737 aircraft, including 179 of the Max model, for improperly manufactured...

No country in the world is on track to achieve gender equality by 2030, according to the first index to measure progress against a set of internationally agreed targets. Melinda Gates, co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, said the index, launched on Monday, “should serve as a...

The Sephora beauty chain will close all its US stores, distribution centers and corporate offices on Wednesday to conduct diversity training for employees, after a racial incident involving a Grammy-nominated singer. R&B singer SZA, who is black, said in April she was racially profiled at a...

The arrival of three Chinese warships in Sydney harbour was not a surprise, Scott Morrison has said, despite the fact that the government did not announce the visit in advance. On Monday an army frigate, an auxiliary replenishment ship and an amphibious vessel from the People’s Liberation Army...

Donald Trump will land in the UK on Monday amid anger over comments made by his ambassador suggesting the NHS should be “on the table” in future trade negotiations. His visit also came as cabinet ministers vying for the Tory leadership suggested they could tear up plans for the Chinese tech...

Scott Morrison has declared “stepping up is all about showing up” as he unveiled the latest plank of the Australian government’s Pacific strategy during a visit to the Solomon Islands. The prime minister’s visit – the first by an Australian leader to the island nation since 2008 – comes as key...

Users of YouTube and other Google services are seeing errors or slow performance due to high levels of network congestion in the eastern United States. YouTube, Google Cloud and G Suite services are affected, but Google said it believed it had identified the cause of the congestion and expected...

In the end, it was a Champions League victory delivered in sweltering Madrid heat with considerably less panache than that incredible semi-final comeback against Barcelona. For the hundreds of thousands of people who lined the streets of Merseyside, however, the team’s homecoming on Sunday was...

When Mustapha Merzoughi, a French citizen of Tunisian origin, left France for Syria in 2015, he hoped to start afresh in the so-called Islamic State and leave behind a life plagued with what he called social and financial problems. But as he faced a judge in Iraq’s capital Baghdad last week, he...

About 200 gilets jaunes have staged a “march of the mutilated” through central Paris. Among them were people seriously injured in demonstrations since the movement started last November. Several had lost an eye or limb in clashes with riot police. The marchers called for an end to “repressive...

Twelve stars and stripes flags were planted on the grass verge, one for each of the lives cut short. Floral tributes accumulated in their midst with the prosaic details of price tags: $6.99 for one bunch, $4.87 for another. Police officers and TV crews went about their work, the latter shaded by...

The US is prepared to engage with Iran about its nuclear program without pre-conditions but needs to see the country behaving like “a normal nation”, secretary of state Mike Pompeo said on Sunday. Iranian president Hassan Rouhani suggested on Saturday that Iran may be willing to hold talks if...

Eight climbers missing in the Himalayas have not been found in initial helicopter searches, and hopes are fading that they will be discovered. Two Indian air force helicopters and a rescue team have been searching the region around the Nanda Devi mountain, which the group were attempting to...

Observer special report China’s other Tiananmens: 30 years on Students march in Shanghai on 10 June 1989, after authorities warned that illegal gatherings would be punished. Photograph: Mitsuhiko Sato/AP Hundreds of other Chinese cities were also suppressed and are now forgotten after a media...

China has defended the bloody Tiananmen crackdown on student protesters in a rare public acknowledgement of the event, days before its 30th anniversary, saying it was the “correct” policy. After seven weeks of protests by students and workers demanding democratic change and the end of...

Scotland’s nature conservation agency last week painted an apocalyptic vision of a country devastated by the climate crisis, from polluted rivers to eroded peatlands and forests devoid of birds. Now comes a warning about another part of Scottish culture which could, it is feared, also be hit by...

America was reeling on Saturday after 12 people were shot dead at a government building in Virginia Beach late on Friday afternoon. It was the deadliest mass shooting this year and prompted fresh demands for gun control reform. Virginia Beach shooting: 12 dead as city mourns 'the most...

Presumably, none of the Liverpool supporters will care too greatly that the kaleidoscope of banners they had unfurled in Madrid suddenly look so out of date. Liverpool had their sixth star and when we see them again next season we can be sure they will have added “Madrid, 2019” to the red...