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You can find palm oil in around half the packaged products in your local supermarket – in instant noodles, pizza dough, lipstick, toothpaste, chocolate, soap, shampoo, bread and biscuits, writes Jonny Hughes.

Authorities have reported 13 more fatalities from a blaze in Northern California that destroyed a town, bringing the total death toll so far to 42 and making it the deadliest wildfire in recorded state history.

As wildfires claim lives and destroy homes in California, we must not let Trump distract us from delivering urgent climate action, writes Carline Rance of Friends of the Earth Scotland.

In the UK, some describe the First World War as “pointless”, but in the countries that were turned into battlefields few express similar sentiments, writes Paris Gourtsoyannis.

Stan Lee, the co-creator of Marvel Comics, has died aged 95.

Donald Trump’s threat to withhold federal aid from California to help it cope with devastating wildfires – because of his unscientific views about climate change – is the latest sign that he is not fit to be US President, writes Ian Johnston.

World leaders gathered to mark the end of the First World War 100 years ago, turning Paris into the epicentre of global commemorations that drove home a powerful message: never again.

Sir Rod Stewart has taken to Twitter to blast Donald Trump over his ‘accusatory’ tweet about the Californian wildfires.

Two thousand five hundred years ago, Lao Tzu, the legendary Chinese philosopher, said: “If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.” His words may accurately describe the spiralling decline of Iraq.

It is an opportunity for Scottish football fans to put partisanship to one side and rally behind a club which is helping youngsters in a deprived urban sprawl in Zambia.

Donald Trump has come under fire for cancelling a visit to a cemetery in France due to rain.

Practical issues like healthcare, the state of the roads, safe drinking water and a living wage helped the Democrats take the House of Representatives in the US midterm elections as Americans turned away from Donald Trump’s credo of power, sex and money, writes Susan Dalgety after campaigning for Susan Wild in Pennsylvania.

After the UK Foreign Office says it supports expanding trade with Iran despite Donald Trump’s sanctions against the country, Brian Wilson says he hopes Britain will avoid following America’s lead given the ‘rabid ideologues’ currently running the US State Department.

More than 50 MPs have written to US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo urging him not to permit Tommy Robinson to enter America for a fundraising tour.

Former first lady Michelle Obama blasts President Donald Trump in her new book, writing how she reacted in shock the night she learned he would replace her husband in the Oval Office and tried to “block it all out.”

A controversial US hunter who caused outrage after posting photos of goats and sheep she killed on a Scottish island has taunted critics by launching a range of T-shirts celebrating the controversy.

One person has died and two are in hospital after a man went on a knife rampage before being shot on a busy shopping street in Australia.

The dehumanising language about whole groups and nations that helped create the avoidable catastrophe of the First World War is stalking Western politics once again, writes Joyce McMillan.

In a ‘Letter from America’, Jim Duffy describes his surprise on learning bar staff are paid as little as £1.75 an hour and rely on tips of up to 25 per cent to make a living.