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Boris Johnson has vowed to use the gathering of major world leaders this weekend to "call for a renewed focus on protecting nature" following the record number of fires in the Amazon rainforest.

Val Brown reports on the inspiring work of EcoVeg, a farming collective that ignores caste, class and gender

Boris Johnson has been pictured putting his foot on a table in France’s Elysee Palace during Brexit talks with Emmanuel Macron.

The Foreign Office has expressed concern following reports a trade official linked to the Scottish Government has been detained at the border between Hong Kong and China.

The Duke of York hosted Jeffrey Epstein and his entourage on the Balmoral estate, it has been reported.

Adapted pig hearts could be transplanted into patients within three years, according a report citing the surgeon who pioneered heart transplantation in the UK.

Former Celtic defender Emilio Izaguirre was hit in the eye by a shard of glass when his team bus was attacked with stones before a football derby in Honduras.

Hong Kong streets were turned into rivers of umbrellas yesterday as hundreds of thousands of people marched through heavy rain down a main road in the Chinese territory, where massive pro-democracy demonstrations have become a regular weekend activity.

Three people have died and around 10 people, including a child, injured during a riot between rival football fans.

Jane Fonda has paid tribute to her "sweet-hearted baby brother" Peter following his death at the age of 79.

‘We can all do something, through our churches, community groups, yes even politics,’ a former Labour MSP and Malawi veteran tells Susan Dalgety.

Zimbabwe’s police used tear gas, arrests and beatings to quell anti-government protests in the capital, Harare.

Greenland’s government has said the island is “not for sale” after Donald Trump talked to aides about buying the territory from Denmark.

Jeffrey Epstein’s death was suicide? A lone gunman killed JFK? 9/11 was achieved by 19 hijackers armed like 80s football casuals? Some things are too hard to believe, particularly for damaged indivudals raised on a litany of lies about Santa and heaven, writes Kevan Christie (a Fife commuter who’s become convinced the Queensferry Crossing is actually an alien spaceship).

It might be the most ambitious acquisition yet from US president Donald Trump.

With 139 million people around the world needing humanitarian aid, the nobly constructed Geneva Conventions must be respected, writes Salah Saeed.