China’s carbon dioxide emissions fell in 2025

New figures show China’s carbon dioxide emissions fell in 2025, the first full year to show such a decline. The analysis for the website, Carbon Brief, suggest the reduction is modest - just 0.3 per cent but campaigners say it raises hopes that emissions from the world's biggest polluter might be peaking ahead of schedule.

President Trump says he insisted, in his talks with the visiting Israeli prime minister, that negotiations with Iran over its nuclear programme will continue. In a post on social media, Mr Trump said he'd told Benjamin Netanyahu that his preference would be to reach a deal as opposed to further military action but that this would depend on Tehran. We get the view of a former adviser to the Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

An 18-year-old has been named as the suspect in the shooting that killed eight people and injured dozens more in British Columbia, Canada.

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(Photo: Solar panels lie in front of factories at Jinjie Industrial Park in Shenmu, Shaanxi province, China. Credit: Reuters).