Dozens injured and buildings damaged as tornadoes hit Sicily

Storm expected to make landfall on US’s northern Gulf coast with risk of flash floods and isolated river flooding

Norwegian committee recognises achievements of former UN rights chief who stood up against apartheid in South Africa

Global sportswear brand is suing online retailer in the federal court for selling clothes featuring ‘deceptively similar’ design

Matsadaash staff allege torture and forced confessions after being held on charges of working for Muslim Brotherhood

Species with leaves large enough to be seen from space is already critically endangered – and plans are afoot to protect it

Making its southern hemisphere debut, Dance Reflections will feature collaborators of Rosalía, Madonna and Beyoncé – and a high-wire takeover of the Cutaway

Intense flash of radio waves is more than 10bn years old and has travelled through ‘approximately 80% of cosmic history’

Figure is highest ever recorded for species and confirms one of Indian Ocean’s greatest conservation success stories

Ousted Venezuelan president and Cilia Flores have been in jail in New York since early January

World’s most prestigious prize for literature goes to Canadian poet known for genre-crossing works including Autobiography of Red

Lenora Thaker wins $30,000 prize for ‘a work of state significance’ for The Pearl of Tagai Town, which draws on her family’s history in Cairns-Malay Town

Investigators probe Asahi, Kirin, Suntory and Sapporo breweries – which together control more than 90% of Japan’s beer market

NGOs in Indonesian Borneo file class action lawsuit calling for government to better manage annual fires and