Kursk incursion: how Ukraine turned the tables and struck back at Russia

Gaza rubble likely to conceal untold horrors to swell 40,000 death toll

At the Sudzha crossing where Ukrainian troops pushed into Russia nerves are tense

Freed Israeli hostage Aviva Siegel on Netanyahu’s unbearable strategy and waiting for her husband to come home

‘This war is a tragedy’: freed prisoner Ilya Yashin vows to re-educate Russians on Ukraine

Evan Gershkovich is free – and keen to raise plight of Russian political prisoners

‘Constant anxiety’: hundreds of Palestinians face eviction threat in East Jerusalem

‘India has rejected Modi’s rhetoric’: British Indians react to election result

‘Bit of a moment for Rahul Gandhi’: new dawn for India’s opposition, but where to now?

‘We are disappearing’: chef Fadi Kattan aims to keep Palestinian heritage alive through food

How voters turned against Narendra Modi in his party’s heartland

‘Crime is out of hand’: how young people turned to far right in east German city

Influencers, activists and an army general: new MEPs heading to European parliament

Paris exhibition celebrates global spread of surrealism

Excitement and stoicism in Spain as country prepares for Euro 2024 final

Delivery driver who intervened in Dublin attack to run in local elections

Risk of regional Middle East conflict acute after two weeks of airstrikes

Life goes on in Beirut but another war is drawing closer in Lebanon

‘It was indescribable’: Golan Heights town mourns 12 children killed in strike

Summer sun in Finland? Åland isles aim to lure tourists to cooler climate

Beatings, brandings, suicides: life on plantations owned by Church of England missionary arm

‘I have never taken his sacrifice for granted’: D-day veterans honour comrades in Normandy

‘He couldn’t see the risks himself’: mother of teenager killed in Wales crash calls for graduated driving licence law

‘He’s a miracle’: All eyes on Lamine Yamal after Spain’s win against France

‘Eternal debt’: 200 surviving veterans are focus of this year’s D-day

Stories of D-day veterans: ‘They feared they had lost the war’

The new ‘space race’: what are China’s ambitions and why is the US so concerned?

Gondoliers wanted: Venice seeks to fill vacancies for city’s defining profession

‘The Adriatic is becoming tropical’: Italian fishers struggle to adapt to warm sea

Cop29 at a crossroads in Azerbaijan with focus on climate finance

‘The new reality’: Athens wildfire victims vow to adapt and stay put

‘It’s about survival’: Athens mayor focuses on getting capital through extreme heat

‘Unliveable’: Delhi’s residents struggle to cope in record-breaking heat

Purgatory in paradise: how a shipwreck off Diego Garcia led to three years of hell and horror

‘All eyes are on her’: Italy’s far-right chameleon, Giorgia Meloni, prepares to host the G7

One man’s desperate search for wife as more than 1,000 hajj pilgrims die in extreme heat

‘A huge hug when you need it most’: Taylor Swift fans shake off disappointment in Vienna

‘We all get on well’: the town in England where cattle roam free