This week’s best wildlife photographs from around the world ...

When a passenger plane plunges 17,000ft amid claims of terrorism, hijacking and geopolitical intrigue, Guardian journalists have to try and separate fact from fiction in real time ...

Jessica Watkins, the first Black woman to lead a crew to orbit, is making her second trip to the space station ...

Under new WA laws anyone who defies an exclusion order could face a maximum $36,000 fine and three years in prison ...

Smit Machchhar says in video call with Indian PM that he realised if he did not get up then ‘passengers would lose their lives’ ...

Jonathan Larson’s much-loved show about New York artists has been revived for its 30th anniversary with a cast including the Stranger Things star ...

Dozens of schools have been damaged and nearly 3,000 teenagers have been detained since the start of the tensions ...

People describe their return to physical media – whether to protect data, support artists, or retain control of one’s choices ...

The Gallagher brothers’ reunion tour gets the fun fly-on-the-wall treatment – and it’s fascinating. Plus, Payal Kapadia’s glorious Cannes winner about three nurses in Mumbai ...

Deployment underscores evolving complexity of Trump’s war against Iran as US midterm elections loom ...

Most of the betting industry is urging the chancellor not to double slot machine duty to raise up to £460m more a year ...

Russia’s foreign ministry had called planned shows unacceptable due to rapper’s ‘glorification’ of Adolf Hitler ...