PA Media A comedy show featuring Father Ted writer Graham Linehan in Edinburgh has been cancelled due to complaints. Leith Arches said it had pulled the gig because it did not support the comedian, and his views do “not align with our overall values”. The writer has been been an outspoken critic of transgender self-identification.…

Poland has held its biggest military parade since the Cold War in the capital, Warsaw. It marked the Polish defeat of Russian-led Bolshevik forces in 1920. Poland is providing strong military support for neighbouring Ukraine to counter the Russian invasion. Defence Minister Mariusz Blaszczak told the crowd “we have built powerful armed forces that will…

Getty Images By Nadine Yousif BBC News A Texas jury has awarded a woman $1.2bn (£944m) after ruling that she was the victim of revenge porn. The woman, who was named only by the initials DL in court documents, filed a harassment lawsuit against her former boyfriend in 2022. The suit alleged that he posted…

AFPCopyright: AFP Sudan’s army has been attacking an area of Omdurman city where a traditional healer has been treating injured paramilitary fighters. Ten people died in shelling on Monday, which marked four months since the start of the brutal power struggle between the military and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF). Since the war began…

Reuters US President Joe Biden says he will travel to Hawaii “as soon as he can” following deadly wildfires. Speaking in Milwaukee on Tuesday, Mr Biden said he wanted to ensure that the people in the state had “everything they need”. Nearly 100 people have so far been confirmed dead in the fires. The president…

Getty Images By Bernd Debusmann Jr BBC News, Washington As a federal prosecutor in the 1980s, Rudy Giuliani made headlines around the world for aggressively going after New York’s organised crime families. To do so, he pioneered the use of a federal anti-racketeering act aimed at prosecuting ongoing criminal “enterprises”. Nearly 40 years later, the…

Team Luftwaffe/X By Jenny Hill in Berlin & Jaroslav Lukiv in London BBC News German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock has cancelled a trip to Australia, New Zealand and Fiji after her government plane was forced to make a second emergency landing in two days. She was left stranded in Abu Dhabi after the 23-year-old Airbus…

Getty Images By Brandon Drenon BBC News, Washington The mother of a six-year-old who shot his teacher in a Virginia classroom has pleaded guilty to a charge of felony child neglect, US media report. Deja Taylor, 26, entered the guilty plea as part of a deal with prosecutors to lessen the sentencing from up to…

Joshua Brandao By Mark Savage BBC Music Correspondent Madonna has announced rescheduled tour dates for her world tour, as she marks her recovery from a bacterial infection that left her in intensive care. The Celebration tour will now kick off in London on 14 October, three months after it was originally due to begin in…

Getty Images By George Wright BBC News Two American tourists have been found sleeping inside the Eiffel Tower after getting stuck while drunk, according to prosecutors. The two men were found by security guards in the early hours of Monday. They paid to scale the Parisian landmark at around 22:40 (21:40 BST) on Sunday and…