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‘Despicable’ attack on Trump signals a shift in Europe

A dispute in Poland is emerging as a key test of Europe’s willingness to speak out against its NATO ally.

  • David Crowe

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In this July 30, 2008, file photo, Jeffrey Epstein appears in court in West Palm Beach, Florida.

How the Epstein files exposed the rich, the royal and the European elite

The latest disclosures reveal more about the full scale of Jeffrey Epstein’s network, well beyond the US and the UK, unmasking those who cosied up to the sex offender.

  • David Crowe
Donald Trump delivers a news conference at the White House.

Five takeaways from Trump’s surprise, rambling news conference

In an hours-long anniversary celebration, the US president indicated he might have bigger ambitions for his so-called Board of Peace, showed his frustration about the Nobel Peace Prize and made Renee Good’s killing about himself.

  • Michael Koziol
President Donald Trump greets Norway’s Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre during a summit to support ending the more than two-year Israel-Hamas war in Gaza after a breakthrough ceasefire deal, Monday, Oct. 13, 2025, in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt. (Suzanne Plunkett/Pool via AP)

Trump links Greenland demand to Nobel Peace Prize snub in leaked message

Europe faces a spiralling dispute with the US president after he warned that he no longer felt obliged to pursue peace because he did not receive the Nobel Peace Prize.

  • David Crowe
Donald Trump and Maria Machado with the Nobel Peace Prize at the White House on Thursday.

Of all the jaw-dropping spectacles at the White House, this was one of the most bizarre

Donald Trump grinned broadly as he posed with María Corina Machado on Thursday. Shortly after, she left. Her medal stayed. It was a window into the president’s psyche.

  • David E. Sanger
President Donald Trump laughs during a meeting with oil executives in the East Room of the White House on Friday.

Trump says he’d accept Nobel Prize from winner. It doesn’t work like that

The US president said he’d heard that the Peace Prize winner, Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado, wanted to give him the prize and that it would be “a great honour”.

  • Cleve R. Wootson Jr. and Maham Javaid
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US President Donald Trump addresses House Republicans in Washington on Tuesday.

Nobel winner backs ‘courageous’ Trump over raid – but issues warning

The Venezuelan political leader who fled the country last month thanked the US president, but sounded the alarm over her country’s new Trump-backed interim leader.

  • David Crowe

This peace prize was hard to accept, but I’m willing to be corrupted

FIFA boss Gianni Infantino has shown me the way.

  • Anson Cameron
Nobel Peace Prize laureate Ales Bialiatski smiles as he arrives at the US embassy in Vilnius, Lithuania.

Nobel Peace Prize winner, key opposition figures freed in Belarusian deal with US

The prisoner release was by far the biggest since Trump’s administration opened talks this year with veteran authoritarian leader and Putin ally Alexander Lukashenko.

  • Andrius Sytas, Felix Light and Mark Trevelyan
Pioneering biologist James Watson pictured in 2004.

James Watson, co-discoverer of the DNA helix, dies at 97

James Watson’s work helped bring genetics to the forefront of scientific research, but controversial remarks on race clouded his later career.

  • David Henry