Biden and Trump spar on abortion and tax policy in first presidential debate

Ex-president says he favors exceptions to an abortion ban as he draws debate into a discussion on illegal immigration

‘Biden can’t do it’: western politicians shocked by US president’s debate flop

Some call for rethink by Democrats and say Europe must step up preparations for another Trump term

Deadly Russian missile strikes kill civilians in southern Ukraine town

Seven people dead, including children, and dozens wounded, report Vilniansk local authorities

Pranksters reveal odes to Putin were Russian translations of Nazi verse

Patriotic poems published under invented name of Gennady Rakitin were embraced as examples of ‘Z poetry’

Briton who founded charity helping Ukrainian soldiers dies ‘in battlefield’

Peter Fouché set up Project Konstantin, which provides supplies and delivers aid to frontline

Viktor Orbán expected to make surprise trip to Kyiv on Tuesday

Sources say Hungary’s pro-Russian PM planning to visit president Zelenskiy one day after assuming EU presidency

Viktor Orbán visits Kyiv for surprise talks with Volodymyr Zelenskiy

Hungarian PM’s visit is the pro-Putin leader’s first to Ukraine since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion

From conflict to the climate – what are the UK parties’ international plans?

As the election nears, we scrutinise how each of the main contenders would deal with problems around the world

Negotiated outcome now seen as most likely result of Russia-Ukraine war – poll

Thinktank polled 15 European countries and only 1% expect Russia to emerge victorious

Ukraine war briefing: Thousands of Ukrainian convicts join fight against Russian forces

More than 3,000 prisoners in Ukraine released on parole to boost military numbers; Hungary’s pro-Russian PM, Viktor Orbán, expected to visit Kyiv. What we know on day 860

Orbán to meet Putin in Moscow visit likely to anger EU

Hungarian PM ‘trying to mediate between Russia and Ukraine’ after Hungary took over rotating EU presidency

Viktor Orbán visits Vladimir Putin to condemnation from fellow EU leaders

Brussels disassociates itself from Hungarian PM’s Moscow trip, which he has tried to cast as a peace mission

David Lammy faces a world in turmoil: five key concerns for foreign secretary

Challenges include two wars and global inertia on the climate crisis as hard-right populists from France to the US flex their muscles . David Lammy: ‘Britain has to start reconnecting with a dangerous, divided world’

UK urged to protect Ukraine from legal action over private debt default

Campaigners call on new government to protect Kyiv from ‘shameless bondholders’ as repayment deadline nears

Biden’s health and threat of a second Trump term loom over Nato summit

European leaders turn eyes to president as they meet next week and as concerns build for US, their ‘unpredictable ally’

Rescuers search rubble of Kyiv children’s hospital after Russian missile attack kills at least 29 in Ukraine

Hospital was directly hit, Zelenskiy says, as he vows retaliation after one of heaviest attacks on capital since war began

‘No words for this’: horror over Russian bombing of Kyiv children’s hospital

Witnesses express shock and revulsion after deadly missile strike on Ukraine’s largest paediatric clinic

Elina Svitolina wears black ribbon at Wimbledon after Kyiv hospital attack

Ukrainian tennis star shows solidarity with victims after tournament makes rare exception to all-white rules

‘We do the job just as well as men’: Ukrainian women take on coal mining

Women are moving into traditionally male jobs as the call-up of men to the war drives labour shortages

Biden decries Russian ‘brutality’ over deadly Ukraine strikes as Nato leaders gather

Joe Biden pledges to boost air defences on the eve of a Nato summit in Washington, which will see Volodymyr Zelenskiy request more military assistance