Authorities have arrested two more suspects in the recent fraternity hazing death of a 20-year-old student at Southern University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Kyle Thurman was captured on Monday at a home in Port Allen, Louisiana, which is adjacent to Baton Rouge, local police said. Meanwhile, Isiah Smith, whose father reportedly owns a warehouse where…

A review into the cancellation of a production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream after a censorship row has been criticised by a major arts union for avoiding “deeper accountability”. The play had been due to run at the Royal Exchange theatre in Manchester in September last year but was pulled in a dispute over one…

Attendees and recruiters at a City Career Fair hiring event in Sacramento, California, US, on Thursday, Feb. 27, 2025.  David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Job openings increased in January, providing at least a momentary sign of stability as questions linger over labor market stability, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Tuesday. The…

New York fired more than 2,000 prison guards on Monday for failing to return to work after an illegal work stoppage – carried out amid fallout over the high-profile deaths of two detained people as well as reports of violence by guards. But the state said enough officers had come back on the job to…

A separatist militant group in Pakistan’s south-western Balochistan province says it has taken 182 hostages including military personnel after hijacking a train, as the country’s security situation continues to decline sharply. The Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) blew up the tracks and fired on the Jaffar Express train as it travelled through a tunnel in a…

Donald Trump has announced he is doubling tariffs on Canadian steel and aluminum from 25% to 50% as a retaliation for the province of Ontario’s imposition of a 25% surcharge on electricity exports to several US states, in a dramatic escalation of the trade war between the two ostensibly allied countries. “Based on Ontario, Canada,…

In a corner of Biloela State High School’s main office sits an unassuming white slab, covered with fossilised dinosaur footprints. New analysis suggests the boulder, hiding in plain sight at the central Queensland school for more than 20 years, contains one of the highest concentrations of dinosaur footprints ever documented in Australia. The slab has…

Chanel came gift-wrapped in black ribbon at Paris fashion week. The ribbon was made of steel, not silk. It was the width of a city street and 368 metres long, soaring skywards beside the long catwalk like very pretty scaffolding. The message: the house of Chanel is as tough as it is chic. New designer…

The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) has slashed two programs that provided more than $1bn for schools and food banks to purchase food from local farms and ranchers. About $660m of those funds were contained in the Local Food for Schools Cooperative Agreement Program, which provided funds to schools and child care facilities but is…

Sierra Leone’s president has fired the head of the immigration service days after footage was published showing him receiving a birthday gift from a fugitive Dutch drug kingpin. The footage of Alusine Kanneh being handed a present by Johannes Leijdekkers – which has not been independently verified by the Guardian – was published by the…