David Beckham urges World Economic Forum to fight for girls’ rights Next up to receive a Crystal Award at the World Economic Forum tonight is David Beckham. WEF’s Hilde Schwab explains that Beckham is receiving a crystal award for his “extraordinary leadership and humanitarianism in promoting and protecting the rights of the world’s most vulnerable…

Yvette Cooper has announced a public inquiry into the murder of three young girls at a Taylor Swift-themed dance club in Southport after confirming the “extremely violent” killer was known to the authorities. The home secretary said the inquiry would provide answers to the families of Axel Rudakubana, 18, who pleaded guilty on Monday to…

Pope Francis has taken the remarkable step of dissolving a Peruvian-based Catholic movement, the Sodalitium of Christian Life (SCV), after years of attempts at reform and a Vatican investigation. The investigation uncovered sexual abuses by its founder, financial mismanagement by its leaders and spiritual abuses by its top members. The Sodalitium on Monday confirmed the…

Donald Trump’s presidency will boost rightwing political forces across Europe, the Hungarian prime minister, Viktor Orbán, has said, as he announced an offensive “to occupy Brussels”. A Trump ally, Hungary’s long-serving prime minister was speaking as European far-right and nationalist politicians flocked to Washington to welcome the returning US president at Monday’s inauguration. Orbán, who…

Elon Musk’s “department of government efficiency” (Doge) program was sued within minutes of Donald Trump being sworn in. The 30-page lawsuit, obtained by The Washington Post, challenges the legality of the government advisory committee Donald Trump claims he has created, by alleging it violates federal transparency rules on disclosure, hiring and other practices. The public…

The United States was launched on a fresh course of disruption and division on Monday as Donald Trump was sworn in as its 47th president, promising a blitz of executive orders, a radical shake-up of the global order and a “golden age of America”. In a ceremony staged indoors in the US Capitol because of…

An Indian police volunteer has been sentenced to life in prison for the rape and murder of a junior doctor at the hospital where she worked in Kolkata, a crime that sparked nationwide protests and widespread hospital strikes last year. The court rejected demands for the death penalty, saying it was not a “rarest-of-rare” crime.…

A Myanmar junta airstrike has killed 28 people, including children, and wounded 25 at a temporary detention area in western Rakhine state, an ethnic minority armed group has said. The Arakan Army (AA) is engaged in a fierce fight with the military for control of Rakhine, where it has seized swaths of territory in the…

An Iranian court has sentenced the popular singer Amir Hossein Maghsoudloo, known as Tataloo, to death on appeal after he was convicted of blasphemy, according to local media reports. “The supreme court accepted the prosecutor’s objection” to a previous five-year jail term on offences including blasphemy, the reformist newspaper Etemad reported on Sunday. It said…

Jeremy Corbyn and John McDonnell were due to be interviewed under caution by police after a pro-Palestine march in central London on Saturday. Nine people have been charged with public order offences after protesters allegedly breached conditions as they marched through the city, allegedly breaking through a police line in the process. The Palestine Solidarity…