TV images showed police entering the university in New York which has been the focal point of student protests that have spread across the US

• New York police officers enter Columbia University to disperse student protest

The occupation of Hamilton Hall came after protestersa defied a 2pm Monday deadline to abandon their camp at Columbia or face suspension. The university promptly began suspending participating students.

Posts on an Instagram page for protest organisers shortly after midnight urged people to protect the encampment on campus and join them at Hamilton Hall. Those signs of supports surfaced as the UN human rights chief said he was atroubleda by how law enforcement has dealt with the recent wave of campus demonstrations.

A little after 9 p.m. this evening, the NYPD arrived on campus at the Universityas request. This decision was made to restore safety and order to our community.

After the University learned overnight that Hamilton Hall had been occupied, vandalized, and blockaded, we were left with no choice. Columbia public safety personnel were forced out of the building, and a member of our facilities team was threatened. We will not risk the safety of our community or the potential for further escalation.

The decision to reach out to the NYPD was in response to the actions of the protesters, not the cause they are championing. We have made it clear that the life of campus cannot be endlessly interrupted by protesters who violate the rules and the law.a

Time magazine called the ex-presidentas plans aan imperial presidency that would reshape America and its role in the worlda

Donald Trump has warned that Joe Biden and his family could face multiple criminal prosecutions once he leaves office unless the US supreme court awards Trump immunity in his own legal battles with the criminal justice system.

In a sweeping interview with Time magazine, Trump painted a startling picture of his second term, from how he would wield the justice department to hinting he may let states monitor pregnant women to enforce abortion laws.

Hush-money trial hears about ex-National Enquirer editor Dylan Howard asking Keith Davidson: aDid he cheat on Melania?a

Donald Trumpas New York criminal trial heated up on Tuesday afternoon as Keith Davidson, former attorney for both Stormy Daniels, the adult film actor, and Karen McDougal, the former Playboy model, was questioned by prosecutors about texts in which he was asked whether Trump had cheated on his wife.

In those texts, former National Enquirer editor Dylan Howard asked Davidson: aDid he cheat on Melania?a and aDo you know if the affair was during his marriage to Melania?a

Manahel al-Otaibi, who frequently promoted female empowerment on social media, was arrested under anti-terror laws

A young womenas rights activist in Saudi Arabia was secretly sentenced to 11 years in prison by an anti-terrorism court after being arrested for aher choice of clothing and support for womenas rightsa.

Saudi officials confirmed in a statement to the United National high commissioner for Human Rights that Manahel al-Otaibi was sentenced on 9 January for what the Saudi government called aterrorist offencesa.

Police say four officers who died serving warrant over firearms possession were aheroesa as investigation into shooting continues

Eight law-enforcement officers were shot, four fatally, during a shootout on Monday outside a home in North Carolina while serving a warrant to someone wanted for possessing a firearm as a convicted felon. It was the deadliest attack on US law enforcement since 2016.

Three of the four law-enforcement officers killed were working on a fugitive taskforce as agents with the US Marshals Service, and the fourth was a police officer who had recently been named officer of the month by his department.

Mediators renew efforts to secure a truce ahead of invasion of city, where more than 1 million people are sheltering

Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed that Israel will proceed with an offensive on the southern Gaza city of Rafah even if renewed efforts at internationally brokered talks with Hamas result in the release of hostages and a ceasefire.

Mediators led by Egypt have renewed efforts aimed at a truce in recent days after it became clearer that Israel is preparing for its long-threatened ground operation in Rafah. The city on the Egyptian border is the only part of the Palestinian territory that has not faced ground fighting, and more than half of the stripas 2.3 million population has sought shelter there.

Researchers examined data from seven studies involving more than 9,000 women around the world

Perimenopausal women have a 40% higher risk of experiencing depression than premenopausal women, a global analysis of research suggests.

Experts from University College London (UCL) found women could be vulnerable to depression in the run-up to their periods stopping, with the development of new cases or existing symptoms worsening. The research underlines the need to provide support and screening to effectively address womenas mental health needs.

Louisiana state police recently served sweeping and unprecedented search warrant

The Roman Catholic archdiocese of New Orleans is the target of an active child sex-trafficking investigation, according to a sweeping and unprecedented search warrant Louisiana state police recently served on an organization that for decades has been submerged in the global churchas clergy molestation scandal.

The clerk at the state criminal courthouse where the warrant was signed released the 11-page document on Tuesday. It makes clear that troopers involved in a pending rape prosecution against one priest came to suspect that that case was part of a broader pattern of awidespread sexual abuse of minors dating back decadesa that was acovered up and not reported to law enforcementa.

Lidia Stepanivna Lomikovska reunited with family days after fleeing frontline town in her slippers and using a cane

A 98-year-old woman who escaped Russian-occupied territory in Ukraine by using a cane to walk six miles in a pair of slippers has been reunited with her family, days after they were separated while escaping to safety.

Lidia Stepanivna Lomikovska and her family decided to leave the frontline town of Ocheretyne, in the eastern Donetsk region, after Russian troops entered it last week and fighting intensified.

Police launch violent crackdown on demonstration against bill that pro-Moscow government is trying to pass

Georgian security forces used water cannon, teargas and stun grenades against protesters outside parliament late on Tuesday, sharply escalating a crackdown after lawmakers debated a aforeign agentsa bill that is viewed by the opposition and western nations as authoritarian and Russian-inspired.

Reuters witnesses saw some police officers physically attack protesters a who threw eggs and bottles at them a before using teargas, water cannon and stun grenades to force demonstrators from the area outside the Soviet-built parliament building.

Euphoria is the latest in the hip-hop heavyweightsa fight via songs, which has now drawn in some of the biggest names in rap

Kendrick Lamar has released a new diss track against Drake titled Euphoria a the latest in a long-running feud between the two hip-hop heavyweights which was reignited earlier this year and has since ballooned into a acivil wara among rapas upper echelons.

The song, which shares a name with the HBO series on which Drake serves as executive producer, was released on Lamaras YouTube channel on Tuesday.

Housing costs and homelessness are on the rise in California. In the Austrian capital, people of all income levels live in subsidised housing a and more is being built

Imagine a beautiful city where a centrally located two-bedroom apartment can cost you as little as $600 a month. For many US policymakers, itas a pipe dream. And yet in Vienna, itas a reality.

In the past two years, at least four delegations of housing experts and political leaders from California have visited the Austrian capital, hoping to unlock the secrets of why Vienna regularly comes top in surveys of the worldas most livable cities.

Ukraineas second-largest city has suffered aextensive damagea to civilian infrastructure and a sharp increase in casualties; woman, 98, walks out of besieged city on her own. What we know on day 798

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Scientists stunned by scale of destruction after summer of storm surges, cyclones and floods

Beneath the turquoise waters off Heron Island lies a huge, brain-shaped Porites coral that, in health, would be a rude shade of purplish-brown. Today that coral outcrop, or bommie, shines snow white.

Prof Terry Hughes, a coral bleaching expert at James Cook University, estimates this living boulder is at least 300 years old.

Women initiate 70% of divorces. My separation was difficult a but friends and strangers reassured me it wasnat a mistake

Changing my car insurance was one of the many things on my list. aI need a quote for just me and my car,a I told the customer service representative. aMy husband and I are getting divorced.a

aI can help you with that,a the woman on the phone said. She paused. aIave been through it myself. Itas just one foot in front of the other for a while.a

The actor struggles with a distractingly unbelievable British accent in Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knightas tiresome espionage drama

The intimidating glut of prestige shows rushed to air before the end of the Emmys eligibility period makes it harder than ever to know how one should portion out viewing time. Recent weeks have seen new projects from big names like Park Chan-Wook with stars such as Ewan McGregor, Michael Douglas and Julianne Moore while the remaining days see actors like AndrA(c) Holland and Benedict Cumberbatch premiere dramas alongside the return of awards magnet Hacks.

Thereas an inevitable impossibility for the average viewer, and voter, trying to schedule it all in and so certain shows will, and must, be sacrificed. The Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knightas globe-trotting spy drama The Veil is the perfect lamb for the job, a bafflingly bad time-waster that can be easily excised and promptly forgotten. Itas a hodgepodge of shows weave seen before a a bit of Killing Eve, a touch of Homeland a but itas mostly reminiscent of a junky Netflix action movie only stretched over six episodes and with a laughably straight face. Perhaps if it had been told in less than two hours with more light-footed action to distract us, it might not have been such a slog.

A pro-Palestine demonstrator used a jug to defend against officers. Now the image has become a meme of the movement

As college students across the US demand administrators divest from Israel and support Palestinian freedom, scenes of brutal arrests have spread across social media. But in recent days, a more playful meme has emerged: the water-cooler jug as an icon of resistance.

Last week, students at California State Polytechnic University, Humboldt, barricaded themselves inside of a campus building after police showed up to their protest in riot gear. The situation turned tense: while the students held the line against the police, who struck them with batons, one anonymous protester decided to fight back, bonking a cop on the helmet with a water jug that had originally been used as a drum.

Many practitioners consider CBT the gold standard of therapy, but does it work for everyone?

The first time I learned about cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), I felt the pleasure of recognition and of superiority. I was in high school, and it would be years before I visited a therapist of any kind, but from what I gathered online, CBT consisted of what I was already doing.

The modality grew from a core belief that irrational thoughts are responsible for emotional suffering, according to Rachael Rosner, a historian writing a biography of Aaron Beck, the father of CBT. It followed that changing these thoughts could alleviate the distress.

Rachel Costeras TikTok show, which documents the extremely messy dwelling spaces of New Yorkas young men, has clearly struck a nerve

Snowboarding boots on the kitchen table. A steering wheel in the bedroom. And clothes absolutely everywhere, with no system to determine which, if any, are clean.

These are just a few of the sights that indicate youare in a boy room. Itas a bedroom with no form and little function, inhabited by an adult male who doesnat think much about either concept. The decor, if you can call it that, generally consists of arbitrary trinkets a a favorite old skateboard on the wall, a handful of childhood action figures on the windowsill. The floor is often difficult to see thanks to the density of piled-up sneakers or trash. The best you can say for the furniture is that there might be some; otherwise the resident sleeps on a bare mattress set directly on the floor, with a single pillow and a coverless duvet insert.

Having turned my back on the partying, hangovers and self-destruction, Iave slowly worked out what was behind them a and how to replace them with something better

The first alcoholic drink I had was a lemon Hooch in a gay club called the Palm Beach in south London in 1991. For the first time in my life the anxiety and self-consciousness I thought was just my personality melted away. A decades-long whirlwind of partying, hangovers and self-destructive behaviour ensued, all fuelled by trauma and self-loathing. That was until I finally realised too much was enough and that I needed to stop. Ten years ago, after 22 years of problem drinking, I shared a bottle of champagne with a friend and put the bottle and the glasses in the recycling bin. I havenat had a drink since. These are 10 things Iave learned in those 10 years of being alcohol-free.

Late-night hosts discuss the South Dakota governor and possible Trump VP pick revealing she killed her family dog

Late-night hosts talk about Kristi Noemas puppy-killing admission and Donald Trumpas day off from court.

Theyave played with everyone from Lucinda Williams to a pre-fame Billie Eilish. Now, on their intensely personal new album, they confront the trauma of being pistol-whipped and dealing with an eating disorder

Lawrence Rothman has lived a lot of lives: in the early aughts, they performed under the name Lillian Berlin in the ultra-political hard rock band Living Things. Theyave been a model, posing with Kate Moss in a 2008 Roberto Cavalli ad; and with their wife, Floria Sigismondi, director of The Runaways, in i-D magazine. Kim Gordon, Lucinda Williams and a pre-fame Billie Eilish are just some of their collaborators. And on their debut solo album, 2017as The Book of Law, they explored nine alter egos, each with distinct personas and visual identities, through flamboyant, off-kilter pop.

With the release of 2021as Good Morning America, they switched gears into sun-scorched country, a mode that continues on their third album, The Plow That Broke the Plains: an intense, upsetting, starkly personal record. aTo bear things inside of myself that are uncomfortable, it felt weirdly easier for me to do it in a singer-songwriter setting,a they say. aIn an experimental setting, the lyric is hidden in math, and you havenat purged it from yourself. I had a lot of purging I had to do on this record.a

Three of the striped African mammals recaptured but one remains at large after escaping from trailer en route to Montana

Three zebras were successfully recaptured by state police and rodeo professionals after wandering on to a major interstate in Washington state, though one remains on the lam.

On Sunday, four zebras escaped from their trailer while being transported to Montana via Interstate 90, the Seattle Times reported.

Thousands of demonstrators including students and non-students showed up Sunday on campus for four different protests

Skirmishes broke out at the University of California, Los Angeles on Sunday as pro-Palestinian and pro-Israeli protesters rallied on campus where a Palestinian solidarity encampment was set up earlier this week.

On Sunday, thousands of demonstrators including students and outside members from the wider Los Angeles community showed up on campus, with many waving Palestinian and Israeli flags as others chanted into microphones.

Yun Chuan and Xin Bao, who are five and four, have a trip planned to southern California as part of partnership between US and China

A pair of giant pandas will soon make the journey from China to the US, where they will be cared for at the San Diego zoo as part of an ongoing conservation partnership between the two nations, officials said on Monday.

The San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance said its caretakers recently visited China to meet the giant pandas, Yun Chuan and Xin Bao, ahead of their planned trip to southern California. An exact date for the handoff has not been set.

The university has said it wonat give in to studentsa demands a but it has budged before

Rows of tents line the steps at Sproul Hall, the grand neoclassical administration building that soars up six stories near the main entrance to the University of California, Berkeley.

Thursday marked the fourth day of the Free Palestine camp, one of dozens of sit-ins that have sprung up on campuses across the US as symbols of protests for a student-led pro-Palestinian movement.

The right has painted nonviolent protests against the war on Gaza as hotbeds of awokea terrorism. Itas a pretext for repression

Across the world people have been shocked by social media footage of heavily armed law enforcement officers arresting peacefully protesting students and professors at university campuses around the United States. The so-called aland of the free and home of the bravea looks neither free nor brave a except for the brave protesters who continue to stand up to state and university repression.

Although government repression of student protests is not unique to either the US or this particular period, the current orgy of state repression is very much an illustration of the current crisis of liberal democracy as it is squeezed by both illiberalism and neoliberalism.

With his interchangeable T-shirts and short neat hair, Facebookas founder famously anever tried to be coola. Is his makeover just a distraction from whatas going on at Meta?

A vibe shift is afoot in Silicon Valley. For aeons, the movers and shakers of the tech industry signalled that they were serious people working on serious things via their simple outfits. Crypto mogul Sam Bankman-Fried (now in jail) always looked as if he had rolled out of bed and forgotten to change out of his pyjamas. The late Steve Jobs famously adopted a uniform of black polo necks. Mark Zuckerberg, meanwhile, once boasted that he owned and wore multiple versions of the same T-shirt because it was efficient.

aIam not a cool person and Iave never really tried to be cool,a Zuckerberg said in a 2014 Q&A. aI really want to clear my life so that I have to make as few decisions as possible a| I feel like Iam not doing my job if I spend any of my energy on things that are silly or frivolous.a That attitude seemed to extend to his hair, which has always been kept Lego-style short.

The regime wants to crush resistance. But those it rules continue to push back against its brutality

The protests that exploded across Iran following Mahsa Aminias death in custody in September 2022 were a turning point. The young Iranian-Kurdish woman had been detained by the amorality policea for aimproper hijaba. Not only did young women take to the streets and cast off their scarves in fury, but parents and grandparents came too. The protests were strikingly socially diverse. Critically, men joined the cries of awoman, life, freedoma. The regime reacted with predictable fury, killing hundreds and arresting thousands. It succeeded in suppressing the demonstrations. But many women refused to return to obeying the strict dress code.

It was inevitable that the Iranian leadership would strike back. Its quarrel is not only with womenas liberties, but with the precedent set for defiance. It is determined to crush opposition as it crushed the street protests, with a court sentencing a popular rapper to death a not for violence but simply dissent. Toomaj Salehi, courageous in supporting the nationwide protests in 2022, was found guilty of acorruption on Eartha. He had previously been sentenced to six years over his role, before being freed by a court citing a technicality.

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Last year was the most dangerous to be a reporter since 2015. Without the courage of correspondents risking everything to report from conflict areas, we could be at risk of azones of silencea spreading around the world

Conflict in Gaza, war in Ukraine, a battle over the global environment a the world is becoming an increasingly hostile place, particularly for frontline journalists.

Last year saw 99 killings of reporters, up 44% on 2022 and the highest toll since 2015.

Jonathan Watts is the Guardianas global environment writer