Four people died and one was seriously injured after a cable car crashed to the ground near Naples in southern Italy. Italian media reported that a cable broke on the link taking tourists from the town of Castellammare di Stabia to Monte Faito, about 3km (1.8 miles) away. A British woman was among those who died and police confirmed that two of the other victims were an Israeli woman and the Italian driver of the cable car. Another cabin carrying 16 passengers near the foot of the mountain was evacuated

Hedgelink is a partnership of more than 30 organisations planting and restoring the next generation of ancient hedges. Up and down the country people are coming together to plant hedges. “Ancient hedges have ancient things,” says Wolton. “The opportunity to plant hedges across the country is vast,” because they can fit in edges of land, along roads or in the bottom of gardens. We have inherited a landscape full of ancient hedges and now we are contributing to that legacy, Gimber says.

Six women, including the pop star Katy Perry and the morning TV host Gayle King, have safely completed a trip into space. They used a rocket owned by Jeff Bezos, the Amazon co-founder and commercial space flight entrepreneur. His fiancee, Lauren Sánchez, was also on the flight

Lindt said in March it had shipped more goods from New Hampshire, from where it supplies most of the North American market. The cost of shipping goods from east Asia to the US on short-term contracts jumped at the start of the month, just ahead of “tariff day”. In the short term, spot shipping rates are expected to remain volatile, and ports will be planning for congestion. Trump’s 25% levies on steel, aluminium and cars are not included in the 90-day tariff delay, prompting several companies to pause shipments. BLG said car manufacturers and shipping companies were currently “deciding at short notice which vehicles will be booked on to the ships bound for the USA”.

Today temperatures are 1.5C warmer than they were in ­preindustrial times and sea ­levels are rising at an accelerating rate. In the late 70s, most climatic fears were focused in the media on the arrival of a new ice age. These include our growing mastery of DNA science, the creation of mobile phones and computers, our improving ability to tackle the scourge of cancer, and the discovery that Homo sapiens have an African origin. View image in fullscreen Mobile phones are among the amazing developments that have occurred in the past 40 years. Our understanding of the disease gradually changed after its appearance in late 2019, and advice was altered as scientists learned more about its causes.

As global financial markets shed trillions in dollars of value, Australians compulsively check their superannuation balances to see how much damage Donald Trump’s trade war is inflicting on their retirement savings. Trump assured the world that “I know what the hell I’m doing”, but investors around the world were panicking. The markets get ‘the yips’On 2 April, Trump declared that his tariffs would “make American wealthy again”. By 8 April, shares on Wall Street had plummeted by 12% over four tempestuous days of trading. Australia’s benchmark S&P/ASX 200 caught some of the exuberance, closing up 4.5% to record its strongest trading day since the pandemic.

It never happened, but the picture says it did – and, as we all know, a picture is worth a thousand-word correction. Picture captions by Felix Bazalgette, Gabrielle Schwarz and Emma LoffhagenLeap into the Void, 1960By Yves KleinView image in fullscreen The image the world saw … Photograph: Metropolitan Museum/Art Resource/ScalaView image in fullscreen … and the one it didn’t. FBFalling Soldier, 1936By Robert CapaView image in fullscreen Photograph: © Robert Capa/ICP/Magnum Photos“It happened in Spain,” Robert Capa recalled in a radio interview 11 years after the photograph was taken. GSStalin and Nikolai Yezhov, 1937Photographer unknownView image in fullscreen Now you see Nikolai Yezhov …View image in fullscreen … now you don’t. FBThese 28 images show photographic fakes that have fooled the world.

Crashing share prices, a sell-off in bonds and currency chaos erasing trillions of dollars of wealth in a matter of days. “I think Trump’s trade views are folly and madness. “My basic thesis is that the dollar will remain the dominant global currency for the foreseeable future as there are not viable alternatives. Sterling – the global reserve currency before the US’s rise to dominance after the second world war – accounts for about 5%. Some within Trump’s administration, however, view the dollar’s status as the international reserve currency with distaste, as another sign of the world freeloading off the US.

The world’s biggest youth Christian missionary organisation is facing allegations of spiritual abuse and controlling behaviour from young people who say they were left “traumatised”. Those who confessed could be questioned and made to give public apologies, according to former missionaries. Others described how people disclosed being victims of assault or sexual abuse, as well as transgressions such as speeding fines. A YWAM base in the UK was recently closed amid claims of spiritual abuse. In England, a YWAM spokesperson said leaders had “implemented stricter oversight mechanisms” after claims of spiritual abuse at a base which has since closed.

China has hit back hard against Donald Trump’s “bullying” tariffs, raising fears that the escalating trade war could trigger a global recession and prompting fresh turmoil in financial markets. The dramatic escalation in trade hostilities between the world’s two largest economies magnified concerns among investors about the risks to global growth. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) also warned the escalating trade war was likely to hit global economic growth. Oil prices also declined sharply, as experts reassessed their projections for global growth, with Brent crude down 7% at about $65 a barrel. Certainly not enough to decisively change the outlook for UK growth.

Global financial markets have been plunged into turmoil as Donald Trump’s escalating trade war knocked trillions of dollars off the value of the world’s biggest companies and heightened fears of a US recession. While Trump timed his Wednesday evening Rose Garden address to avoid live tickers of crashing stock markets, that fate arrived when Asian exchanges opened hours later. Commodities fell sharply, including a 7% plunge in oil prices, reflecting growing concerns over the global economic outlook. Tariffs will fall heavily on some of the world’s poorest countries, with nations in south-east Asia, including Myanmar, among the most affected. It published a 417-page list of US products on which it could impose tariffs, including meat, fish and dairy products, whiskey and rum, clothing, motorcycles and musical instruments.

The president displayed the top of his list from a podium in the White House Rose Garden, and later published a longer version. Note that the “tariffs charged to the USA” in Trump’s formulation include “trade barriers” so don’t necessarily align with the tariffs published by countries concerned.

Heard Island and McDonald Islands, which form an external territory of Australia, are among the remotest places on Earth, accessible only via a two-week boat voyage from Perth on Australia’s west coast. Nevertheless, Heard and McDonald islands featured in a list released by the White House of “countries” that would have new trade tariffs imposed. Such territories featured on the White House list were the Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Christmas Island and Norfolk Island. But George Plant, the administrator of Norfolk Island, disputed the data. In the five years prior, imports from Heard Island and McDonald Islands ranged from US$15,000 (A$24,000) to US$325,000 (A$518,000) per year.

Serving as a barrier to trade, tariffs raise the price of an imported product for businesses and consumers. The US bank JP Morgan has estimated that tariffs of 25% would raise new car prices by $4,000 (£3,092). The introduction of tariffs by one country can often collapse into a cycle of retaliation, or even a full-blown trade war. Additional costs from tariffs are typically borne by the end consumer, meaning Trump’s plans are likely to push up US living costs. Trump – who also imposed tariffs in his first term as president – is not the first US president to shock the UK on trade.

Donald Trump is getting ready to impose sweeping and immediate tariffs on all foreign goods, thereby unleashing a trade war and upending the multilateral trading system that the US helped to build after the second world war. The bourbon and blue jeans plan Imposing levies on emblematic US goods is the tried and tested European response to Trump tariffs. In theory, the EU could levy more tariffs over these plans, as well as the latest “liberation day” duties. The long-range economic strike The scale of Trump’s tariffs, which could return US duties to levels not seen since the 19th century, is intensifying calls to retaliate against US services. Make new friends Trump’s return to the White House has accelerated EU efforts to strike new trade deals and deepen existing ties with the rest of the world.