Australian navy discovered USS Edsall late last year near Christmas Island, 80 years after its 1942 sinking by Japan

The wreck of the long-lost US warship USS Edsall, sent to the bottom of the sea during the second world war by the Japanese, has been discovered, US and Australian officials announced on Monday.

The warship was sunk on 1 March 1942, three months after Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor. The Edsall was traveling across the Indian Ocean south of Java when it was sunk by Japanese dive bombers.

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Francesca Albanese recently published a report in which she alleged that Israel was committing ‘genocide’ in Gaza

Campaigners against antisemitism have held protests outside universities in London against a visit by the UN special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories.

Francesca Albanese, an international lawyer specialising in human rights and the Middle East, was taking part in an event at the London School of Economics and Political Science on Monday.

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Richard Allen, 52, could face up to 130 years in prison for killings on a hiking trail in Delphi, a small Indiana town

A jury in the small Indiana town of Delphi convicted a man of murder on Monday in the 2017 killings of two teenage girls who vanished during an afternoon hike.

Deliberations stretched into a fourth day before jurors found Richard Allen guilty of the killings of 13-year-old Abigail Williams and 14-year-old Liberty German. The former drugstore worker was convicted of two counts of murder and two additional counts of murder while committing or attempting to commit kidnapping. Allen, 52, could now face up to 130 years in prison.

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• Aston Villa player chosen for Nations League games
• Lee Carsley names final squad as interim manager

Lee Carsley has been rocked by an extraordinary eight withdrawals from his England squad to face Greece and Republic of Ireland in the Nations League, Phil Foden an unexpected name on the absentees list where he joins his Manchester City teammate Jack Grealish.

Carsley, in interim charge for the final time before he hands over to Thomas Tuchel in the new year, has reacted by giving a first call-up to Morgan Rogers, reward for the attacking midfielder’s dynamic form at Aston Villa this season. Also called in are Jarrad Branthwaite and Jarrod Bowen plus the uncapped Tino Livramento and James Trafford.

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Working long hours can lead to people having issues moderating behaviour due to ‘ego depletion’, research shows

If a hard day in the office leaves you crabby and uncooperative, you may have an excuse: scientists say exercising self-restraint can exhaust parts of the brain related to decision-making and impulse control, leaving you less able to manage your behaviour towards others.

The researchers say their results tie into the theory of “ego depletion” – a controversial idea in psychology that willpower is a limited resource that gets used up by effort.

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The country’s greatest bowler on why his wife, Daniella, is still mad at England, how the game saved him from loneliness growing up and what could be next

“I’m not getting too dark here,” Jimmy Anderson says quietly as we return to a time when he was a solitary boy in Burnley, “but I remember sitting in my room thinking: ‘I wish I wasn’t me. I wish I was someone else.’ That’s not a great place to be at 14. I didn’t fit in at school or have a group of mates. The biggest thing for me then was the feeling of being lonely.

“I didn’t have close friends. We didn’t play cricket at school. I was seen as a bit of an odd person who liked cricket. Why would you like cricket when you can play football and these other amazing sports? I did play them, but obviously not to the same level as cricket. I just felt like an outcast.”

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Former England striker will relinquish role at the end of the 2024/25 season, but will stay at BBC until 2026

Gary Lineker is to step down as the presenter of Match of the Day at the end of the season, it has been reported.

He is believed to have signed an 18-month contract with the broadcaster that will cover the next Fifa World Cup in the US, Canada and Mexico, but will step back from the BBC’s football highlights programme at the end of the 2024/25 season. BBC News reported that an announcement would be made on Tuesday.

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Exclusive: Target is 81% emissions cut compared with 1990, but activists say it must be backed by plan of action

Keir Starmer will announce a stringent new climate goal for the UK on Tuesday, the Guardian can reveal, with a target in line with the advice given to the government by its scientists and independent advisers.

The UK will pledge to cut emissions by 81% compared with 1990 levels by 2035, a target in line with the recommendations of the Climate Change Committee .

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Status of abortion in state has been contested since Roe was overturned, triggering the 175-year-old ban into effect

During heated oral arguments Monday morning, the Wisconsin supreme court appeared poised to find an 1849 law banning most abortions cannot be enforced.

The legal status of abortion in Wisconsin has been contested since the US supreme court overturned Roe v Wade and ended the right to abortion nationwide, triggering bans across the country – including in Wisconsin, where a 175-year-old ban immediately went into effect.

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