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.

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 .

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.

Transport secretary says figures will be shown on screens in effort to hold operators and government to account

Passengers will be shown how often their trains are delayed and cancelled on screens at stations under plans by the transport secretary to hold operators to account.

Louise Haigh promised to increase transparency by publicly displaying punctuality performance of train operating companies, including those run by the government, on screens at most stations.

Prop 6, which would have banned involuntary servitude in prisons, fails in blow to criminal justice reform advocates

California voters have rejected a ballot measure to prohibit forced prison labor, in a major disappointment to advocates of criminal justice reform and many of the 90,000 people incarcerated in state prisons.

Proposition 6 would have amended the state’s constitution to ban involuntary servitude for people in prison. The proposition would instead have allowed people in prison to chose their jobs, with a related proposal that would have created voluntary work programs within the prison system.

Victim reported being sexually assaulted by ‘several males’ and coerced into taking drugs on frat row, officials say

Officials at Cornell University have suspended one of the Ivy League institution’s Greek fraternities while police investigate an incident in which a victim was allegedly repeatedly sexually assaulted by “several males” and forced into taking drugs.

The New York university’s police department said it received a report about an assault said to have taken place at an off-campus event in the city of Ithaca on the night of 25 October, the Times Union reported .

Allegations against Karim Khan to be examined by outside body ‘to ensure fully independent, impartial and fair process’

The chief prosecutor of the international criminal court will face an external investigation into allegations of sexual misconduct, the court’s governing body has said.

In a statement, the president of the body that oversees the ICC said the inquiry would examine the allegations against Karim Khan, which related to his alleged conduct towards a woman who worked for him.

New class is latest to explore a pop icon’s impact, with other universities offering courses on Taylor Swift and Lady Gaga

Students at Yale University are getting the chance to take a class entirely devoted to Beyoncé , school officials have announced.

The class – titled Beyoncé Makes History: Black Radical Tradition History, Culture, Theory & Politics through Music – will be taught by the African American studies and music professor Daphne Brooks beginning in the upcoming spring semester.

Artist rose to prominence for his Ku Klux Klan painting and now his provocative, powerful work is on exhibition

In 2015, artist Vincent Valdez released his imposingly large painting The City I. The controversy that swiftly ignited upon its release had long been brewing even as Valdez was painting it. The 30-ft black and white work shows over a dozen hooded Klansmen gathering rather portentously in the middle of the night. The painting, which many initially critiqued for unnecessarily referencing a long-past chapter in American race relations, quickly showed its relevancy – as it was arriving into the world, Klansman David Duke himself gave then candidate Donald Trump a presidential endorsement, and the four years of the first Trump presidency would embolden exactly the racial animus that Valdez had portrayed.

Now, the first major museum survey of Valdez’s prodigious output is released on the eve of a second Trump presidency, when signs of the racism this second term is likely to unleash is already evident in the form of revolting text messages being sent to Black Americans. The City I is joined by works paying testament to the sweep of Valdez’s artistic vision, showing it as not an isolated example of artistic prophecy but rather as a part of the uncannily accurate, unerring vision that Valdez has demonstrated as a painter.