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Every country supports its aerospace business, while keeping the production at home is vital. At least with Rolls, the UK is backing a winner Rolls-Royce, the engine-maker and defence firm that is spitting out so much cash it can shove £7bn to £9bn towards buying back shares over the next three years, would like UK taxpayers to find a few quid – reportedly up to £200m as a first slug – to help fu…

Clinton delivers withering rebuke and says hearing is an attempt to deflect attention from Trump’s actions Hillary Clinton delivered a withering rebuke to a congressional committee investigating her supposed links to Jeffrey Epstein on Thursday, accusing its Republican members of embarking on a “fishing expedition” intended to cover up and deflect attention from the actions of Donald Trump. In a …

Mette Frederiksen hopes to profit from her stand against Donald Trump’s attempt to claim the Arctic territory Denmark’s prime minister has called an early election to take advantage of a “Greenland bounce” after Donald Trump’s threats to invade the Arctic territory. Mette Frederiksen, who has been in office since 2019, is required by Danish law to call an election by 31 October. Setting a date wi…

Station will no longer be working with journalist after pianist makes email public Pianist Yuja Wang today made public an email written to her by writer, critic and Radio 3 presenter Norman LeBrecht, and her response that accuses the journalist of “derogatory misogynistic bullying”. Lebrecht had written to the musician querying her decision to withdraw from a BBC Lebrecht Interview stating: “I am…

Sadiq Khan reveals 100 officers will use roaming technology for six months but opponents call its use ‘alarming’ Metropolitan police officers are to start scanning citizens’ faces using automated facial recognition technology to check their identities, in a move backed by the mayor Sadiq Khan but branded “alarming” by opponents. The pilot was revealed on Thursday when Khan said 100 officers would…

Jeremy Corbyn’s allies declared victory after he was voted to be Your Party’s parliamentary leader in an election in which his rival Zarah Sultana was also voted on to the party’s leadership committee. The party is hoping to turn the page on bitter in-fighting since its launch last year, but will it succeed? Lucy Hough talks to the Guardian columnist Owen Jones Continue reading...

Court documents from Los Angeles county describe the artist, 20, as the target in legal case over death of teen girl More than six months after the body of a teenage girl was found in his abandoned Tesla, it emerged this week that the singer D4vd is the target of a Los Angeles county grand jury investigation. In previously sealed subpoenas issued last month and recently obtained by the Associated…

The actor, long open about his struggle with sobriety, was also ordered to undergo drug testing and pay $100,000 bond Shia LaBeouf on Thursday was ordered to enroll in substance abuse treatment, undergo a drug testing program and pay a $100,000 bond as conditions of his release from custody after the actor allegedly battered and hurled homophobic slurs at two men at a New Orleans bar. The require…

Acting university president says agents misrepresented themselves to gain entry to the residential building Columbia University said on Thursday morning that one of its students was arrested by federal immigration officers who apparently misrepresented themselves to gain entry to a residential building to make the apprehension. The acting president of the elite institution in New York City , Clai…

University of Padua employee fractured ankle when getting up to fetch documents during video meeting An Italian woman who fell and broke her ankle while working from home has obtained compensation in an unprecedented court ruling hailed a “victory” for workers’ rights. In April 2022, the woman, an employee in the University of Padua’s law department, fractured her ankle in two places. The injury,…

Four arrests over Camorra’s alleged infiltration of San Giovanni Bosco to carry out lucrative criminal activity Italian police on Wednesday arrested four people over an alleged Camorra plot to infiltrate a Naples hospital, stage fake crashes for insurance payouts and spirit corpses away on oxygen-masked stretchers to profit from private ambulance transfers. The investigation , prompted by the tes…

Family learned of change while abroad, and fear dual-national children will have to stay with relatives while they return to apply for passports A British man and a Danish woman fear they will be separated from their young children in Copenhagen airport because of new border control rules on British dual nationals. James Scrivens and his wife, Sara, who live in Wales, were visiting relatives in N…

Exclusive: Tasmanian Lee Hanson employed as senior adviser to Sean Bell in role worth as much as $180,000 Australian Politics podcast: One Nation woos progressive voters Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast One Nation has employed Pauline Hanson’s Tasmanian-based daughter as a senior adviser to a New South Wales senator, in a taxpayer-funded role worth as much as $180,000 …

A third family says the Australian government must do more to hold Israel and the Israeli Defence Force to account, including demanding an apology Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast The families of dead Australian soldiers whose graves were bulldozed by the Israeli Defence Force in Gaza have called for reparations and urged the Albanese government to hold Israel accounta…

Study finds ChatGPT Health did not recommend a hospital visit when medically necessary in more than half of cases Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast ChatGPT Health regularly misses the need for medical urgent care and frequently fails to detect suicidal ideation, a study of the AI platform has found, which experts wo…