BBC News It is at this point Cambridge faces questions about whether it was defending its own reputation as much as an individual academic. Just a couple of weeks ago, the university was briefing journalists that this was a campaign against a black academic, its appointment system was rigorous, and it would be robustly defended. […]
BBC News Amanda Knox, a woman involved in one of the world’s most famous murder cases, is set to perform a comedy show at The Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Knox was convicted and later acquitted of murdering her British roommate, Meredith Kercher, in Italy in 2007. Knox’s show, Cartwheel, is about motherhood and how she will […]
Business News Ferran Torres of Spain celebrates scoring his team’s first goal during. Michael Regan – Fifa | Fifa | Getty Images Fox Corp.’s quarterly financial report got a big kick from the FIFA Men’s World Cup. The company said Thursday that the tournament that took place in North America this summer lifted advertising revenue […]
BBC News Two human rights groups have said an Israeli attack in southern Lebanon that killed al-Akhbar newspaper reporter Amal Khalil and seriously wounded freelance camera operator Zeinab Faraj was an apparent war crime. Separate reports by Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International concluded that the journalists were targeted while reporting in the town of […]
BBC News The administration has sought to assure Americans that US missile stockpiles remain robust, even after the military used vast quantities of difficult-to-manufacture weapons during the combat operation known as Operation Epic Fury and the tit-for-tat strikes since. CBS News, the BBC’s US partner, reported the US has used much of its global stockpile […]
BBC News Prime Minister Andy Burnham has ordered an urgent review of grooming gang cases involving offenders that may be eligible to be freed from jail early under the government’s release scheme. The announcement of the review comes after Tory leader Kemi Badenoch raised concerns that child sex offenders could leave jail well before the […]
Tech Rep. Ted Lieu, D-Calif., one of the authors of the “AI Kill Switch Act,” said Thursday that the ongoing hacks by rogue artificial intelligence agents are adding urgency to getting the bill passed. “We need to get this bill across the finish line this year because the advanced closed-weight models are already doing, as […]
Digital Trends Google Maps has spent nearly two decades helping people get from point A to point B. But if Google’s latest update is any indication, simply giving directions is no longer enough. The company now wants Maps to help you plan your day, make decisions, and even take care of some of the busywork […]
BBC News Reality TV contestant Stephen Bear has been jailed for 16 months after admitting breaching a restraining order that banned him from posting online about his ex-girlfriend Georgia Harrison. The order was imposed when Bear was sentenced to 21 months in prison in 2023 after he filmed and shared a video of the pair […]
BBC News EasyJet has agreed to be taken over in a £5.7bn deal by US firm Apollo. The deal was announced after rival suitor Castlelake said it was dropping out of the bid battle for the no-frills airline. EasyJet is one of Europe’s largest airlines. It employs more than 19,000 people, and flies around 1,200 […]
