Sixteen people treated at scene and 10 taken to hospital, as woman in her 40s arrested over incident in Wimbledon An eight-year old girl has died with at least 10 people taken to hospital after a car crashed into a primary school in Wimbledon, south London. The Metropolitan police declared […]
Month: July 2023
In a letter to CEO Mark Zuckerberg, a lawyer for the Elon Musk-owned app said Meta had unlawfully misappropriated trade secrets Twitter has threatened to sue Meta over its new Threads app, which Mark Zuckerberg has openly billed as a rival, claiming the company has violated Twitter’s “intellectual property rights”. […]
Government loses legal challenge after resisting supplying unredacted WhatsApps, notebooks and diaries UK politics live – latest updates Ministers have been ordered to hand over an unredacted cache of documents including Boris Johnson’s WhatsApp messages, notebooks and diaries to the Covid inquiry after losing a legal challenge. Government insiders said […]
World Athletics president says climate crisis and poor air quality may cause havoc to the sporting calendar London will not be considered as a host for large sporting events such as the World Athletics Championships because of its poor air quality, Sebastian Coe has warned. The World Athletics president and […]
Secretary general António Guterres calls on Israel to abide by international law after its attack on Jenin in the West Bank In a rare condemnation of Israel, the UN has denounced the country’s excessive use of force in its largest military operation in two decades targeting a refugee camp in […]
Exclusive: Women urged to study symptoms and be as vigilant as they are for breast cancer ‘My lungs are my strength’: trial finds early cancer in fitness fan Explained: what to look out for The number of women diagnosed with lung cancer in the UK is expected to overtake men […]
Labour leader will argue against snobbery of ‘vocational’ and ‘academic’ education, saying young people need both Britain needs to shatter its snobbish “class ceiling” that prevents children from getting ahead, Keir Starmer is to argue in a speech setting out his fifth and final “mission” aimed at removing barriers to […]
Talks on returning as an associate member after Brexit row are close to agreement, say diplomatic sources The UK is on the brink of doing a deal to return to the EU’s £85bn science research programme Horizon Europe. Diplomatic sources say negotiations to become an associate member will continue over […]
Mark Zuckerberg targets Elon Musk’s troubled platform with new app from Meta that’s closely modelled on Twitter Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta has launched Threads, its rival to Twitter, with the app seeking to woo users from Elon Musk’s troubled platform through an offer of lengthier posts, a handful of celebrity backers […]
Collective profit comes on back of soaring energy prices and rising interest rates, according to Oxfam and ActionAid The world’s 722 biggest companies collectively are making more than $1tn a year (£780bn) in windfall profits on the back of soaring energy prices and rising interest rates, according to research by […]