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U.S. President Donald Trump on Saturday ordered sweeping tariffs on goods from Mexico, Canada and China, demanding they stanch the flow of fentanyl – and illegal immigrants in the case of Canada and Mexico – into the United States, kicking off a trade war that could dent global growth and reignite inflation. Mexico and Canada, the top…

Canada and Mexico have hit back with retaliatory tariffs on President Donald Trump’s steep tax on goods imported from its neighbours. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum both announced the counter-tariffs on Saturday night. Mr Trudeau said Canada would impose 25% tariffs on $155bn Canadian dollars (£85.9bn) of US goods in response to…

Donald Trump has said “many” ISIS terrorists have been killed in caves in Somalia by US airstrikes he ordered this morning. Posting on his social media site Truth Social, the US president said: “This morning I ordered precision Military air strikes on the Senior ISIS Attack Planner and other terrorists he recruited and led in Somalia. “These…

Israeli hostages and Palestinian prisoners have reunited with their families in emotional scenes after being released on Saturday. Israeli Yarden Bibas hugged his parents and sister for the first time after spending 15 months in captivity in Gaza. The fate of his wife and two young children, who were also taken as hostages, is uncertain. Hamas previously…

A newlywed couple say they have been locked out of their bank accounts while on their honeymoon as Barclays suffered a major IT glitch. People were unable to access money overnight after the issue struck on what was payday for many British workers. Hundreds of customers reportedly claim they are experiencing interrupted services and missing funds, with…

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has declared 2025 as the “Year of the family.” Promoting a conservative image of the family is another attempt by his Justice and Development party (AKP) to shape Turkish society according to its own worldview. In the more than 20 years he has been in power, Erdogan has made it clear what…

Rohit Chopra, the director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), was abruptly fired by President Donald Trump Saturday morning. “Every day, Americans from across the country shared their ideas and experiences with us. You helped us hold powerful companies & their executives accountable for breaking the law, and you made our work better,” Chopra said in…

The high fashion industry has always been synonymous with thinness, but for a brief moment in the 2010s, the body positivity movement was at the forefront. It promised a revolution of accepting bodies of all shapes and sizes, welcomed curves and advocated for inclusion, particularly on the runway. But 10 years on, industry insiders tell us things…

CBS says it will turn over an unedited transcript of its October interview with Kamala Harris to the Federal Communications Commission, part of President Donald Trump’s ongoing fight with the network over how it handled a story about his opponent. Trump sued CBS for $10 billion over the “60 Minutes” interview, claiming it was deceptively edited to…

A streamlined Mercedes raced by Formula One greats Stirling Moss and Juan Manuel Fangio in 1955 set a record for a grand prix car on Saturday, selling at auction for 51.155 million euros ($53.01 million). The sleek, silver W196 R Stromlinienwagen, one of only four complete examples in existence, was sold by RM Sotheby’s at the Mercedes…

The White House faces a decision on how to move forward with director of national intelligence nominee Tulsi Gabbard — wait and see if any GOP senators publicly oppose her, or launch a pressure campaign like the one that helped Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth get confirmed. A number of Republicans emerged from Gabbard’s confirmation hearing this week…

Marco Rubio’s weekend visit to Panama is set to offer clues to a pressing question: whether the next four years of American policy will more closely resemble an imperial conquest or a hardball real estate negotiation. On the ground here, members of the country’s small political elite have been bracing for either: As tensions over the Panama…

Canada is set to introduce escalating retaliatory counter-tariffs to try to turn Americans against President Donald Trump’s 25% levies on Canadian goods, a threat that’s causing the country to rethink its dependence on its southern neighbor. “You will find when we do respond, at least initially, that we will focus on tariffing American goods that actually are…

A medical transport jet with a child patient, her mother and four others aboard crashed into a Philadelphia neighborhood shortly after takeoff Friday evening, exploding in a fireball that engulfed several homes. Jet Rescue Air Ambulance, which operated the Learjet 55, said in a statement: “We cannot confirm any survivors.” There was no immediate word whether anyone…

Public health data disappeared from websites, entire webpages went blank and employees erased pronouns from email signatures Friday as federal agencies scrambled to comply with a directive tied to President Donald Trump’s order rolling back protections for transgender people. The Office of Personnel Management directed agency heads to strip “gender ideology” from websites, contracts and emails in…

A tearful Neymar was welcomed back to his boyhood club on Friday by thousands of Santos fans and a concert in the home stadium beneath an electronic sign saying, “The prince is back.” The 32-year-old signed a six-month contract, which he said could be extended. Neymar later admitted his return was also due to his feeling unhappy…

Retailer Costco Wholesale has announced it will hike hourly pay for most fixed-wage U.S. store workers to more than $30. Hourly pay for top-tier employees will be increased by the company in a phased approach over the upcoming three years with the pay rising by $1 to $30.20 in the first year. It will be followed by…

Hamas and Israel will carry out their fourth hostage-prisoner swap of the Gaza ceasefire on Saturday, with the militant group to free three Israeli captives in exchange for 90 inmates in Israeli jails. Militants in Gaza began releasing hostages after the first 42-day phase of the ceasefire with Israel took effect on January 19. The hostages have…

Stargate is a staggering power grab. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has spent the past year seeking an absurd amount of computing power to train the company’s AI models — one report says Japanese officials literally laughed at the amount of electricity he demanded. The stakes were clear: without massive computing resources, OpenAI risked losing ground to tech…

DeepSeek startled everyone last month with the claim that its AI model uses roughly one-tenth the amount of computing power as Meta’s Llama 3.1 model, upending an entire worldview of how much energy and resources it’ll take to develop artificial intelligence. Taken at face value, that claim could have tremendous implications for the environmental impact of AI.…

The Duke of York was in contact with the US sex offender Jeffrey Epstein longer than he had previously admitted, emails published in court documents appear to show. “Keep in close touch and we’ll play some more soon!!!!” said an email sent to Epstein from a “member of the British Royal Family”, believed to be Prince Andrew.…

The Grammys are music’s biggest night, both literally and figuratively. The ceremony, which takes place in LA on Sunday night, runs for a staggering eight hours, attracting the biggest stars in pop, rock, country and hip-hop. Organisers will hand out 94 awards, recognising everything from best pop album to best choral performance. Beyoncé and Taylor Swift have…

Friends of Melania Trump have their claws out for Anna Wintour’s “Condé Nasty,” they say, after Vogue dissed the first lady with a scathing fashion op-ed. Bill White — a friend of Melania, as well as President Trump’s nominee for US ambassador to Belgium — said of the first lady, “We love and adore her. We have…

Tromso police say they seized and then released a vessel sailing between two Russian ports. Swedish and Latvian investigators are looking into the severing of an underwater cable under the Baltic Sea. Police in Norway said on Friday that they had released a Russian-crewed ship after intercepting the vessel off the northern coast in connection with damage…

It follows a spat with Donald Trump, during which the US president threatened a trade war after Colombia refused to accept deported migrants. “Undocumented” Colombians working in the United States should “return as soon as possible”, the country’s president has said. Gustavo Petro also said his government would provide loans to those who take up his offer…

The talks, held on Friday afternoon, marked the first time both Sir Keir Starmer and Navin Ramgoolam had spoken to each other directly. The prime minister has pressed Mauritius on the need for the Chagos Islands deal to allow “strong protections” for the UK-US military base there. Sir Keir Starmer spoke to his Mauritian counterpart on Friday…

The Chinese start-up’s low-cost AI models have shaken the tech sector and Washington, with US Congress weighing actions in a ‘Sputnik moment’ As the global tech industry reels from the emergence of Chinese start-up DeepSeek, the US Congress is reacting quickly with proposals to separate US AI development from China and strengthen its competitive edge. One of…

Facility near Beijing may have been under construction since mid-2024 China is building a new military command centre near Beijing that is 10 times the size of the Pentagon, US intelligence officials have said. Satellite images of the base, about 20 miles south-west of the Chinese capital, show a 1,500-acre construction site that experts suggest could house…

An arrest warrant has been issued for a New York doctor indicted on Friday by a Louisiana grand jury for allegedly prescribing abortion pills online to a pregnant minor in the Deep South state, which has one of the strictest near-total abortion bans in the country. Grand jurors at the District Court for the Parish of West…

Dozens of FBI agents who worked to investigate the Jan.6, 2021, US Capitol attack and the now-dismissed classified documents case against President Donald Trump could lose their jobs as early as Friday, according to a CNN report. That report coincides with other reporting of a “purge” underway to cull the heads of FBI field offices across the…

Pop superstar Taylor Swift will take the stage at least once at the Grammy Awards ceremony in Los Angeles on Sunday, when she presents a trophy at the highest honors in music, organizers said on Thursday. The Recording Academy did not say which category Swift would present at the awards show in downtown Los Angeles. “Are you…

The workers who traveled from China to northeast Brazil to build a new factory for electric car maker BYD (002594.SZ), opens new tab earned roughly $70 per 10-hour shift, over twice the Chinese hourly minimum wage in many regions. For many, that made signing up an easy decision – but getting out would be much harder. The…

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum on Thursday said Google (GOOGL.O), is wrong to change the name of the Gulf of Mexico on its Google Maps platform after U.S. President Donald Trump ordered the body of water be renamed the “Gulf of America.” Sheinbaum presented a letter addressed to Google in which her government argues the U.S. cannot unilaterally…

U.S. President Donald Trump’s military deportation flight to Guatemala on Monday likely cost at least $4,675 per migrant, according to data provided by U.S. and Guatemalan officials. That is more than five times the $853 cost of a one-way first class ticket on American Airlines from El Paso, Texas, the departure point for the flight, according to…

Former U.S. Representative Tulsi Gabbard, President Donald Trump’s choice to be director of national intelligence, faced harsh criticism of her past defense of former NSA contractor Edward Snowden and comments seen as supportive of Russia at a confirmation hearing on Thursday. Both Republicans and Democrats have expressed doubts about the choice of Gabbard, a 43-year-old former Democrat…

For “Love Me” actor Kristen Stewart, the overall message of the film remains a mystery. “I’m not sure what the movie’s trying to say ultimately,” the “Twilight” actor said. She believes, however, the film may be asserting that no one wants to be isolated and they often seek to be like one another. “Of course, we want…

The Swedish prime minister said the shooting of an anti-Islam campaigner just hours before a trial verdict was due on Thursday over his burning the Koran might be linked to a foreign power, and police arrested five people over the killing. Salwan Momika, 38, an Iraqi refugee, was shot in a house in Sodertalje town near Stockholm…

Victoria Beckham still has the hots for her husband, David Beckham — even after 25 years of marriage. The former Spice Girls singer, 50, publicly admired David’s body by sharing a photo from his new Boss One underwear campaign on her Instagram Thursday. “My boss🖤😉,” she flirtatiously captioned the picture. David, 49, announced the launch of the…

A pair of 16-year-old skaters, their mothers, and two Russian coaches are among the victims of the deadly midair collision in Washington DC, a “horrific tragedy” that has cast a shadow across the figure skating world. Those six victims, which included teenagers Spencer Lane and Jinna Han, were involved with a skating club in Boston. “Skating is…

A settlement under which a New Zealand mountain has been granted the same legal right as a person has become law after years of negotiations. It means Taranaki Maunga [Mt Taranaki] will effectively own itself, with representatives of the local tribes, iwi, and government working together to manage it. The agreement aims to compensate Māori from the…

Conspiracy theories about vaccines. Secret meetings with dictators. An enemies list. President Donald Trump’ s most controversial Cabinet nominees — Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Tulsi Gabbard and Kash Patel — flooded the zone Thursday in back-to-back-to-back confirmation hearings that were like nothing the Senate has seen in modern memory. The onslaught of claims, promises and testy exchanges…

President Donald Trump said his 25% tariffs on Canada and Mexico are coming on Saturday, but he’s still considering whether to include oil from those countries as part of his import taxes. “We may or may not,” Trump told reporters Thursday in the Oval Office about tariffing oil from Canada and Mexico. “We’re going to make that…

Nora Roberts is so prolific she had to take up a pen name so her publisher could release more books by her each year. “I’m a fast writer,” Roberts told The Associated Press in a rare interview. She typically releases four books a year, and has for more than four decades. It’s not just about her speed.…

Donald Trump has linked a diversity drive at the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) under previous governments to a deadly plane crash in Washington DC. It comes as two black boxes – a cockpit voice recorder and the flight data recorder – from the aeroplane have also been recovered. Sixty-seven people were killed when an American Airlines jet…

UNRWA to continue work despite Israel cutting ties The United Nations said its Palestinian aid agency UNRWA would continue to operate even as Israel severed ties with the organization. “UNRWA clinics across the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, are open. Meanwhile, the humanitarian operations in Gaza continues, including with UNRWA work there,” said Stephane Dujarric, spokesperson…

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said Thursday that if US counterpart Donald Trump hiked tariffs on Brazilian products, he would reciprocate — but that he would prefer improved relations over a trade war. The Latin American giant is one of the countries that Trump has threatened with higher tariffs. “It’s very simple: if he taxes…

Singer and actress Marianne Faithfull has died at the age of 78. A spokesperson for her music promotion company Republic Media said: “It is with deep sadness that we announce the death of the singer, songwriter and actress Marianne Faithfull. “Marianne passed away peacefully in London today, in the company of her loving family. “She will be…

The daughter of ex-South African president Jacob Zuma has appeared in court after being charged over her alleged involvement in July 2021 riots, which left over 300 people dead. Duduzile Zuma-Sambudla is accused of inciting others to carry out violent acts through her social media posts that month. The 42-year-old, who is a member of parliament, handed…

THE CEO of American Airlines has blamed a military helicopter for the devastating midair collision that killed 64 people in Washington DC. Officials have no clear answer as to why an American Airlines passenger jet and a Black Hawk military helicopter crashed in a fatal incident on Wednesday night. All people onboard the American Airlines plane, 60…

Underneath all the trolling and bad jokes, Elon Musk knows that his actions send a powerful message. It’s why he dared police to come and arrest him when Tesla’s factories stayed open during the early days of the pandemic, saying he would be “on the line with everyone else.” As such, it’s no surprise that Musk—the newly-appointed…

Tulsi Gabbard, President Donald Trump’s pick to be director of national intelligence, faced sharp criticism from Democrats and Republicans alike Thursday during a fiery confirmation hearing focused on her past comments sympathetic to Russia, a meeting with Syria’s now-deposed leader and her past support for government leaker Edward Snowden. Gabbard started her hearing by telling lawmakers that…

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was pressed to clarify his views on vaccines, abortion and public health priorities in the first of two Senate hearings as he tries to make the case to become President Donald Trump’s health secretary. Kennedy is seeking to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, the $1.7 trillion agency that funds medical…

Manual scavenging in major metropolitan cities must immediately stop, the Supreme Court directed on Wednesday, drawing the line for municipal commissioners and chief executive officers of six major cosmopolitan cities, including Delhi and Mumbai, to comply with this order upfront and report compliance in two weeks. The top court passed the order while monitoring its October 2023…

Six transgender members of the military have sued President Trump over his executive order banning trans people from serving. The suit – filed in Washington, DC, federal court Tuesday by six current service members and two transgender people seeking to enlist – comes a day after Trump signed an order claiming transgender people’s sexuality “conflicts with a…

Meta has agreed to pay President Donald Trump $25 million (€24 million) to settle a 2021 lawsuit he filed claiming he was wrongfully censored by Facebook and Instagram after the US Capitol riot. According to the Wall Street Journal, which was the first to report the settlement, roughly $22 million of the settlement cash will go towards…

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the top U.S. health agency, came under attack at a Senate confirmation hearing on Wednesday, with Democratic lawmakers accusing him of covering up his anti-vaccine views and embracing conspiracy theories to dissuade use of lifesaving medicines. Kennedy sought to defend his record to the Senate Finance Committee,…

Alphabet’s (GOOGL.O) self-driving unit Waymo announced on Wednesday it plans to expand testing of its autonomous driving technology in over 10 new cities in 2025. After testing the Waymo Driver in multiple cities, the company says the technology is adapting successfully to new environments, leading to the expansion. In addition to ongoing trips to Truckee, Michigan’s Upper…

Syria’s de facto leader Ahmed al-Sharaa was declared president for a transitional phase on Wednesday, tightening his hold on power less than two months after he led a campaign that toppled Bashar al-Assad. Sharaa was also empowered to form a temporary legislative council for a transitional period and the Syrian constitution was suspended, according to an announcement…

Donald Trump has signed an executive order to open a migrant detention centre at Guantanamo Bay. Speaking before making the act official, Mr Trump said that thousands of migrants who cannot be deported to their home countries will be held at the complex, on the island of Cuba. “I’m also signing an executive order to instruct the…

Hamas is set to release three Israeli hostages as well as five Thai nationals on Thursday, according to officials from the group and Israel. Hamas is set to release three Israeli hostages and five Thai nationals on Thursday, according to officials from the group and Israel. The two Israeli women being released are Arbel Yehoud, 29, and…

A man fitted with a pioneering, computer-controlled brain implant to tackle his Parkinson’s disease says it works so well he is sometimes able to forget he has the condition. A small computer inserted into Kevin Hill’s chest wall 12 months ago is connected to wires running into the brain which can send electrical signals and an update…

A US judge temporarily blocked President Trump’s plan to pause the disbursements of federal grants and loans minutes before it was set to go into effect late Tuesday. What to know about Trump’s plan to freeze federal aid The Trump administration late Monday directed federal agencies to pause federal grants and loans in the US on Tuesday…

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni is under investigation over the release of a suspected Libyan warlord, she announced on Tuesday. Ossama Anjiem, also known as Ossama al-Masri, was detained in Turin earlier this month under an International Criminal Court (ICC) arrest warrant for alleged crimes against humanity. Al-Masri ran a detention center near Tripoli and has been…

French President Emmanuel Macron announced a major overhaul of the Louvre museum in Paris on Tuesday. The renovated museum would include a “grand new entrance” near the River Seine and a dedicated room for the Mona Lisa, Macron said. Meanwhile, visitors form outside of the European Union would pay a higher entry free. The Louvre’s latest big…

The crime comedy “Emilia Perez,” by French filmmaker Jacques Audiard, tells the story of a notorious drug lord who disappears to transition into a woman, and then returns to win back her family. With its emotional musical numbers, the Netflix production is a Hollywood hit. It has already collected 13 Oscar nominations and won four Golden Globes.…

As the clock ticks down on TikTok’s 75-day reprieve from divesting from its Chinese owners or being banned in the United States, several contenders are in the running. Here’s a look at who could save the app before the April 5 deadline. While Musk hasn’t publicly expressed interest in acquiring TikTok, his $44 billion acquisition of Twitter…

Blurred posts, downranked searches and deleted accounts: Since President Donald Trump’s election, groups sharing information about abortion pills say they have faced a surge in online censorship–hindering their ability to reach women urgently seeking the procedure. Reproductive rights organizations accuse Meta of leading the latest wave of digital suppression on Instagram and Facebook, drawing attention to CEO…

It took about a month for the finance world to start freaking out about DeepSeek, but when it did, it took more than half a trillion dollars — or one entire Stargate — off Nvidia’s market cap. It wasn’t just Nvidia, either: Tesla, Google, Amazon, and Microsoft tanked. DeepSeek’s two AI models, released in quick succession, put…

French President Emmanuel Macron announced Tuesday that the “Mona Lisa” will get its own dedicated room inside the Louvre museum under a major renovation and expansion of the Paris landmark that will take up to a decade. The renovation project, branded “Louvre New Renaissance,” will include a wide new entrance near the Seine River, to be opened…

Billionaire Elon Musk on Tuesday (local time) said that US President Donald Trump had asked him to facilitate the return of the two Boeing Starliner astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore, who have been on the space station since June 2024, as soon as possible. The SpaceX CEO claimed that it was “terrible” that the pair were…

Waging War Marc Andreessen, cofounder of the massive venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz — which has its fingers in pretty much every pie in tech — has revealed an eyebrow-raising detail in his “techno-optimist” vision of the future. In a recent tweet, the American billionaire investor casually proclaimed that AI must “crash” everyone’s wages before it can…

The UK population is set to grow by five million people in 10 years, despite death rates being projected to overtake birth rates in that time. All of the forecast population growth is due to migration. Britain is expected to take in a total of 494,000 more people a year on average over the next decade than…

President Donald Trump’s move to freeze federal funding for a massive number of government programs seems to have impacted Medicaid payment systems across the country, potentially locking 72 million Americans out of their health insurance. Several lawmakers took to social media on Tuesday afternoon to confirm that that their state’s Medicaid payment systems have been shut off.…

Six transgender members of the military have sued President Trump over his executive order banning trans people from serving. The suit – filed in Washington, DC, federal court Tuesday by six current service members and two transgender people seeking to enlist – comes a day after Trump signed an order claiming transgender people’s sexuality “conflicts with a…

EU politicians have threatened to deploy European troops to Greenland and refused to negotiate with Trump over his plans to buy the island. Denmark has announced a multi-billion dollar boost to its armed forces in the Arctic after Trump doubled-down on his intention to take the landmass. General Robert Brieger of Austria, the top EU military official,…

ANNA KOURNIKOVA has been spotted in a wheelchair while visiting a luxury shopping centre. The tennis icon has not been seen for two years, having once reached the ranking of No8 in the world. Kournikova, 43, has sparked major health concerns as she was seen in a wheelchair at Bal Harbour in Miami, Florida. She was also…

Atomic scientists on Tuesday moved their “Doomsday Clock” closer to midnight than ever before, citing Russian nuclear threats amid its invasion of Ukraine, tensions in other world hot spots, military applications of artificial intelligence and climate change as factors underlying the risks of global catastrophe. The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists set the clock to 89 seconds…

U.S. President Donald Trump still plans to make good on his promise to issue tariffs on Canada and Mexico on Saturday, White House spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt said on Tuesday. Leavitt told reporters in her first White House press briefing that Trump also is still “very much” considering fresh tariffs on China for Saturday. Shortly after taking office…

Caroline Kennedy, a member of the famed U.S. political family, urged senators on Tuesday to reject her cousin Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s nomination to lead the top U.S. health agency, calling him a “predator” and his healthcare views “dangerous.” The daughter of former President John F. Kennedy, Caroline Kennedy said that Robert F. Kennedy Jr., known as…

President Donald Trump on Tuesday ordered an end to all federal funding or support for healthcare that aids the transition of transgender youth, the latest in a series of actions limiting transgender rights in his first eight days in office. The executive order, which is certain to face legal challenges, follows another executive order banning transgender people…

Global investors dumped tech stocks on Monday as they worried that the emergence of a low-cost Chinese artificial intelligence model would threaten the dominance of AI leaders like Nvidia (NVDA.O), evaporating $593 billion of the chipmaker’s market value, a record one-day loss for any company on Wall Street. Last week, Chinese startup DeepSeek launched a free AI…

U.S. public health officials have been told to stop working with the World Health Organization, effective immediately. A U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention official, John Nkengasong, sent a memo to senior leaders at the agency on Sunday night telling them that all staff who work with the WHO must immediately stop their collaborations and “await…

Selena Gomez posted and deleted an emotional video of herself crying over deportations of illegal immigrants by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, which resulted in her getting conservative backlash online. “I just wanted to say that I’m so sorry,” a crying Gomez said in a video on her Instagram Story Monday. “All my people are getting attacked,…

Israel says eight of the remaining 26 hostages due to be released by Hamas during the first phase of the Gaza ceasefire deal are dead. Government spokesman David Mencer told reporters that Israel had received a list from the Palestinian armed group overnight that provided information on the status of the hostages. “The list from Hamas matches…

It was 80 years ago that Soviet troops liberated the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau. Some of the last survivors will be joined by world leaders on Monday, to commemorate the 1.1 million people murdered there. The remaining survivors are now mostly in their 90s and this might be the last year any of them can attend.…

Coca-Cola has recalled its drinks in some countries across Europe because they contain “higher levels” of a chemical called chlorate. The firm said in a statement that the recall was focused on Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands. It added just five product lines had been shipped to Britain, and they had already been sold. Affected products include…

Bills challenging vaccine mandates have popped up in more than 15 states, with sceptic lawmakers emboldened by President Donald Trump’s return to the White House and RFK Jr.’s nomination as health secretary. Lawmakers aim to potentially resurrect or create new religious exemptions from immunization mandates, establish state-level vaccine injury databases or dictate what providers must tell patients…

People could soon be able to have a sprog entirely on their own using lab-grown sperm and eggs. It means one person could provide both elements using genetically re-programmed stem or skin cells. The technology would also allow throuples to have a baby in “multiplex parenting”, same sex pairs to both be biological parents, and remove any…

The sheer enormity of the horror is impossible to grasp…but grasp it we must. I’ve listened in horror to the stories of Holocaust survivors in the UK, who told me: ‘If you listen to a survivor, you become a witness”. They told of losing their entire families, being marched for hundreds of miles, sent in cattle trucks…

Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians are streaming into devastated northern Gaza – many for the first time since the early weeks of the 15-month war – allowing them to reunite with loved ones and see what has become of their homes. A column of people, some holding infants in their arms or carrying bundles of belongings on…

Billionaire Microsoft founder Bill Gates slammed Elon Musk’s growing influence on global politics as “insane shit” and “populist stirring.” Musk, who spent over $250 million backing former President Donald Trump’s campaign and gained a spot in his inner circle, recently took aim at the UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer and his Labour Party while advising the right-wing…