35 m. ago Victor Osimhen's response to Man Utd transfer with Ruben Amorim move '95% complete'

Manchester United are reportedly close to agreeing a £62m deal for star striker Victor Osimhen as Ruben Amorim looks to bolster his attacking options up front by signing the Nigerian powerhouse

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41 m. ago F1 testing LIVE: Red flag as power cut stops session in Bahrain after Lewis Hamilton’s Ferrari bow

Follow live updates as the 2025 season gets underway with the three-day pre-season test in Bahrain

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45 m. ago F1 testing halted on first day as huge power failure hits Bahrain circuit

The Bahrain International Circuit is once again hosting pre-season Formula 1 testing this year, but day one of running was impacted as the power went out in the second session

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2 h. ago Retired GP found guilty of obstructing railway during power station protest

Climate protester Dr Diana Warner, 65, walked down the line outside Drax power station.

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3 h. ago MP demands Ofcom toughen stance on tech giants over online security

Gregor Poynton MP has urged Ofcom to take a stronger stance against online platforms that fail to protect children, calling for the regulator to fully utilise its new powers under the Online Safety Act.

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3 h. ago Rachel Reeves warns European allies that global trade is at risk unless they follow UK's new ambition to spend 3% of GDP on defence as she attends G20 in South Africa

Chancellor Rachel Reeves will insist Western powers must 'step up and do more' or face huge penalties from disruption to trade.

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3 h. ago How to save money on your power bills as energy price cap rises again

Switching to a fixed deal could help you – here’s how

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3 h. ago Trump may rue firing experts when environmental rollbacks land in court

Advocacy groups are better prepared than the first term for legal challenges – but will the administration obey rulings?Amid spending freezes and policy rollbacks from Donald Trump, environmental advocacy groups are gearing up for a long series of legal showdowns with the administration.The experience of suing Trump during his first term has left the movement better prepared, but the court battles will still be daunting, with the administration appearing to test the nation’s legal boundaries in an effort to consolidate power under the executive branch. Continue reading...

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3 h. ago Starmer’s cuts are a huge mistake – foreign aid is an investment, not an expense | Halima Begum

At the height of the cold war, the west advanced its soft power through aid and development spending. If we cut that now, who will fill the vacuum?Halima Begum is the chief executive of Oxfam GBThe savagely deep cuts that Keir Starmer has announced to the international aid budget make a mockery of the pledge his party made to the British people in its manifesto. Then, it promised to restore development spending at the level of 0.7% of gross national income “as soon as fiscal circumstances allow”. On Tuesday the prime minister stood in front of parliament and announced that he will cut it from 0.5% to 0.3% of GDP. In the same manifesto, Labour made a commitment to “rebuild Britain’s reputation on international development with a new approach based on genuine respect and partnership with the global south”. This week, the government turned its back on it.Of course, I understand the argument that defence spending has to be increased, but cutting our aid budget still further when governm...

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4 h. ago Battery breakthrough as scientists turn atomic waste into electricity

Breakthrough technology promises decades of uninterrupted power

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4 h. ago Best cordless lamps: Battery powered and rechargeable lamps to go wire

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4 h. ago Green light given for massive 400MW battery energy storage system close to central Scotland village

“These latest approvals reinforce Scotland’s strategic advantage in delivering resilient energy infrastructure” – Andrew Philpott, Apatura

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4 h. ago BP ramps up oil and gas investment to $10bn a year in ‘fundamental reset’ – business live

Oil and gas giant abandons green ambitions, as boss says it will be ‘very selective’ about investing in fossil fuel alternativesBP will abandon its green ambitions, including plans to cut its oil and gas production by the end of the decade, as part of a “fundamental reset” of the troubled company’s strategy.Instead, it is ramping up its oil and gas investment to $10bn a year.Today we have fundamentally reset BP’s strategy. We are reducing and reallocating capital expenditure to our highest-returning businesses to drive growth, and relentlessly pursuing performance improvements and cost efficiency. This is all in service of sustainably growing cash flow and returns.This strategy will see BP grow its upstream oil and gas business, focus its downstream business, and invest with increasing discipline into the transition.Connecting offshore wind farms such as Sofia helps harness the power of the North Sea to keep the lights on and deliver homegrown energy to British consumers.OFTO is par...

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4 h. ago Scientists invent nuclear battery that turns atomic waste into electricity

Breakthrough technology promises decades of uninterrupted power

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4 h. ago MLB players are giving their new robot umpire overlords a cautious welcome

Anger over blown calls is as old as baseball itself. But in Spring Training this year, players can ask technology for a little helpFor the first time ever this month, major league players who disagree with an umpire’s rendering of the strike zone can do something about it. Something other than an exaggerated pantomime of disbelief or a testy reply liable to get them thrown out of the game entirely. They can do something effectual, productive, process-based. They can appeal to a higher power, one that has become revered within the sport for its ability to optimize anything and everything: Technology.Major League Baseball is testing the challenge system version of the Automated Ball-Strike System (ABS) in roughly 60% of Spring Training games this preseason. In layman’s terms: this spring, players can ask robot umps to review pitch calls. Continue reading...

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5 h. ago iPhone fixing bug that sees Trump appear when users say ‘racist’

The iPhone maker said that sometimes its speech recognition models that power the voice dictation tool may first display words with some phonetic overlap

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5 h. ago Apple fixing iPhone bug that sees ‘Trump’ appear in text when users say ‘racist’

The tech giant said the glitch was caused by a bug in its speech recognition systems that power its voice-to-text tools.

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5 h. ago ‘Human activity on a massive scale’: a photo exhibition tackles the climate crisis

Photographs from across the globe capture the impact of people on the climate – and of the climate on peopleThe word anthropocene has been proposed to denote an ongoing epoch in which human activity is a primary driving force of geological change. Although the word has caught on like wildfire in a colloquial sense, it was ultimately rejected as a descriptive scientific term, not so much because it was inaccurate but because of disagreements over when exactly it would have started – 1945, marking the unlocking of nuclear power; 1610, which may be the first time human activity affected the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere; 1964, when the so-called Great Acceleration may have begun – or some other date altogether?These questions point to deeper challenges in understanding just what the Anthropocene is: do we think of it in terms of nuclear fallout, the composition of the atmosphere, the size of the human population, or so many other worthy metrics? Hoping to help us better un...

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5 h. ago Succession star Brian Cox calls for wealth tax on real life billionaires like Elon Musk

The Dundonian actor, who played a fictional billionaire media mogul on TV, warned the likes of Elon Musk had too much power over ordinary people's lives.

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5 h. ago Chile declares state of emergency as entire country plunges into darkness and millions lose power

A massive power blackout has led to a state of emergency, affecting key regions and causing widespread disruptions

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