33 minutes ago Gavin Bevis BBC News, East Midlands Bea Swallow BBC News, Bristol BBC Julia Wandel, also known as Julia Wandelt, was arrested at Bristol Airport on Wednesday A woman who claimed to be Madeleine McCann has been charged with four counts of stalking the missing girl’s family. Julia Wandel, also known as Julia…
I’m on an overnight flight from New York to Frankfurt, Germany, and the accoutrements given to me in business class have a sustainable sheen. Both the polyester blanket and polyester flight kit proudly claim they are made of fabric spun from recycled plastic bottles. But doesn’t United Airlines know that recycled bottles are so yesterday’s…
The US government will end the temporary protected status (TPS) for 500,000 Haitians living in the country in August, the Department of Homeland Security said on Thursday. This comes despite deteriorating conditions in the Caribbean country, with gangs controlling about 85% of the capital and sexual violence against children increasing by 1,000% last year, according…
Three empty buses have exploded on the southern edge of Tel Aviv in what Israeli police say is a “suspected terror attack”. It happened in parking lots in the city of Bat Yam on Thursday night. There were no casualties. Devices on two other buses failed to explode, police said. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu…
46 minutes ago George Wright & Mallory Moench BBC News PA Media Shiri Bibas was kidnapped with her two children during the Hamas attacks on Israel on 7 October 2023 Israel has accused Hamas of violating the ceasefire deal after forensic testing revealed the body returned from Gaza on Thursday was not that of Shiri…
The insider threat programs at departments such as Health and Human Services, Transportation, and Veterans Affairs, also have policies that protect unclassified government information, which enable them to monitor employees’ clicks and communications, according to notices in the Federal Register, an official source of rulemaking documents. Policies for the Department of the Interior, the Internal…
That fear was evident among some rationalists as news of the violent incidents surrounding LaSota had spread. “I don’t want Ziz to ever think about me, ever,” a person involved in the Bay Area rationalist community said in an interview in 2023. “I think I know enough to be correctly scared of Ziz.” That June,…
9 minutes ago Jayne McCormack BBC News NI political correspondent BBC When power-sharing is functioning, it is custom for the first and deputy first ministers to make the trip to Washington DC. McDonald said she had followed the president’s comments on Gaza with “growing concern” and had listened in “horror” to calls for “mass expulsion…
Planes flying between Australia and New Zealand have been diverted as China conducts a closely-scrutinised military exercise in nearby waters that may involve live fire. The rare presence of three Chinese naval ships in the Tasman Sea has put both antipodean countries on alert in recent days, with Australia calling it “unusual”. Australian airline Qantas…
DNA can store digital data, such as visual and audio files Science Picture Co / Alamy Artificial intelligence can read data stored in DNA strands within 10 minutes rather than the days required for previous methods, bringing DNA storage closer to practical use in computing. “DNA can store vast amounts of data in an extremely…