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A man who had been hiding with his three children in the New Zealand wilderness for nearly four years is believed to have been shot dead after an armed confrontation with police. Thomas Phillips and his two daughters and son, believed to be aged 9, 10 and 12, had been …

US immigration authorities have raided a massive Hyundai manufacturing site in Georgia, leading to the arrest of over 450 people, according to one of the agencies involved in the operation. The 3,000-acre site, which was built by the Korean automobile manufacturer to make electric vehicles, had been operational for a …

A company which collects royalties on behalf of Hollywood studios including The Walt Disney Company and Amazon-owned MGM is being put up for sale in an auction expected to fetch hundreds of millions of pounds. Sky News has learnt that Motion Picture Licensing Company (MPLC), which is backed by private …

The trial of an Army veteran charged with murder in relation to Bloody Sunday is expected to begin as planned later this month, a court has heard. A short pre-trial hearing has been held at Belfast Crown Court, which dealt mainly with procedural and logistical matters. Barristers told the judge …

A US federal court has overturned deep funding cuts by President Donald Trump’s administration to Harvard University. Judge Allison Burroughs ruled the government violated the Ivy League college’s free speech rights when it revoked around $2bn (£1.5bn) in research funding. The ruling is a major legal victory for Harvard, but …

The BBC contract announced in March is part of a wider deal agreed with European governing body Uefa that also includes matches involving Northern Ireland and Wales – the first time the broadcaster has secured live rights for all three of the UK’s devolved nations. It included 14 live Scotland …

A campaign group has said five of its spokespeople have been arrested by counter-terror police as it prepared to announce further protests against the Palestine Action ban. Defend Our Juries said it still expected more than 1,000 protesters to gather on Saturday in London, with signs declaring “I oppose genocide. …

Father Ted co-creator Graham Linehan has said he was arrested at Heathrow Airport, over social media posts sharing his views on trans rights. Writing on Substack, the 57-year-old said that after flying into the UK from Arizona, he was detained by five armed officers and put in a cell before …

Immigration is the first thing on the government’s agenda today, and they want you to know it. The home secretary gave an update to the House even before some backbenchers had made it back to parliament from recess. Facing criticism for being on the back foot after a summer of …

Revelations in a new book saying Queen Camilla was the victim of an attempted indecent assault as a teenager dominate Monday’s papers. The Daily Mail leads with the detail that the future Queen fought off her attacker on a train by “hitting him with her shoe”. Also splashed on the …

For some, the real derby of the weekend is at Dens Park. It needs no introduction. If Sunday’s edition is anything like the last Dundee derby – when the Dark Blues won at Tannadice in March for the first time since 2004 – we are in for a treat. Then …

[ Legionella pneumophila. Credit: public domain New York City health officials have discovered a seventh death linked to a Legionnaires’ disease outbreak in Central Harlem, where more than 100 people have been diagnosed with the ailment. The latest death was announced Thursday. Officials said they had concluded the death of …

[ Legionella pneumophila. Credit: public domain New York City health officials have discovered a seventh death linked to a Legionnaires’ disease outbreak in Central Harlem, where more than 100 people have been diagnosed with the ailment. The latest death was announced Thursday. Officials said they had concluded the death of …

A Polish Air Force pilot has died after his F-16 fighter jet crashed during a rehearsal for an airshow in central Poland, the country’s defence ministry has said.  The crash happened in the city of Radom, central Poland, on Thursday, the ministry said on Friday. The General Command of the Armed …

Microsoft has fired two employees that were involved in a sit-in protest in vice chair and president Brad Smith’s office. Software engineers Riki Fameli and Anna Hattle were both dismissed today, after being part of a group of seven protesters that managed to get inside Smith’s office in Building 34 …

Japanese authorities bowed and offered flowers at the grave of a businessman to apologise for wrongfully charging him with exporting potentially sensitive industrial machines. Shizuo Aishima and three other executives were arrested for illegal exports in March 2020. He died of stomach cancer in February 2021, five months before the …

Comet, Perplexity’s new AI-powered web browser, recently suffered from a significant security vulnerability, according to a blog post last week from Brave, a competing web browser company. The vulnerability has since been fixed, but it points to the challenges of incorporating large language models into web browsers. Unlike traditional web …

Tasnim Chowdhury BBC Sport journalist Everton’s new home is called the Hill Dickinson Stadium. Hill Dickinson is a Liverpool-based law firm, founded in 1810 – 68 years before the football club. Everton have said the partnership is “a long-term agreement” and “one of the largest stadium naming rights deals in …

Former UFC champion Sean Strickland has been suspended from fighting for six months after his part in a brawl at a mixed martial arts event in Las Vegas on 29 June. Strickland, 34, was working as a cornerman for Miles Hunsinger at a Tuff-N-Uff event when he attacked another fighter …

A Microsoft employee has been arrested as part of protests at the company’s headquarters in Redmond, Washington this week. On Tuesday, a group of current and former Microsoft employees, as well as community members, took over a plaza at Microsoft’s headquarters to protest against the company’s contracts with Israel. The …