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Over the next year, top social media executives are expected to take the witness stand to defend their companies from an avalanche of claims about their failure to protect kids. The first of many trials is set to begin this month in California, when Meta, TikTok, and YouTube face claims …

The UK has lost its measles elimination status, the World Health Organization has announced. The move was based on the spread of cases in 2024 when there were 3,600 suspected cases. Elimination status means there is no sustained transmission so this decision was largely expected, given the scale of the …

Today, I’m talking with Alex Lintner, who is the CEO of technology and software solutions at Experian, the credit reporting company. Experian is one of those multinationals that’s so big and convoluted that it has multiple CEOs all over the world, so Alex and I spent quite a lot of …

BBC Stef Scurr and her husband Andrew Dunn set up Brighter Skies A mum who experienced a perinatal mental health crisis has set up a support group for parents, as part of a campaign for better knowledge and care for new families. Stef Scurr, from Thirsk, found herself “spiralling very …

PA Media A school friend described Noah as “the most intelligent human being I have ever met” A school friend of Belfast schoolboy Noah Donohoe has described him as “one in a million”. The body of the 14-year-old was found in a storm drain in north Belfast on 27 June …

See an empty Akron during Winter Storm Fern’s deep freeze on Sunday Beacon Journal photo journalist Andrew Dolph ventured out into Akron during Winter Storm Fern to get a look at the weather in the area. A weekend winter storm dumped snow and created slick, hazardous roads across Northeast Ohio, …

France is on course to follow Australia in banning social media to younger teenagers, as debate on a new law opens in the National Assembly. The law would block access for under 15-year-olds to networks such as Snapchat, Instagram and Tiktok. President Emmanuel Macron has said he wants the ban …

Tributes have been pouring in for veteran BBC journalist Sir Mark Tully who has been cremated in the Indian capital, Delhi, a day after he died at the age of 90. Hundreds of people – including friends and family – gathered at the Lodi crematorium to bid their final goodbye …

The National Weather Service issued an updated winter storm warning on Sunday for additional snow accumulations of between 4 and 8 inches in Central New York. Areas around Syracuse have had 6 to 8 inches of snow as of 7 p.m., according to National Weather Service reports. The warning remains …

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Prince William will have to find a new hobby. The king-in-waiting’s recent move to Forest Lodge has forced the royal to give up his electric scooter. Prince William’s new home is inside Windsor Great Park, where various forms of motorized transportation are …

Students should be banned from accessing phones for the duration of the entire school day, the education secretary has said. Bridget Phillipson wrote to headteachers in England on Monday to tell them schools should be “phone-free environments”. The new edict dictates pupils should not use the devices as calculators, for …

Headlines -Chilly morning -Sunny still -Snow and sleet this weekend Forecast Sunny skies and cool weather will continue to end the week, with our warmest weather coming on Thursday. Highs should be in the low 50s with lots of sunshine. Not much happens overnight as we drop to the upper …

Galya Dimitrovaand Nathan Briant,South of England Victoria Gemma Photography Nail It DIY has been running taster sessions in Wokingham, Caversham, Theale and Tilehurst “It could just be something really tiny but the fact that you’ve done it yourself is such a good starting point,” says electrician Sarah Bolger. She met …

A community action group in Tunbridge Wells is demanding the “immediate” sacking of South East Water’s chief executive after weeks of outages which have left tens of thousands of customers without water. Sky News has seen a letter from Dry Wells Action, which was formed by residents and businesses in …

Rumeana JahangirNorth West Family handout Natalia uses a prosthetic leg after having an amputation at the age of two A girl’s plea to have her amputated foot back for Christmas after being bullied was “absolutely heartbreaking”, her parents have said. In a widely seen social media message, the parents of …

The fatal shooting of 37-year-old Alex Pretti by Border Patrol agents on Saturday has further escalated tensions in Minneapolis, a city now at the center of America’s heated battle over immigration enforcement. Pretti’s killing occurred less than three weeks after Renee Good, another Minneapolis resident and U.S. citizen, was shot and …

Rumeana JahangirNorth West BBC/Gaumont/Ben Blackall The BBC drama Film Club, co-written by Stockport actress Aimee Lou Wood, employed workers in north-west England Discrimination against working-class people should be illegal, according to a report on employment in the cultural sector. More than 50% of respondents told the mainly Greater Manchester-based Class …

The City’s Office of Emergency Management (OEM) has issued a State of Emergency and travel advisory for the City of Hoboken. The City of Hoboken strongly advises against all non-essential travel during the ongoing snowstorm which could bring up to 12 inches of snow, and icy conditions, according to the …

A man carries a shovel as he crosses a street in the Hamilton Heights neighborhood in New York on Sunday. Charly Triballeau/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Charly Triballeau/AFP via Getty Images An immense and powerful winter storm is blanketing the eastern two-thirds of the United States with …

Nick Triggle,Health correspondentand Elena Bailey,Health reporter Getty Images Tens of thousands of children in England have spent more than a year waiting for NHS community care such as hearing services, speech and language therapy and disability support, the BBC has found. The analysis shows a quarter of the 300,000 children …