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People expressed concern and surprise in Copenhagen and the ‘Danish Capital of America’, Solvang, California, as Trump doubled down on his bid to bring Greenland under US control. Denmark and Greenland’s foreign ministers travelled to Washington for a meeting with US Vice-President JD Vance on Wednesday. Danish Foreign Minister Lars …

Elizabeth Warren and other Democrat lawmakers have written an open letter to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) asking for an investigation into alleged “false advertising and deceptive practices” from Trump Mobile. The company first announced its T1 Phone more than six months ago, but is yet to ship a single …

Some people who live alone don’t always stay in contact with their families and friends on a daily basis. That’s the reason for an app created by Chinese company Moonscape Technologies, which requires users to check in regularly to reassure their emergency contact that all is well. Now, the company …

People from a number of countries who have qualified for the 2026 Fifa World Cup have been issued travel bans by the United States. The bans, imposed by US President Donald Trump, means their fans will not be able to travel to America this summer. The tournament is being jointly …

The Trump administration is placing an indefinite pause on immigrant visa processing from 75 countries, further restricting the legal routes for entering the US. The State Department on Wednesday said the administration wants to bring “an end to the abuse” of the system “by those who would extract wealth from …

South Asian Cricket Academy will launch its inaugural women’s programme for the 2026 season. The new scheme is seeking between six and 10 non-professionally contracted British south Asian women aged over 18 for the fully-funded high-performance elite programme, which will run over the next 12 months. The pilot programme has …

A doorbell cam caught the moment a sonic boom was heard in the skies over Norfolk and Suffolk, while another video showed a man being startled by the sound. David Shenton had been filming himself to promote an event at Norwich Arts Centre when the boom suddenly interrupted the recording. …

Tight-head prop Luke Green has become the latest Northampton Saints player to sign a new contract with the Prem leaders. Green, 24, joined the club before last season after a spell in the United States playing for San Diego Legion. He made 24 appearances in 2024-25, scoring his first try …

A Guantanamo Bay detainee will be paid a “substantial” sum as he settles a legal claim against the UK government, his lawyers have said, as Kemi Badenoch said UK taxpayers’ cash was being handed to a “terror suspect”. Abu Zubaydah, 54, has been detained by US authorities since his capture …

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The UK will bring into force a law which will make it illegal to create non-consensual intimate images, following widespread concerns over Elon Musk’s Grok AI chatbot. The Technology Secretary Liz Kendall said the law would make it illegal for companies to supply the tools designed to create such images. …

Celtic have recalled defender Stephen Welsh from his loan at Motherwell. Welsh, 25, has made 17 appearances since joining Well in September, helping Jens Berthel Askou’s side record nine clean sheets. Welsh was previously loaned out by Celtic to Greenock Morton and Belgian side Mechelen. The defending Scottish Premiership champions, …

[ Micrograph of a plasmacytoma, the histologic correlate of multiple myeloma. H&E stain. Credit: Wikipedia/CC BY-SA 3.0 Rates of multiple myeloma (MM), the second most common blood cancer in the United States, are increasing and are twice as high in men than in women. A new study published online in …

GameStop CEO Ryan Cohen is in line to potentially earn $35 billion in stock options, so long as the company hits a $100 billion market cap. One way to hit that target is by cutting costs, and one way of cutting costs is to close down a bunch of stores. …

Home fitness equipment brand, Merach, unveiled its new UltraTread T70 Aura at CES 2026. The UltraTread uses an AI-powered coach and is designed with professional joint protection in mind. If you’re used to exercising on a treadmill, then you know it can be tough on the joints, and sometimes it’s …

“I honestly thought with my start number that I had no chance, because there’s so much snow and there wasn’t really a track at number six,” Vonn, who now has 84 career World Cup wins across all disciplines, told TNT Sports. “I had to risk a lot with my line …

[ Research from Oregon Health & Science University has found that laws restricting access to abortion may disproportionately affect pregnancies conceived through fertility treatment. Source link

[ In a recent study of the contiguous United States, Los Alamos National Laboratory researchers found that the risk of disease from hantavirus is higher in drier, underdeveloped geographic areas with more socioeconomic vulnerability and increased numbers of unique rodent species. This is the first study to examine the combined …

This week, Donald Trump repeated his desire to take over Greenland and make it part of the United States, potentially by using military force. The BBC’s Europe Editor Katya Adler visited the Arctic island’s capital, Nuuk, to ask locals what they thought of the US president’s renewed threats. One Greenlander …

Brendan HughesPolitical reporter, BBC News NI Getty Images The PSNI said custody images will be more regularly considered for publication Mugshots of convicted criminals will be more “routinely” released by the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) under new guidance. The PSNI said custody images of offenders, who receive a …