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Adyar tower window pane fall killed man due to design flaw
A luxury architecture firm and three other companies are on trial over the death of coach driver Mick Ferris, 53, who was “killed instantly” when a window pane fell from the 27-storey Corniche tower in Vauxhall, south-west London, on 2 October 2018. Foster + Partners, the practice behind The Gherkin, designed the development and is…
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Ex-officer suspected of killing Monaco bomber had sent her cryptocurrency, bloodied weapons found at home
Ukrainian prosecutors have announced the arrest of two men — a military intelligence officer and a former law enforcement officer — as suspects in the killing of Anastasiia Berezovska, a Ukrainian woman wanted over a parcel bomb attack in Monaco. Berezovska, 39, had been the prime suspect in the bombing that injured multi-millionaire Vadym Ermolaev,…
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Remember water power in the renewables mix | Brief letters
This is a Guardian “Brief letters” page, in which readers respond to recent articles. The lead letter takes issue with a visual analysis of Britain’s green energy transition (4 July), noting that it overlooked water power; the writer argues that wave power, tidal power and hydroelectricity all deserve a place in the conversation alongside wind…
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John Lewis to shut in-store services, putting hundreds of jobs at risk
John Lewis has begun a redundancy consultation that puts around 200 jobs at risk as it plans to close in-store desks providing gift wrapping and foreign exchange services. The move matters because it touches the kind of hands-on customer service the retailer has long been known for, and it comes just as the chain was…
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Chemistry Ventures seeks $500m for its oversubscribed second startup fund
Chemistry Ventures, a venture capital firm founded two years ago by alumni of Bessemer, Index Ventures, and Andreessen Horowitz, is raising $500 million for its second fund, according to an SEC filing. The move matters as a signal of continued investor appetite for early-stage technology startups, with the firm significantly increasing its firepower from the…
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British June heat record, hottest June on record with 37.7C
Marks & Spencer has said it is investing in refrigeration equipment capable of coping with temperatures as high as 45C, after admitting its fridges struggled during recent extreme heat in the UK. Chief executive Stuart Machin told shareholders at the retailer’s annual meeting in London that the company was “assuming it’s going to get hotter”,…
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Originally Free, You Can Now Pay $70 to Own the Worst Silent Hill Game
Limited Run Games is producing a physical Deluxe Edition of Silent Hill: The Short Message for PS5, priced at $70, despite the game having originally been released for free. The move is notable because the title holds the lowest Metacritic score in the Silent Hill franchise’s history, at 52, and was widely regarded as poor…
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Yorkshire Water faces credit downgrade following regulatory performance failures
Yorkshire Water is set to be downgraded to a one-star rating by the Environment Agency after its annual financial report, covering April 2025 to March 2026, revealed a series of major failures including rising pollution, missed environmental projects and falling customer satisfaction. The downgrade matters because it comes despite the company raising customer bills by…
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Norm becomes a unicorn after raising $120 million for AI legal work
AI legal startup Norm has raised $120 million in a Series C funding round led by Khosla Ventures, giving the almost three-year-old company a valuation of $1.2 billion and pushing it into unicorn territory. The deal underscores continued investor appetite for legal technology that promises to automate routine legal work, an area now crowded with…
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Doom co-creator John Romero offers support after id Software reportedly loses half its staff
Microsoft-owned Xbox is reportedly laying off around half the staff at id Software, the legendary studio behind Doom, Quake and Wolfenstein, with the cuts said to fall particularly hard on its renowned technology team. Although Microsoft has not formally confirmed the numbers, the reports have prompted an outpouring of anger from departing staff and messages…