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Republican cavalry arrives for Ken Paxton as big-bucks Texas offensive opens cash floodgates
Top Senate Republicans are pouring millions of dollars into Texas to defend Attorney General Ken Paxton’s bid for the US Senate, as the party rallies behind him against Democratic state representative James Talarico in one of the midterms’ most closely watched races. The move marks a significant show of unity from Senate leadership, who had…
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‘Fresh from the roof’: the supermarket growing salad a few metres above the tills
A REWE supermarket in Lankwitz, Berlin, has begun selling lettuce grown in a rooftop greenhouse directly above the shop floor, making it Germany’s largest rooftop farm at 2,760 square metres. The “Lankwitz loose-leaf lettuce” is harvested and packaged within metres of where it is sold, cutting out the transport typically needed to move produce from…
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‘Just worry upon worry’: Europe faces a bleak winter as supply shock pushes factories to the brink
Manufacturers across Europe, from a Shropshire aluminium plant to steel firms in Hamburg, are facing a severe energy crisis this winter after wholesale gas prices doubled in two months. The surge follows renewed fighting between the US and Iran, which has disrupted shipping through the strait of Hormuz, a vital route for a fifth of…
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Female-Led Producer Candid Broads Is Proud to Stand for New Voices, Impact and Representation
Candid Broads Productions, a female-led London production company founded in 2020 by CEO Oriane Pick and producer Anaïs Ferrato, is expanding from short films into feature-length work and eyeing a move into series, while continuing to champion emerging filmmakers. The company positions itself around amplifying underrepresented voices and diverse female representation both on and off…
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Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander demands air traffic meltdown report on her desk within days as embattled NATS boss who took home £2.2m in bonuses is accused of lying over IT crisis that hit 2,000 flights
Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander has ordered Martin Rolfe, chief executive of National Air Traffic Services (NATS), to hand her a report by next Wednesday explaining the technical failure that led to the cancellation of around 2,000 flights this week. Mr Rolfe faces mounting pressure to resign after the outage disrupted roughly 330,000 passengers, with Ryanair…
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Moment giant water spout bears down on tourist boat in Italy as country is lashed with deadly flash floods and storms
A giant waterspout swept close to a tourist boat off the coast of northern Italy on Thursday morning, part of a wider spell of severe weather that has left at least two people dead and caused widespread flooding and destruction across the country. Footage captured the towering vortex churning across the sea near Rapallo, narrowly…
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Anthropic blocks possible attempt to use AI to make biological weapons
Anthropic says it has detected and disrupted several attempts to misuse its Claude AI models for potentially serious harms, including cases that could have supported biological weapons development. The disclosure, made in the company’s latest threat intelligence report, adds to a growing chorus of warnings from AI researchers about the technology’s risks, prompting US Senator…
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Services-led growth pushes UK economy ahead of forecasts
The UK economy grew by 0.4% in July, comfortably beating economists’ consensus forecast of no growth at all, prompting a broadly positive reaction from analysts at Capital Economics, the CBI and Quilter Cheviot. The figures extend the resilience seen through the first half of the year, with Britain’s economy proving sturdier than expected despite the…
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Pressure grows on Burnham to commit to increasing statutory paternity leave
Andy Burnham is facing mounting pressure from Labour MPs to commit to increasing statutory paternity leave ahead of the chancellor’s first budget next month, with 105 MPs writing to him to argue that boosting provision is an “obvious” way to ease the cost of living crisis. Support spans nearly half of Labour’s 403 MPs, including…
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Serious coach crash in Swiss Alps as Burnham faces backlash over IndyRef2 remarks
Deaths reported after a tourist coach overturned in Graubünden, Switzerland, while Andy Burnham is criticised for suggesting majority support could trigger a second Scottish independence vote; also: a French father jailed over a teacher beheading threat, Meta trials Community Notes in Latin America, Clearlake nears …