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Volkswagen workers boo chief executive over restructuring plans
Volkswagen’s chief executive, Oliver Blume, was booed by more than 10,000 workers at the company’s Wolfsburg headquarters after urging staff to “pull together” amid plans for a sweeping restructuring that could involve widespread job losses and factory closures. The confrontation, his first public appearance since details of the cuts emerged, underscores the depth of anger…
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‘Bubbly’ young woman, 27, killed when Tesla rammed into a Westfield shopping centre cafe is identified
A 27-year-old woman has been named as the victim killed when a Tesla mounted a pedestrian crossing and crashed into a café at Westfield Knox shopping centre in Melbourne. Jennifer Keen was on her lunch break from a nearby call centre when she was struck by the car, which then went on to hit the…
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Pacific Fusion’s next fusion machine could clear a key hurdle to commercial power
Pacific Fusion has broken ground on a demonstration facility in Albuquerque, New Mexico, aiming to become the first US project to achieve “net facility gain” — generating as much energy as the whole plant consumes, rather than just the fusion reaction itself. The milestone, targeted for 2030, would mark a significant step towards commercial fusion…
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AI reshapes radiologists’ work without replacing them
AI has become deeply embedded in radiology, but rather than replacing doctors as once predicted, it is reshaping how they work. In 2016, AI pioneer Geoffrey Hinton forecast that radiologists would be replaced by computers within five years; instead, the profession is growing, with practitioner numbers expected to rise by at least 26% over the…
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Couple are mercilessly rammed down by speeding G-Wagon stolen by four teens who led police on hours-long chase, cops say
A married couple were killed in New Jersey after a Mercedes G-Wagon, allegedly stolen and driven by four teenagers fleeing police, crossed the centre line and smashed head-on into their car. Alice Stilwell, 67, and Robert Barr Jr, 54, died in the crash near Mays Landing, roughly 18 miles from Atlantic City, in a case…
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Woke Boston mayor goes on fever-pitched hunt to track down and threaten business owners renting parking spots to ICE agents in her city: ‘This is unhinged’
Boston Mayor Michelle Wu has clashed publicly with the US Department of Homeland Security after urging local business owners not to rent parking spaces to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The row began after a federal procurement notice showed ICE seeking 249 consecutive parking spaces in the city’s central business district, prompting Wu to write…
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Teen who stabbed university student in the heart while he was on the phone with his girlfriend after falling out over fake Rolex found guilty of manslaughter
A jury at Leicester Crown Court has found 19-year-old Harper Dennis guilty of manslaughter after he fatally stabbed fellow student Khaleed Oladipo, 20, near De Montfort University in Leicester. Dennis was cleared of murder but convicted of manslaughter, possessing an offensive weapon and failing to provide his phone’s PIN, following a two-week trial. Prosecutors said…
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Real estate expert’s brutal takedown of Anthony Albanese after he declared his controversial tax changes were fixing the property market: ‘The housing crisis is going brilliantly’
Real estate commentator Tom Panos has publicly criticised Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese for claiming his government’s housing tax reforms are working, arguing the data tells a different story. Albanese had shared a video insisting that changes to negative gearing and capital gains tax were easing competition for first-home buyers and boosting new housing supply,…
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Trump Threatens Lake Ontario Renaming as Canada-US Trade Dispute Escalates
A trade dispute between the United States and Canada escalated sharply after negotiations between the two countries broke down, prompting Washington to impose 50% tariffs on roughly $20 billion of Canadian goods, including hockey equipment and alcohol, while threatening a further 50% levy on cars, car parts and steel from 1 January. President Donald Trump…
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Cross-border tensions flare as Canada-US trade talks collapse and Kremlin warns Burnham on drones
Carney rejects Trump’s tariff “attack” as trade war looms, a Kremlin adviser threatens British drone factories, and Murdoch family feuding is exposed in newly unsealed court papers.