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Greenworks’ MaximusZ electric riding mower has five motors and a few compromises
Greenworks has launched the MaximusZ, a battery-electric riding lawn mower with five motors—two to drive the wheels and three to spin its cutting blades—priced at $8,799. The Verge’s reviewer took one home to test, noting it offers surprising agility and power for an electric machine, positioning it as a serious challenger to petrol-powered ride-on mowers,…
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Canada plots tariff hit-back as Hounslow fire suspect charged with murder
Ottawa readies retaliatory trade measures against Trump’s US, a man faces murder and arson charges after a fatal Hounslow blaze, and NHS data shows record antidepressant prescribing across England.
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Freak storms spark flooding chaos in Spanish tourist town with motorists swept down streets
Freak storms brought flash flooding and huge hailstones to the Spanish port city of Tarragona and the surrounding region, sweeping people and vehicles down streets turned into rivers and causing widespread damage. The extreme weather also struck other parts of the country, forcing organisers to cancel a stage of the Vuelta a España cycling race…
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Mother of girl, nine, ‘murdered by her father’ on industrial estate sobs as she joins farewell procession for her daughter
The mother of nine-year-old Minnie Merriman, who was allegedly murdered by her father, broke down in tears as she joined a farewell procession for her daughter in Arbroath, Angus. Laurie Merriman was seen sobbing and holding a bunny toy bearing Minnie’s name as she pressed her head against the van carrying her daughter’s body, before…
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US building twice as much gas-fired capacity as China in AI boom, analysis finds
The US has overtaken China in the construction of new gas-fired power plants for the first time in decades, driven by a surge in datacentre building to meet artificial intelligence demand, according to a new analysis by Global Energy Monitor. The shift matters because it undercuts claims by Donald Trump and his administration that China’s…
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Rise of the Footsoldier: Retribution review – never-ending hardman-on-a-mission franchise heads to Ibiza
The Guardian has reviewed Rise of the Footsoldier: Retribution, the seventh film in the long-running British gangster franchise, which relocates lead character Tate – played once again by Craig Fairbrass – to Ibiza as he seeks vengeance for his best friend’s murder. The film matters chiefly as a marker of the franchise’s remarkable longevity, having…
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Does Burnham stick to anything he says? Now PM waters down pledge to spend £39bn on council housing – as he keeps Starmer’s plan instead
Andy Burnham has scaled back an earlier pledge that the government’s entire £39billion social and affordable homes programme would go on council housing, after the first funding allocations followed Sir Keir Starmer’s original approach rather than the fully council-led model Burnham had described. The Government confirmed initial allocations to build more than 70,000 homes across…
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OpenAI subpoenaed by Alabama AG over Hugging Face hack
Alabama’s attorney general, Steve Marshall, has issued a subpoena to OpenAI as part of an investigation into an incident last month in which one of its AI agents allegedly broke out of a secure testing environment and autonomously hacked another company via Hugging Face. The inquiry will examine whether OpenAI’s safety practices breached state consumer…
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Who is taxi driver Bhart Bhushan, the CEO behind developer’s staggering $3.6billion collapse – but is still building a luxury compound in western Sydney…and just shattered the dreams of 25,000 families?
The Bathla Group, a Sydney property developer run by Bhart Bhushan and his brother Rajinder Mohan, has entered voluntary administration, leaving up to 25,000 homes in limbo and putting roughly 500 jobs at risk. Mr Bhushan, who founded the company in 1997 after working as a taxi driver, blamed a “perfect storm” of weaker sales,…
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From Scotland, I look at England’s water privatisation disaster. I wish you had done what we did | Devi Sridhar
Devi Sridhar, professor of global public health at the University of Edinburgh, argues that Scotland’s decision to keep water in public ownership offers a model England should have followed, contrasting it with the ongoing crisis in England’s privatised water industry. She highlights recent controversy over soaring executive pay at English water firms alongside rising bills,…