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Chinese artist Gao Zhen jailed over Mao sculptures
Gao Zhen, a Chinese artist known for provocative sculptures of Mao Zedong, has been sentenced to three years in prison in China after being convicted of slandering the country’s “heroes and martyrs”. The verdict, handed down two years after his detention, has drawn international condemnation because the artworks in question were created more than a…
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DR MARTIN SCURR: Why this apparent ‘epidemic’ of depression is so worrying
Writing in the Daily Mail, GP columnist Dr Martin Scurr responds to new figures showing that as many as one in seven people in England are now taking antidepressants, a sharp rise he says he has witnessed first-hand since starting out as a doctor. He argues this apparent “epidemic” of depression is concerning for two…
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WSL academy teams to play in third tier after FA approves controversial plan
The Football Association has approved a controversial plan to let four Women’s Super League academy teams compete in the third tier of the women’s football pyramid from the 2027-28 season. The FA says the move, part of a wider package of Women’s National League reforms, is intended to raise standards and give young English players…
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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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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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‘Environmental violence’: inside the fight to save indigenous land from becoming a nuclear dumping ground
A new avant-garde documentary, To Use a Mountain, examines America’s decades-long failure to find a permanent home for its nuclear waste, focusing on rural and indigenous communities who fought government plans to turn their land into disposal sites. Director Casey Carter builds the film around the 1982 Nuclear Waste Policy Act, which pitted six rural…
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Year of after-school care now costs £2,800 a child in parts of UK
Parents of primary school children in England are paying 42% more for after-school childcare than a decade ago, with annual bills now topping £2,800 in some parts of the UK, according to Guardian analysis of data from the children’s charity Coram. The rising costs, which come on top of holiday childcare, breakfast clubs and extracurricular…
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Poll finds 71% oppose public funding for Sussexes’ security
A poll has found that a large majority of Britons oppose using taxpayer money to fund security for Prince Harry and Meghan as they prepare to return to live in the UK after six years in the United States. The couple’s homecoming, driven by their children Archie and Lilibet starting at new British schools in…