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Transfer latest: Juventus in Woltemade loan talks, Everton pushing for Balogun
Newcastle’s Nick Woltemade is closing in on a loan move to Juventus, just a year after his £69m club-record signing from Stuttgart, as the Germany forward has failed to settle under either Eddie Howe or current manager Matthias Jaissle. The switch hinges on Newcastle first bringing in a replacement forward, with Lille’s Matias Fernandez-Pardo their…
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Australian court orders student to repay mother nearly $5m
A Chinese student, Allen Xu, 29, has been ordered by an Australian court to repay his mother, Jiyun Ma, almost $5million and two properties after squandering a large portion of the roughly $18million she gave him to invest in Sydney real estate. The Supreme Court of Victoria and a subsequent Court of Appeal both rejected…
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The data center fight could decide the next president and cost America the AI race
This opinion piece argues that a growing backlash against data centres, driven largely by rising electricity bills, is prompting US governors from both parties to restrict or pause new builds, a shift the author warns could hand China the advantage in the global AI race. It highlights how politicians face little political cost in opposing…
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Abdul El-Sayed shares dozens of donors with ex-GOP candidate at center of antisemitism controversy
Michigan US Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed shares nearly two dozen donors with former Republican congressional candidate Dan Bilzerian, who is best known for antisemitic attacks he made against Rep Randy Fine during a primary campaign. Although El-Sayed and Bilzerian sit at opposite ends of the political spectrum on most issues, both have criticised US support…
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Bank of England governor: AI risks forcing global economic downturn
Bank of England governor Andrew Bailey has warned G20 finance ministers, meeting in North Carolina, that a collapse of the artificial intelligence investment boom could trigger a disorderly market correction spreading across global borders. Writing as chairman of the Financial Stability Board, he said markets remain vulnerable given fragilities in sovereign debt markets, with rising…
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Children under five among scores feared being forced into marriage – as campaigner warns ‘deeply disturbing’ trend will see pupils ‘missing’ ahead of new school term
Home Office data has revealed that at least 100 children aged 12 or under have been referred to the UK’s forced marriage unit over the past five years, including 27 children aged five or younger. Campaigner Dame Jasvinder Sanghera, herself a survivor who fled a forced marriage at 14, described the figures as “deeply disturbing”…
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Monza memories – Italian GP in pictures through the years
This BBC Sport feature marks the Italian Grand Prix at Monza, the most historic venue on the Formula 1 calendar, by presenting a selection of archive photographs spanning the race’s history since 1950. Monza has hosted a grand prix in every season bar 1980, when it underwent renovation, and remains central to the sport’s identity…
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‘Breakthrough’ as Turkmenistan starts fixing ‘mindboggling’ methane mega-leaks
Turkmenistan has begun repairing the ageing oil and gas infrastructure responsible for some of the world’s worst methane “super-emitter” leaks, in what UN officials have called a breakthrough. The secretive, authoritarian state was named by the Guardian in 2023 as the worst offender for methane mega-leaks, and the resulting scrutiny is credited with pushing its…
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Tom Tugendhat tipped for key role as Kemi Badenoch kicks off Tory reshuffle – with ex-Cabinet minister Priti Patel leaving
Kemi Badenoch carried out a far bigger reshuffle of her shadow Cabinet than expected, axing Mel Stride as shadow chancellor and replacing him with Andrew Griffith, while confirming Tom Tugendhat would take over Priti Patel’s foreign affairs brief. The changes, unveiled the day before Parliament returned, were aimed at sharpening the Conservatives’ attacks on new…
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Bank chief warns frontier AI could destabilise global finance
Andrew Bailey, governor of the Bank of England and chair of the international Financial Stability Board (FSB), has written to G20 finance ministers and central bank governors warning that advanced “frontier” artificial intelligence models pose a growing risk to global financial stability. In a two-page letter sent ahead of a G20 meeting in North Carolina,…