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Ministers row back on council homes vow as Spurs cash in on Savinho sale to City
UK housing and water policy, Meloni’s Rome advice to Badenoch, Singapore’s baby bonus, Mexico’s deadly bull run and an OpenAI escape probe also feature, plus Tottenham’s £75m Savinho deal.
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Preserving glow-in-the-dark art and fashion for future generations
Conservators and chemists are studying the unstable pigments used in glow-in-the-dark and fluorescent art and fashion, including works by punk-era designer Stephen Sprouse, to understand why the colours fade and how they might be preserved. The research, presented this week at an American Chemical Society meeting in Chicago, matters because these bright pigments have been…
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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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‘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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Trump launches ferocious ‘economic onslaught’ to cripple Iran after bombing campaign and peace deal stalls… with chilling warning to China
Iran’s rial has collapsed to an all-time low after the Trump administration launched “Operation Economic Outcast”, a sweeping new sanctions drive targeting any country or entity that trades with Tehran. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent framed the move as an “economic onslaught” designed to sever Iran’s remaining global economic links, explicitly warning China and other buyers…
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Beloved meerkats tragically die at UK wildlife park after tunnel collapses on them following heavy rainfall – with pregnant mother among dead
A colony of meerkats at Tropical Birdland in Desford, Leicestershire, was almost entirely wiped out after their underground tunnels collapsed following heavy rainfall. The mob had recently dug fresh burrows in the dry ground to prepare for an expected litter of pups from their mother, known as Big Mama, but the sudden downpour weakened the…
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Fast-fashion giant Shein lowers value to $27bn for Hong Kong IPO
Shein, the China-founded fast-fashion retailer, has cut the valuation it is seeking for its long-delayed Hong Kong stock market listing to around $27bn (£19.8bn), a sharp drop from the near-$100bn it was worth at its 2022 private funding peak. The reduced price reflects mounting pressure on the company, which reported a $99m loss in the…
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Wildlife rescuer wins work battle against Terri Irwin’s Australia Zoo
A wildlife rescuer at Australia Zoo, the Queensland attraction run by Terri Irwin and her children Bindi and Robert, has successfully challenged her job classification before the Fair Work Commission. Erica Henning, who joined the park in 2023, argued that her duties as a rescuer involved specialist skills and independent decision-making that warranted a higher…
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SWG lead’s new MMO, Stars Reach, almost lost me—until I met an animal conservationist mayor
PC Gamer’s reviewer says Stars Reach, the new early-access MMO led by Star Wars Galaxies veteran Raph Koster, makes an unconvincing first impression despite its ambitious social sandbox design. The game’s potential became clearer only after the reviewer found a player-run conservation community led by an elected mayor, illustrating how its systems can support co-operation,…
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Charlotte crime debate, Sullivan spending scrutiny and Roadless Rule repeal lead this hour
Three distinct US stories dominated coverage this hour before reporting settled. In Charlotte, debate continued over public safety and transit security after high-profile violent incidents, with city leaders weighing whether to pursue up to $150 million in federal public-safety funding from a proposed Department of Justice programme, while some council members raised concerns about federal…