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Spain basketball star Megan DiLeo weighs in on Caitlin Clark’s World Cup bench role ahead of semifinal
Spain’s Megan DiLeo has dismissed the idea that Caitlin Clark coming off the bench gives Spain any edge ahead of their FIBA Women’s World Cup semifinal in Berlin on Saturday. USA coach Kara Lawson has started veteran Chelsea Gray ahead of Clark at point guard throughout the tournament despite Clark’s superior statistics, but DiLeo insisted…
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Father who said he would have BEHEADED his son’s primary school teacher ‘if she was a man’ for calling him ‘a little bully’ is jailed after case shocked France
A 47-year-old father, identified as Abdelkader B., has been jailed for six months after telling his son’s primary school teacher that he would have cut off her head “if she were a man”, in a case that has deeply unsettled the small village of Le Fauga in southwestern France. The threat came after he confronted…
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Can Europe recharge its battery industry?
European researchers and start-ups are betting on nanoscale battery technology to help the continent catch up in an industry increasingly dominated by China, after high-profile failures at Sweden’s Northvolt and Norway’s Morrow raised fears that Europe had missed the boat. With demand for batteries set to grow as transport and industry electrify, but long development…
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Youth-evasion crash kills two Cleveland officers as Gatwick chaos finds its hero
Teesside mourns PCs Blades and Clough after their A66 pursuit crash; a stranded passenger becomes the “hero of Gatwick” amid flight cancellations. Also: Venice’s Gaza documentary NAZA, a New Jersey child-assault case, King Harald’s funeral, an OpenAI data row, and Artemis Two’s astronauts join NASA’s emeritus progra…
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Latest Anthropic horror story chills with tales of kamikaze drone swarms and bioweapons research
Anthropic has published a report detailing how state-sponsored hackers, cybercriminals and other bad actors have been misusing its Claude AI models for activities including automated cyberattacks, drone swarm development, mass surveillance and bioweapons research. The report, covering activity disrupted between December 2025 and August 2026, shows a marked escalation from a previous disclosure in November,…
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Wes Streeting fires warning shot at PM: Fund defence or nothing else will matter
Defence Secretary Wes Streeting has publicly rebuked Prime Minister Andy Burnham over defence spending, warning that schools, hospitals and homes are “valueless” if the country is reduced to “rubble” by an adversary such as Russia. The intervention came a day after Burnham told PMQs that national security “cannot come at the expense of social security”,…
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Furo’s founders left Silicon Valley — and it’s paying off
Furo, a startup building software for industrial battery storage systems, has raised $4 million from mostly US investors after its three co-founders chose to relocate from Silicon Valley back to their native Germany. The move challenges the long-standing Silicon Valley orthodoxy that international founders must be based in the US to secure venture funding, and…
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Europe will go it alone on Venus mission after NASA yanks radar instrument
The European Space Agency is pressing ahead alone on its Envision mission to Venus after NASA signalled it likely cannot deliver a US-built radar instrument it had promised, due to budget pressures from the Trump administration’s proposed cuts to NASA science funding. Envision will map the Venusian surface at ten times the resolution of NASA’s…
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Victoria Monét Delivers Some ‘Juicy’ News: The Frequency of Love Tour & a New Song
Victoria Monét has released a new single, “Juicy,” and announced the 27-date Frequency of Love Tour, set to begin on 27 October in Raleigh, North Carolina, and run through mid-December. The release builds on a strong run for the Grammy-winning singer, whose forthcoming album Frequency of Love is due out on 2 October via Lovett…
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Drink In ‘Low Lies The Land,’ Documentary Set In Luscious But Imperiled Winemaking Region Of Italy’s Piemonte – Toronto Film Festival
A new documentary, “Low Lies the Land,” is set to have its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival, offering an intimate look at winemaking families in Italy’s Piemonte region as they confront climate change and pressure to sell their ancestral land. Directed by Emanuele “Manu” Gerosa over six years, the film captures generations-old…