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The world’s timekeeping body had a gentle phase-out plan for the leap second “but now there is a spanner – or spinner – in the works”, said the Financial Times. The Earth has been rotating unusually rapidly for the past decade, meaning there’s a chance that, before the phase-out in 2035, we’d actual...

Leaders of India’s Cockroach Janta Party have been detained after breaching a security cordon to demand the resignation of the country’s election chief over a controversial revision of electoral rolls. The activists claim the deletion of 130 million names from voters’ lists was designed to benefit N...
Volodymyr Zelenskyy claims Ukrainian strikes on three data centres operated by Russian tech giant Yandex have resulted in a dramatic decline in bot activity. “A lot of people noticed” that “there was less hate, less division and fewer provocations”, he told the Warsaw Security Forum.
Three in five Americans oppose using prediction markets to bet on US elections, according to a Reuters/Ipsos survey of 4,506 adults. Only 13% approve of these wagers, amid legislative and judicial battles over how the growing prediction markets industry should be governed.

The death of a man in Yorkshire Wildlife Park’s big cat enclosure has prompted a health and safety investigation by the City of Doncaster Council. William Chapman was killed by a Siberian tiger after he reportedly climbed over the barrier on Saturday.Some are calling for tighter security measures at...
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The Explainer Global timekeepers consider ditching adjustment for astronomical clock to protect digital infrastructure

The Explainer UK-bound migrants are intercepted and detained for processing before entering the asylum system

The Explainer Germany and Australia among the nations who could offer inspiration for bolstering England’s ‘threadbare’ care system

The Explainer Adult social care is regarded as the most significant unresolved policy issue in Britain. The PM has promised to ‘rip off the plaster’

Talking Point Heroism of crew and passengers who thwarted attempted terror attack cannot mask underlying security failures

Talking Point Downing Street backtracked on PM’s remarks that drew attention to his close relationship with the UAE

Talking Point Conference vote a ‘threat to British Jews’ says Chief Rabbi, as former party leader calls it ‘divisive’



Under the Radar Women in China increasingly turn to US for surrogate babies, while elite men are paying for large numbers of children

Under the radar This exoplanet is orbiting the dead star it formed from

Under the Radar Killing of Anna Yagi, allegedly by a US Marine, has revived decades-long anger over crimes by American soldiers

Speed Read It comes less than two weeks after the rapper was dropped by Ed Sheeran’s tour

Speed Read Democratic lawmakers have demanded more details about the ad

Speed Read The two leaders have “never gotten along better,” Trump claimed

Speed Read The parts were “inexplicably diverted” to the city, Bloomberg reported
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