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A common theme links hijacked refrigerators, a record cryptocurrency heist, bomb threats to airlines and newsrooms, and a fake nuclear strike alert sent by Ukraine’s emergency alert app. These are “just the foothills” of a new hacking landscape, according to the head of the UK’s National Cyber Secur...

A new BBC documentary has reignited the outcry over the sodium valproate scandal – a catalogue of pregnancy harms that England’s Patient Safety Commissioner has called “bigger than thalidomide”.Sodium valproate was prescribed to pregnant women, despite its known risks to foetuses. Over the past 50 y...
Joe Biden recalls a comment from Donald Trump that left him “too stunned to respond”, in an excerpt from his new memoir, “Promise Me, America”. According to the former president, his successor’s tone during a White House meeting after the 2024 election “bordered on fawning”.
Only 37% of voters recognise Britain’s longest-serving party leader, according to a YouGov poll of 2,216 adults. Even among those who backed his party in the 2024 election, only 49% recognised a photo of Ed Davey, who has led the Liberal Democrats for more than six years.

Cricket Australia has said it will not reopen its inquiry into Sandpapergate, having completed a three-day investigation following the 2018 ball-tampering scandal. But former Australian batter Usman Khawaja (pictured above, right), who retired from international cricket in January, is claiming that ...
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The Explainer A new study sheds light on aggressive early-onset colorectal cancer

The Explainer New documentary tells story of fight for accountability over anti-epilepsy drug that left thousands of babies disabled

The Explainer Ministers plan to extend deal, overruling MPs and medics who dispute value and efficacy of data platform built on US tech giant’s software

The Explainer Multinational Force-Ukraine ‘is not a peacekeeping or a ceasefire-monitoring force, nor is it connected to Nato’, says MoD

Talking Point Eight years on, the cheating scandal has been reanimated by an ex-player’s memoir

Talking Point Tesla and SpaceX CEO has brought money into politics on a previously unthinkable scale – but his actual influence is debatable

Talking Points Pope Leo drives a rethinking of just war doctrine



Under the radar The animals have lungs similar to humans

Under the Radar Protests linked to pro-Russian agitators tapped into increasingly violent tensions around forced mobilisation

Under The Radar Projections of continued population growth caused ‘immediate stir’ and raised fears for the future

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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