Dominique Pelicot, the Frenchman accused of drugging his wife and recruiting dozens of strangers to rape her over a decade, on Tuesday admitted to the various criminal charges he faces in a closely-watched trial, French media reported. Pelicot had been due to testify last week in the case that has shocked France, but his appearance was delayed due to health issues. He ...
One of the final messages from the Titan submersible crew said they were “all good here” before it imploded, killing all five on board. British adventurer Hamish Harding and father and son Shahzada and Suleman Dawood died alongside OceanGate Expeditions’ chief executive Stockton Rush and Frenchman Paul-Henri Nargeolet. The five of them had been communicating with the Polar Prince support ...
The UK government has procured 150,000 doses of additional mpox vaccine in preparation for anticipated cases of a new potentially deadlier strain causing a growing outbreak in Africa and isolated cases in Europe and Asia detected in recent weeks. The UK has yet to identify a case of the Clade 1b strain of mpox, and health officials say the risk ...
Instagram and Facebook owner Meta is banning RT and other Russian state media networks from its platforms over claims they carried out covert operations to influence social media users. The ban, which was announced on Monday, will block the accounts from Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp and Threads users over the coming days. “After careful consideration, we expanded our ongoing enforcement against ...
Amazon has told its office workers they may no longer work from home except in extenuating circumstances. It comes as Jonathan Reynolds, the UK’s business secretary, said flexible working contributes to productivity, employee resilience, and staff retention. Money blog: Is now a good time to buy an iPhone? Workers need to be judged on outcomes and “not a culture of ...
The White House has called Elon Musk “irresponsible” after he posted on social media that “no one is even trying” to assassinate Joe Biden or Kamala Harris. The billionaire posted the comment on his X social media platform, followed by a thinking emoji. But he later deleted it and said it was intended as a joke. His comment followed the ...
A Jordanian-led programme to help fit prosthetic limbs to thousands of victims of the Gaza war has begun. Two mobile clinics entered Gaza on Monday tasked with helping around 14,000 amputees. Using cutting-edge British designed technology, the doctors hope to be able to fit a functioning prosthesis every hour. The estimated cost of each fitting is around £1,000. “Medical estimates ...
The Kamala Harris campaign sent a signal to deep-pocketed donors Monday by blessing the work of 13 independent groups that could help elect the vice president over the final 50 days through advertising, registration or other voter mobilization efforts. The announcement comes as the Harris campaign remains flush with late-summer cash after raising $615 million in the first six weeks ...
The day after Secret Service agents confronted an armed man near where Donald Trump was playing golf, the former president told Fox News that the rhetoric of Democrats and Vice President Kamala Harris was to blame. “He believed the rhetoric of [President Joe] Biden and [Vice President Kamala] Harris, and he acted on it,” Trump said of Ryan Wesley Routh, ...
From Day One of his presidency to this day, Donald Trump has promoted an alternate reality that has caught on with a shocking proportion of his base. But we don’t often get good polling that shows just how much Trump’s misinformation has penetrated the country. Today, we have such polling. And it’s sobering, if unsurprising. As Trump has launched a ...