• In 2022, Elon Musk acquired Twitter and made a series of changes to the platform, including changing its name to X and introducing Community Notes, which is a feature that allows users to add context or fact-check potentially misleading posts. This approach differs from Meta’s model, which relies on third-party, independent fact-checking organizations to flag

  • PA Media Hogg made no comment as he left the court Former Scotland rugby union captain Stuart Hogg has been given a one-year community payback order after he admitted a domestic abuse charge against his estranged wife. The 32-year-old, who is in the process of a divorce, was previously given a five-year non-harassment order and

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  • A signed copy of the script for Gavin & Stacey's final episode has raised more than £30,000 for charity. The copy, signed by the show's main cast and director, was donated to a charity raffle by actor Robert Wilfort, who plays Stacey's brother Jason West. His chosen charity, The Theatre Shed, describes itself on its

  • By Supantha Mukherjee and Philip Blenkinsop STOCKHOLM () - Elon Musk's expected hosting of Alice Weidel, leader of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, for a discussion on his X platform on Thursday was being watched by the European Commission to check for any spreading of misinformation before next month's German election. The European

  • Mick Lynch, one of the UK's most influential union leaders in recent history, has announced he is retiring. Mr Lynch is stepping down from the helm of the RMT (Rail Maritime and Transport Workers) union aged 63. He served as general secretary since 2021. Under his leadership, the union waged years of strike action over

  • Jan 9th 2025 E urope’s divisions were once simple. Fiscal policy and sunshine? That was a north-south carve-up: grey, abstemious north; sparkling, spendthrift south. Migration and wealth? Newcomers were mostly tolerated in the rich west and despised in the poor east. Only the wine-beer-vodka spectrum, which produced a twice-diagonal split, was more complex. When crisis

  • A signed copy of the script for Gavin & Stacey's final episode has raised more than £30,000 for charity. The copy, signed by the show's main cast and director, was donated to a charity raffle by actor Robert Wilfort, who plays Stacey's brother Jason West. His chosen charity, The Theatre Shed, describes itself on its

  • () - Mexico's headline inflation rate eased more than expected in December, fueling bets that the central bank will keep cutting its benchmark interest rate despite an uptick in the core consumer price index. Annual headline inflation in Latin America's second-largest economy hit 4.21% last month, INEGI data showed, below the 4.28% expected by economists

  • Ryanair has said it is taking legal action against a disruptive passenger. In what it described as a "major misconduct clampdown", the airline said it is seeking €15,000 (£12,500) in damages from a passenger in Ireland, whose behaviour forced a plane bound for Lanzarote to divert to Porto in Portugal last year. Ryanair claims the