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Meta must limit data for personalised ads – EU court

Facebook-owner Meta must minimise the amount of people’s data it uses for personalised advertising, the EU’s highest court says.The Court of Justice for the European Union (CJEU) ruled in favour of privacy

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UK’s Chagos deal on hold to allow Trump review

US President-elect Donald Trump will be consulted on the UK’s deal to hand over the Chagos Islands – where there is a joint US-UK military base – to Mauritius.The UK announced in

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McDonald’s boss says 29 people fired over abuse

The boss of McDonald’s in the UK has said 29 people have been dismissed over sexual harassment allegations over the past 12 months.Alistair Macrow also told MPs that the alleged cases published

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Shein lawyer refuses to say if it uses Chinese cotton

A senior lawyer representing Shein has repeatedly refused to say whether the company sells products containing cotton from China, prompting an MP to brand her evidence “ridiculous”.Yinan Zhu, general counsel for the

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Closure of Downs ‘rat run’ road could be trialled

A road used as a rat run on the Downs in Bristol should close for a trial on a bank holiday weekend this summer, advisers have said.Ladies Mile is suffering from “escalating

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School’s video hopes to combat toxic masculinity

A video encouraging men and boys to be open with their emotions has been created by students and staff at a school.The film, made at Clevedon School in North Somerset, warns against

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Facebook and Instagram get rid of fact checkers

Meta is abandoning the use of independent fact checkers on Facebook and Instagram, replacing them with X-style “community notes” where commenting on the accuracy of posts is left to users.In a video

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Lively and Baldoni both file new lawsuits in harassment row

Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni have filed competing lawsuits that ramp up a battle over allegations of what happened on the set of their film, It Ends With Us. Lively filed a

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New bone test could rewrite British history, say scientists

From the end of the Roman occupation through the Anglo-Saxon and Viking invasions – a new way of testing DNA in ancient bones could force a rethink of key moments in Britain’s

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Scammers defrauded NI victims out of £19m in a year

Victims of fraud in Northern Ireland reported losing a combined total of almost £19m to scammers over the past year, according to figures from Action Fraud.The Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI)

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Madoff fraud victims get $4.3bn as fund completes payouts

A fund created by the US government to help compensate victims of the late fraudster Bernard Madoff has begun making its final round of payments, according to a statement by the Department

7 months ago

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China’s BYD closes in on Tesla as sales jump

Chinese car maker BYD saw sales jump at the end of last year, leaving it closer to claiming the title of the world’s best-selling electric vehicle (EV) maker of 2024.The company says

7 months ago

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‘He is an introvert – a man of deeds, not words’: How Vladimir Putin rose to power in Russia

When Vladimir Putin took over as acting president of Russia on the last day of the 20th Century, the former spy was an enigma to many. In History looks at how the

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The Swiss hotel cut off from the world for 12 hours a day

While Switzerland is full of Alpine huts and hard-to-reach hotels, Alp Grüm is a mountain anomaly like no other. “Happily, there are no roads. There is only nature. Sunrises. Sunsets. Stillness. Nothing

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‘I can’t go on like this’: US asks what’s next for healthcare

Special education teacher Robin Ginkel has spent almost two years fighting with her insurance company to try to get it to pay for back surgery that her doctors recommended after a work

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Can Ukraine face another year of war?

Ukraine is losing the battle on the ground. Many of its soldiers are tired and exhausted after three years of fighting. The question – can the country endure another year of war?Their

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Israel probe says army actions had ‘influence’ on killing of six hostages by Hamas

An investigation by the Israeli military has found that the actions of their forces on the ground likely influenced the killing of six hostages in Gaza in August by Hamas. It said

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Palestinian Christians struggle to find hope at Christmas

The little town of Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank has good reason to consider itself the capital of Christmas but this year it does not feel like it.There are very few

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Greenland and the Panama Canal aren’t for sale. Why is Trump threatening to take them?

President-elect Donald Trump ran on a platform of isolating the US from foreign conflicts like the Ukraine war, increasing tariffs on foreign trade partners, and rebuilding domestic manufacturing.But in recent days he

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Ex-Abercrombie & Fitch CEO has dementia, lawyers say

The former CEO of Abercrombie & Fitch (A&F) has dementia and late onset Alzheimer’s disease, his legal team has said in a court document filed in New York.Lawyers for Mike Jeffries have

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Former US President Bill Clinton discharged from hospital after flu

Former US President Bill Clinton has been discharged from the hospital after being treated for the flu, a spokesperson said on Tuesday.“He and his family are deeply grateful for the exceptional care

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