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A jury has ruled that Tesla is partly to blame for the death of a young woman who was hit by an electric car on Autopilot. Naibel Benavides was stargazing at the time of the collision, which sent her flying 22m (75ft) through the air in Florida. Her boyfriend was seriously injured in the 2019…
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The world’s most secretive state is a mystery for billions of people – but not Anastasiya Samsonova. She has returned from a week’s holiday in North Korea. “We saw nothing terrible there, there is no danger there,” the 33-year-old HR manager tells me. “Frankly speaking, we really liked it.” She was part of a group…
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For years now, many performers at Edinburgh Fringe have spoken about their struggles to afford the sky-high prices for their accommodation each August. This year, with Oasis’s reunion tour coming to the city for three nights, the cost of securing a room for a month at the biggest arts festival in the world is even…
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A gang of drug smugglers, who led the Border Force on a 28-mile chase after their cocaine-laden boat was spotted by officers, have been jailed for more than 82 years in total. Peter Williams and Scott Johnston, both from Havant, and Edwin Yahir Tabora Baca, of Barcelona, were arrested after their boat ran aground on…
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Jeffrey Epstein’s former girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell has been moved to a minimum-security prison camp in Texas, officials have said. Maxwell is serving a 20-year sentence after being convicted of helping Epstein traffic and sexually abuse underage girls in 2021. She was being held at a low-security prison in Tallahassee, Florida, that housed men and women.…
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A 76-year-old man has been charged with child cruelty offences after youngsters fell ill at a summer camp. Jonathon Ruben is accused of three offences of “wilful ill treatment of a child” relating to three boys. Police received a report of children feeling unwell at a camp being held at Stathern Lodge, near Melton in…
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Donald Trump says he has ordered two nuclear submarines to be positioned in the “appropriate regions” in a row with former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev. It comes after Mr Medvedev, who is now deputy chairman of Russia’s Security Council, told the US president on Thursday to remember that Moscow had Soviet-era nuclear strike capabilities of…
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The visit to Gaza by Trump’s envoy was an important gesture to show America cared about the humanitarian situation there amid mounting pressure at home and abroad. It was also “to learn the truth”, according to US Ambassador Mike Huckabee, who accompanied Mr Witkoff to an aid site. They gave themselves around five hours to…
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A “united front” of US social media giants could try to “fight off” regulation implemented in Europe, an American politician has suggested. The idea that big tech companies like Meta, Apple, Microsoft and others could work together against both the UK and EU laws was made by Republican senator Scott Fitzgerald, who is chair of…
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British banks and lenders have been spared a huge bill as the Supreme Court has overturned a ruling that could have meant millions of motorists were due compensation for mis-sold car finance. However the court sided with one of the claimants, Marcus Johnson, and awarded him individual compensation due to the circumstances in his case…