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Andy Burnham tells BBC Breakfast anyone convicted of manslaughter will be excluded from the early release scheme in the Sentencing Act.

Filip Hrgovic is the first Croatian to become a world heavyweight boxing champion after beating Briton Moses Itauma.

Ontario Premier Doug Ford unveiled a billboard on Canada's shoreline with the message: "Lake Ontario. Now and Always."

Serb hopes to take advantage of wide-open men’s draw Elena Rybakina has eyes on No 1 world ranking Novak Djokovic said he was as prepared as he could be for the US Open as he attempts to take advantage of the wide-open men’s draw and battle for a potential 25th grand slam title. Djokovic arrived in New York having competed only once after his semi-final run at Wimbledon, losing in his opening match of the Cincinnati Open to Thiago Agustín Tirante while struggling with the humidity. However, he now sees the silver lining in that defeat, which he believes gave him the time to make sure he was in optimal shape for the US Open. “I don’t like early losses anywhere, to be honest, but it gave me time to be prepared for US Open in a most adequate way,” he said. “I had almost a few weeks, actually two weeks, to really train and get my body and mind into the right state, prepared for what’s coming up. Continue reading...

Matt Bradley and crew assaulted while interviewing woman who said settlers had driven family out of home A Palestinian woman and an NBC News team are reported to have been attacked and injured by masked Israeli settlers in the Israeli-occupied West Bank on Saturday, amid worsening confrontations in the area. Benjamin Netanyahu said he condemned the violence committed “by a handful of rioters”. Continue reading...

Three vessels and a helicopter deployed to monitor four ships travelling through the North Sea to the Channel The Royal Navy spent three days tracking Russian vessels as they passed through UK waters, it has emerged. The “intense” 72-hour operation took place last week, with radars used to monitor four ships that made their way from the North Sea through to the Channel. Continue reading...

The local mayor says 159 passengers have been reached so far, with a rescue operation under way.

NASA's Roman Space Telescope​ launched shortly after daybreak from Kennedy Space Center and blazed toward an observation point 1 million miles away.

Searching for exoplanets and clues on planet formation, the Roman telescope begins million-mile journey from Florida launchpad A $4.3bn space telescope that Donald Trump tried to kill has lifted off from Florida as Nasa embarks on the next stage of its quest to unlock the secrets of the universe. The Nancy Grace Roman space telescope survived two rounds of proposed White House budget cuts, and began a million-mile journey into deep space from a launchpad at the Kennedy Space Center on Sunday morning. . Continue reading...

Record inundations wrecked homes and took seven lives but Trump has not approved emergency aid and the state has cut funds for environmental agencies It’s been 10 days since the floodwater receded from Cambridge City’s main street and yet signs of disaster are all around. Abandoned cars, toilets and bathtubs are strewn across parks and side streets on a recent visit to the city. Garages have been lifted from their foundations and moved by the rushing water. Dumpsters up and down the street are overflowing with people’s belongings, with red paint sprayed on homes indicating which houses have been cleared by water rescue teams. Continue reading...

State and city lawmakers push to boost regulations after two outbreaks of the disease over the last two summers New York lawmakers are now trying to better protect residents from the deadly legionnaires’ disease by increasing regulations and inspections of cooling towers after two outbreaks of the infection over the last two summers and a raft of new lawsuits. Legionnaires’ disease is a serious pneumonia caused by a bacterium called legionella. It often comes from large air-conditioning systems, like those used in hotels, hospitals and high-rise buildings, because the cooling towers contain water to remove heat. If not well maintained, the liquid can foster the bacteria, which can then be swept into fans and circulated through the air. Continue reading...

Robert Guanco, 41, was a pastor at Jesus the Living Water Church in Eastbourne, East Sussex.

The $4.3 billion telescope is expected to discover tens of thousands of exoplanets while probing the nature of mysterious dark matter and energy.

A 27-year-old German man was arrested immediately after the incident in Rosenheim, Bavaria.

Five others in their twenties were injured after shots were fired at a techno event near Zurich.

The US-Israeli bombing of Iran became a fight for the Strait of Hormuz. AJLabs counts the cost of the war.

Local police said early Sunday a manhunt was underway and the motives were still unclear.

Dozens of protesters in Argentina have demonstrated against Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel, outside his new mansion.

Associated Press journalists on the Indonesian island of Batam, across the Singapore Strait, spotted the massive vessel as it transited waters near Singapore just after 1 a.m. local time.

No injuries were reported but park officials warned people against accessing the closed areas.

More than 100 undercover officers spied on tens of thousands of mainly leftwing activists over decades Prosecutors are examining whether to bring criminal charges against 12 former police officers who were involved in spying on political groups. The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) is examining a file of evidence that the officers may have committed wrongdoing while working in controversial undercover operations. Continue reading...

As Americans face an affordability crisis and war with Iran, the president is focused on … changing the names of things Is it a key policy move which will “recognize the extraordinary contributions of the American people”? Or “real foolishness”? Whatever the impact of Donald Trump unusual decision to retitle Lake Ontario as Lake America, days after Canada’s prime minister refused to be cowed by Trump’s punitive tariffs, it has certainly divided opinion – but perhaps it shouldn’t have come as a surprise. Continue reading...

City firms tapped for case studies to try to convince global watchdog that London has cleaned up its act The government is asking bankers and lawyers to provide feelgood stories about how they blocked dirty money from entering the UK, as ministers try to prove the UK’s money-laundering controls are working. The Treasury’s call for evidence is meant to illustrate that the UK has upped its game when it comes to preventing financial crime, particularly since its last dismal assessment by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) global crime watchdog in 2018, which fuelled allegations that London had become a hub for “dirty money” . Continue reading...

While social media is rife with AI celebrity deepfakes, videos featuring late night TV hosts like Jimmy Kimmel and Jon Stewart are are easier to create than other kinds of deepfakes and potentially more disruptive.

Broadcaster RUV reports that 52.8% of voters rejected the government's proposal to resume talks.

Start-ups are using the military-derived term to glorify customer-facing work as clients seek people to help set up artificial intelligence tools.

A speech that quieted concerns about the Fed’s direction left the decision resting on the coming data, including an inflation report days before officials’ next meeting.

The machines, which enjoyed legal protection until a recent court ruling, could go dark in October.

It’s the corporate equivalent of ordering too much alcohol for a party where half the guests turn out to be dry. Except with billions of dollars at stake.

A letter arrived in the mail from PNC Bank about an address change on a mortgage account. Was a deed theft scheme in process?

Sarah Davachi’s “The Will of Tongues” is a collection of music that refuses extremes and requires undivided attention.

Once a year, the tiny island of Lido is transformed into a rich field of artistic expression for the festival.

Ryan Reynolds and Kenneth Branagh strike up an unlikely Cold War friendship in ‘Mayday,’ an exhibition in Boston focuses on Mary Cassatt, Japanese history meets the supernatural in the new ‘Onimusha’ videogame, and more.

It can be useful to see reality as malleable.

During its five-year primary mission, Roman is expected to observe billions of stars and galaxies, 100,000 exoplanets, and more. The post NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman space telescope launches appeared first on Popular Science .

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Discussions on how to stave off automatic benefit cuts accelerated this summer, but concrete action remains elusive.

The era of AI cheating, deepfakes and North Korean remote workers is ushering in new screening tactics.

The deal capped months of secretive negotiations to give the U.S. rights to the some of the world’s largest proven oil reserves.

Die-offs and floods have started already, a prelude to supercharged storms and droughts.

NATO countries see Moscow’s appetite for conflict increasing as it flounders against Ukraine.

The International Criminal Court finds itself snared in geopolitical conflicts after targeting the leaders of Israel and Russia.

A judge temporarily blocked the agency from refusing to deliver ballots in noncompliant states, which could disproportionately affect Democrats and many battleground elections.

State and federal leaders are trying to avoid sharing sensitive intelligence with the Alternative for Germany should it take power in a state’s elections next week.

The debasement of American politics didn’t start with Donald Trump.

Students are coming to accept cheating as a way of life.

Mr. Yiannopoulos, an early supporter of President Trump and vocal supporter of mass deportations, was himself sent back to his home country, part of a long fall from right-wing grace.

Voters weighed the nation’s security in the wake of Trump saying he would like to acquire Greenland.

The shifting power status of the two leaders will be front and center on Monday, when they are set to meet in Kyrgyzstan.

It’s complicated. But the answer is: Maybe.

The enrollment crisis taking down smaller schools is now hitting bigger, brand-name universities.

A trial involving claims against the travel company has opened in federal court. Dozens of such lawsuits have been filed since President Trump opened the door to them.

There are signs that Spaniards are eating earlier in the evening. Experts say it could make for a healthier country, but not everyone is ready to part with the custom.

The closure of a crucial Rhode Island bridge for safety reasons in 2023, and the traffic nightmare that followed, have dogged Gov. Dan McKee in the Democratic primary.

Newly released video shows the U.S. military seizing and sinking a vessel that was suspected of being used as a floating gas station by a prominent narco-terrorist group.

A few years ago, some feared the European Union was going out of style. Now Iceland is mulling membership alongside a long list of candidates.

This is what she did for the written word. And medicine. And …

Many people think Greg Chism is a freak — or worse. He says he was just following the incentives of the platform.

A New York Times analysis shows that the pace of office-to-residential conversions like the former Pfizer building, where two steel columns buckled in July, has quickened sharply.

A U.S. Senate race has revealed just how many Alaskan men have the same name.

For years, conservative litigants flocked to Judge Reed O’Connor’s district. Now, North Texas has become a favorite destination of the Justice Department.

For many, the trek to Mount Kailash on the border of Nepal and Tibet is a once-in-a-lifetime trip to find spiritual awakening.