Vibration from Honda engine causing issue with drivers’ fingers Fernando Alonso and Lance Stroll will be unable to complete race Aston Martin have admitted that Fernando Alonso and Lance Stroll will not be able to complete even half race distance at the season-opening Australian Grand Prix this weekend for fear of suffering permanent nerve damage because of a vibration problem with their car. The team principal Adrian Newey, who also designed the team’s new car, revealed on Thursday in the Melbourne paddock that both drivers were suffering such severe vibration through the steering wheel that they would only be able to complete 25 and 15 laps respectively. Continue reading...

Regulator suspends permit due to ‘unacceptable risk’ antibiotic poses to other species in move welcomed by environmental campaigners Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Australia’s veterinary medicines regulator has suspended the use of florfenicol in salmon in Tasmania because of the “unacceptable risk” the antibiotic poses to other species. The Bob Brown Foundation said the Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority’s (APVMA) decision was an “indictment of the industrial fish farm companies and their complete disregard for the marine environment”. Continue reading...

Research challenges idea of ‘generation sensible’ as alcohol and drug use increase after teenage years Binge drinking rates among gen Z have risen sharply since their teenage years, according to research that challenges their reputation as “generation sensible”. Almost seven in 10 (68%) 23-year-olds reported binge drinking in the past year, while nearly a third (29%) said they did so at least monthly, up from 10% at age 17. Continue reading...

Financial abuse is a factor in more than half of deaths related to domestic abuse but is often misunderstood Economic abuse from a partner contributes to one death from homicide or suicide every 19 days, a charity has found. Surviving Economic Abuse (Sea) said economic abuse from an intimate partner was a factor in more than half of deaths related to domestic abuse but was often misunderstood or overlooked. In the UK and Ireland, Samaritans can be contacted on freephone 116 123, or email jo@samaritans.org or jo@samaritans.ie. In the US, you can call or text the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline on 988, chat on 988lifeline.org, or text HOME to 741741 to connect with a crisis counselor. In Australia, the crisis support service Lifeline is 13 11 14. Other international helplines can be found at befrienders.org Continue reading...

Corporation proposes sweeping changes intended to protect its independence and shore up its future The BBC is to call for an end to political appointments to its board as part of sweeping changes designed to protect its independence. The corporation will also demand that its royal charter be put on a permanent footing in an attempt to end the existential threat posed by having to negotiate with ministers over its future every 10 years. Continue reading...

Alireza Mohebbi was stripped of tournament credentials on Monday Reporter accused of carrying prohibited flags into stadium The Asian Football Confederation (AFC) has reinstated the accreditation of a veteran Iranian-Australian journalist three days after it had been removed while he was covering Iran’s national team at the Women’s Asian Cup. Alireza Mohebbi, a journalist with London-based Iran International whose question about the death of Ayatollah Khamenei was shut down at a press conference last weekend, spent some time with a group of Iran fans in the stands during their opening match against South Korea on Monday. When he returned to the media centre, he was pulled aside by a security officer and accused of carrying prohibited flags. Continue reading...

US study suggests GLP-1s, used to treat type 2 diabetes, could also reduce risk of people already using substances from overdosing Weight loss drugs could help people avoid getting addicted to alcohol, tobacco and drugs such as cannabis and cocaine, a study has found. They could also reduce the risk of people already addicted to illicit substances having an overdose, ending up in hospital or dying, according to research published in the British Medical Journal. Continue reading...

CEO’s claims come amid increased scrutiny of US military’s use of the technology and ethics concerns from AI workers Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox OpenAI’s CEO, Sam Altman, told employees on Tuesday that his company does not control how the Pentagon uses their artificial intelligence products in military operations. Altman’s claims on OpenAI’s lack of input come amid increased scrutiny of how the military uses AI in war and ethics concerns from AI workers over how their technology will be deployed. “You do not get to make operational decisions,” Altman told employees, according to reports by Bloomberg and CNBC. Continue reading...

Eddie Howe says his Newcastle side are at their best when they create chaos and no one in black and white is better at conjuring it than Will Osula. The maverick Denmark Under-21 striker is, to say the least, unpredictable but here he stepped off the substitutes bench to score a fabulous, virtuoso late winner for a team reduced to ten men by Jacob Ramsey’s sending off at the end of the first half. Continue reading...

Shabana Mahmood hopes to reduce number of claimants in hotels by enabling them to support themselves Up to 21,000 asylum seekers who have waited for a year for their claims to be processed could be allowed to enter the jobs market so they can support themselves, the Home Office has said, as part of a package of measures to be announced on Thursday. As the government seeks to empty asylum hotels, claimants who break the law, work illegally or are found to have enough assets to live without support will from June be ejected and lose their support payments. Continue reading...

Our approach, unlike that of the Greens and Reform, is in step with the British people. They don’t want extremes – they want a system that is managed and fair Shabana Mahmood is the UK home secretary “More Labour.” These two words sprang from the postmortem into last week’s Gorton and Denton byelection loss. But what do they mean when applied to what this government does, not least in the contested politics of migration? To answer that, we have to understand what the Labour party really is, because at its best it is a broad church. My party was born as a union of newly industrialised, working-class communities and radical social reformers. Added to that mix came those like my family. Immigrant communities came to this country in search of better lives and found their political home in the Labour party. Shabana Mahmood is the home secretary. She is Labour MP for Birmingham Ladywood Continue reading...

Benjamin Nygren’s 19th goal of the season sent Celtic into second place in the Scottish Premiership as the champions won at Aberdeen. Nygren combined with his fellow substitute James Forrest to put the visitors back in front midway through the second half with a deft finish. The Swede faced a lengthy wait for confirmation as the offside lines were drawn but Gavin Molloy’s outstretched foot was ultimately judged to have played the midfielder on. Continue reading...

War powers vote broke along party lines with almost all Democrats in support and most Republicans opposed Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox Senate Republicans on Wednesday voted down an attempt to require Donald Trump receive Congress’s permission before continuing the war with Iran, batting aside concerns from Democrats that the campaign is illegal and risks plunging the United States into a prolonged conflict. The 47-53 vote on a war powers resolution introduced by Virginia Democrat Tim Kaine broke largely along party lines. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania was the sole Democrat to vote against the measure, while Rand Paul of Kentucky was the only member of the Republican majority to support the resolution. Continue reading...

Coroner suggested Hajra, 29, and Haleema Zahid, 25, who could not swim, may have slipped into pools on path up Snowdon Two sisters have accidentally drowned after they paddled fully clothed at a national park beauty spot in Wales, an inquest has heard. Hajra Zahid, 29, and her sibling Haleema, 25, were pulled from pools on the Watkin Path, which leads to the Snowdon mountain summit. Both visited the picturesque wild swimming site and its waterfall at Eryri (Snowdonia) national park, in the Nant Gwynant area of Gwynedd, on 11 June 2025 with three male friends. The group of five, who were all students at the University of Chester, split up for privacy and religious reasons as the sisters, who could not swim, headed for a pool upstream on the Afon Cwm Llan river. The men later called out for the sisters, from Rotherham in South Yorkshire, but got no reply to their shouts and when they reached the pools they noticed their shoes and personal belongings at the side. They later discovered Hajra, a married mother-of-two, floating face down in her red dress. Caernarfon coroner’s court was told they managed to pull an unconscious Hajra on to the riverbank but they were unable to find Haleema. Emergency services were called and two members of Llanberis mountain rescue team later retrieved Haleema, who was wearing blue jeans and a black shirt, from deep water near the waterfall. Shortly after both women were pronounced dead at the scene. The assistant coroner for north-west Wales, Sarah Riley, said she found that the sisters had intended to paddle in the water. She said: “Having considered the evidence that neither could swim and that they were fully clothed I am satisfied that neither sister went to swim or enter parts of the pool that would put them out of their depths in the water.” She said one possibility was that one or both had fallen from an “exceptionally slippy” slab of rock at the edge of the pools. The inquest heard the mountain team rescuers who entered the water had both slipped on the same rock. Concluding their deaths were accidental, she said the sisters had both drowned after they were unable to swim to safety. She said: “I extend my sincere condolences to their friends and family. This is an extremely tragic case and my thoughts remain with them.” Riley also “urged caution” to the public about the dangers of entering such pools. The sisters, originally from Rawalpindi, northern Pakistan, came to the UK in January 2025 to study for a master’s degree in international business. In a statement read out at the inquests, Hajra’s husband, Hessham Minhas, said she “always placed herself at the centre of family life”. He said: “She was a determined, ambitious woman who believed in the power of education and personal growth, with a dream of building a better future for herself and her family. “Her memory lives on in the lives she touched and the family she left behind.” Continue reading...

This documentary about British war correspondent John Cantlie – who was kidnapped by IS and is believed to have died in an airstrike – is full of remarkable yarns We need reporters on the ground to help us see through the fog of war, but that is always a messy task. In asymmetric early 21st-century conflicts in north Africa and the Middle East, almost all of them dealing at least in part with blowback from previous western interventions, it has become an awesomely difficult job. On battlefields with blurred frontlines, and multiple antagonists whose identities and motivations are obscure, journalists are as much of a target as everyone else. Donning a flak jacket and trying to send home a quote or image that makes sense of it all is not a job for everyone. So what sort of guy was John Cantlie, the British photographer and reporter who was, most likely, killed by an airstrike in Iraq in 2017, having been kidnapped in Syria in 2012? Hostage spends three episodes trying to work it out. That it does so without the help of Cantlie’s family, who declined to participate, only adds to the feeling that there is much we cannot know. But, particularly in the initial impression given by the opening instalment, this is not the reverent tribute we might expect for a man whose vocation is usually held in high esteem. Cantlie comes across as a maverick who was a danger to himself and to others, as hard to analyse as the brutal chaos he kept throwing himself into. Continue reading...

Preliminary trials into Zorevunersen find drug to be safe and well tolerated by those with Dravet syndrome Scientists have hailed a potentially life-changing drug for children with a hard to treat form of epilepsy, after promising early clinical trial results. Dravet syndrome is a genetic disorder which causes treatment resistant epilepsy and is often accompanied by speech and developmental delays. About 3,000 people are thought to have the condition in the UK. Current treatments aim to control the number and severity of seizures, but often do not work. Continue reading...

Arsenal did not come to see the seaside. They were not here to make friends – which was just as well. It was purely about the points. Mission: Eyes On The Prize. They accomplished it and then some. There were 78 minutes on the clock here when the travelling support got wind of Nottingham Forest’s equaliser at Manchester City. How they belted out their anthems at that point – about previous title-winning glories. The wait is close to an end. Arsenal’s advantage at the top of the table is now seven points, albeit they have played an extra game. Continue reading...

The musician reflected on the death of his former One Direction bandmate in an interview with Zane Lowe to promote his new album Harry Styles has reflected on the death of his One Direction bandmate Liam Payne in a new interview with Zane Lowe. “It’s so difficult to lose a friend,” Styles said. “It’s difficult to lose any friend, but it’s so difficult to lose a friend who is so like you in so many ways.” Continue reading...

As these teams emerged for kick-off, the Holte End displayed a tifo proudly flaunting Aston Villa’s hand, chiefly an ace of clubs. By the end, however, they rued a damaging defeat after Chelsea roused from behind to dismantle Unai Emery’s side to canter to victory, João Pedro scoring a hat-trick to make it 17 goals for the season in all competitions. The Brazilian, a £55m buy from Brighton last summer, was in the mood for a fourth and tried his luck with an overhead-kick, while the Villa goalkeeper Emiliano Martínez prevented Alejandro Garnacho from adding a fifth late on. For Villa and their grand aspirations, it was a sobering evening. Continue reading...

“Vamos, vamos!” (“come on, let’s go!”) screamed Rodri in his native Spanish following a 62nd-minute header that seemed to grab a precious victory for Manchester City. But the title chasers’ 2-1 lead lasted only 14 minutes as Phil Foden allowed Elliot Anderson to run off him and the Nottingham Forest midfielder, from range, curled a sublime equaliser beyond Gianluigi Donnarumma. City’s faithful were silenced. Continue reading...

Republicans join Democrats to vote 24-19 to approve motion to compel US attorney general to testify US politics live – latest updates Five Republicans on the House oversight committee joined with Democrats to subpoena the US attorney general, Pam Bondi, as part of the ongoing investigation into Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell. The House oversight committee voted 24-19 to approve a motion introduced by Republican representative Nancy Mace to compel Bondi to testify. In addition to Mace, Republican representatives Tim Burchett of Tennessee, Lauren Boebert of Colorado, Michael Cloud of Texas, and Scott Perry of Pennsylvania voted for the motion. Continue reading...

Twitter investors allege the billionaire publicly derided the social network to sink its stock price and buy it at a bargain Elon Musk testified Wednesday in a trial brought by Twitter investors, who allege the billionaire committed securities fraud as he was buying the social media company in 2022. The class-action lawsuit alleges Musk agreed to buy Twitter but then waffled for months, attacking the company with the goal of bringing down the stock price to get a better bargain. After contentious legal wrangling, Musk did eventually buy Twitter for $54.20 a share, his original offer, totalling around $44bn. His lawyers have argued that he did not aim to lower Twitter’s stock price or hurt its investors. Continue reading...

Theft of two stones in Italy being investigated Mixed doubles wheelchair event started on Wednesday The theft of two curling stones due to be used at the Milano Cortina Winter Paralympics is being investigated, World Curling has confirmed. Action in Italy got under way on Wednesday night with the preliminary rounds of the inaugural mixed doubles wheelchair competition, but the drama started earlier when it was discovered the rocks were missing from the Cortina curling stadium. Continue reading...

The actor has a blast as bride to Christian Bale’s lonely creature in Maggie Gyllenhaal’s darkly comic and gleefully bizarre reimagining of the 1935 film Did you know that “Frankenstein” isn’t the name of the monster, but the mad scientist who created him? The answer is almost certainly yes. But that’s no thanks to the 1935 film The Bride of Frankenstein, which appears to have created this monstrous misconception – because let’s face it, the idea of a middle-aged Swiss scientist getting married isn’t all that shocking. In that sensational Frankenstein sequel with Boris Karloff returning as the monster, Elsa Lanchester was his bride and Mary Shelley, a doubling that may have inspired this new riff on the monster’s other half from writer-director Maggie Gyllenhaal. There’s another barnstorming performance from Jessie Buckley as the sinister spouse, leaving savage bite marks all over the scenery and on her gallant co-star Christian Bale. It’s her name, not the title, that deserves the exclamation mark.. This new monster’s-wife tale is a rackety, violent black comedy with twists of Rocky Horror and extended homages to the top-hat-and-tails sophistication of Mel Brooks’ Young Frankenstein. It’s also a gangster joyride from the roaring 20s and 30s with Mr and Mrs F-M reimagined as a kind of post-death Bonnie and Clyde. It takes as its premise the idea that Mary Shelley is an angry ghost, spewing out into the shadowy netherworld her patrician contempt for the mediocre menfolk that surrounded her in life, and longing for a suitable living woman to insinuate herself back into. Continue reading...

The Arctic Metagaz burst into flames before sinking after what the Russian president described as a terrorist attack Vladimir Putin has accused Ukraine of carrying out a terrorist attack on one of Russia’s liquefied natural gas carriers which exploded into flames and sank in the Mediterranean Sea off Libya. The Arctic Metagaz had been sanctioned by the US and EU for being part of Moscow’s “shadow fleet” of ageing tankers that carry its oil and gas around the world, skirting Western restrictions. Continue reading...