The ex-007 star Timothy Dalton has weighed in on last week’s announcement on the future of the James Bond franchise. On 20 February, Amazon announced it had struck a deal to have “creative control” over the movies after negotiating with Barbara Broccoli and Michael G Wilson, the heirs to the series. Dalton, who played Bond…
The Covid inquiry will hear detailed evidence about the multimillion-pound PPE contracts awarded during the crisis to a company linked to the Conservative peer Michelle Mone, but in private, the inquiry chair has ruled. The National Crime Agency has since May 2021 been investigating potential criminal offences committed in the procurement of the contracts awarded…
Donald Trump is facing a backlash on his Truth Social platform after sharing an AI-created video of him sipping cocktails with a topless Benjamin Netanyahu in Gaza, in a future imagining of the Palestinian territory devastated by Israel’s war. The video presented a computer-generated vision of Trump’s property development plan for Gaza, under which he…
BP will abandon its green ambitions by increasing its oil and gas investment to $10bn a year as part of a fundamental reset of the troubled company’s strategy. The company has confirmed that it will scrap its plan to cut its fossil fuel production and will instead grow production to 2.3m–2.5m barrels of oil a…
Apple has promised to fix a bug in its iPhone automatic dictation tool after some users reported it had suggested to them “Trump” when they said the word “racist”. The glitch was first highlighted in a viral post on TikTok, when the speech-to-text tool sometimes briefly flashed up the word “Trump” when they said “racist”,…
Almost twice as many boys as girls routinely cycle in the UK, a pioneering report on young people’s active travel has found. The study, led by the charity Sustrans, also found strong support among children for measures to help them cycle and walk, such as dedicated bike lanes, slower traffic speeds and barring motor vehicles…
Donald Trump has said that Volodymyr Zelenskyy is likely to visit the White House on Friday to sign a rare earth minerals deal to pay for US military aid to defend against Russia’s full-scale invasion. The announcement followed days of tense negotiations between the US and Ukraine in which Zelenskyy alleged the US was pressuring…
New South Wales police are yet to speak to a second nurse involved in a viral video, despite his colleague being charged for allegedly threatened to kill Israeli patients. Sarah Abu Lebdeh, who worked at Bankstown-Lidcombe hospital in Sydney’s southwest, was charged with three offences including threatening violence, using a carriage service to threaten to…
More than 2,000 dolphins gathered off the California coast to form a “superpod”, gliding and breaching the clear, aquamarine waters off Monterey Bay. The superpod included Northern right whale dolphins and Pacific white-sided dolphins, as well as light grey baby calves. Evan Brodsky, a captain and videographer with the private boat tour company Monterey Bay…
A new search for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 has been launched more than a decade after the plane went missing in one of aviation’s greatest enduring mysteries. Maritime exploration firm Ocean Infinity has resumed the hunt for the missing plane, Malaysian transport minister Anthony Loke said on Tuesday. Loke told reporters the contract details between…
