Australia awarded a $26 billion contract to build a new generation of warships to British defence giant BAE Systems on Friday, as the Pacific nation… Via: Australia awards bn next-gen warship contract to BAE
The State Department confirmed Thursday that another U.S. diplomat has been affected by mysterious health incidents in Cuba, bringing the total number to 26. Via: Another US diplomat hurt in mystery incidents in Cuba
Iain Macmaster, 68, convinced actress Claire Gordon to give him her legacy on her will when she was ill with a brain tumour. He was jailed for eight years at Southwark Crown Court. Via: Man who forged will of dying actress to con her out of her £1million estate jailed Read more
Police in Annapolis confirm fatalities and say others have been injured. Follow live updates hereFive people shot and killed in attack on newspaper office 2.42am BST Columnist and assistant editor Rob Hiaasen has been named by the Baltimore Sun as one of the five people killed in a shooting at Read more
It is a concern that England will face Colombia, who are a better team than Japan, and that they go into the World Cup knockout phase on the back of a scratch team’s flaccid defeatAnd so on to Moscow. On an underpowered, slightly strange night in Kaliningrad England made it Read more
Simon Stevens has said significant expansion required to treat increasing problemsChildren’s mental health services will need to expand significantly to cope with the growing problems faced by young people, the head of the NHS in England has said.Simon Stevens said higher rates of mental illness combined with a greater willingness Read more
Sheffield council and Amey ‘dependent on the heightened level of South Yorkshire Police involvement’ says independent report Via: Council 'reliant on police' to protect workers carrying out controversial tree felling programme, report says
‘The Home Office did not behave like a department which had discovered it had made a terrible mistake, demonstrating a systemic failure when it comes to detaining individuals’ Via: Detention of Windrush generation not just a 'mistake' but symptom of 'systemic failure' by Home Office
System would allow Facebook to identify what adults and children are watching based on ambient noiseFacebook has patented a system that can remotely activate the microphone on someone’s phone using inaudible signals broadcast via a television. The patent application describes a system where an audio fingerprint embedded in TV shows Read more
Aberdeen and Cambridge were only two of 20 cities with price fall over past year – surveyHouse price growth in London has slowed to a nine-year low, while prices in Edinburgh and Manchester are rising faster than in any other major UK city, according to a survey.The latest UK Cities Read more