At least six killed in Croatia nursing home shooting
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A conspiracy theorist being sued by two survivors of the Manchester Arena bombing is "perfectly entitled" to believe the deadly attack was an "elaborate hoax", his lawyer has told a court.
Martin Hibbert and his daughter Eve, then 14, were among the hundreds of people injured when 22-year-old Salman Abedi detonated a homemade bomb at an Ariana Grande concert in May 2017.
They are suing self-styled journalist Richard Hall for alleged harassment and breaches of data protection laws in a civil trial at the High Court in London.
"Mr Hall says her parents are invoking their daughter's catastrophic disability as part of a huge fraud on the general public," he added.
The barrister said Mr Hibbert had made a "positive choice" to co-operate with the media and while there was one incident of filming, it was from a public highway and the footage was never published.
It bears similarities to defamation lawsuits brought against US conspiracy theorist Alex Jones by relatives of victims of the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting, which he claimed was a hoax.
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“Consolidation is in full swing and I'm excited to see who will still be there at the end of the year,” said one managing director, on condition of anonymity.
Installers face significant challenges, including employee utilization, short waiting times for commissioning, and declining demand due to higher interest rates, inflation, and high electricity prices.
He also said that large online providers could exploit current market conditions, affecting even reputable solar installers.
“Price competition in the balcony module segment makes a normal PV system seem too expensive,” said another executive.
Another long-standing installer compared the current market to 2012, criticizing the media's focus on low prices from third-rate Chinese manufacturers.
“I’m pessimistic about the second half of the year,” he said, noting the need for future support and policies to ensure sector stability.
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Despite vast hurdles and skepticism, Dr. Neff pulled it off, pioneering an East-West deal that gave bankrupt Moscow hard currency, reduced nuclear threats and produced one of the greatest peace dividends of all time.
The jitters intensified as Russia announced plans to store thousands of unused weapons from missiles and bombers in what American experts saw as decrepit bunkers policed by impoverished guards of dubious reliability.
Frank N. von Hippel, a physicist who advised the Clinton White House and now teaches at Princeton, called Dr. Neff an underappreciated hero who personally engineered the single biggest instance of arms reduction in the nuclear age.
His father, skilled at woodworking and fixing things, owned a print shop and taught business classes in Portland at Lewis & Clark College, where Tom received a tuition-free education in English, math and physics.
Five hundred metric tons — roughly a million pounds — Dr. Neff replied, giving what he considered a high estimate for the amount of Soviet bomb fuel soon to become surplus because arms control treaties were setting it aside.
A Russian brochure reprinted his opinion article, put the overall cost of the transaction at $17 billion and said that reactor fuel had supplied half of all American nuclear power plants.
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Stars including Robert De Niro, Lizzo and Barbra Streisand are reacting to the news that US president, Joe Biden, is bowing out from the presidential election and not seeking another term in office after weeks of pressure to step aside.
Within hours of the news being announced on Sunday (21 June), two-time Oscar winner De Niro showed support for the frontrunner nominee, Democrat Vice President Kamala Harris, to take on Donald Trump in the 2024 presidential election in November.
In a statement issued via his spokesperson Stan Rosenfeld, De Niro said: “In an act of shrewd politics and selfless patriotism, Joe Biden is stepping aside to clear the path for another Democrat to become president .
Billie Eilish’s brother and musical collaborator Finneas posted a photo on Instagram of his family standing with the president and wrote: “I see a person putting the people before themselves and their pride today, and for that, I have an enormous amount of respect.”
Comedian Kathy Griffin, who was fired from CNN in 2017 after sharing a photo of herself holding an effigy of Trump’s decapitated head, wrote online: “Let’s make history!!!!
Freaky Friday actor Jamie Lee Curtis said she supported Biden’s decision and endorsed Harris’s nomination, writing on Instagram: “She is trusted and tested and she is a fierce advocate for women’s rights and people of color and her message is one of hope and unity for America at her time of great national divide.”
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“I first saw this in 2013 - an enormous amount of oxygen being produced at the seafloor in complete darkness,” explains lead researcher Prof Andrew Sweetman from the Scottish Association for Marine Science.
And because these nodules contain metals like lithium, cobalt and copper - all of which are needed to make batteries - many mining companies are developing technology to collect them and bring them to the surface.
And his discovery, published in the journal Nature Geoscience, raises new concerns about the risks of proposed deep-sea mining ventures.
The scientists worked out that the metal nodules are able to make oxygen precisely because they act like batteries.“If you put a battery into seawater, it starts fizzing,” explained Prof Sweetman.
And this discovery suggests that the nodules themselves could be providing the oxygen to support life there.Prof Murray Roberts, a marine biologist from the Univerisity of Edinburgh is one of the scientists who signed the seabed mining petition.
“There’s already overwhelming evidence that strip mining deep-sea nodule fields will destroy ecosystems we barely understand,” he told BBC News.“Because these fields cover such huge areas of our planet it would be crazy to press ahead with deep-sea mining knowing they may be a significant source of oxygen production.”Prof Sweetman added: “I don't see this study as something that will put an end to mining.“[But] we need to explore it in greater detail and we need to use this information and the data we gather in future if we are going to go into the deep ocean and mine it in the most environmentally friendly way possible.”
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BRUSSELS — Hungary on Monday said it had asked the European Union to take action against Ukraine for imposing a partial ban on Russian oil exports, arguing the move was jeopardizing Budapest’s energy security.
Kyiv last month adopted sanctions blocking the transit to Central Europe of pipeline crude sold by Moscow’s largest private oil firm, Lukoil, sparking fears of supply shortages in Budapest.
The escalating diplomatic spat comes as ties between Ukraine and Hungary hit rock-bottom, with Kyiv last week lashing out at Hungarian PM Viktor Orbán for meeting Russian President Vladimir Putin within a self-styled “peace mission.”
The ban means the country's central Slovnaft refinery would “receive 40 percent less oil than it needs,” Fico said, arguing it would also reduce Slovak fuel exports to Ukraine that make up a 10th of Kyiv's consumption.
Following Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine, the EU banned imports of Russian oil arriving at the bloc by sea, but allowed landlocked countries like Hungary, Slovakia and the Czech Republic to continue buying supplies via the Russia-to-Europe Druzhba pipeline until they could find an alternative solution.
But Budapest, which has angered Ukraine by holding up EU sanctions against Russia and has stalled Kyiv’s attempts to join the bloc, hasn't tried to find other options, said Isaac Levy, an analyst at the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air think tank.
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“I first saw this in 2013 - an enormous amount of oxygen being produced at the seafloor in complete darkness,” explains lead researcher Prof Andrew Sweetman from the Scottish Association for Marine Science.
And because these nodules contain metals like lithium, cobalt and copper - all of which are needed to make batteries - many mining companies are developing technology to collect them and bring them to the surface.
And his discovery, published in the journal Nature Geoscience, raises new concerns about the risks of proposed deep-sea mining ventures.
The scientists worked out that the metal nodules are able to make oxygen precisely because they act like batteries.“If you put a battery into seawater, it starts fizzing,” explained Prof Sweetman.
And this discovery suggests that the nodules themselves could be providing the oxygen to support life there.Prof Murray Roberts, a marine biologist from the Univerisity of Edinburgh is one of the scientists who signed the seabed mining petition.
“There’s already overwhelming evidence that strip mining deep-sea nodule fields will destroy ecosystems we barely understand,” he told BBC News.“Because these fields cover such huge areas of our planet it would be crazy to press ahead with deep-sea mining knowing they may be a significant source of oxygen production.”Prof Sweetman added: “I don't see this study as something that will put an end to mining.“[But] we need to explore it in greater detail and we need to use this information and the data we gather in future if we are going to go into the deep ocean and mine it in the most environmentally friendly way possible.”
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The vast production site is located in Water Oakley, Berkshire, 26 miles from central London, and is set to become the U.K. “creative home” for Amazon MGM Studios.
“The acquisition of a studio with such a storied heritage not only empowers us to produce more film and television in the U.K., but also unveils a wealth of opportunities in the local community with respect to jobs and skills training at all levels of the production process.”
The first Amazon MGM Studios production to be located at Bray following the acquisition will be the second season of the Russo Brothers’ spy series Citadel, starring Richard Madden and Priyanka Chopra Jonas, which is scheduled to begin filming in September.
Ridley Scott built and shot the miniatures for his Academy Award-winning sci-fi thriller Alien at the studios in 1978, and a few years before the cult classic The Rocky Horror Picture Show was brought to life here.”
Bray is also known as the home of British horror specialist Hammer Films, which moved on-site in 1951 and became known for projects with the likes of Christopher Lee and such movies as The Mummy, The Curse of Frankenstein, and Terence Fisher’s Dracula.
Crew and technicians lived on-site during productions, creating the first ‘house-style’ studio and fostering a warm and creative on-set community that many award-winning directors, producers, and actors came to love.”
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TOKYO -- Vice foreign ministers from Japan and China held a strategic dialogue Monday for the first time in four and a half years, as the countries focus on shared interests amid a host of diplomatic challenges.
Masataka Okano and Chinese counterpart Ma Zhaoxu discussed developments in the East and South China seas as well as Ukraine during their talk in Tokyo.
Other topics included Japan's release of treated wastewater from the stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant and the detention of Japanese nationals in China.
Japanese Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa and Chinese counterpart Wang Yi are considering holding talks on the sidelines of ASEAN-hosted meetings in Laos starting Thursday.
China is eager to bolster ties with Japan ahead of the U.S. presidential election in November, concerned that a harsher stance by Washington could lead Tokyo to follow suit.
Beijing also awaits the outcome of the leadership race in Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party scheduled for next month, which will decide the country's next prime minister.
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If you need some more interesting games for Steam Deck (and desktop Linux!
), Fanatical launched the Build your own Play on the Go - Elite Collection.
All of the games included are Steam Deck Verified, and so they should work great no matter your Linux device.
Since this is a build your own bundle, the more games you add the higher the discount (up to a point).
Here's what's included (Steam links if you need more info on each):
Wave Break (Native Linux)
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Apple is known to spend billions of dollars on its Hollywood projects, but that could be set to change following production losses across the wider streaming industry.
According to Bloomberg, Apple’s senior vice president of services, Eddy Cue, is pushing studio chiefs Zack Van Amburg and Jamie Erlicht to oversee project budgets more closely in a bid to make its Apple TV Plus streaming business more sustainable.
Apple invests heavily in individual projects compared to larger streaming companies like Netflix, having spent over $500 million on movies from directors Martin Scorsese (Killers of the Flower Moon), Ridley Scott (Napoleon), and Matthew Vaughn (Argylle).
While its original projects get plenty of attention during award seasons, Bloomberg reports that Apple TV Plus is attracting fewer views per month than Netflix averages in a single day.
The company is also licensing more content from competitors to reduce its reliance on original series and has delayed production on shows like Foundation in an attempt to remain within budget.
Apple TV Plus hasn’t been as quick to lay off staffers compared to rivals like Disney and Paramount, though, and the money bought in by selling iPhones and other tech hardware makes it difficult to know how much pressure its studios are under.
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Hours after a battle in eastern Ukraine in August, a wounded and unarmed Russian soldier crawled through a nearly destroyed trench, seeking help from his captors, a unit of international volunteers led by an American.
The shooting of the unarmed, wounded Russian soldier is one of several killings that have unsettled the Chosen Company, one of the best-known units of international troops fighting on behalf of Ukraine.
In a second episode, a Chosen member lobbed a grenade at and killed a surrendering Russian soldier who had his hands raised, video footage reviewed by The Times shows.
In a third episode, Chosen members boasted in a group chat about killing Russian prisoners of war during a mission in October, text messages show.
A Greek soldier known as Zeus was at the center of all three episodes — tossing the grenade and, Mr. Grosse says, firing at the wounded Russian in the trench and bragging about another kill.
But in the United States military, a video showing the killing of a surrendering soldier, regardless of the circumstances, would prompt an immediate investigation, said Rachel E. VanLandingham, a professor at Southwestern Law School and a former U.S. Air Force lawyer.
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“We’re grateful for the progress leading companies have made toward fulfilling their voluntary commitments in addition to what is required by the executive order,” says Robyn Patterson, a spokesperson for the White House.
Without comprehensive federal legislation, the best the US can do right now is to demand that companies follow through on these voluntary commitments, says Brandie Nonnecke, the director of the CITRIS Policy Lab at UC Berkeley.
After they signed the commitments, Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI founded the Frontier Model Forum, a nonprofit that aims to facilitate discussions and actions on AI safety and responsibility.
“The natural question is: Does [the technical fix] meaningfully make progress and address the underlying social concerns that motivate why we want to know whether content is machine generated or not?” he adds.
In the past year, the company has pushed out research on deception, jailbreaking, strategies to mitigate discrimination, and emergent capabilities such as models’ ability to tamper with their own code or engage in persuasion.
Meanwhile, Microsoft has used satellite imagery and AI to improve responses to wildfires in Maui and map climate-vulnerable populations, which helps researchers expose risks such as food insecurity, forced migration, and disease.
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On Instagram, while the explore page has filled with scantily-clad women, the feed is largely innocuous, mostly recommending Melbourne-related content and foodie influencers.
Nicholas Carah, an associate professor in digital media at the University of Queensland, said the experiment showed how “baked into the model” serving up such content to young men is on Facebook.
She praises the federal government’s Stop it at the Start campaign, which includes an “Algorithm of Disrespect” interactive depicting what a young man may encounter on social media.
The federal government has also funded a $3.5m three-year trial to counteract the harmful impacts of social media messaging targeting young men and boys.
The social services minister, Amanda Rishworth, says combatting misogynistic attitudes and behaviour in the online and offline world will help achieve the national plan to end violence against women and children in one generation.
“Around 25% of teenage boys in Australia look up to social media personalities who perpetuate harmful gender stereotypes and condone violence against women - this is shocking,” she says.
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Organisers of the World Gravy Wrestling Championships have said they need more people to take part in this year's event.The event at the Rose 'N' Bowl Pub in Stacksteads, Rossendale, Lancashire, which is being held on 26 August raises money for East Lancashire Hospice.Participants wrestle wearing fancy dress in a pool full of gravy in two-minute bouts in front of hundreds of spectators.One of the organisers, Andy Holt, said judges award points for entertainment value, adding: "It is not about serious wrestling; it is just about having fun."
Mr Holt told BBC Radio Lancashire: "We are struggling a bit [for competitors] this year for some strange reason."
You do not need wrestling experience to take part, he said.
"The judges are marking on entertainment value more than anything.
"It is a great community day," he added.
Listen to the best of BBC Radio Lancashire on Sounds and follow BBC Lancashire on Facebook, X and Instagram.
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The mother of a boy who died a year ago in a Nova Scotia flood says her grief returns daily, along with frustration over what she considers the province's slow pace in reforming its preparations for climate disasters.
A recent review released by the municipality of West Hants said two hours and 41 minutes passed between the first rescue responses and the province sending an alert urging citizens to "shelter in place."
"It's a finger pointing thing currently, and I feel like ultimately all levels of government need to sit down and really focus on how we move forward to fix the problem, rather than play the blame game," she said.
Lohr said the Nova Scotia Guard will permit citizens to enter themselves in a database indicating skills they can offer after emergencies — "whether handling a chainsaw or making sandwiches" — and he said the province would call upon the volunteers when needed.
Sisco is instead urging the minister to focus on reforming existing systems, such as ensuring that regional emergency co-ordinators are full-time positions, rather than part-time roles carried out by officials with other responsibilities.
Lohr said moving toward a quicker system has been complicated by consultations that indicate many volunteer fire departments are reluctant to become directly responsible for sending emergency notices.
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Researchers from Google have built a new weather prediction model that combines machine learning with more conventional techniques, potentially yielding accurate forecasts at a fraction of the current cost.
The model, called NeuralGCM and described in a paper in Nature today, bridges a divide that’s grown among weather prediction experts in the last several years.
It then incorporates AI, which tends to do well where those larger models fall flat—typically for predictions on scales smaller than about 25 kilometers, like those dealing with cloud formations or regional microclimates (San Francisco’s fog, for example).
But the real promise of technology like this is not in better weather predictions for your local area, says Aaron Hill, an assistant professor at the School of Meteorology at the University of Oklahoma, who was not involved in this research.
That means the best climate models are hamstrung by the high costs of computing power, which presents a real bottleneck to research.
While many of the AI skeptics in weather forecasting have been won over by recent developments, according to Hill, the fast pace is hard for the research community to keep up with.
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Since 2021, the anonymous group, Advance Regina, has been running thousands of dollars worth of advertising on social media and billboard campaigns complaining about crime, taxes and city services.
Advance Regina bills itself as "local residents who love our city," but its website and social media presence provides no names of actual people behind the organization.
In the past, she was the Saskatchewan Party's director of training and a constituency organizer, and just last year Premier Scott Moe nominated her for the Queen Elizabeth Platinum Jubilee Medal for public service, according to her Facebook page.
Aaron Moore, a political science professor from the University of Winnipeg, said that as cities have grown and their budgets have inflated, this issue of third-party activism and donations has become more important.
"Advance Regina has transitioned to focus on issue-based advocacy, citizen and voter engagement, and promoting awareness of the current council's poor performance."
Moore, the University of Winnipeg political science professor, said that while there are stringent rules for third-party advertising in provincial and federal elections in Canada, that's generally not the case for municipalities.
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Even on Tuesday night, when they disrupted a meeting of the Metro Council, spouting “antisemitic, homophobic and racist diatribes,” according to the Nashville Scene’s Eli Motycka, I couldn’t say I was surprised.
“Dynamite Nashville” is rigorously researched and reported, and its findings are scrupulously documented, but Ms. Phillips doesn’t write in the dispassionate language of authorial distance.
Bull Connor — who a few years later became nationally infamous as the Birmingham, Ala., commissioner of public safety who sicced attack dogs and used water cannons on a peaceful march of Black children and teenagers — served as one of his state’s representatives to the conference.
To be clear, the presence of a few neo-Nazis harassing people in Nashville does not signal an imminent return to life as we knew it in the Jim Crow South.
“With a historic election just months away, these groups are multiplying, mobilizing and making — and in some cases already implementing — plans to undo democracy,” said Margaret Huang, the Southern Poverty Law Center’s president and chief executive, in a call with reporters in early June.
And Mayor Freddie O’Connell, speaking at an event for the release of “Dynamite Nashville,” announced that he had asked the police chief to assign a member of the cold-case unit to reopen the investigation into three racist bombings that have remained unsolved for more than 60 years.
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At least six people have been killed after a gunman opened fire in a care home in Croatia, sparking calls for stricter gun control in the Balkan country.
Croatia's President Zoran Milanovic said he was shocked by the "savage, unprecedented" mass shooting and called for rules on gun ownership to be "even more rigorous".
Marin Piletic, Croatia's minister for Labour, Pensions, Families and Social Policy, said the mother of the suspect had been a resident of the care home for 10 years.
He also had a previous record for disturbing public order and domestic abuse, according to Croatian national police chief Nikola Milina.
"I was stacking the medicines and then I heard gunshots," a shocked employee of the nursing home told state broadcaster HRT.
Last year, two mass shootings in neighbouring Serbia left more than 18 people dead and led many Serbs to hand in thousands of registered and unregistered weapons as part of a government amnesty.
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