The Guardian Articles

Major tech moguls had their claws out for each other on Wednesday, hissing at their rivals over enormous pledges to invest in AI that had been announced by Donald Trump the day before.

Trump announced Stargate, a $500bn project to be funded jointly by OpenAI, Oracle and Softbank, on Tuesday. …

Closing all bars on the parliamentary estate could lead to security risks for MPs, the leader of the House of Commons has said.

The famous Strangers’ Bar in the Palace of Westminster has been temporarily closed while

police investigate an alleged spiking incident

The family of a black man who died after being restrained by police officers who denied having heard him say “I can’t breathe” have condemned the police discipline system after two officers were cleared of gross misconduct.

Kevin Clarke, 35, died while in police custody in 2018, with the restraint …

One of France’s most wanted suspected drug traffickers was due in court in Marseille after his extradition from Morocco.

Félix Bingui, known as “the Cat” and reportedly head of the notorious Yoda clan, was arrested in Casablanca last March.

France’s justice minister, Gérald Darmanin, hailed the extradition of the 34-year-old …

A 28-year-old Afghan man has been arrested after a knife attack in a park in the German city of Aschaffenburg that killed two people, including a toddler, in what the country’s chancellor, Olaf Scholz, condemned as an “act of terror”.

With a month left in a campaign for snap elections …

An overhaul of laws on terrorism after the Southport murders will not expand the definition to take in disruptive but non-violent protest, Downing Street has said, as MPs and senior lawyers warned about potential risks to the plan.

Keir Starmer

announced the review

In the seven-game series, it’s 1-0 to the UK investment trusts. Saba Capital, the New York hedge fund

trying to oust the entire boards of seven trusts

Giorgia Meloni’s government is under pressure to clarify why a Rome court refused to approve the arrest of a Libyan general accused of war crimes, allowing him to return home to a hero’s welcome on an Italian secret flight in what critics believe was a tactic to shield alleged abuses …

I can’t help thinking Ed Miliband has not been accurately briefed when he says a government funding pledge means Britain is within “grasping distance” of “secure, clean, unlimited energy” from nuclear fusion (

Ministers pledge record £410m to support UK nuclear fusion energy, 16 January

Before we start …

In 1985, while looking for an actor who could speak Spanish to be in a new play, Hotel Dorado by

Peter Terson