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Norman Foster on shortlist to design Queen Elizabeth II memorial
The shortlist of teams competing to design a national memorial to the late Queen Elizabeth II has been unveiled and includes an architect once highly critical of King Charles.
Five finalists are in the running for what has been described as one of the most significant design initiatives in modern …
Women hold almost 45% of seats on FTSE 100 boards, report says
Women occupy more than two in five seats on the boards of Britain’s biggest listed companies after further progress was made last year, but the number of female FTSE 100 chief executives dipped for a time to fewer than 10, according to a report.
The proportion of board positions held …
Police to get new powers to find stolen phones in England and Wales
Police will be able to search properties without a warrant for stolen phones or other electronically geotagged items under the government’s crime and policing bill.
The measure is among dozens in the bill, which will be put before parliament on Tuesday and would mostly apply to England and Wales. It …
Cost of global energy crisis on households in Great Britain ‘to hit £3,000 by summer’
The cost of the global energy crisis caused by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine will reach £3,000 for the average British household by the summer, after another expected increase in bills in April.
The average annual bill in Great Britain under the latest energy price cap is forecast to be about …
Kate Bush and Damon Albarn among 1,000 artists on silent AI protest album
More than 1,000 musicians, including Kate Bush, Damon Albarn and Annie Lennox, have released a silent album in protest against UK government plans to let artificial intelligence companies use copyright-protected work without permission, as a celebrity backlash builds against the proposals.
The recordings of dormant music studios and performance spaces, …
Sayeeda Warsi and Mishal Husain back new lobby group for British Muslims
Prominent British Muslims in politics, media, business and sport have come together to influence government policy on behalf of 4 million British Muslims.
The minister for faith Wajid Khan, the Tory MP and deputy speaker Nusrat Ghani, the former Conservative party chair Sayeeda Warsi, the broadcaster Mishal Husain, the ex-England …
Mars once had an ocean with sandy beaches, researchers say
Mars may not seem like a prime holiday spot with its arid landscape and punishing radiation levels, but it once boasted beaches, researchers have found.
While previous discoveries of features including valley networks and sedimentary rocks has suggested the red planet once had flowing rivers, there has been debate among …
Luton murders: video allegedly posted by killer raises questions over motive
Nineteen-year-old Nicholas Prosper spent much of his time online. This is hardly uncommon for modern teenagers, but Prosper – who rarely left home – was so immersed in the digital world that some of his neighbours reportedly had no idea he existed.
That changed last September when people in Leabank …
US court upholds Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes’s conviction
A US court upheld the conviction of the
founderElizabeth Holmes
for defrauding investors out of hundreds of millions of dollars while operating her failed blood-testing startup, once valued at $9bn, rejecting her multi-year appeal. The court also upheld the conviction of Ramesh “Sunny” Balwani, …Beeban Kidron joins calls against PM’s AI tsar over tech-firm interests
Beeban Kidron, the film director who is campaigning against government plans to overhaul copyright rules for AI companies, has become the latest high-profile figure to complain about the role being played by the prime minister’s AI tsar, Matt Clifford.
Lady Kidron, an award-winning film director whose work includes Bridget Jones: …