YouTube channels spreading fake, anti-Labour videos have amassed more than a billion views this year, as opportunists attempt to use AI-generated content to profit from political division in the UK. More than 150 channels have been detected in the last year that promote anti-Labour narratives, as well as outright fake and inflammatory accusations about Keir…
Zoe Ball is stepping down from presenting her BBC Radio 2 Saturday show. Announcing her departure on air, she said she would be replaced by broadcaster Emma Willis who she described as a “superwoman”. “I love you all to bits, but I’m not disappearing completely,” she told listeners. Ball’s final show is set for 20…
Cuban officials have denounced the US seizure of the Skipper oil tanker off Venezuela’s coast on Wednesday, calling it an “act of piracy and maritime terrorism” as well as a “serious violation of international law” that hurts the Caribbean island nation and its people. “This action is part of the US escalation aimed at hampering…
Algeria: Petkovic clarifies objectives for AFCON 2025 Vladimir Petkovic reveals Algeria’s ambitions for AFCON 2025 During the press conference dedicated to announcing his squad for AFCON 2025, Vladimir Petkovic did more than just detail his selections. The national team coach also took the opportunity to clarify Algeria’s ambitions for this continental tournament, which will be…
SpaceX is moving forward with an insider share sale that values Elon Musk’s rocket and satellite maker at about $800 billion, setting up what could be the largest initial public offering of all time. In a company message seen by Bloomberg on Friday, SpaceX said it’s preparing for a possible public offering in 2026 that…
Chairman of Legislative Council Basavaraj Horatti being felicitated in Hubballi on Saturday. | Photo Credit: KIRAN BAKALE Chairman of the Legislative Council Basavaraj Horatti, who has already created a record for his eighth successive win from the teachers’ constituency, was given a grand and warm felicitation by leaders of various political parties, including Chief Minister…
The Belarusian president, Alexander Lukashenko, has freed 123 prisoners, including Nobel peace prize winner Ales Bialiatski and leading opposition figure Maria Kalesnikava, after the US lifted sanctions on Belarusian potash, a key export. The announcement came after two days of talks with an envoy of the US president, Donald Trump, the latest diplomatic push since…
There is a heavy cloud hanging over Labour’s Christmas celebrations. The most recent figures show the economy is going backwards and worse, the slide is prompting recession talk in the corridors of City banks. If there is a recession, it will only be slight, but with unemployment rising and businesses reluctant to invest, the economy…
A recent review of alternative treatments for obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) indicates that psychedelic treatments show promise for the disorder while cannabis does not. Dr Michael Van Ameringen, a psychiatry professor at McMaster University in Ontario, Canada and lead author of the review published in the Journal of Psychiatric Research, said that 40-60 % of…
MEXICO CITY — Juan Orlando Hernández, a convicted drug trafficker who prosecutors said “paved a cocaine superhighway” to the United States, walked out of a West Virginia prison this week a free man. That was thanks to President Trump, who on Monday granted a full pardon to Hernández, the former right-wing leader of Honduras who was serving…