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A tortoise miraculously managed to escape its home and climb on to train tracks, sparking delays for commuters.
After a global IT outage caused havoc for many trying to travel on Britain's trains on Friday morning, more delays were reported between Ascot and Bagshot later that evening.
South Western Railway told Sky News a train driver spotted the culprit - a tortoise named Solomon - on the track near Ascot station just after 6pm.
Engineers carried Solomon off the tracks - and staff "moved the tortoise to a position of safety on the platform at Ascot, which included a short ride on the train itself".
While staff had planned to leave the reptile with a vet in Staines, the tortoise's owner identified Solomon and collected him at around 8pm.
Network Rail added on X: "While we are delighted that this story has a happy ending and can reassure passengers that our everyone home safe, every day ambitions extend to pets, we must remind everyone that the railway is dangerous.
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A majority of England's nine water and sewage companies are "failing to get the basics right", according to annual rankings which labelled four operators as responsible for 90% of serious pollution incidents.
It said that fact "polarised performance" across the sector as firms UK-wide face pressure to cut raw sewage discharges through heightened, and long overdue, investment in their infrastructure.
Separate EA data covering 2023, released in March, showed spills into England's rivers hit record levels last year.
Labour's plans include tougher penalties for poor performance and the ability to block rewards for failure when annual bonuses and shareholder payouts are due.
The body's chair Alan Lovell said: "For the nation to have cleaner rivers and seas, water companies must take responsibility to understand the root cause of their problems.
"As part of this we are taking forward our biggest ever transformation in the way we regulate, recruiting up to 500 additional staff, increasing compliance checks and quadrupling the number of water company inspections by March next year."
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RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — Palestinian factions Hamas and Fatah signed a declaration in Beijing on ending a yearslong rift, Chinese state media said Tuesday, taking a step toward potentially resolving the deep divide between the sides as the war in Gaza rages on.
The two groups signed the Beijing Declaration on “ending division and strengthening Palestinian unity,” according to state broadcaster CCTV.
The agreement also underscores China’s growing role in Middle East diplomacy, with success in the restoration of relations between Saudi Arabia and Iran.
“But to be sure, China is still the process of trying to earn credibility as a global mediator,” said James Char, a research fellow at the Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore.
Repeated attempts at mending the rift have failed, wrecked by the factions’ own bitter rivalry over power and the West’s refusal to accept any government that includes Hamas unless it expressly recognizes Israel.
United States President Joe Biden’s administration envisions a revamped Palestinian Authority to rule postwar Gaza and has sought a series of reforms that might make it a viable presence in the war-ravaged territory.
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Sanders, who had previously supported Biden's reelection bid, expressed concern about the media's role in pushing the President out of the race.
The Vermont senator's hesitation to immediately endorse Harris stands in contrast to the wave of support she has received from within the Democratic Party.
When pressed about what it would take for him to endorse the Vice President, Sanders emphasized the importance of the upcoming campaign, highlighting critical issues such as climate change and economic rights.
Sanders pointed to disparities in American society, noting that "life expectancy for working-class people is 10 years shorter than it is for the rich."
While expressing confidence that he will eventually endorse Harris, Sanders made it clear that he wants to ensure the campaign aligns with his vision for addressing the needs of working families.
Some Hillary Clinton supporters have argued that Sanders' long campaign against her in the 2016 Democratic primaries and his perceived reluctance to unite the party helped Donald Trump defeat her in the general election.
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A woman charged over the alleged hit-and-run murder of a young mother south of Brisbane has been remanded in custody after a brief court hearing.
Police allege 23-year-old Kiesha Thompson was deliberately struck by an SUV just before 9am on Friday in the Logan suburb of Daisy Hill, south of Brisbane.
The alleged driver — 24-year-old Larissa Rita Mae-Leigh Sant — has been charged with one count of murder.
Ms Sant did not appear when the case was heard in the Ipswich Magistrates Court this morning and her lawyer made no application for bail.
In a video released by Queensland police, Ms Thompson's aunt Amanda Matthias praised the first responders who tried to save her niece.
Her brother, Koby Torto, said Ms Thompson had had a "difficult life".
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Hours earlier, Future Forward, the largest super PAC in Democratic politics, announced it had secured $150 million in commitments over the same period from donors who were “previously stalled, uncertain or uncommitted,” a senior adviser said.
Taken together, the fundraising explosion puts Harris in a dominant position to secure the Democratic Party’s formal presidential nomination at next month’s national convention — if not sooner.
The huge haul also ensures that Harris and her allies can compete with Donald Trump, who has generated stunning fundraising totals of his own in recent weeks as he fights to return to the White House following multiple felony convictions and an assassination attempt.
Nobody really knew what was happening,” said Michael Smith, an Los Angeles donor who, along with his partner James Costos, held numerous fundraisers for Biden.
Chad Griffin, a member of the campaign’s national finance committee and a top Democratic fundraiser in the Los Angeles area, said the party is lucky to have Harris “ready to finish the job she and President Biden started together.”
With Biden’s endorsement, Harris’ campaign appears to have inherited his sprawling national infrastructure and tens of millions of dollars that his team previously raised.
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While that's a slight dip from post-COVID CEO wages, it's a clear indication that the wealth gap continues to widen as the cost-of-living crisis worsens.
"Gross inequality is not good for anybody, including the rich people, and it's unsustainable," says Morris Pearl, former managing director of Black Rock, one of the world's largest investment firms, and now chair of Patriotic Millionaires.
"We're very concerned that inequality is getting worse and it is making our whole society unstable, and we're trying to change policies in our country to do something about that and to stop it before, frankly, everyone gives up on liberal democracy," Mr Pearl tells ABC RN's Future Tense.
Additionally the group meets annually to run strategy sessions with academics, activists and lawmakers to discuss how to push for a fairer economy.
For example, in the lead up to this year's Rio de Janeiro G20 meeting in November, Mr Pearl says a number of countries have signalled their interest in a minimum tax on very wealthy people as proposed by French economist Gabriel Zucman.
Ingrid Robeyns, a professor of philosophy and economics at Utrecht University in the Netherlands, has spent the past decade working on an approach to wealth which she calls limitarianism.
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A wealth of promising home-grown titles from the Xbox Games Showcase 2024 back in June gave existing users plenty of reasons to stay subscribed.
Xbox Game Pass has had a really solid July for content, and it'll get even sweeter if the rumors of Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 hitting the service soon pan out.
I wrote recently about how games might not be enough to find those elusive "new" users in an article linked below, revolving around the dilemma that the overall number of "core" console players simply isn't growing.
While speaking to developers at shows over the past year, a lot of the discourse revolves around "black hole" games like Fortnite and Roblox, which vacuum up users and turn them into mono-gamers with no interest in playing anything else.
Xbox Game Pass is an attempt to cut through that trend in the name of supporting and showcasing the variety of art the industry has to offer — meeting new customer cohorts halfway.
The vastness of its Activision-Blizzard purchase seems to have led to a lost couple of years of momentum for Xbox as a brand, with attention focused solely on its variety of court cases.
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Ms. Harris tapped former Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr., who once oversaw Barack Obama’s vice-presidential vetting, to oversee her choice of a potential running mate, according to two people briefed on the matter.
Two of Ms. Harris’s top political advisers, Sheila Nix and Brian Fallon, joined the Monday morning call of senior staff members on the Biden-turned-Harris campaign — a sign of her team’s widening footprint inside the operation.
The next step in the party’s formal nomination of Ms. Harris will come on Wednesday, when the rules committee of the Democratic National Convention is scheduled to meet to set a date for a virtual roll-call vote of the state delegations.
Any momentum toward a competitive nominating contest appeared to melt away early Monday when a half-dozen Democratic governors quickly fell into line behind Ms. Harris — among them Andy Beshear of Kentucky, JB Pritzker of Illinois, Wes Moore of Maryland and Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan.
Democrats were delighted by the jolt of energy, with donors flocking to give after Mr. Biden’s exit: The Harris campaign announced on Monday that it had raised $81 million in her first 24 hours, a record sum, from 888,000 unique contributors.
Tim Walz of Minnesota was due for a round of cable TV interviews on Monday night and Tuesday morning, during which he planned to explain the party’s nominating process and promote his own political biography.
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The Ministry of Emergency Management and Climate Readiness said as of early afternoon Monday, there were about 440 properties on evacuation order and 3,000 under alert, calling the situation "dynamic and everchanging."
On Monday afternoon, Sooke Potholes Park on Vancouver Island was closed due to a wildfire detected near Mavis Lake east of Victoria.
In an interview with CBC News shortly before 5:30 p.m. PT, Sooke Mayor Maja Tait said there is currently no risk to the wider community, but as a precaution, the district has cancelled a scheduled council meeting so it can react if anything changes.
That same fire also forced the evacuation of the Bowron Lake provincial park canoe circuit and the artistic enclave of Wells, impacting up to 1,000 residents, tourists and temporary workers, according to Mayor Ed Coleman.
Farther south, the city of Williams Lake, B.C., home to more than 10,000 people, ordered a local state of emergency Sunday night after a fire broke out along Mackenzie Avenue, which is a strip of businesses and industry.
Locals posted photos and video of water bombers flying low over the neighbourhood on Sunday evening, and by midnight Mayor Surinderpal Rathor confirmed residents who had been "tactically evacuated" from their homes were allowed to return.
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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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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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“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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“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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Ms. Joly said China interfering in Canadian elections, setting up illegal police stations and bullying diaspora communities were all put on the table in Beijing, as were its intimidation and disinformation campaigns against members of Parliament.
Ms. Joly said she referred to the public inquiry headed by Quebec Court of Appeal justice Marie-Josée Hogue that concluded in its first report in May that China is the “most persistent and sophisticated foreign interference threat to Canada at the moment.”
She also raised the expulsion of Chinese diplomat Zhao Wei last year after The Globe reported he had targeted Conservative foreign affairs critic Michael Chong and his relatives in Hong Kong in an attempt to gain leverage over the MP, who had sponsored a Commons motion on Beijing’s repression in Xinjiang.
On trade, Ms. Joly said Mr. Wang discussed Beijing’s concern about Canada likely joining the U.S. and Europe in imposing massive tariffs on Chinese-made electric vehicles and ending federal subsidies to Canadians for EVs imported from China.
On the larger issues of human-rights abuses, Ms. Joly said she raised concerns about China’s crackdown in Hong Kong, brutal treatment of Muslim Uyghurs and Tibetans, and military threats to invade the self-governing island democracy of Taiwan.
In the Chinese readout of the meeting, Mr. Wang told Ms. Joly that Beijing will brook no criticism of its human-rights records or its menacing of Taiwan, calling those subjects a red line that should not be crossed.
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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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Every spring in Metro Vancouver, around this time of year, the six-legged scavengers invade our homes.
Ant scouts enter your home looking for crumbs, spills, oil and grease, and any accessible items in your pantry.
We asked Mike Londry of Westside Pest Control for his tips on what to do if a colony of ants has invaded your home.
Locate where the ants are entering your home and spray the area with a mix of dish soap and water.
If you see more than 10 or 12 carpenter ants in your house, Londry recommends calling in pest control professionals.
If you want to do your own inspection, Londry suggests taking a slow walk — at least 15 minutes — around your home’s foundation.
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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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