Martin Lewis welcomes plans to consult on fairer council tax debt collection The consumer champion said he hopes that the consultation ‘could be the start of changing things’. Evening Standard · May 14, 2025
Firms still greenwashing in adverts after being censured, UK investigation finds Exclusive: Virgin Atlantic and Renault among companies that continued to publish misleading environmental claims The Guardian - UK · May 14, 2025
Price Manipulation Talks Around $XRP Mount As Token Challenges $3 $XRP prices have been highly volatile in recent weeks, and once again, some crypto observers are raising the issue of price manipulation, as the token attempts to climb to $3. International Business Times · May 14, 2025
‘ChiefsAholic’ handed 32-year sentence after robbing banks to finance social media stardom Xavier Babudar was known as ‘ChiefsAholic’ and had a huge online following The Independent UK · May 14, 2025
SpaceX fires up Starship spacecraft again ahead of 9th test flight (video, photos) SpaceX just conducted another static-fire test with a Starship upper stage, further prepping the megarocket for its upcoming ninth test flight. Space · May 13, 2025
American Pope promises to have an ‘an active social media presence’ after using his old account to criticize Trump Pope Benedict XVI was the first pope to use an official social media account to share information The Independent UK · May 13, 2025
MAHA at war: RFK Jr’s inner circle accusing each other of leaking false info in expletive-ridden phone call At the center of the dispute is one of Robert F Kennedy Jr’s top advisers, Calley Means, whose sister, Casey Means, has been tapped to serve as surgeon general The Independent UK · May 13, 2025
Intel "Xe4" and AMD "GFX13" codenames surface for next-gen 'Druid' GPUs Patch notes and commits have revealed Xe4 (Druid) and GFX13 (successor to RDNA 4) as the internal codenames for upcoming GPU products from Intel and AMD. Tom’s Hardware · May 13, 2025
Chinese Cars Will Enter The U.S. Market, Say Auto Execs China has been pumping out some pretty sweet EVs lately. They're cheap, packed with boatloads of tech, and are arguably a pretty amazing value proposition for the money. It's kind of obvious why U.S. automakers are worried about the thought of these cars ever hitting the U.S. market. InsideEVs · May 13, 2025
Access Denied: Indian Government Has X Block Over 8000 Accounts The microblogging platform X (formerly Twitter) has announced it will block over 8,000 accounts in India following a government order. Latin Times · May 13, 2025
'Presidency Is Literally For Sale To Highest Bidder': Backlash Mounts As Trump Defends Qatari Jet Gift President Trump was once again in the spotlight after Qatar's royal family gifted a private jet to him that he claimed was actually donated to the Defense Department, but on X, he continued to be questioned for the supposed "bribery." International Business Times · May 13, 2025
'First in the Nation': New Hampshire Passes Explosive Law to Buy Bitcoin With Taxpayer Funds New Hampshire legislators passed House Bill 302, allowing the state treasurer to use up to 5% of the state's public funds to invest in cryptocurrencies with a minimum market cap of £376.72 billion. International Business Times UK · May 13, 2025
Access Denied: Indian Government Has X Block Over 8000 Accounts, Is Yours Affected? The microblogging platform X (formerly Twitter) has announced it will block over 8,000 accounts in India following a government order. International Business Times UK · May 13, 2025
Three Belgian soldiers hurt in ‘shooting incident’ during exercise in Scotland About a dozen soldiers also suffered hearing damage as a result of the incident. Evening Standard · May 13, 2025
The Independent UK · May 13, 2025 Musk’s X ‘amplified Islamophobia, hate speech and disinformation’ in grooming gangs debate, damning report says Report points to another social media trend: sexual violence was being weaponised, with entire communities blamed for individual crimes
PC Gamer · May 12, 2025 Sean Murray pours one out for No Man's Sky permadeath player who stranded himself in bittersweet space purgatory: 'All I can do is sit in my ship, watch the lightning storms, and wait for my oxygen to run out' At least it's a pretty tragedy.
Latin Times · May 12, 2025 Mexican President Says Motive Still Unclear in Killing Of Mayoral Candidate During Rally Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said she remains in contact with state officials and that investigations into the killing of mayoral candidate Yesenia Lara are ongoing.
Evening Standard · May 12, 2025 Who is Dave Blunts? The ghostwriter rapper behind Kanye West's new album Who is the Utah-born, 23-year old rapper behind Ye’s forthcoming album?
Euronews · May 12, 2025 Romania presidential hopeful Simion's emissaries reach out to Hungary's Orbán in search of a pact Fighting for every vote to win Romania’s presidential elections next Sunday, hard-right nationalist candidate George Simion seeks an alliance with Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orbán.
Fortune · May 11, 2025 The most powerful people in the world are bond vigilantes, who 'boxed in' Trump, top economist says "And the traders, of course, trump Trump, and they forced him to back down to market discipline."
Euronews · May 11, 2025 Zelenskyy says he is willing to meet Putin in Istanbul for peace talks The Ukrainian president said on Sunday he expected Russia to confirm a ceasefire starting Monday, and that he was prepared to meet with his Russian counterpart in Turkey on Thursday for direct talks to end Moscow's war, now in its fourth year.
Evening Standard · May 11, 2025 Jamie Carragher reacts to Trent Alexander-Arnold boos in message to Liverpool fans Reds legend believes reaction to departing right-back’s introduction against Arsenal was a ‘step too far’
Al Jazeera · May 11, 2025 Is Pope Leo XIV, the first US-born pontiff, a registered Republican? Leo XIV, the first American pope, voted in past Republican primaries but is not formally registered with any party.
Radio France Internationale · May 11, 2025 Turkey's independent media on alert over stance of tech giants As Turkey slipped further down in the latest Press Freedom Index, the country's besieged opposition and independent media are voicing concerns that some of the tech giants are increasingly complicit in government efforts to silence them.
Evening Standard · May 11, 2025 Hundreds of homes without power after substation destroyed by fire Fire crews were called to the incident in Exeter shortly after 6am on Sunday.