The Commons speaker told MPs that he had shared the information with police in good faith during what the Guardian understands was a meeting with detectives investigating Mandelson on Monday. The former UK ambassador was arrested later that day on suspicion of misconduct in a public office in relation to allegations he passed on sensitive government information to the convicted child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
For the Louvre, the world's most visited museum, it is "statistically inevitable" that fraud would come up at some point, the museum's No. 2 said in the wake of a decade-long, 10 million euro ($11.8 million) suspected ticket-fraud scheme revealed last week. Kim Pham, the Louvre's general administrator, told The Associated Press that the museum's unique scale makes it particularly vulnerable. However, pressed to name other institutions with similar problems, he declined to single out peers.
X and Musk's artificial intelligence company xAI also face intensifying scrutiny from Britain's data privacy regulator, which opened formal investigations into how they handled personal data when they developed and deployed Musk's artificial intelligence chatbot Grok.Grok, which was built by xAI and is available through X, sparked global outrage last month after it pumped out a torrent of sexualized nonconsensual deepfake images in response to requests from X users.
If peacefully demonstrating with an Israeli flag against a terrorist organisation seizing humanitarian aid, diverting it, and reselling it at exorbitant prices to Gazans is a crime -- then there is no need to look down on the mullahs, France is Iran!
French prosecutors have requested arrest warrants for the managers of Australian streaming service Kick over a man's death during a live broadcast on the platform. The 46-year-old Frenchman, Raphael Graven - known online as "Jean Pormanove" or "JP" - died in August 2025 during a 12-day livestream that featured him enduring abuse and humiliation by other participants. Paris prosecutor Laure Beccuau said she was asking the presiding judge to issue the warrants after Kick managers failed to respond to a summons to appear for questioning.
El Hacen Diarra, 35, encountered police late on Wednesday as he was drinking a coffee outside the migrant dorms where he lived, his older brother Ibrahima said on Sunday. "He had come to France to earn a living, now he's gone forever," he told hundreds of supporters at a memorial, after his sibling died in custody in the night of Wednesday to Thursday.
As has been reported previously, the period of understanding between Real Madrid and FC Barcelona is now part of history. This is being clearly reflected in the proceedings taking place at the Barcelona courts, where everything related to the Negreira case is currently under investigation. Last week, the lawyer from Real Madrid posed several questions to Barça president Joan Laporta during his testimony in court. Now, it appears that the Spanish capital club have taken a step further.
Is the Great Sea Interconnector (GSI) submarine power cable project dead in the water? The GSI project, which is worth 2 billion ($2.36 billion), seeks to build a subsea electric cable connecting Greece and Cyprus and later Israel. The aim is to integrate the Republic of Cyprus into the European electricity transmission system and bolster the energy security of EU member states Greece and Cyprus.
The Justice Department is demanding that hospitals turn over a wide range of sensitive information related to medical care for young transgender patients, including billing documents, communication with drug manufacturers and data such as patient dates of birth, Social Security numbers and addresses, according to a copy of a subpoena made public in a court filing this week.
