I was disappointed to see a letter promoting a pseudo-scientific fringe theory (Cold fusion may be a viable energy alternative to end reliance on fossil fuels, Letters, 28 January). Many scientists have tried and failed to reproduce Martin Fleischmann and Stanley Pons’s initial report of cold fusion. After years of intense scrutiny, the mainstream scientific…
Ukraine’s military has said that Russian forces struck a boarding school housing people preparing for evacuation in a part of Russia’s Kursk region held by Ukrainian forces, killing at least four people. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the attack had destroyed the boarding school in the border town of Sudzha, “even though dozens of civilians were…
Ukraine’s military has said that Russian forces struck a boarding school housing people preparing for evacuation in a part of Russia’s Kursk region held by Ukrainian forces, killing at least four people. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the attack had destroyed the boarding school in the border town of Sudzha, “even though dozens of civilians were…
The Palisades and Eaton wildfires, which killed at least 29 people and burned across about 60 sq miles (155 sq km) around Los Angeles, have been fully contained. California’s department of forestry and fire protection’s announcement on Friday came more than three weeks after the two blazes battered this highly populated area of southern California,…
An Australian lawyer has been referred to a state legal complaints commission, after it was discovered he had used ChatGPT to write court filings in an immigration case and the artificial intelligence platform generated case citations that did not exist. In a ruling by the federal circuit and family court on Friday, Justice Rania Skaros…
AstraZeneca has cancelled plans for a £450m expansion of its manufacturing plant in Speke, Merseyside, blaming a cut in the funding on offer from the government. Only two days after Rachel Reeves highlighted life sciences as a key UK strength, in a speech setting out her plans to kickstart economic growth, the company said it…
A group of 30 Labour and Green MPs have written to Ofwat to demand that Thames Water is taken into special measures. In an open letter to David Black, the chief executive of the regulator, the MPs expressed fears of an expensive public bailout and demanded that Thames Water be placed into the special administration…
A group of 30 Labour and Green MPs have written to Ofwat to demand that Thames Water is taken into special measures. In an open letter to David Black, the chief executive of the regulator, the MPs expressed fears of an expensive public bailout and demanded that Thames Water be placed into the special administration…
Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature Berlin protest against CDU/CSU’s migration policy – in pictures People protest in front of the headquarters of the Christian Democratic Union, CDU, against a migration vote at parliament Bundestag with far-right support of the Alternative for Germany party AfD. Photograph: Christoph…
A British army quartermaster defrauded the UK government out of almost £500,000 worth of supplies after feeling under pressure from his girlfriend to prove he was rich. Jed Charlot, 45, who was married, placed more than 600 orders for printers and toner and sold the items on eBay, using the proceeds to buy designer gear…
