A Long Investigation Reaches Its Conclusion Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) has imposed a €403 million fine on Google following a six-year investigation into the company’s handling of users’ location data — a penalty that closes, at least formally, one…
A government inquiry into the Countess of Chester Hospital has deepened serious questions about the convictions of neonatal nurse Lucy Letby, after one of the doctors whose testimony helped secure her prosecution publicly withdrew his certainty that she was responsible…
In the early eighteenth century, Jersey’s economy ran on wool. Skilled hands across the Channel Island worked fine knitting frames, producing garments that found markets across Europe, until mechanisation made the craft uneconomical and the industry collapsed. What followed was…
In a woodland clearing on the Kintyre peninsula, staff from the drug, alcohol and mental health charity With You are guiding a small group of people through the quiet of the forest. The programme is designed to help former drug…
A Maltese jury acquitted millionaire businessman Yorgen Fenech last week of conspiracy to murder investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, who was killed by a car bomb near her home in October 2016 — a verdict that has sent shockwaves through…
Apple challenged the British government before the Investigatory Powers Tribunal in London on Thursday, demanding that authorities publicly acknowledge the existence of a Technical Capability Notice — a legal instrument reportedly compelling the company to provide access to encrypted user…
A player acquired quietly in the summer transfer window is drawing serious attention at Rangers, with former Ibrox striker Kevin Kyle suggesting that South African centre-back Olwethu Makhanya could become a significant source of transfer profit for the club —…
European Union Energy Commissioner Dan Jørgensen arrived in Houston this week for a G20 energy ministerial that exposed a widening disagreement over something more fundamental than individual fuels or climate targets: what energy security itself is supposed to mean. The…
What is the Thirlwall Inquiry, and why was it established? The public inquiry chaired by Lady Justice Thirlwall publishes its findings today, examining one of the most disturbing criminal cases in modern British healthcare history. Lucy Letby, a neonatal nurse…
Three American soldiers are dead, and the intelligence trail leads, at least in part, to Chinese commercial entities. US officials have told the Wall Street Journal that Iran obtained high-resolution satellite imagery of Muwaffaq Salti Air Base in northeastern Jordan…