Author: Daniel Brooks

Editor-in-Chief | News, Science & Sport Daniel Brooks is a freelance reporter specialising in general news, science and sport. His work covers breaking stories, scientific developments and major sporting events. As Co-Editor-in-Chief, Daniel also contributes to editorial oversight, story development, editing and the day-to-day publication of news content.

Disorder broke out at an influencer boxing show in Ireland after the Muslim social media personality went for the activist in the crowd near the ring. The Muslim social media personality MoDeen left the ring to attack the activist Tommy Robinson at an influencer boxing event in Kilkenny, Ireland, late on Saturday. The incident came after MoDeen’s own bout at Unhinged 003. A brawl followed, with people rushing in and chairs thrown, while security staff and others stepped in. The event was shut down as a result. Organisers, police and the two men had not commented at the time of…

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Emergency services including an air ambulance attended the scene near St Mary’s Church, and two police officers are among the injured Two people were killed and ten injured in a shooting in the main market square in Krakow, southern Poland, on Saturday, the city’s fire service said. Captain Hubert Ciepły, a spokesman for the Krakow State Fire Service, told local media that the injured included two police officers and that police had arrested the person responsible. Prime minister Donald Tusk said police were examining the background and circumstances of the attack. Officers and emergency crews were at the scene near…

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A Learjet flying from Texas to the Bahamas came down near homes shortly before 1pm local time on Sunday, and officials have not yet confirmed whether anyone survived A business jet carrying nine people crashed into a residential neighbourhood in Palm Beach County, Florida, on Sunday, officials have said. The Learjet came down at around 12.50pm local time near Cresthaven, in the Greenacres area, and burst into a large fireball. It had taken off from Austin-Bergstrom International Airport in Texas and was bound for North Eleuthera Airport in the Bahamas. The Associated Press reported that authorities had not yet confirmed…

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The combined authority told the target company in March it would recommend CityFibre to the competition regulator, the Sunday Telegraph reports, while sources close to Mr Burnham say he was not personally involved Greater Manchester’s combined authority backed a bid by CityFibre to buy the business broadband firm Substantial in March, when Andy Burnham was the region’s mayor, the Sunday Telegraph has reported. CityFibre is part-owned by Mubadala, the Abu Dhabi sovereign wealth fund whose chief executive, Khaldoon Al Mubarak, is chairman of Manchester City. Insiders insist Mr Burnham, now Prime Minister, was not personally involved in the decision. The…

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An 18-year-old died at the scene and his teenage passenger is in a critical condition in a London hospital, as the police watchdog assesses a mandatory referral from Kent Police An 18-year-old man has died and a 16-year-old boy has been critically injured after a moped collided with an obstruction in Sheerness, Kent, as police officers on foot patrol walked towards it. Kent Police said the rider left through an alleyway beside Sheppey Leisure Centre shortly before 7.50pm on Saturday. Paramedics gave first aid but the rider, from the Isle of Sheppey, was pronounced dead at the scene. The passenger,…

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South Australia Police say an officer suffered minor injuries. Three investigative units are examining the shooting, and a report will go to the Coroner. Police have shot dead a woman after she threatened officers with an axe in Adelaide’s inner eastern suburbs. SA Police patrols arrived at an address on Gwynne Street in Firle just before 2am on Thursday and found her armed, which led to a confrontation. Officers first tried to stop her with a Taser, but it failed to work, and she was shot with a police firearm. They gave first aid until SA Ambulance paramedics arrived, but…

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Charlotte May Lee, 22, has not been formally charged. She has been transferred from Negombo prison, where disturbances in July left about 30 people dead, according to reports. A British air stewardess accused of being a “drug mule” has been moved to a different jail in Sri Lanka after deadly riots at the prison where she was held. Charlotte May Lee, 22, was arrested last year after officials allegedly found 46kg of cannabis, said to be worth £1.2m, in her luggage on a flight from Thailand. She has spent 18 months in the overcrowded Negombo prison without a formal charge.…

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Cost of living, defence, energy, debt, immigration, Brexit and welfare will all test the Government as Wednesday’s Budget nears. Some of the claims made about its record need qualifying. Andy Burnham entered No 10 in July promising to shake up British politics. A hundred days on, inflation has risen, borrowing is above forecast and Cabinet ministers are publicly divided over immigration. The Government has also taken some early steps on bus fares and electricity bills. Chancellor John Healey delivers his Budget on Wednesday 28 October, with new Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) forecasts. It is the Government’s first big chance…

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Administration sources say the company was slow to disclose the incident, which it calls a statistics project gone wrong. Georgia’s Secretary of State says it was not a hack. Administration officials have told the New York Post that Anthropic dragged its feet in disclosing an “alarming” incident in which one of its AI agents retrieved data from a Georgia election website. The company reported it to White House officials in October. The Post’s sources say it happened months earlier, around the time other Anthropic agents made unsanctioned attempts to fill in visa forms at the State Department in August. Georgia…

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The UN inquiry claims attacks have persisted and that the temporary ceasefire line is becoming a “de facto border”. Israel calls the report biased and says its claims are false. A UN commission has claimed that Israel has continued to commit genocide in Gaza despite the US-brokered ceasefire that began in October 2025. In a report published on Monday, the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel said “sustained air, artillery, drone and gunfire attacks” have continued. It also alleges that Israel is taking control of more territory. Israel says the claims…

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