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David Sullivan is suing the BBC for £150 million over a Panorama documentary that accused him of preying on and abusing young women. The West Ham United shareholder is seeking aggravated damages in a case understood to be being filed after the broadcast of Predator: The Billionaire Football Boss on 8 June. Mr Sullivan, 77, stepped down as the club’s chairman shortly before the programme aired, saying he would devote his attention to fighting what he described as false allegations. He remains West Ham’s largest shareholder and is expected to increase his stake from 38.8 per cent to 40 per…

Halluminate, a nine-person San Francisco start-up developing AI training environments for financial work, has raised $30 million in a Series A funding round led by Oak HC/FT. The investment brings the company’s total funding to $38.5 million. Existing backers including Y Combinator, Orange Collective and Heavybit also participated, alongside individual researchers from Anthropic, OpenAI and Meta, chief executive Jerry Wu said. Founded in 2024, Halluminate assesses how AI models perform on complex financial tasks before building simulated environments designed to address their weaknesses. Its work is based on the belief that AI training will become increasingly specialised by industry. Wu…

Wendy Williams has been spotted out in New York City, appearing in good health during a rare public appearance in Manhattan. The former talk show host was seen on a night out wearing a blue-and-gold multi-coloured jacket with short white shorts. She carried a black crocodile Hermès Birkin bag and wore bright red lipstick while dining at Carnegie Diner & Café in Times Square. Williams walked arm-in-arm with a tall man dressed in a black suit and white tie. Her appearance comes as she remains under a court-appointed legal and financial guardianship. Williams and her lawyer, Joe Tacopina, have said…

Christa Pike remained alive after Tennessee officials administered two doses of the lethal-injection drug pentobarbital, prompting Governor Bill Lee to suspend the state’s remaining execution this year and order an independent review. The 50-year-old death-row prisoner was taken by ambulance to an off-site medical facility after the failed attempt at Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville on Wednesday evening, the Tennessee Department of Correction said. Her lawyers said she was alive and snoring after the procedure, but they had not been told of her medical condition. Pike had been due to become the first woman executed in Tennessee for more…

A passenger who overpowered an attacker on a Flydubai flight says a television series helped him know what to do in the cockpit and prevent a crash. The passenger’s actions came after the attacker was confronted on board the aircraft. He has credited the TV programme with giving him the knowledge to respond once he reached the cockpit.

The SpaceX Crew 13 launch has sent two NASA astronauts, a Russian cosmonaut and a Canadian astronaut towards the International Space Station, with one crew member facing a major family milestone while in orbit. Jessica Watkins, Luke Delaney, Sergey Teteryatnikov and Joshua Kutryk lifted off aboard a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida at 11.10am local time on Thursday. The mission had been scheduled for mid-September but was postponed so a valve in the Crew Dragon’s propulsion system could be replaced. Watkins, who is the mission commander, previously flew to the space station in 2022,…

Moroccan intelligence used spyware, hidden microphones and malware-infected phones to carry out unlawful surveillance of journalists, activists and human rights defenders, Amnesty International has alleged. The organisation said Morocco had developed an extensive surveillance system aimed at silencing critical voices, combining Pegasus spyware with phone tapping, physical monitoring and covert audio and video recording. Its report, Inside Morocco’s surveillance machine, draws on testimony from a former employee of Morocco’s domestic intelligence service, the DGST, alongside leaked documents and journalistic investigations. Amnesty identified the DGST as the agency responsible for deploying Pegasus in Morocco between 2017 and 2021. The spyware was…

Workers are increasingly being asked to do more than one job as companies cut posts in the name of efficiency, a global survey has found. Korn Ferry’s Workforce 2026 report found that 61% of more than 16,000 professionals surveyed across 11 markets said they were carrying out the responsibilities of more than one role. Some 62% said their workloads had increased significantly over the past two years, while 45% said they were too busy to deliver meaningful results that contributed to growth. The findings raise questions over whether businesses are removing jobs faster than they are removing the work attached…

A US Marine whose name was mistakenly included in a Cornell gang rape lawsuit has said his family is facing death threats after his mother’s home address was made public in court records. Sergeant Matthew Ingalls, who serves at Camp Lejeune in North Carolina, has never attended Cornell University and is not the man accused in the sexual assault case. The lawsuit instead names a Cornell student with the same name. The Marine’s mother, Victoria Ingalls, said the family was mistakenly served with the legal papers after the wrong Matthew Ingalls was identified. Their address was then added to the…

Manchester United and Chelsea are monitoring a potential transfer for Benfica centre-back Tomas Araujo, although a move in January is currently considered unlikely. The 24-year-old has attracted attention with his performances for Benfica and Portugal, earning a place in his country’s World Cup squad this summer. He can operate at centre-back or right-back, increasing his appeal to clubs seeking defensive reinforcements. Araujo is understood to have a £68 million release clause in his contract. A report by TEAMtalk says both Premier League clubs have been impressed by the defender in recent high-profile matches, but may continue watching him rather than…