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An online tool promises to calculate the environmental impact of coal, oil and gas developments, including the additional heat they produce and their contribution to the loss of coral and glaciers. The tool is intended to show the effects associated with fossil fuel projects, allowing the consequences of developments to be assessed across several areas of the environment. Its estimates cover the extra heat linked to fossil fuels, as well as damage involving coral and the loss of glaciers.

A 40-year-old man was shot dead at the Dublin Sports Grounds in the San Francisco Bay Area, with police alleging that his parents-in-law were responsible. Jonathan McKinsey, of Dublin, was found suffering from multiple gunshot wounds in a car park at the sports grounds on Dublin Boulevard over the weekend. He was pronounced dead at the scene. A police sergeant was driving nearby when he saw a man lying on the ground and stopped to investigate. Officers were also responding to several emergency calls about the shooting. Witnesses told local media that a masked man and woman were involved. They…

A US watchdog has identified serious failures in the vetting of Afghan refugees who sought asylum after the chaotic American withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021, including two cases involving potential terrorism-related concerns. A review of 678 randomly selected asylum files found errors in 40 per cent of them, according to a report by the Inspector General for the Department of Homeland Security. The audit found that asylum officers had failed to record aliases in a quarter of the files examined. In total, 303 aliases were missed, while 23 files lacked security checks, 45 contained unresolved records and 115 had other…

Certification of Boeing’s 737 Max 10 will be delayed while the US Federal Aviation Administration investigates a software problem that could affect certain landing procedures, the agency’s administrator has said. FAA administrator Bryan Bedford said the regulator had not yet determined whether the issue represented a safety risk, but would not approve the aircraft until its review was complete. “We haven’t concluded whether this is a safety-of-flight issue or not, but we will be delaying the 10 … until we’re satisfied that we don’t have an issue here,” Mr Bedford said at a press conference in Washington DC. The FAA…

A model who recently appeared in Lena Dunham’s Netflix series Too Much is being featured in a guessing game centred on a revealing side view. The woman, who also works in the modelling industry, is pictured showing off her curves while teasing a glimpse of her breast. Her identity is not disclosed in the feature. Readers are invited to look through the accompanying gallery and guess which model appears in the image.

Manchester City’s Premier League case could take years to conclude, chief executive Ferran Soriano told fellow club executives at a private meeting in Copenhagen. Soriano is understood to have raised the long-running financial rules case during a meeting of the executive board of the European Football Clubs body. He reportedly referred to the interest of other clubs and said it had been eight years since the allegations were first made. Sources said Soriano expressed City’s determination to continue fighting the case, which can proceed to an appeal stage while a separate process considers any sanctions. The Premier League and Manchester…

A missing girl has been found and reunited with her family after investigators in north Harris County, Texas, uncovered what authorities described as a possible human trafficking operation. A 35-year-old woman, Brandi Lowe, has been arrested and charged with promotion of prostitution. The Harris County Precinct 4 Constable’s Office said detectives began investigating on Thursday, 24 September, after receiving information about a missing child. During the inquiry, they found evidence which led them to suspect the girl was being trafficked. Investigators obtained a search warrant for a property believed to be connected to the case. The girl was not there…

The wife of Australian-Vietnamese democracy campaigner Tran Hiep has appealed to the federal government to help locate him after he disappeared during a trip to Cambodia. Mr Hiep, 50, was due to fly back to Bangkok, Thailand, after travelling to Phnom Penh to meet human rights defenders. He did not board his flight and has not contacted his wife, Chloe Dang, since September 18. “My family and I are really worried about his safety, and we just only want to know where he is and what happened to him,” Ms Dang told AAP at Bangkok airport before travelling to Melbourne.…

A criminal investigation into allegations that a former Cornell University student was drugged and sexually assaulted by several fraternity members has been reopened, the Tompkins County District Attorney’s Office has said. The woman, known in court documents as Jane Doe, was 20 when she says the alleged assault took place inside the Chi Phi fraternity house in October 2024. She has since filed a civil lawsuit against seven former fraternity members and Cornell, accusing them of failing to protect her. No criminal charges were brought at the time. District Attorney Matthew Van Houten said the case would now be presented…

Tom Cruise has been praised online after stopping to comfort a woman he believed was in distress, only to discover she was sitting in a corner on her phone during a work break. Security camera footage of the brief encounter was shared on TikTok by the employee, who uses the username Klementina. The clip shows the 64-year-old actor approaching her in what appears to be a backstage area or hallway. Cruise, dressed smartly, gently tapped her on the shoulder and asked whether she was all right. She looked up, performed a double take and appeared shocked to realise who was…