Author: Henry

SpaceX is considering launching its own consumer mobile phone service in direct competition with America’s biggest wireless carriers, according to comments made by company president Gwynne Shotwell during the recent roadshow for its record-breaking stock market listing. The Financial Times reported that Shotwell told prospective investors on 26 June that SpaceX was weighing a retail, Starlink-branded mobile product for US consumers, and that the company could ultimately build its own ground-based wireless network to support it — a far more ambitious step than anything Starlink has previously offered. The disclosure came just two weeks after SpaceX completed its initial public…

Angelina Jolie has signalled a full return to acting after several years largely out of the spotlight, drawing on some of the most painful chapters of her own life for a role in her new film Couture, which she says has proved to be one of the most personal of her career. The Oscar winner, who once carried multiple blockbusters a year, has released only one previous film in the past five years, 2024’s Maria, in which she played the opera singer Maria Callas. In Couture, directed by Alice Winocour, Jolie plays Maxine Walker, an American filmmaker who receives a…

A second man has been arrested in connection with the murder of Donna Keogh, the Middlesbrough teenager who vanished almost 30 years ago, as detectives pursue what has become one of Teesside’s longest-running unsolved cases. Cleveland Police said a 62-year-old man was arrested in the Manchester area and taken into custody to be interviewed. It follows the earlier arrest of a 64-year-old man from the Leeds area, held on suspicion of murder on 31 March in a joint operation with West Yorkshire Police, who remains on police bail while enquiries continue. Both men have been arrested on suspicion of murder;…

A three-year-old boy has undergone five operations in the fortnight since he was allegedly thrown into a crocodile enclosure at a Cambridgeshire zoo, with his family revealing he faces at least two further surgeries, including nerve reconstruction, as they continue an anxious wait at his hospital bedside. The boy was injured on 18 June at Johnsons of Old Hurst, a family-run farm and zoo near Huntingdon, after he was allegedly hurled roughly 15 feet into a crocodile enclosure inside the attraction’s Tropical House. He landed on a concrete walkway, suffering a broken arm and a fractured pelvis, before ending up…

The Great Barrier Reef will not be recommended for listing as an endangered World Heritage site, according to a draft decision from UNESCO, though the finding still requires formal sign-off from the World Heritage Committee before it becomes final. The draft, released in Paris on Friday, found that Australia was making progress addressing the reef’s main pressures — climate change, water quality, sustainable fisheries management and land clearing — and recommended against placing it on UNESCO’s list of World Heritage sites in danger. According to the South China Morning Post, the finding will now go before the full World Heritage…

A flagship UK-funded programme designed to help a million women and girls across Africa, Asia and the Middle East gain access to higher education has been scrapped just two years after it was launched, as part of a wider retreat in British aid spending on women’s and girls’ education. The scheme, known as Strengthening Higher Education for Female Empowerment, or SHEFE, was unveiled with a £45m budget under the outgoing Conservative government and built on the legacy of an earlier FCDO initiative, the Strategic Partnerships for Higher Education Innovation and Reform programme. Beyond simply widening access to universities, SHEFE had…

A viral video by a conservative political commentator alleging that Austin’s flagship public library has become overrun with homeless people has drawn widespread attention, reviving scrutiny of safety at the $125 million building following two serious incidents there over the past year. Savannah Hernandez, a contributor for Turning Point USA — the conservative youth organisation founded by the late Charlie Kirk — posted footage on X on 1 July describing a visit to the Austin Central Library, which she said left her convinced she needed to “expose how dangerous it is for families and children.” In the video, Hernandez said…

NASA has launched an unprecedented rescue mission to stop one of its most productive space telescopes from burning up in Earth’s atmosphere, in what officials say is the first attempt by a commercial spacecraft to capture and rescue an uncrewed government satellite that was never designed to be serviced in orbit. The Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, which has spent almost 22 years studying gamma-ray bursts and other violent cosmic events since its launch in November 2004, has been sinking through Earth’s orbit faster than expected after a recent bout of solar activity expanded the upper atmosphere and increased drag on…

An estimated 840 million women and girls alive today have experienced physical or sexual violence from a partner or someone else at some point in their lives. That’s roughly one in three women on the planet, and it’s the newest, most complete estimate the World Health Organization has ever assembled — released just eight months ago, in November 2025. Most of what follows is an attempt to unpack that number: by country, by age, by what happens to survivors afterward, and by who is actually doing something about it. Given what you asked for, this leans hardest on the US,…

A Utah court has denied a bid by the ex-husband of reality television star Taylor Frankie Paul to secure a restraining order against her and change their custody arrangement, days after the star completed a brief, voluntary stay at a mental health treatment facility. Tate Paul, 34, filed for the temporary restraining order in a Utah court on Tuesday, alongside a separate petition to modify the terms of the couple’s 2022 divorce and custody agreement, according to court documents obtained by People. He had reportedly sought sole custody of the couple’s two children, eight-year-old Indy and six-year-old Ocean. Commissioner Kim…