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A collection of writings by the imprisoned Palestinian political leader Marwan Barghouti will be published in November, bringing together prison letters, interviews, personal material and documents from the last three decades of Barghouti’s political life and incarceration. Despite more than two decades in prison, successive opinion polls show Barghouti is the most popular Palestinian politician in Gaza and the West Bank. He is often cited by supporters as a potential unifying leader across factional divides, and has been described as “Palestine’s Mandela”. An introduction to the book has been written by Barghouti’s wife, Fadwa Barghouti, a prominent advocate for his release. “This book finally makes that possible – and I hope it helps people understand who Marwan Barghouti truly is, and how he embodies the Palestinian struggle for freedom and dignity.”

European publishing and legal software companies have suffered sharp declines in their share prices after the US artificial intelligence startup Anthropic revealed a tool for use by companies’ legal departments. Anthropic, the company behind the chatbot Claude, said its tool could automate legal work such as contract reviewing, non-disclosure agreement triage, compliance workflows, legal briefings and templated responses. Shares in the UK publishing group Pearson fell by nearly 8% on the news, and shares in the information and analytics company Relx plunged 14%. The software company Sage lost 10% in London and the Dutch software company Wolters Kluwer lost 13% in Amsterdam. Shares in the London Stock Exchange Group fell by 13% and the credit reporting company Experian dropped by 7% in London, amid fears over the impact of AI on data companies.

The group won a Supreme Court case in April last year, with judges at the UK’s highest court making clear that the term “woman” in the Equality Act refers to a biological woman. Aidan O’Neill KC, representing FWS, told the court the current Scottish Prison Service (SPS) policy of holding some trans women in the women’s prison estate is “just wrong”. He said 51 of those prisoners were trans women, and that 14 were housed on the women’s prison estate. He added that three of the 22 trans male prisoners were housed on the male estate. He added: “Why is it women have to bear the cost of allowing trans-identifying male prisoners to live out their chosen identity”.

The latest revelations became public after the US Department of Justice released more documents relating to Epstein and his links to the rich and powerful on Friday. “We’re talking about at least one woman who was sent by Jeffrey Epstein over to Prince Andrew. And she even had, after a night with Prince Andrew, a tour of Buckingham Palace,” Edwards told the broadcaster. Andrew’s complicity and involvement with Epstein and Maxwell has been well known to us, to Andrew, and to the palace for many years. The anti-monarchy campaign group Republic had said British police should investigate the claims that Epstein trafficked the woman to the UK to have sex with Andrew in 2010.

Disney has unveiled Josh D’Amaro as its next CEO, drawing a line under a bungled succession at the top of the global entertainment conglomerate. D’Amaro has been chair of the Disney’s experiences since 2020, running its theme parks and cruise ships – effectively the same job as Chapek before his ill-fated stint as CEO of the company. On Tuesday, Iger hailed D’Amaro as “an exceptional leader and the right person to become our next CEO”. D’Amaro will take up the job in March, Disney said. Disney is one of the biggest media and entertainment empires in the world, having acquired Pixar, Marvel, Lucasfilm and most of 21st Century Fox under Iger.

A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration from stripping temporary protected status from up to 350,000 Haitians, a status that allows them to legally live and work in the United States amid the turmoil in their homeland. Temporary protected status can be granted by the homeland security secretary if conditions in home countries are deemed unsafe for return due to a natural disaster, political instability or other dangers. Haiti’s TPS status was initially activated in 2010 after a catastrophic earthquake and has been extended multiple times. “If the termination stands, people will almost certainly die,” attorneys for Haitian TPS holders wrote in a court filing in December. “Some will likely be killed, others will likely die from disease, and yet others will likely starve to death.”The Associated Press contributed reporting

Just like men, women are increasingly being told by online influencers that the classic symptoms of middle age could be down to low testosterone. In the second part of this miniseries exploring the hormone, Madeleine Finlay finds out what testosterone supplementation is doing for women. She hears from science journalist Linda Geddes, who is taking testosterone for low libido, and from prof Susan Davis, a consultant endocrinologist and head of the Monash University Women’s Health Research Programme. Susan explains what the evidence really shows about the benefits and risks of women taking testosterone

The release of about 3m Jeffrey Epstein investigative files has failed to quell outrage over justice department officials’ handling of these disclosures, with advocates claiming potentially millions of documents are still being withheld. Donald Trump’s Department of Justice was required to disclose all investigative files by 19 December under the Epstein Files Transparency Act (EFTA). While the justice department did release some documents on that date, last week’s disclosure came nearly six weeks after this deadline. “The number of responsive pages is significantly smaller than the total number of pages initially collected,” Blanche added. What about the other 3m files?” said Raskin, who is the ranking member of the House judiciary committee.

The capabilities of AI models are improving A host of new AI models – the technology that underpins tools like chatbots – were released last year, including OpenAI’s GPT-5, Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.5 and Google’s Gemini 3. If that rate of progress continues, AI systems could complete tasks lasting several hours by 2027 and several days by 2030. AI systems are getting better at undermining oversight Bengio said last year he was concerned AI systems were showing signs of self-preservation, such as trying to disable oversight systems. A core fear among AI safety campaigners is that powerful systems could develop the capability to evade guardrails and harm humans. The report adds that AI agents cannot yet act autonomously for long enough to make these loss-of-control scenarios real.

But for Downing Street, Peter Mandelson risks being a headache that simply will not end. The aim of this will be to focus as much fire as possible on Starmer personally. Notably, the Reform UK leader said questions should be asked about the judgment of not just Starmer but Morgan McSweeney, his influential chief of staff. McSweeney is the focus of considerable anger from Labour MPs. This is the current Labour endgame, the place at which essentially all conversations about Starmer within the party now end up: how much longer does he have?

This month Elon Musk’s “maximally truth-seeking” Grok AI caused international outrage when it pumped out millions of sexualised images. Last week, the $350bn San Francisco startup Anthropic released an 84-page “constitution” for its Claude AI. “Good judgment, by contrast, can adapt to novel situations.” This would be a trellis, rather than a cage for the AI. Gemini: the “nerd”Last summer Gemini repeatedly called itself a disgrace when it couldn’t fix a user’s coding problem. Google, which has a huge business already without AI, appears to be taking fewer risks with its AI persona.

There additionally was an exchange in which Chomsky wrote to Steve Bannon, the rightwing chief White House strategist during Donald Trump’s first presidency, requesting an introductory meeting. “Lots to talk about,” Chomsky wrote, adding that he had been provided Bannon’s contact information by Epstein, a former friend of Trump. “The best way to proceed is to ignore it,” Chomsky wrote, according to text signed under his first name that Epstein sent to a lawyer and publicist. “You should OK her sending but admonish [her] for being unwilling to ask tough questions,” Epstein wrote, in part. Epstein at one point wrote that he thought of Noam and Valeria Chomsky as if they were “Pluto and its moon”.

Yorlenys Zambrano-Contreras, a woman in the passenger seat, had been “involved” in a Portland shooting last year, the agency wrote. We see a pattern of victim-blaming, and it’s important we push back, because it’s propaganda.”None of the six border patrol agents involved in the Portland shooting recorded body-camera footage. Niño-Moncada, prosecutors alleged, reversed their vehicle, collided with an unoccupied border patrol car, then did a “forward/reverse maneuver multiple times”. The FBI’s affidavit alleged that Niño-Moncada later “admitted to intentionally ramming the Border Patrol vehicle in an attempt to flee”. His cousin, in a court filing, said Niño-Moncada was part of student protests in approximately 2014 where police used brutal force.