Foreign Office staff told to resign if they don’t like Gaza stance
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June 10, 2025 09:16 UTC
Divorces delayed by disputes as quickie divorce search grows
Is there such a thing as a "quickie divorce"? "It can be extremely important not to finalise your divorce until a financial settlement is reached. The rise of the ‘quickie divorce’ - does it exist? With over 1,000 searches each month for the term ‘quickie divorce’ in the UK, popularised by mainstream media, the terminology is often synonymous with celebrity divorces. Without proper representation, issues can arise that seriously jeopardise financial security, such as prematurely divorcing before a financial settlement is reached.
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June 10, 2025 08:21 UTC
UK's M&S resumes online orders following cyberattack
Live EventsBritish retailer Marks & Spencer resumed taking online orders for some clothing lines on Tuesday after a 46-day hiatus following a damaging cyberattack The 141-year old M&S, one of the best known names in British business, said on its website "select fashion ranges now available to buy online".M&S stopped taking clothing and home orders through its website and app on April 25 following problems with contactless pay and click and collect services over the Easter holiday weekend.It first disclosed it had been managing a "cyber incident" on April 22.M&S said last month it expected online disruption to continue into July and forecast the attack would cost it about 300 million pounds ($404 million) in lost operating profit in its 2025/26 financial year, though it hopes to halve the impact through insurance and cost control.The group said hackers broke into its systems by tricking employees at a third-party contractor, skirting its digital defences to launch a cyberattack.
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June 10, 2025 07:37 UTC
Newspaper headlines: 'It was fuelish' and '£14bn for nuclear'
Under the headline "winter wonderful," the Daily Mirror, external says Rachel Reeves has delighted pensioners. The Guardian, external and the Telegraph, external highlight the government's decision to invest £14.2bn to build the Sizewell C nuclear plant in Suffolk. The Telegraph, external says the move will address fears that the rush to build wind and solar would leave the UK vulnerable to blackouts. Finally, the Times, external and the Daily Mirror, external report that a new treatment, which zaps hard-to reach cancers using sound waves, is to be offered on the NHS. The Daily Mirror says until now the treatment was available only in the US.
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June 10, 2025 05:14 UTC
Luxury UK car makers hit by ‘multiple geopolitical headwinds’ – report
The study found the total turnover of the UK’s high-value, small-volume manufacturers in 2024 was more than £5.5 billion, with around nine in 10 of their vehicles shipped overseas. They were responsible for just 4% of the UK’s car production, but accounted for 12% of its value. In excess of 15,000 people are employed in high-skilled, well-paid jobs by the companies, the SMMT found. It included American tariffs on UK cars being 10% for the first 100,000 vehicles exported. Mr Trump had previously set the tariff rate on car exports to the US at 27.5%.
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June 10, 2025 05:09 UTC
Quantum computing firm IonQ to acquire UK-based Oxford Ionics for $1 billion
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June 10, 2025 00:19 UTC
Times letters: Reforms that might repair Broken Britain
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June 09, 2025 23:10 UTC
N.I.H. Workers Denounce Trump’s ‘Harmful’ Health Policies
The letter, sent to Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, the N.I.H. director, and then posted online, was a remarkable rebuke of the agency’s leadership. “We dissent to administration policies that undermine the N.I.H. mission, waste public resources, and harm the health of Americans and people across the globe,” they wrote in the four-page letter. leadership, yet we remain pressured to implement harmful measures.”The letter included signatories from across the agency’s 27 institutes and centers.
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June 09, 2025 23:07 UTC
'Homework' review: Geoff Dyer looks back at working-class childhood
Book Review Homework By Geoff DyerFarrar, Straus and Giroux: 288 pages, $29If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores. Geoff Dyer is among the great uncategorizable prose writers of the past several decades and he also went to Oxford, albeit at the end of the 1970s, with the war deprivations of yore in rearview. AdvertisementReview What Roger Federer tells us about mortality, according to Geoff Dyer Dyer’s gloriously shape-shifting literary project — intensely perceptive, essayistic memoir — continues with “The Last Days of Roger Federer.”(Farrar, Straus and Giroux)Still, the fact of remembering can sometimes feel more important to Dyer than how events translate. Books Video: Geoff Dyer on his new book, ‘Another Great Day at Sea’ Geoff Dyer is an idiosyncratic literary observer, a Brit who regularly writes for the London Review of Books. The real homework is the labor that we do when we spend our whole lives wondering.
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June 09, 2025 22:02 UTC
The UK’s ten worst places for a city break (and why I still love them)
Last year I discovered a life-enhancing travel hack — city breaks in unsung places. I went ice-skating, went kayaking and went green after trying the jellied eels at a place called Robins. Newry, Co DownThe town hall in the small city of Newry ALAMYNewry is a small city in the southeast of Northern Ireland, between Belfast and Dublin. Its town hall straddles a river and is a sight for sore eyes; and it has a number of excellent cafés: Nine Squared, Measured Brew Bar, Finegan & Son. Robert the Bruce, Andrew Carnegie, St Margaret: the city is teeming with local talent that made an impression on the world stage.
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June 09, 2025 22:02 UTC
EastEnders' Alice Haig reveals previous Vicki Fowler actress reached out after recast
Speaking to The Sun at the British Soap Awards, Haig revealed that her predecessor Johnson, who played Vicki between 2003 and 2004, reached out ahead of her debut on the show. She said it's great fun playing Vicki Fowler and I couldn't agree more." The recasting was announced back in February, with Haig saying in a statement at the time: "I am so excited. I have always watched the show, and I was born in February 1985, so I’m the same age as EastEnders!" She continued: "It’s so cool to be playing a character like Vicki – we think we know her, but a lot has changed.
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June 09, 2025 21:20 UTC
Changes to UK abortion laws would stop prosecution after 24 weeks
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June 09, 2025 20:24 UTC
Justin Baldoni’s lawsuit against Blake Lively dismissed by judge
Baldoni and production company Wayfarer Studios countersued in January for 400 million dollars (£294.9 million), accusing Lively and her husband, Deadpool actor Ryan Reynolds, of defamation and extortion. Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds (Dennis Van Tine/PA)The judge ruled that Baldoni cannot sue Lively for defamation over claims she made in her lawsuit, because allegations made in a lawsuit are exempt from libel claims. Judge Liman also ruled that Baldoni’s claims that Lively stole creative control of the film did not count as extortion under California law. Baldoni’s legal team can revise the lawsuit if it wants to pursue different claims related to whether Lively breached a contract, the judge said. The judge also dismissed Baldoni’s defamation lawsuit against The New York Times, which had reported on Lively’s sexual harassment allegations.
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June 09, 2025 19:57 UTC
Travel expert warns against using AirTags to track luggage
But one pilot-approved viral hack that uses an AirTag to help avoid lost luggage could in fact have the opposite effect, experts at Travelbag have warned. However, travel experts have warned against using this pilot-approved travel hack. Experts from Travelbag said: “While this hack is done with the best intentions, the tracking abilities of Apple AirTags and other GPS tracking devices are not always suited to air travel. “In popular destinations such as South Korea, Apple tracking is not enabled. “As a result, if a passenger loses their luggage in the country, it cannot be tracked by an Apple AirTag.
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June 09, 2025 19:51 UTC
Harry Potter TV series confirms Rivals and The Morning Show stars in iconic roles as nine castings revealed
The three stars set to play the iconic trio Harry Potter, Hermione Granger and Ron Weasley were also previously announced, with newcomers Dominic McLaughlin, Arabella Stanton and Alastair Stout set to take on the roles. The new series is set to land on our screens in 2027, with cameras due to start rolling in mid-summer 2025. As per the show's synopsis by HBO: "The stories from each of Rowling’s Harry Potter books will become a decade-long series produced with the same epic craft, love and care this global franchise is known for. The Harry Potter series will stream on Max. For more from the biggest stars in TV, listen to The Radio Times Podcast.
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June 09, 2025 19:46 UTC