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Getty ImagesIn late July, the Duchess of Sussex’s lifestyle range, called As ever, launched a “rich, vibrant” blackberry spread alongside a softly lit video of her picking the fruit. A month later, Meghan and her husband Prince Harry are returning to live in the UK just as blackberry season ends. Perhaps we can expect another video soon, shot on these shores.Or perhaps not, because experts say the Harry and Meghan brand is at a crossroads.After the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s acrimonious exit from the Royal Family in 2020, the projects marking their fresh start in California – from streaming…
ReutersTikTok has been under pressure in the US since 2024.TikTok has agreed to pay $400m (£293m) to the US to end a lawsuit alleging its platform violated children‘s privacy, marking one of the largest ever settlements over the issue.The deal stems from a 2024 suit by the Department of Justice under former President Joe Biden alleging TikTok and its parent company ByteDance collected “vast amounts of data” on millions of users under the age of 13.Doing so was against the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), a federal law enacted in 2000. It is the same law that dozens of…
Rockstar GamesGrand Theft Auto 6 follows the story of couple Lucia and JasonIt’s been more than 18 months since the last trailer for Grand Theft Auto 6 was released.A few weeks ago, developer Rockstar announced it would break its long silence with a special “extended look” at the highly anticipated video game in a 30-minute special on Netflix.But the run-up to the splashy preview has been potentially overshadowed by a string of apparent leaks which appear to show footage of GTA 6 in action.Rockstar has not publicly acknowledged the clips, nor replied to any requests for comment, since the first…
AFP via Getty ImagesThe owner of Hunter bookstore, pictured here, was arrested in late JuneWhen Chen Zhu heads to Hong Kong from mainland China every month, there’s one place she always goes: Hunter Bookstore.Founded four years ago by a former councillor, the independent bookshop has earned a reputation for stocking what authorities would consider sensitive books – accounts of Hong Kong’s pro-democracy campaigners to famous allegories on authoritarianism, such as George Orwell’s Animal Farm or Hajime Isayama’s Manga series Attack on Titan.It’s a short journey from Zhu’s home in Guangzhou on China’s southern coast to the crowded street in Hong…
Watch: Video shows Russian drone strike Ukraine shopping mallAt least 15 people have been killed in a Russian double-tap drone strike on a shopping centre in the central Ukrainian city of Kryvyi Rih, local officials have said.Another 130 people – including 23 children – were injured in the city’s biggest mall. More people are also reported to be trapped in the rubble.President Volodymyr Zelensky said the “absolutely cynical and despicable” daytime attack in his home town was carried out in “two waves”, with the second strike targeting emergency workers at the scene.Dramatic footage verified by the BBC shows the second…
ReutersManitoba premier Wab Kinew publicly criticised the trade deal being discussed by the US and Canada, and called Donald Trump a “bad person”One of Canada’s provincial leaders has criticised a prospective trade deal with the US and pushed his country to hold out for favourable terms, showing Prime Minister Mark Carney faces a tough battle in getting buy-in on the agreement hours away from a US-set deadline.Negotiators have until Friday night to finalise the deal or risk a fresh wave of additional US tariffs on a wide range of Canadian goods.Still, Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew said Canada “should fight” and…
Watch: The BBC’s Steve Rosenberg speaks to residents about the struggle to find fuel for their vehiclesAt a petrol station in the south-east of Moscow, Svyatoslav has been queuing in his car for two hours.The sign board up ahead has just been changed to show there’s no fuel.”They say there will be petrol here,” Svyatoslav tells me optimistically. “They just don’t know when. Maybe today, maybe tomorrow.”I ask him why he doesn’t drive off and look for another place to fill up.Even if he had, there’d be no quick fuel fix for Svyatoslav. This week across Moscow, and in other…
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Getty ImagesGerman intelligence believes a cache of guns found in the woods near Berlin last year was for carrying out assassinations on behalf of Russia, reports say.Germany’s Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt said federal prosecutors were investigating a suspect in Romania over suspicions of espionage and “the preparation of a serious act of violence threatening the state”.While refusing to confirm reports of Russian links to the cache, Dobrindt said he could not rule out “the involvement of foreign powers”.For months security agencies have warned that Russian intelligence services are planning assassinations in Germany, possibly targeting defence industry executives or opposition figures…
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