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Ahead of a launch later this month, Volvo has teased some impressive details about its upcoming electric crossover. The EX60, which slots between the EX40 and EX90, will offer an EPA range of 400 miles, beating all other Volvos and most EVs in general. It will also be the first Volvo car to use a megacasting process designed to reduce weight and boost manufacturing efficiency.”With our new electric vehicle architecture, we directly address the main worries that customers have when considering a switch to a fully electric car,” said Volvo CTO Anders Bell. “The result is class-leading range and fast…
Watch: Video appears to show part of Yayang Church being taken downAn influential Protestant church in China says prominent leaders were arrested in what appears to be a growing crackdown on the underground church movement.Nine people were detained on Tuesday after police raided their homes and the church office in Chengdu, the Early Rain Covenant Church said. Five of them had been released by Wednesday.More than 1,000 miles away in Wenzhou, authorities began demolishing the Yayang Church building, as seen in video obtained by the non-profit ChinaAid, which monitors religious persecution.This latest wave of arrests, after others last year, shows…
Ghana’s former Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta, who is wanted at home on corruption allegations, has been detained in the US over issues related to his immigration status, his lawyers say.Ghana has previously requested Ofori-Atta’s extradition, but his lawyers are challenging this, saying the allegations against him are politically motivated.Ofori-Atta left Ghana last year for medical reasons, his legal team said. On Wednesday, confirming his detention in the US, they said they expected the matter to be resolved “expeditiously”.In a statement, Ofori-Atta’s lawyers said their client was “law-abiding” and was in the process of applying to change his immigration status allowing…
Former Premier League referee David Coote has been given a nine-month prison sentence suspended for two years after admitting to making an indecent image of a child. The former referee, who was in charge of over 100 Premier League matches before his dismissal in December 2024, was found to have had a video of a 15-year-old boy in school uniform on his laptop. Coote admitted to the charge, which can refer to activities such as downloading, sharing, or saving abuse photos, in October. In her summary, Judge Nirmal Shant KC said Coote “had a spectacular fall from grace” having refereed…
The government is cracking down on pavement parking by giving local authorities the power to introduce blanket bans on the practice over wider areas. Authorities were previously required to seek restrictions on pavement parking on a street-by-street basis, slowing the rate at which they could take action across neighbourhoods. This year, legislation will be introduced to allow local authorities to enforce against unnecessary obstruction of the pavement. The nature of that enforcement has still to be disclosed, but it is likely to be a fine. In the long term, power over pavement parking will be granted to either the local strategic…
Disney+ will add vertical videos to its service in the US sometime this year, in hopes that they can entice viewers to engage with its app every day. The company has made the announcement at its Tech + Data Showcase event at CES 2026. Disney first dabbled in vertical content with Verts, which launched for the ESPN app in August 2025, giving it the insight it needed on how its users respond to the video format.Erin Teague, Disney Entertainment’s EVP of Product Management, told Deadline that the company will use the format for all kinds of content. The service isn’t…
Renee Nicole GoodRenee Nicole Good was an award-winning poetThe woman shot dead by a federal immigration agent in Minneapolis has been identified as Renee Nicole Good, a 37-year-old mother of three who had just moved to the city.She was a prize-winning poet and a hobby guitarist, and according to Minnesota Senator Tina Smith, a US citizen.City leaders have said Good was a legal observer of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) activities. But the Trump administration has called her a “domestic terrorist”. Good’s death has sparked protests across the country, with many people holding signs that read “Justice for Renee”.Her mother,…
Mark Palmer,Assistant editor, Wales politicsandAdrian Browne,Wales political reporterReutersEluned Morgan said “there comes a point when you have to stand up and be clear with your friends”Wales’ first minister is urging Sir Keir Starmer to “stand up” to President Trump over both his actions in Venezuela and his designs on Greenland.Eluned Morgan said “there comes a point when you have to stand up and be clear with your friends and say up to here and no further”.Morgan said she understood there were “complexities and we need the United States” but added “if you don’t hold on to international law you lose…
The media would much rather Liverpool making signings than Man City so everybody pretends Jamie Redknapp knows… There really is some nonsense around, including talk of a ‘radical’ plan at Man Utd. Everybody’s Talking About Jamie “I’m not saying this is a Sky Sports breaking news moment, but all I’m saying is, I’ve heard tonight that it might not be the foregone conclusion that everyone’s talking about that he’s (Antoine Semenyo) going to be having a medical at Man City. There might still be a little twist,” said hopeful Liverpool fan Redknapp on Sky Sports, proving once again that…
Lego bricks come in a bunch of shapes and sizes, but they’re getting a big technical upgrade in 2026 thanks to news announced at CES this year. Meet the Lego Smart Brick, a standard-sized 2 x 4 brick that’s packed with modern technology to enable sets that can respond to how they’re played with or the sets you build. The company’s new initiative, Smart Play, encompasses the Smart Brick as well as Smart Minifigures and Smart Tags. It’s remains to be seen how diehard Lego fans will take to this new system, but it’s fair to say this is the…