Author: Liam Porter

Palestine Action will be banned from midnight after a judge refused its request to temporarily block the UK government from proscribing it as a terror group.On Friday, a High Court judge refused the bid to temporarily stop the ban. The group then challenged the ruling at the Court of Appeal, which late on Friday evening rejected the last-minute appeal.It means supporting Palestine Action will become a criminal offence, with membership or expressing support for the direct action group punishable by up to 14 years in prison.On his decision at the hearing on Friday, denying the group’s request for a temporary…

Simon JackBBC business editorGetty ImagesAs Donald Trump cheered the passage of his self-styled, and officially named, Big Beautiful Budget Bill through Congress this week, long-sown seeds of doubt about the scale and sustainability of US borrowing from the rest of the world sprouted anew.Trump’s tax-cutting budget bill is expected to add at least $3 trillion (£2.2 trillion) to the US’s already eye-watering $37tn (£27tn) debt pile. There is no shortage of critics of the plan, not least Trump’s former ally Elon Musk, who has called it a “disgusting abomination”.The growing debt pile leaves some to wonder whether there is a…

Wimbledon bosses have defended the use of AI line judges after Jack Draper said the technology was not “100% accurate”.The British No 1 said it was “a shame” human line judges were ousted after crashing out in the second round to the 36-year-old former finalist Marin Cilic.Draper, 23, grew frustrated with the AI-enhanced Hawk-Eye technology during Thursday’s match, holding his arms out in disbelief after one of his opponent’s serves was not called out in the fourth set.“I don’t think it’s 100% accurate in all honesty,” he said in his post-match press conference. “A couple of the ones today, it…

Swaggering, cocksure and incredibly loud, Oasis burst back on to the live music scene on Friday night with an accomplished – if ever so slightly distanced – debut gig on their reunion world tour.Playing Cardiff’s Principality Stadium, the six-piece impressed at the start of what is arguably the most anticipated tour of the century, focusing overwhelmingly on songs from their 1990s heyday – only one song, Little By Little, was taken from their final four albums.For years it looked as if Liam and Noel Gallagher would never patch up their fractious fraternal relationship. A backstage bust-up in 2009 brought Oasis…

Composite of images of singer Tiffany in 1987 and 2025Tiffany in 1987 and 2025. Later photograph: Pål Hansen/The Guardian. Styling: Andie Redman. Hair and makeup: Alice Theobald at Arlington Artists using Charlotte Tilbury and Keeo. Archive photograph: Lynn Goldsmith/Getty ImagesBorn in 1971 in Norwalk, California, Tiffany Darwish began singing at country fairs aged nine, before releasing her first album at 15. In 1987, her cover of I Think We’re Alone Now reached No 1 on the Billboard Hot 100. The single was taken from her self-titled album, which reached No 1 in the Billboard 200 chart, making her the youngest female artist to…

Jordan RaananJul 4, 2025, 06:00 AM ETCloseJordan Raanan covers the New York Giants for ESPN and can be heard hosting on ESPN Radio. Raanan joined ESPN in 2016.EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — Former New York Giants defensive end Jason Pierre-Paul doesn’t hesitate. He owns that Fourth of July accident 10 years ago that cost him “2½” fingers — the same as he does each of his 94.5 career sacks.He has no choice but to be reminded of it when putting on a dress shirt and reaching for a button — or when he reminisces about a career he hopes is not…

Record FIFA Club World Cup winners Real Madrid meet fellow Europeans, Borussia Dortmund, in the quarterfinals.Who: Real Madrid vs Borussia DortmundWhat: FIFA Club World Cup 2025Where: MetLife Stadium, New Jersey, United StatesWhen: Saturday, July 5 at 4pm local time (20:00 GMT) How to follow: We’ll have all the build-up on Al Jazeera Sport from 6pm local (22:00 GMT) in advance of our live text commentary stream. Record FIFA Club World Cup winners Real Madrid face the side they beat to claim the 2024 European crown, Borussia Dortmund, for a place in the semifinals. Real lifted the Champions League trophy two…

A year ago, many around Keir Starmer believed the Labour left had been sealed in a tomb. The suspension of Jeremy Corbyn, the disciplinary action against Labour MPs including Zarah Sultana and the push to the political centre were supposed to fracture the party’s leftwing.But this week’s drama, which included the prime minister narrowly avoiding defeat on the welfare bill after 49 Labour MPs rebelled, the chancellor’s tears during prime minister’s questions and Sultana announcing she was quitting the party to join Corbyn’s Independent Alliance, has shown that the forces are very much alive.It has also shown that the votes…

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.Europe’s top football governing body has fined Chelsea Football Club €31mn for breaching financial regulations, as part of a crackdown on some of the continent’s top teams.Uefa punished Chelsea for breaching its football earnings rule on permissible losses and a related constraint on how much clubs can spend on player wages and transfers as a percentage of their revenue.Chelsea could be hit with a further €60mn in fines if it does not rectify its shortcomings over the coming years.Fines have also been…

It’s been a rough week at Microsoft. Following the news that at the company, one Xbox executive offered some questionable words of advice for people on their way out: Find solace in Microsoft Copilot., Matt Turnbull, an executive producer at Xbox Game Studios Publishing who clearly did not lose his job recently, took to LinkedIn to let folks know, “You’re not alone and you don’t have to go it alone.” In the same breath as acknowledging that AI evokes “strong feelings in people,” Turnbull suggested that LLMs like ChatGPT and Copilot could “help reduce the emotional and cognitive load that…