Safety plea over co-sleeping baby deaths figures
A quarter of infant deaths in Scotland last year involved parents bedsharing with babies, the BBC learns. Read More
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China reveals British national sentenced to jail in 2022 for spying
The defendant is accused of committed the “crime of illegally obtaining intelligence for overseas actors”. Read More
JK Rowling and Ed Sheeran among UK’s highest tax payers
The 100 contributors, ranked by the Sunday Times, were judged to have paid £5.35bn in tax last year. Read More
Tesla: Electric carmaker’s shares slide after Musk warns of slowdown
The electric carmaker’s shares fell by more than 12% in New York trading on Thursday. Read More
China warns citizens against ‘exotic beauty’ traps of foreign spies
Beijing cites story of Chinese man who fell prey to a honey trap by foreign spies. Read More
Kenneth Eugene Smith: Alabama carries out first US nitrogen gas execution
Witnesses observed two to four minutes of writhing by convicted murderer Kenneth Smith before he died. Read More
Mining giants told to pay $9.7bn over Brazil dam disaster
The 2015 collapse of the Fundão dam in Brazil caused a giant mudslide that killed 19 people. Read More
Gustav Klimt portrait found after almost 100 years
The ‘Portrait of Fraulein Lieser’ – last seen in public in 1925 – has been discovered in Vienna. Read More
BT customers unknowingly charged for Xbox Game Pass
Customers tell the BBC of “worrying” fees added to their monthly bills without their consent. Read More
Post Office plan to sack Horizon IT reviewer kept secret, documents reveal
Records also show managers planned to pay only a “token” sum as part of “mediation” to deal with victims. Read More