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Simon JackBusiness editorRolls-RoyceArtist’s impression of a small nuclear power stationRolls-Royce’s plan to power artificial intelligence (AI) with its nuclear reactors could make it the UK’s most valuable company, its boss has said.The engineering firm has signed deals to provide small modular reactors (SMRs) to the UK and Czech governments.AI has boomed in popularity since 2022, but the technology uses lots of energy, something which has raised practical and environmental concerns.Rolls-Royce chief executive Tufan Erginbilgic told the BBC it has the “potential” to become the UK’s highest-valued company by overtaking the largest firms on the London Stock Exchange thanks to its…

About R1-billion in replacement funds expected imminently, but more may be approved In response to US funding cuts for South African health services and research projects, National Treasury has provided the National Department of Health with hundreds of millions of rands in emergency funds. Spotlight and GroundUp take a look at how precisely the government intends to spend this money. Health minister Aaron Motsoaledi recently announced that National Treasury had released roughly R753-million to help plug the gap left by US funding cuts to South Africa’s health system. Another R268-million is also being released in the following two years for…

Late-night hosts talked about Donald Trump’s rambling Truth Social posts and Taylor Swift’s new album announcement.Seth MeyersSeth Meyers opened Tuesday’s Late Night with a recap of Donald Trump’s effort to take over the metro police in Washington DC. During Monday’s announcement that the federal government would deploy national guard troops in the city, Trump said that he wanted residents to feel safe going to the store to buy a newspaper. “You think I need to go to the store to buy a newspaper? Is that right after my milk gets delivered?” Meyers laughed.During the same press conference, Trump also discussed…

Good morning. The slogan “black is beautiful” rang out from civil rights marches in the US and UK during the 1960s and echoed through liberation struggles across the global south. It became a rallying cry against racist beauty standards that had long cast Black skin, facial features and hair as undesirable.These movements urged pride in what had been denigrated for centuries, and their message was not limited to people of African or Caribbean heritage. Calls to embrace natural beauty resonated across Asia and much of the global south, directly challenging the colonial belief that lighter skin conferred greater worth.Yet decades…

The United States has announced it is revoking the visas of Brazilian, African and Caribbean officials over their ties to Cuba’s programme that sends doctors abroad, which Washington has described as “forced labour”.The US named two Brazilian Ministry of Health officials, Mozart Julio Tabosa Sales and Alberto Kleiman, who have had their visas revoked for working on Brazil’s Mais Medicos, or “More Doctors” programme, which was created in 2013.In a statement on Wednesday, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said sanctions were imposed on officials “involved in abetting the Cuban regime’s coercive labour export scheme”, which he claimed “enriches the…

AI risks entrenching racism and sexism in Australia, the human rights commissioner has warned, amid internal Labor debate about how to respond to the emerging technology.Lorraine Finlay says the pursuit of productivity gains from AI should not come at the expense of discrimination if the technology is not properly regulated.Finlay’s comments follow Labor senator Michelle Ananda-Rajah breaking ranks to call for all Australian data to be “freed” to tech companies to prevent AI perpetuating overseas biases and reflect Australian life and culture.Ananda-Rajah is opposed to a dedicated AI act but believes content creators should be paid for their work.Sign up:…

Russia accuses popular messaging apps of facilitating crime and sabotage as Moscow’s online restrictions tighten amid war in Ukraine.Russia has announced restrictions on voice calls made on the WhatsApp and Telegram messaging apps, the latest moves by Moscow to tighten its control over the internet.The curb on calls is set to impact WhatsApp’s estimated 96 million monthly users in Russia and Telegram’s more than 89 million users, according to Russian media monitoring service Mediascope.In a statement on Wednesday, Russia’s media and internet regulator, Roskomnadzor, justified the measure as necessary for fighting crime.“According to law enforcement agencies and numerous appeals from…

Kris HollandBBC News, East of EnglandGetty ImagesWomen across the East of England are now able to self-refer to their local maternity servicesThousands of expectant mothers in the East of England have taken up a new NHS service and more are being encouraged to take part.Women across Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, Cambridgeshire and elsewhere have been using the service, where they can refer themselves directly to their local maternity services – without the need to first see a GP – by completing an online form.Wendy Matthews, NHS England’s chief midwife for the region, said the referral system was a “leap forward in…

UDINE, Italy — Tottenham Hotspur desperately want to be a club defined by winning silverware.Wednesday’s dramatic UEFA Super Cup defeat to Paris Saint-Germain was therefore a brutal early lesson for head coach Thomas Frank in the job he has inherited. Welcome to Spurs, Thomas.May’s UEFA Europa League triumph — their first trophy in 17 years — was supposed to herald the dawning of a new era: the shedding of the derogatory “Spursy” tag, created through years of somehow always falling short when the prize was in sight.This was, in some ways, a step back towards those difficult days. They were…

The far-right minister said he will approve 3,000 new homes in the controversial E1 area project, hailing it as ‘Zionism at its best’.Israel’s far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has announced he will approve thousands of housing units in a highly controversial and long-delayed illegal settlement project in the occupied West Bank, saying the move “buries the idea of a Palestinian state”.In a statement on Wednesday, Smotrich announced his intention to approve tenders to build more than 3,000 homes in the E1 area settlement project that would connect Jerusalem and the existing Israeli settlement of Maale Adumim, located several kilometres to…