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Mobile phones across the UK will be sent an emergency alert as the government tests the system nationwide. During the test, the second only of its kind, approximately 87 million mobile devices will ring out unprompted. The system was first tested in April 2023, but the government said some users reported that their phones did…

The chairman of Marks & Spencer has told MPs the company is still in “rebuild mode” – and will be for “some time to come” – following a cyber attack which led to empty shelves and limited online operations for months. Speaking publicly for the first time since the attack, Archie Norman declined to answer…

The first hosepipe ban for this year has been declared in the UK. Yorkshire Water said restrictions will come into force across the region later this week in an effort to protect water supplies. In a report earlier this year, the Environment Agency (EA) warned England as a whole is facing huge public water shortages…

Breathing has become “painful” for people in Indonesia after a large lava and ash cloud formed as a volcano erupted, causing flights to be cancelled, schools to close and sending people running for shelter amid difficult driving conditions. Thick volcanic ash covered roads and rice fields in villages in south-central Indonesia as lava and ash…

An extra 263 Londoners likely died in the recent heatwave, according to stark new estimates. It has prompted warnings that British classrooms, homes and hospitals are ill-prepared to deal with increasing temperatures, as another heatwave kicks in today. Last week temperatures reached up to 34.7C (94.5F) in the capital, which was under an amber health…

Grok, the AI chatbot running on Elon Musk’s social media platform, has been updated again after it posted numerous antisemitic messages on X. In one example, the artificial intelligence bot alleged there were “patterns” of behaviour by Jewish people and even praised Adolf Hitler. It falsely named an X user as having the surname “Steinberg”…

Standing by the charred remains of the Marseille wildfire, you appreciate how close France’s second-largest city came to disaster. The inferno raced down the hillside towards the northern suburbs, fanned by 45mph winds. At its peak, the fire front was moving by 1.2km every minute. Somehow – whether it was heroics of the 1,000 firefighters…