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SpaceX plans to raise up to 75 billion dollars (£56bn) when it goes public this month, setting the stage for the largest US stock market debut and putting Elon Musk on course to becoming the world’s first trillionaire. The company, formally known as Space Exploration Technologies Corp, said it will sell 555.6 million shares at […]

A judge in Amsterdam has rejected an appeal by a Jewish organisation to block two performances by the rapper Ye, formerly Kanye West, ruling that the concerts are not a threat to public order. Ye has drawn widespread controversy in recent years for a series of antisemitic remarks, leaving Dutch authorities under mounting pressure to […]

Actor Shia LaBeouf has pleaded guilty to three counts of simple battery for punching people outside a New Orleans bar during Mardi Gras. Sentencing details were not immediately available in online court records. Video of the February 17 encounter shows a shirtless LaBeouf shoving one person to the ground and hitting another person in the […]

Nasa’s Maven spacecraft has been declared dead after six months of radio silence. The space agency confirmed on Wednesday that the mission had ended after more than a decade of observations of Mars. Launched in 2013 to study the red planet’s atmosphere from orbit, Maven mysteriously fell silent in early December after passing behind Mars. […]

Prime minister Keir Starmer has apologised on behalf of the UK government to the families of five people who were shot dead in west Belfast in 1972. In April, a coroner concluded that British Army soldiers “did not use reasonable force” in the shooting of a Catholic priest, a father-of-six and three teenagers at Springhill/Westrock […]

Donald Trump has confirmed a report that he criticised Benjamin Netanyahu as “crazy”, saying he was “a little bit perturbed” that Israel’s conflict with Hezbollah in Lebanon was holding back peace talks with Iran. But the US president insisted his relationship with the Israeli Prime Minister is solid and they connect in part because they […]

Keir Starmer has insisted he has complied with requests to hand over his WhatsApp messages relating to Peter Mandelson’s appointment as US ambassador, after it was revealed the British prime minister uses disappearing messages on the communications app. Only a limited number of text messages between the former ambassador to Washington DC and the Brtish […]

Keir Starmer has said he “felt sick” watching footage of police handcuffing student Henry Nowak as he lay dying, and that there are “serious questions” to answer about the case. The British prime minister said there needs to be an examination into how “accusations of racism” informed the police’s decision-making in the case. The killer […]

Welsh actor Owain Rhys Davies, best known for his roles in Twin Peaks: The Return and The OA, has been remembered as a “remarkable talent” after his death at the age of 44. The news was shared by his family, who said Davies died “suddenly, naturally, and peacefully”. He was best known for playing Agent […]

Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano has broken a record with the number of periods it has produced fountains of lava since it began erupting in December 2024. Monday marked the 48th fountaining episode, setting the record for any one eruption on Kilauea, said Katie Mulliken, a geologist and spokesperson with the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory. Episodes are separated […]