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Meet the front-runners to replace Lagarde

Softly spoken de Cos An economist with a Ph.D. from the University of Madrid, de Cos joined the Bank of Spain in 1997, moved to Frankfurt in 2004 to be an adviser to the ECB’s executive board, before returning to the…

Video shows street vendors in Spain, not people selling items looted in France

The video was actually filmed on Gran Vía, a street in Madrid, Spain. The video has been shared hundreds of times on X , Facebook and Instagram , wrongly connecting the scene to the looting which took place earlier this…

AI mushroom cloud video shared with false claims it shows Ukraine

But this video isn’t real. It was made with artificial intelligence (AI) and has been circulating online for more than a year. Using reverse image search we traced the video to a 2025 AFP fact check about the clip being…

Britain’s spy agency doesn’t know where thousands of its memory sticks are

That could include intercepted communications such as emails, texts and telephone calls, as well as information extracted from people’s computers or phones. The report added that GCHQ currently estimates the number of…

The supposed post has the date , and claims the Republicans have won “all 50 states” and that the President is “officially declaring victory for EVERY Republican candidate right now. Every Senate seat, every House seat…

Eight of England’s nine water companies still failing on environment, report finds

"People are sick of excuses," Dame Angela said, after the Environment Agency joined the Drinking Water Inspectorate, Natural Resources Wales and Ofwat for a joint report that rated eight of the nine water companies in…

Budget verdict: A missed opportunity to tackle intergenerational unfairness and give working people a tax breakk

After working through the Chancellor’s announcements and examining the practical impact on household finances, it is striking how little has changed for ordinary working people. For many families, the only noticeable…

The ‘breathing space budget’ – breathing space for the government, that is | John Crace

The day after the budget is usually the moment when things start to fall apart. When clued-up journalists and economists have had a chance to go through all the fine points the chancellor would rather everyone had…

Further delays for major council overhaul in nine of 14 proposed areas

Proposals for 14 regions to undergo mergers of smaller councils to form larger unitary authorities was put on hold by Local Government Secretary Angela Rayner last month, following concerns around legal challenges. Local…

Viral video doesn’t show zombie knives delivery to ‘migrant hotel’

The original footage was shared by the Metropolitan Police and shows a shipment delivered to a residential address, not a migrant hotel. It relates to an investigation into Jonathan Soares , who imported and sold illegal…