News 14/11/26

Thousands of people have joined a protest in Edinburgh against the construction of large-scale artificial intelligence data centres.

Demonstrators marched from the Royal Mile towards the Scottish Parliament amid ongoing debate over the environmental impact of these facilities. The Scottish government confirmed it will soon publish updated planning guidance and a strategy to maximise public benefit.

 

Thousands of people have joined a protest in Edinburgh against the construction of large-scale artificial intelligence data centres. Demonstrators marched from the Royal Mile towards the Scottish Parliament amid ongoing debate over the environmental impact of these facilities. The Scottish government confirmed it will soon publish updated planning guidance and a strategy to maximise public benefit.

American negotiators have suggested Ukraine withdraw its remaining forces from the eastern Donbas region in exchange for Nato membership, according to President Volodymyr Zelensky.

The proposal follows recent meetings involving Donald Trump’s envoys with Russian and Ukrainian leaders. While Kyiv has long sought alliance membership, Russia opposes further Nato expansion, and Mr Zelensky maintains Ukraine is unwilling to cede sovereign territory.

A disqualified driver has been jailed after leading Thames Valley Police on a dangerous pursuit in Slough.

Thirty-eight-year-old Aistis Urbonas of Harmondsworth was sentenced at Slough Magistrates’ Court following Tuesday’s incident. Roads policing officers responded to an alert for a cloned vehicle near the town centre, before Urbonas drove over a footpath towards Langley and was safely arrested.

A disqualified driver has been jailed after leading Thames Valley Police on a dangerous pursuit in Slough. Thirty-eight-year-old Aistis Urbonas of Harmondsworth was sentenced at Slough Magistrates’ Court following Tuesday’s incident. Roads policing officers responded to an alert for a cloned vehicle near the town centre, before Urbonas drove over a footpath towards Langley and was safely arrested.

A murder investigation has been launched after a twenty-seven-year-old man was stabbed to death in north Manchester in the early hours of Saturday morning.

Greater Manchester Police say officers were called to Moss Bank in Crumpsall shortly after half past one, where the victim was found with several stab wounds before dying on the way to hospital. Initial enquiries suggest he was attacked by a group of men wearing dark clothing and balaclavas.

Noel Fielding has said he is appalled by jokes he made alongside Russell Brand when the pair appeared together on television and at live shows.

The Great British Bake Off presenter stated he was horrified and deeply disturbed to learn of Brand’s crimes, following his conviction for rape and sexual assault. Footage of Fielding and Brand joking about rape with Jonathan Ross in 2007 recently resurfaced, with Fielding describing the remarks as horrible and inappropriate.

Airlines and airports have warned that flight disruptions will continue throughout the weekend, despite American aviation authorities lifting an overnight ground stop order.

The stoppage led to around fifteen thousand flights being delayed or cancelled across the United States, and officials say it will take time for carriers to restore normal operations, with over five per cent of Saturday’s scheduled flights already cancelled.

The leaders of the United States, China, and Russia are set to hold an unprecedented meeting on the sidelines of a major economic summit next week, the White House has confirmed.

Donald Trump, Xi Jinping, and Vladimir Putin will hold talks on Thursday at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Shenzhen, though analysts say the gathering is unlikely to produce major diplomatic breakthroughs.

Young people should receive a legal guarantee of a job, training, or employment support, according to the author of a major government review into youth unemployment.

Former Labour minister Alan Milburn, whose proposals will be unveiled on Tuesday, warned that those who refuse help could lose their benefits, calling for spending to shift dramatically towards measures supporting young people into work.

Debate over when to put up the Christmas tree is dividing shoppers, with retailers launching seasonal ranges at different times.

Tesco began selling half-price trees this week after over ninety per cent sold out by the end of November last year, while Lidl launches next week and Dobbies Garden Centres waits until late November.

The Federal Aviation Administration has cancelled the nationwide ground stop across the United States, Transport Secretary Sean Duffy has confirmed.

The emergency action, which lasted around four hours and halted thousands of flights, is now over, though Mr Duffy warned passengers to check with airlines as services will resume slowly depending on crew availability.

Microsoft says it is deeply sorry for the global service outage affecting products including Outlook and Teams across more than seventy countries.

While services were broadly recovering by Friday afternoon, nearly twenty-four hours after issues began, the tech giant confirmed it does not yet know when systems used by over four hundred and thirty million people worldwide will fully recover.

FC Andorra goalkeeper Jesus Owono has been handed a twelve-match suspension by the Spanish football federation’s disciplinary committee following a challenge that resulted in the death of Tenerife forward Jesus de Miguel.

The twenty-five-year-old was sent off after colliding with thirty-year-old De Miguel on the second of November, with the referee’s report recording excessive force during the play.

SpaceX has aborted its attempt to catch the lower booster stage of its Starship rocket using mechanical arms on the launch tower during its latest test flight.

Instead, the booster was diverted into the ocean, bursting into flames as it came down. The upper stage continues into space, with SpaceX deciding on Saturday whether to attempt catching that section.