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Controversial Dilbert cartoonist Scott Adams dies aged 68
Paul GlynnCulture reporterGetty ImagesDilbert Future and The Joy of Work are among the best-selling books in the seriesScott Adams, the US cartoonist who wrote and illustrated the comic strip...
Thousands of Monzo bank customers report app outage
Thousands of Monzo customers have reported having difficulties accessing the bank's mobile app.Platform outage monitor Downdetector saw more than 4,000 reports from users complaining of problems on Thursday afternoon.The...
Three men from Lighthouse group guilty of harassing BBC journalist over A Very British Cult documentary
Neil HendersonBBC News, Stratford Magistrates' CourtBBCFrom left to right: Kristofer Deichler, Jatinder Kamra, and Sukhraj SinghThree men have been found guilty of harassing a BBC journalist who presented the...
New Birmingham-Manchester rail link to be proposed
The government is set to announce its intention to build a new rail link between Birmingham and Manchester, the BBC understands.Previous plans for the HS2 high-speed rail line had...
Hundreds of Met officers and staff declare Freemasons links
More than 300 Metropolitan Police officers and staff have declared their involvement in the Freemasons or other "hierarchical associations" after the force required them to do so last month,...
New cover-up law delayed over concerns it will not fully apply to MI5
The next stage of a new law being designed to stop cover-ups has been delayed after MPs raised concerns about whether it would apply fully to the security services,...
Jerome Powell: World central bank chiefs declare support for US Fed chair
Central banks across the world have joined together to declare that they stand in "full solidarity" with the Federal Reserve's chair after the US launched a criminal investigation into...
Crackdown on illegal working in UK leads to surge in arrests
A crackdown on migrants working in the UK illegally has led to a surge in arrests, the government has said. The Home Office said the number of immigration raids...
Minnesota sues Trump administration to block immigration agents deployment
Watch: "This has to stop" - Minnesota sues federal government over surge of ICE agentsThe US state of Minnesota has sued the Trump administration in an attempt to block...
BBC will aim to have Trump’s $5bn defamation lawsuit thrown out
The BBC will file a motion to dismiss Donald Trump's lawsuit over how his 6 January 2021 speech was edited in a Panorama documentary.The US president filed a $5bn...
