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17 minutes agoKevin Peachey,Cost of living correspondentBBCA typical household’s energy bill will fall by £122 a year from July under the new price cap.The latest quarterly cap for England, Wales and Scotland means a household using a typical amount of gas and electricity will pay £1,568 a year.It means that bills will be the lowest for two years.The cap, set by the regulator Ofgem, limits the maximum price that can be charged for each unit of gas and electricity – not the total bill.If you use more energy, you will pay more. It affects the gas and electricity bills of…

Tesla boss Elon Musk says he opposes US tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles (EVs), just days after President Joe Biden quadrupled levies on EVs imported from China.”Neither Tesla nor I asked for these tariffs”, the multi-billionaire told a technology conference in Paris via video link.Mr Musk’s comments are at odds with a warning he made in January that Chinese car makers would “demolish” competitors from other countries if there were no trade barriers.Last week, the White House said new measures, including a 100% tariff on EVs from China, were a response to unfair policies and intended to protect US jobs.”In…

BBCOnly a genetic test will tell Carys if she has inherited the Brca1 gene fault from her mother, RachaelA 17-year-old has been rejected by the Army, despite passing all the selection tests, because two members of her family have had breast cancer.Carys Holmes, from Derbyshire, has a 50-50 chance of inheriting a gene fault from her mother but has not been tested for it yet.A lawyer says the Army’s actions could be discriminatory and a serious own goal.The Army said it was reviewing Carys’s case.Carys trained hard for the tough three-day selection process at Whittington Barracks, near Lichfield, in Staffordshire,…

The latest film from Oscar-winning director Danny Boyle is in production and filming across the north east of England.28 Years Later is the long-anticipated, post-apocalyptic sequel to the 28 Days Later and 28 Weeks Later films and is slated for release next year.Film crews have been seen in Newcastle, Kielder Forest and, most prominently, on Holy Island for the past three weeks.Hundreds of people from the local area responded to a call for extras to play a hoard of rage-filled ‘zombies’ in crowd scenes on the island.”I always think it’s good when they use local areas for stuff, also it…

A massive landslide is feared to have killed many after it struck six remote villages in Papua New Guinea, local officials and aid agencies said.The landslide buried more than 100 homes after it struck at around 03:00 local time Friday (17:00 GMT Thursday) in the highlands of Enga, north of the island nation in the south-west Pacific.It was not immediately clear how many people were trapped in the rubble and no casualties have been officially confirmed.Enga governor Peter Ipatas told AFP news agency it was an “unprecedented natural disaster”.Papua New Guinea’s Prime Minister James Marape said his government has sent…

One of the hundreds of sub-postmasters set to have their convictions from the Post Office scandal quashed has spoken of his “absolute joy” at the move.Lee Williamson, a former sub-postmaster in Northern Ireland, told the BBC that he was “overjoyed and very grateful”.A law quashing convictions from the Horizon IT scandal was approved by Parliament on Thursday.It was one of the final bills to pass before MPs break up ahead of the general election in July.The law applies to England, Wales and Northern Ireland – the Scottish parliament is to pass its own bill to quash convictions.The case is seen…

Tech giant Google will soon begin making its Pixel smartphones in India, sources aware of the development have told the BBC.Google is set to manufacture the phones at an existing Foxconn facility in the southern state of Tamil Nadu.The firm is also set to independently manufacture drones in the state.India has emerged as a key destination for global firms looking to diversify supply lines outside China in the midst of geopolitical tensions with the West.Last year, Google had announced plans to make Pixel smartphones in India, beginning with the Pixel 8.”India is a priority market for Pixel smartphones, and we’re…

Sarah DaviesAlberto Almeida’s life has been saved twice because of blood donationsAlberto Almeida treasures every day with his family because he could bleed to death at any moment due to a rare illness.Donated blood has saved his life twice in the past year, after he suffered severe haemorrhages caused by an inoperable tumour near major arteries.”The people who deserve medals are the people who give blood, they are the real heroes – and doctors – because they save lives,” said Alberto, of Carmarthenshire.His family said they want to encourage more people to give blood to save lives like Alberto’s.The 46-year-old…

20 minutes agoColin Paterson,Mark SavageReutersLana Del Rey won the special international award at Thursday’s Ivor Novello AwardsLana Del Rey says she wrote a James Bond theme in 2015, only to have it rejected by producers.The Video Games star was speaking backstage at the Ivor Novello Awards in London, where she had just won a special prize celebrating her career and influence.Asked if she would ever consider writing a Bond theme, she replied: “I mean, how has that not happened?”She then broke into the chorus of her song 24, from the album Honeymoon, before revealing: “I wrote that for them.”Given its…

28 minutes agoSofia Ferreira Santos,BBC NewsGetty ImagesPolice have raided a Florida mansion believed to be the residence of Sean Kingston.The singer, whose legal name is Kisean Anderson, was named as living at the residence near Fort Lauderdale in court documents from February.He was accused in February by a company of not fully paying for a huge TV and sound system.A woman thought to be his mother was arrested at the property on Thursday morning under fraud and theft charges.In a statement to the BBC, the Broward Sheriff’s Office confirmed it served arrest and search warrants at the property.”As a result…