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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…

British tech magnate Mike Lynch has appeared in court in the US to rebut claims that he committed fraud to inflate the value of his company ahead of its sale to Hewlett-Packard in 2011.He told the jury that he was uninvolved with the transactions that had been described in the trial, reportedly describing watching the proceedings as “surreal”.Mr Lynch co-founded the software firm Autonomy in 1996, which grew to be one of the UK’s biggest companies.An entrepreneur who once drew comparisons to Bill Gates and Steve Jobs, he now faces up to 25 years in prison if convicted.Prosecutors in San…

A London-born teenager – whose proficiency at spreading the teachings of the Catholic church online led to him being called “God’s influencer” – is set to become a saint.Carlo Acutis died in 2006, at the age of 15, meaning he would be the first millennial – a person born in the early 1980s to late 1990s – to be canonised. It follows Pope Francis attributing a second miracle to him.It involved the healing of university student in Florence who had bleeding on the brain after suffering head trauma.Carlo Acutis had been beatified – the first step towards sainthood – in…

A nine-year-old boy died from sepsis after doctors and nurses missed a “significant” GP note, an inquest heard. Dylan Cope, from Newport was taken to the Grange Hospital in Cwmbran, Torfaen, on 6 December 2022 after his GP wrote “query appendicitis”, but this note was not read. The senior doctor on shift that night said GP referrals were not being printed off and put into patients’ notes because of how busy the department was.The court also heard how Dylan’s father should have been directed to a 999 call handler, but was not due to a mistake.Dylan was readmitted to hospital…

Singer Cassie has posted her first statement since video emerged showing rapper Sean “Diddy” Combs attacking her.The star, whose full name is Casandra Ventura, said domestic violence “broke me down to someone I never thought I would become”.The video of the attack in 2016 was released last week by CNN. Ms Ventura had alleged her ex-boyfriend and producer assaulted her in a legal action last year.Diddy apologised at the weekend, commenting in an Instagram video: “I was disgusted when I did it. I’m disgusted now.”In her statement, which was posted to Instagram, Ms Ventura thanked her friends, family and the…

US regulators have sued Live Nation, accusing the entertainment giant of using illegal tactics to maintain a monopoly over the concert market.The lawsuit from the Department of Justice said the firm’s practices had kept out competitors, and led to higher ticket prices and worse service for customers.Attorney General Merrick Garland called on the courts to break-up the company.Live Nation said in a statement on its website that claims that it wielded monopoly power were “absurd”.It said the lawsuit “ignores everything that is actually responsible for higher ticket prices” citing online ticket scalping, artist popularity and higher production costs. Along with…

HSBC has been fined £6.2m by the City watchdog after it found the bank failed to help customers in financial difficulties.The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) said the lender failed to consider customers’ circumstances when they missed a repayment or sometimes “took disproportionate action”.The FCA said the bank put “1.5 million people at risk of greater financial harm” through its actions.HSBC told the BBC “We have invested in our processes since these matters came to light and are pleased to have resolved these historic issues with the regulator.”The FCA said that HSBC – which also provides financial services for M&S Bank…

Simon Case is the head of the civil service, which makes him probably the most important unelected person in politics.The cabinet secretary’s role is to advise the prime minister, lead implementation of the government’s policies and manage other high-level civil servants.Born in Bristol in 1978, he first joined the civil service as a Ministry of Defence policy adviser in 2006.Over the next eight years he held roles in the Cabinet Office, the Northern Ireland Office and intelligence service GCHQ.In 2012 he became private secretary to then-Prime Minister David Cameron, going on to work in more senior roles within the Cabinet…

GB News has launched legal proceedings against Ofcom, after the media regulator ruled earlier this week the channel had breached broadcasting rules.The channel said its decision to launch formal action followed a number of rulings against it by Ofcom.In a statement, it said Ofcom’s rulings “go against journalists and broadcasters rights to make editorial judgements in line with the law”.Ofcom told BBC News in response: “We stand by our decision.”A GB News spokesman said it was “challenging recent Ofcom decisions… which also go against Ofcom’s own rules”, adding: “Ofcom is obliged by law to uphold freedom of expression.”Ofcom is also…

32 minutes agoKelly Ng and Rupert Wingfield-Hayes in Taipei,BBC NewsReutersChina has called its drills around Taiwan a “strong punishment” for “separatist acts”China has started two days of military exercises around Taiwan, with its military calling them “strong punishment” for the self-ruled island’s “separatist acts”.The drills come three days after the inauguration of President William Lai, who called on China to stop threatening the island and accept the existence of its democracy.China sees Taiwan as a breakaway province that will eventually be under Beijing’s control, but the island sees itself as distinct.Taiwan’s defence ministry condemned the Chinese drills as “irrational provocations”.Taipei…