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The UK’s biggest video-on-demand services will have to follow the same rules on content and accessibility as traditional broadcasters, under new legislation being implemented.Streaming giants including Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and Disney+, and catch-up services like ITV X and Channel 4, are being brought under enhanced regulation by Ofcom. This means they’ll have to follow the media watchdog’s rules around impartial news reporting, and harmful and offensive content.The legislation will impact streaming services with more than 500,000 UK users, giving Ofcom the power to accept viewer complaints and investigate streaming platforms, as it currently does with broadcast television.This will also…

UK businesses are facing uncertainty and higher costs as Donald Trump’s new global tariff shift takes effect.Governments worldwide have been scrambling for information since Friday when the US Supreme Court struck down his “Liberation Day” tariffs policy, and the president announced a temporary tax of 15% on imports into the US from all countries. Money blog: ‘Sporadic shortages’ of four items on supermarket shelves as supply hit You need javascript enabled to view this content Enable javascript to share Share Tariffs: “There’s a lot of confusion’ That kicked in early on Tuesday morning according to the Reuters news agency, though…

A baby boy has become the first child in Britain to be born to a mother with a womb transplanted from a deceased donor. Hugo Powell was delivered by caesarean section in December, weighing 6lb 13oz (3.1kg), at the Queen Charlotte’s and Chelsea Hospital, part of Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, in London. Only two other such cases have been reported elsewhere in Europe, while a baby was born from a womb transplanted from a living donor for the first time in the UK last year.Hugo’s mother, Grace Bell, an IT programme manager, was born with Mayer-Rokitansky-Kuster-Hauser (MRKH), a rare…

Rob Reiner’s son Nick has pleaded not guilty to two counts of first-degree murder in the fatal stabbing of the actor-director and his wife Michele Singer Reiner.Reiner’s lawyer, deputy public defender Kimberly Greene, entered the plea on his behalf as he appeared behind glass in court in Los Angeles. The 32-year-old, the third of Rob Reiner’s four children, has been held without bail since his arrest hours after the 78-year-old director and his wife were found dead at their home in the Brentwood area of LA on 14 December. You need javascript enabled to view this content Enable javascript to…

If you’ve ever spent your morning commute daydreaming about starting afresh with your career, this feature is for you. Each Monday, we speak to someone from a different profession to discover what it’s really like. Today we speak to Alistair McFarlane, chief operating officer of game design company Facepunch Studios and the executive producer of survival game Rust…We let staff work whatever hours and days suit them… as long as the work gets done. If you want to mow your grass at 2pm, go for it. Facepunch definitely isn’t typical for the industry. For the most part, it’s a normal…

A new medical tampon may be able to detect the earliest signs of ovarian cancer, scientists have said.Researchers in Southampton are to carry out a trial of the new device, which identifies biological signals in vaginal fluid. There are around 7,600 new cases of ovarian cancer in the UK each year. Many of them are diagnosed at an advanced stage.Around 250 women are being recruited for the study, named Violet. It will include patients who have been diagnosed with ovarian cancer and are having their ovaries removed, as well as women with the BRCA gene mutation who are choosing to…

As well as the film prizes, red carpet fashion is also a huge part of any awards ceremony.Emma Stone, Kate Hudson, Leonardo DiCaprio, Jessie Buckley, Teyana Taylor, Timothee Chalamet, Michael B Jordan, Carey Mulligan and Rose Byrne are among the stars nominated today.Here are the red carpet arrivals ahead of the BAFTA Film Awards ceremony. Image: Starting with the One Battle After Another stars, here’s Leonardo DiCaprio keeping his tux simple Image: Co-star Teyana Taylor brings the drama in chocolate brown and ruffles Image: Fellow One Battle co-star and first-time nominee Chase Infiniti is up for best actress and the…

So Trump and tariffs – what’s going on? Let’s start with the latest development and work backwards. The president has announced a tariff of 15% globally. Now you might be thinking “didn’t he set it at 10% on Friday?” Yes he did. But now he’s raised it to 15%.The latest pronouncement came – on Truth Social, of course – just before lunchtime on Saturday.Here’s the full post and we’ve highlighted the key bits: What does all this mean? It’s a good question and one which governments globally are asking themselves, not for the first time.The president is using a new statute…

NASA may delay its mission to send astronauts to the moon for the first time in more than half a century after discovering a fault with its rocket.Artemis II has been due to blast off from Florida’s Kennedy Space Center from as early as March. On Friday night, however, NASA discovered that the flow of helium – which is required for launch – to the rocket had been interrupted during a key part of the preparation process.A NASA spokesperson said: “This will almost assuredly ​impact the March launch window.”Before the setback, the agency had announced that it was targeting 6…

After finding out about his BAFTA nominations, Tom Basden contemplated the red carpet. Specifically the stars, “your Chalamets, your DiCaprios”, he might bump into as he walks it.His film, The Ballad Of Wallis Island, a quirky, wry comedy about fame and loss, also co-starring and co-written with Tim Key, was one of the UK’s sleeper hits of 2025 – and described by romcom king Richard Curtis, no less, as one of the greatest British films of all time. But set on a fictional island off the Pembrokeshire coast in Wales, it is a world away from the big-budget, A-list-filled productions…