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Baroness Michelle Mone has launched a blistering attack on Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch, accusing her of “inflammatory language”, “reckless public statements”, and misrepresenting both the facts and legal context surrounding the PPE Medpro case. In a two-page letter seen by Business Matters, the peer directly confronts Badenoch’s remarks made on BBC Radio, in which she called for Baroness Mone to …

A Chinese national has also been deported for flying a UAV near an airport, police have said Three Germans have been arrested in Norway for allegedly launching a drone in a prohibited zone around an airport, Bild has reported.  The outlet cited local media as saying the three men were detained on Tuesday and released shortly afterwards. It did not …

United States immigration authorities are moving to dramatically expand their social media surveillance, with plans to hire nearly 30 contractors to sift through posts, photos, and messages—raw material to be transformed into intelligence for deportation raids and arrests. Federal contracting records reviewed by WIRED show that the agency is seeking private vendors to run a multiyear surveillance program out of …

Healsgood AI, the healthtech behind Flexzo AI, has secured an additional £2.5 million in seed funding from Octopus Ventures, taking total investment in its NHS workforce management platform to £5 million over the past year. The London-based company, which trades as Flexzo AI, is developing an artificial intelligence-driven system to help NHS Trusts and Integrated Care Boards (ICBs) cut their …

سندھ ہائیکورٹ نے اسلام آباد ہائیکورٹ کے جسٹس طارق محمود جہانگیری کی جامعہ کراچی کی جانب سے ڈگری منسوخی کا فیصلہ معطل کردیا۔ جسٹس اقبال کلہوڑو نے ریمارکس دیے کہ ہم کیسے کسی کی عزت داؤ پر لگا سکتے ہیں، کسی کی ساری زندگی کی کمائی داؤ پر لگی ہوئی ہے۔ جمعے کو جسٹس محمد اقبال کلہوڑو کی سربراہی میں …

A notorious predominantly English-speaking hacking group has launched a website to extort its victims, threatening to release about a billion records stolen from companies who store their customers’ data in cloud databases hosted by Salesforce. The loosely organized group, which has been known as Lapsus$, Scattered Spider, and ShinyHunters, has published a dedicated data leak site on the dark web, …

More than £100 billion in overdue invoices were logged by UK companies in the first nine months of 2025, as late payment practices hit record levels and small businesses bear the brunt. Analysis of government filings by the campaign group Good Business Pays shows that a record number of large firms admitted paying more than half their invoices late this …

Zehra Naqvi, 26, grew up as an obsessive fan girl in the 2010s.  This was the era of Tumblr and Twitter. She would stay up all night breaking down the release dates of Marvel movies or analyzing the movements of One Direction members. She eventually gained a collective 250,000 followers across the two platforms. “Those early internet rabbit holes taught me …

When Jamie Gull graduated from Stanford University in 2007 with a master’s degree in aeronautics, there was one place he wanted to go next: the desert. The Mojave desert, to be specific. A company called Scaled Composites had spent years developing experimental aircraft out on that arid land, and Gull wanted in. He could have tried to get a more …

Apple has removed ICEBlock and other apps from its App Store that allow users to anonymously report sightings of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents, following pressure from the Trump administration. The app, which went viral earlier this year, allowed users to lawfully share information about where they’ve seen ICE agents within a 5-mile radius of their location, and …

Tesco chief executive Ken Murphy has delivered a blunt warning to the Chancellor, urging Rachel Reeves not to impose fresh tax burdens on Britain’s retailers in next month’s autumn budget. Speaking after a year in which Reeves’s maiden budget raised employers’ national insurance contributions and the minimum wage — measures that added more than £7bn in costs across the sector …

Former Pakistan women’s cricket captain Sana Mir, now serving as a commentator at the ICC Women’s ODI World Cup 2025, has issued a clarification after sparking controversy during the Pakistan vs Bangladesh match in Colombo. While describing Pakistan cricketer Natalia Pervaiz, Mir referred to her as a player “from Kashmir, Azad Kashmir, plays in Lahore a lot of cricket.” The …