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A sexually obscene phone call - and my two-year ordeal getting police to act

BBC correspondent Lucy Manning describes having to fight at every moment to keep her case on track.

15 Best USB-C Cables (2024): For iPhones, Android Phones, Tablets, and Laptops

Unravel the tangled world of cords and find the ones you need to charge your gadgets and transfer data.

Tech - Wired - 2 days ago

Ex-Officer Took Nude Images From Women’s Phones in Traffic Stops, U.S. Says

In an unrelated case also in Missouri, a former state trooper was charged with searching the phones of female drivers to acquire explicit images.

Top stories - The New York Times - 2 days ago

Lost your sense of direction? Turn off your phone and you’ll soon reconnect

Tech giants said today’s digital native kids would be the first generation who would not know what it meant to get lost. But is that a good thing?. We’ve lost direction and our brains are shrinking ...

World - The Guardian - Yesterday

What the polls can’t tell us about America’s election

A torrent of data on the presidential race seems to get us no closer to predicting the result. Is addiction to polling distracting people from the issues at stake?

World - Financial Times - October 26

Musk’s X to undershoot revenue goals from political advertising

Social media platform has raised a fraction of $100mn target and mainly from Trump and Republicans

World - Financial Times - October 26

Europe’s fiscal tug of war

Pressure to display fiscal discipline is no less high than pressure to spend more on security and economic innovation

World - Financial Times - October 26

Companies’ earnings reports increase volatility of US stocks

Share prices swing as high valuations and uncertain outlook put investors on edge

World - Financial Times - October 26

Battle of the billionaires: the mega rich spending to swing the US election

A small number of big spenders are having an outsize effect on fundraising in the 2024 presidential vote

World - Financial Times - October 27

Russian tensions expose faultlines in South Africa’s unity government

Cyril Ramaphosa angered the ANC’s largest coalition partner by calling Vladimir Putin a ‘valued friend’

World - Financial Times - October 27

Trump’s victory will change America. But Europe can have a different future

Democratic norms look unusually fragile in the US. Historian Mark Mazower argues that it is an outlier, not a precursor