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It was one of Twitter's the longest outages since breaking down for more than two hours in 2016.

The lawsuit said that after Mr Musk agreed to the deal, the stock market fell, along with Tesla shares.

Twitter says it plans to pursue legal action to enforce the agreement.

Japan's former prime minister Shinzo Abe has died in hospital.

Shinzo Abe, the former Japanese Prime Minister was shot twice while giving a campaign speech.

Law chiefs want the act of taking photos down a woman’s top without consent, or “downblousing”, to be made illegal in England and Wales. New proposals also aim to protect victims of intimate image abuse and revenge porn by changing current laws. The Law Commission, which reviews and updates legislation, is also calling for a ban on sharing pornographic deepfakes ...

Boris Johnson is to stand down as Conservative Party leader, but intends to carry on as prime minister until the autumn. He is set to appoint new ministers to replace those who quit in protest at his leadership. He intends to stay in Downing Street until a new Tory leader has been elected to replace him. But some Tory MPs ...

Twitter has mounted a legal challenge in India against government orders to take down content. The social media giant has filed a petition with the high court in Karnataka state resisting “several” such orders, sources told the BBC. Twitter was reacting to a letter from the government in June warning of “serious consequences” of non-compliance of such orders. Twitter has ...

But his lawyers called for a sentence of 10 years - the mandatory minimum for his conviction - or less.

Heatwaves have become more frequent, more intense, and last longer because of human-induced climate change.