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• Trump announces 10% global tariff after supreme court ruling – video

  20-02-2026 20:55
  The US president says he will impose a 10% global tariff after the supreme court found his current use of tariffs illegal blocked it. Trump called the decision a disgrace Continue reading...
  
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• AI hit: India hungry to harness US tech giants’ technology at Delhi summit

  20-02-2026 18:25
  Narendra Modi’s thirst to supercharge economic growth is matched by US desire to inject AI into world’s biggest democracyIndia celebrates 80 years of independence from the UK in August 2027. At about that same moment, “early versions of true super intelligence” could emerge, Sam Altman, the co-founder of OpenAI, said this week.It’s a looming coincidence that raised a charged question at the AI Impact summit in Delhi, hosted by India’s prime minister, Narendra
  
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• ‘It’s survival of the fittest’: the UK kebab chain seeking an edge with robot slicers

  20-02-2026 17:00
  German Doner Kebab aims to open at 25 new sites this year with self-service screens and healthy options aimed at gen Z They are already packing our groceries and delivering shopping. Now robots are coming to the kebab shop, alongside self-service screens and loyalty apps, as takeaways look for ways to tackle rising costs.German Doner Kebab (GDK), a perhaps surprisingly British-owned chain that has been springing up across the country, has turned to technology to keep its fast food business buzzi
  
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• Man receives £42,000 bill for data roaming charges after Morocco holiday

  20-02-2026 16:39 via theguardian.com
  Andrew Alty thought O2 bill was a mistake, but daughter’s TikTok use allowed massive uncapped charges to accrueA small business owner was left facing a £42,000 bill that he said nearly bankrupted him after his daughter racked up data roaming charges while the family were on holiday in Morocco.Andrew Alty, who owns a curtains business, was in Marrakech when he received a bill for £22,000 from network provider O2, but at first he assumed it was a mistake. Continue reading...
  
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• Homes for sale with luscious lawns in England and Scotland – in pictures

  20-02-2026 08:00 via theguardian.com
  From a former Georgian hospital in a Scottish Borders town to a converted greenhouse in the Kent countryside Continue reading...
  
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• France and Germany agreed to build the fighter jet of the future. Now they can’t agree who is in charge

  20-02-2026 07:00
  FCAS, which also involves Spain, is imploding at a high-stakes moment for Europe, as threat rises from RussiaFrance and Germany’s plan to build a fighter jet of the future, planned to come with a swarm of drones and a “combat communications cloud”, is collapsing.Friedrich Merz, the German chancellor, said this week that the €100bn programme no longer worked for him. He insisted it was “not a political dispute”, but a technical one. France needs a jet that can c
  
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