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Bereaved parents who lose a baby before 24 weeks of pregnancy in England can now receive a certificate in recognition of their loss. Ministers say they have listened to bereaved parents who have gone through the painful experience of miscarriage. Campaigners said they were “thrilled” that millions of families would finally get the formal acknowledgement that their baby existed. All parents who have experienced baby loss since September 2018 can apply. They should visit the gov.uk website – applicants must be at least 16 years old, have been living in England at the time of the loss and be one of the…

As the aviation industry gathers this week for the Singapore Airshow there is no shortage of military hardware made by US aerospace giant Boeing. Spectators have been treated to displays by the F-15 fighter and Apache attack helicopter. However, conspicuously absent from the event are Boeing’s commercial jets. Instead, attendees of Asia’s biggest airshow have to make do with models of Boeing’s passenger planes or can step inside an “immersive display” of the Boeing 777X cabin. And as the event was in full-swing, Boeing announced that the leader of the troubled 737 Max programme Ed Clark would leave the company. It’s…

AT&T has restored access to its mobile phone customers after widespread outages Thursday, the company said in a statement. Tens of thousands of cell phone users across the US reported outages earlier in the day. Downdetector.com, which tracks outages, showed reports indicating no service or no signal after 04:00 EST (09:00 GMT). AT&T apologised to customers and said services had been fully restored by early afternoon. “We are taking steps to ensure our customers do not experience this again in the future,” the company said in a statement. The cause of the outage is under investigation. Other carriers including Verizon…

Milka manufacturer Mondalez has taken legal action against Tony’s Chocoloney for mimicking its chocolate packaging. The self-styled ethical chocolate firm has launched four new temporary wrappers, inspired by well-known bars Milka, Nestle, Mars and Ferrero. The bars were released in Germany and Austria to highlight child labour in the cocoa industry. Tony’s said it had changed the branding and plans to appeal against an injunction that has been imposed. Mondalez said it would not comment on ongoing legal action, but said it owned a colour trademark in Europe, which Tony’s confirmed was the basis of the injunction. “As a matter…

Reddit is moving forward with a plan to sell shares to the public, almost 20 years after its start as an online message board. The company publicly filed for an initial public offering (IPO) with US financial regulators on Thursday. The document does not say how much money the firm is hoping to raise by listing on the New York Stock Exchange. But it provides a glimpse of the firm’s operations, including its struggles to turn its online popularity into profit. The site is a forum where users can post questions and comment on topics that interest them. It has…

At least four people have died and 19 are missing after a massive fire ripped through two joined apartment blocks in the Spanish city of Valencia, emergency services say. The blaze engulfed a 14-storey block in the Campanar neighbourhood and spread to an adjoining building. Firefighters were seen rescuing people from balconies. Experts say that highly flammable cladding on the building enabled the fire to spread rapidly. The building contains 138 flats and was home to 450 residents, newspaper El Pais reported, citing the building’s manager. At least 14 people, including six firefighters and a young child, have been injured. More than…

An Alabama court ruling that frozen embryos created through fertility treatment are children has delivered an election-year opportunity for Democrats – and a political headache for Republicans. US President Joe Biden’s party is already campaigning on the controversy, casting November’s vote as a fight over reproductive rights. For Republicans, the row could pose an obstacle in their carefully laid plans to win back suburban women and swing voters. At least three fertility clinics in Alabama have paused in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) since last week’s ruling. The all-Republican justices decided that frozen embryos created through IVF are considered children under state law.…

Vice Media plans to cut hundreds of jobs as it stops publishing on Vice.com, according to a memo from chief executive Bruce Dixon. In May, the firm filed for bankruptcy in the US and was bought by Fortress Investment Group. Mr Dixon said Vice plans to “partner with established media companies to distribute our digital content”. Media firms including Channel 4, Los Angeles Times, and Business Insider have also cut jobs this year. Mr Dixon said “it is no longer cost-effective for us to distribute our digital content the way we have done previously,” in the memo seen by the BBC. “Regrettably,…

An Indian court has ordered a zoo in West Bengal state to change the names of two lions after a hardline Hindu group complained it hurt their religious sentiments. The lioness was named after Hindu deity Sita while the lion was called Akbar, after the 16th Century Mughal ruler. Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) challenged this, saying that naming the lioness after a goddess was blasphemous. It also objected to keeping the lions in the same wildlife park. The two big cats currently live in the North Bengal Wild Animals Park in Siliguri district. On Thursday, the court said that animals…

“I’m afraid the elephant that killed my father could come back to attack again,” says 13-year-old Alna Joseph. On 10 February, Ms Joseph was returning from morning prayers at her village church in Mananthavady town in the hilly Wayanad district of the southern Indian state of Kerala when she saw a vehicle carrying a bleeding man. When she reached home, she found out that it was the body of her father Ajeesh Joseph, a 42-year-old farmer, who had been trampled to death by a radio-collared wild elephant – the second such death in the district in three weeks. As soon…