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A family in Norway were searching for a lost gold earring in their garden when they decided to get their metal detector out. They did not find the earring but did stumble upon something else: artefacts dating back more than 1,000 years. The Aasvik family dug up a bowl-shaped buckle and another item that appear to be part of a Viking-era burial. Experts believe the artefacts were used in the ninth-century burial of a woman on the small island of Jomfruland. The discovery was made under a large tree in the centre of the family’s garden on the island, off…

The Philippines has stood by its removal of China’s barriers in the South China Sea and said it will continue defending its territory. Beijing has protested the removal of the buoys, heightening a long-running dispute over the Scarborough Shoal. “They just can’t put barriers in an area that is clearly inside the Philippines,” President Ferdinand Marcos Jr said. Mr Marcos said the Philippines is “not looking for trouble”. The Scarborough Shoal is one of several reefs and outcrops in the South China Sea that are claimed by both the Philippines and China. China’s coast guard has maintained a steady presence in the…

Dutch prosecutors knew about the gunman who killed three people in Rotterdam and had warned the hospital where he shot one of the victims, an email from them has revealed. Fouad L, 32, had shown “psychotic behaviour”, the hospital was told. He was arrested on Thursday after he allegedly shot a woman and her daughter at their home and a lecturer at the Erasmus Medical Center. Police said he had previously been convicted of animal cruelty. The email – sent by the Dutch public prosecution service to the teaching hospital where Fouad L studied – described previous “worrying behaviour”, including…

In 1913, Henry Ford’s moving assembly line transformed carmaking. Ford’s groundbreaking innovation drastically reduced the time it took to assemble a car, enabling mass production and slashing vehicle prices. More than a century later, carmaking is undergoing a similarly seismic shift. Only this time, Ford Motor Company is scrambling to catch up, rather than leading the charge. Electric vehicles represent a fundamental shift in the technologies and manufacturing processes that have turned Ford and rivals such as Toyota (TM) and Volkswagen into the biggest car companies on the planet. Established automakers have been racing to adapt at an enormous financial…

After defaulting on its debt two years ago, Chinese real estate developer Evergrande was meant to be restructured and allowed to get back on its feet. But that plan now looks to be in peril, after police detained its chairman as well as staff at a financing subsidiary. Xu Jiayin, also known as Hui Ka Yan in Cantonese, has been subject to “mandatory measures” on suspicion of crimes, Evergrande said Thursday in a filing to the Hong Kong stock exchange. The company didn’t elaborate on Xu’s location or the nature of the alleged crimes. Under the Chinese legal system, “mandatory” or “compulsory” measures can include…

“You are playing an entire building and that is something that never gets old.” Anna Lapwood – the Taylor Swift of classical music, as she has been nicknamed – has become one of the world’s most famous organists. She is 28, and tonight the entire building in question is the Royal Albert Hall. It is 02:00 BST and Bach’s Toccata and Fugue in D Minor is echoing around the circular walls of the world famous venue. A strange time to be practising? Not for Lapwood. “It is the only time we organists can get in, have the place to ourselves and play…

Laurence Fox’s on-air comments about a female journalist were “way past the limits of acceptance” and should have been properly challenged by host Dan Wootton, the boss of GB News has said. Angelos Frangopoulos told the BBC he was “appalled” by the remarks. Fox and Wootton have been suspended and the channel is being investigated by Ofcom, which received 7,300 complaints. Fox sparked the controversy when he asked what “self-respecting man” would “climb into bed” with Ava Evans. His comments “are not in keeping with the values of us as a business and as a media company”, Mr Frangopoulos told Radio…

The UK is “woefully underprepared” to tackle wildfires as climate change makes them more likely, a new report by the Fire Brigades Union warns. There were more than 44,000 wildfires last year – an increase of 72% on the previous year, according to government figures out this month. Union chiefs say the government and the National Fire Chiefs Council have failed to develop a national strategy. The government said it was ensuring services have the resources needed. A spokesperson for the NFCC said it “has consistently made clear to government and fire service partners that the impact of climate change…

The UK’s economy has grown faster since the start of the Covid pandemic than initially thought, new figures show. Revised data indicates that the UK has seen faster growth than France or Germany since the end of 2019. The growth figures had been expected to be upgraded, after the Office for National Statistics (ONS) published new estimates earlier this month of how the economy had performed since Covid. However, analysts said the UK was still suffering from lacklustre growth. The latest figures from the ONS indicated that the UK’s economy has grown by 1.8% since the pandemic started, whereas the previous…

Russian President Vladimir Putin has met one of the most senior ex-commanders of the Wagner mercenary group, who the Kremlin says now works for the defence ministry. Andrei Troshev is a former aide of late Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin, who was killed in a plane crash in August. His death came two months after Wagner troops briefly marched on Moscow. President Putin asked Mr Troshev to oversee volunteer fighter units in Ukraine, the Kremlin said. Addressing Mr Troshev, the president said he could “volunteer units that can perform various combat tasks, above all, of course, in the zone of a…