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The New York Times has lost its blue tick on Twitter after it said it would not pay to remain verified. Twitter has started removing verification badges from accounts which already had a blue tick, after announcing they would be part of a paid subscription from 1 April. The New York Times, along with several other organisations and celebrities, said they would not pay for the tick. It prompted Elon Musk to launch a volley of insults at the newspaper. "The real tragedy of @NYTimes is that their propaganda isn't even interesting", Mr Musk, who owns Twitter, wrote on the platform. "Also, their feed is the Twitter equivalent of diarrhea. It's unreadable," he added.

Former US president Donald Trump is "gearing up for a battle" ahead of his scheduled court hearing on Tuesday, his lawyer has said. Mr Trump is expected to fly to New York City from his Mar-a-Lago home on Monday to face charges related to hush money payments made to a porn star. He then plans to return to Florida following his court hearing, where he will address his supporters. Mr Trump has continued to deny any wrongdoing. His lawyer, Joe Tacopina, promised that any charges against the former president will be fought vigorously. "He's someone who's going to be ready for this fight," Mr Tacopina told ABC's This Week programme on Sunday. "We're ready for this fight. And I look forward to moving this thing along as quickly as possible to exonerate him." Media reports have said that Mr Trump will be facing more than 30 charges related to business fraud over a $130,000 (£105,000) pay-out to Stormy Daniels in 2016 that was made in an attempt to buy her silence over an alleged affair. What happened between Stormy Daniels and Donald Trump? 'He'll be our next president': Florida protesters stay faithful to Trump Trump indictment: A simple guide to what it means

The cost of constructing a fence in Finland at the Russian border is estimated to run into hundreds of millions of euros and could take around three to four years to be finished. The work is continuing with Finland's membership of NATO now imminent. 'Welcome to NATO': Turkey's parliament ratifies Finland's membership It's set to be the longest European border stretch between the security alliance and The Russian Federation. Between 130 and 260 kilometres of partial fencing are to be built along the frontline that's more than 1,300 kilometres long.

rld AudioLive TV Log The oceans just reached their hottest temperature on record as El Niño looms. Here are 6 things to watch for By Laura Paddison and Rachel Ramirez, CNN Updated 7:10 AM EDT, Sat April 1, 2023 CNN — Scientists have watched in astonishment as ocean temperatures have steadily risen over the past several years – even as the cooling La Niña phenomenon had a firm grip on the Pacific. The oceans have been record-warm for the past four years, scientists reported in January. Then in mid-March, climatologists noted that global sea surface temperature climbed to a new high. The incredible trend worries experts about what could lie ahead, especially as forecasts predict El Niño is on its way starting this summer – and along with it, impacts like extreme heat, dangerous tropical cyclones and a significant threat to fragile coral reefs.

Finns go the polls on Sunday, in an election seen as a neck-and-neck race between right-wing populists, conservatives and Prime Minister Sanna Marin's centre left. Finland may be days from joining Nato, but the war in Ukraine has had no impact on the vote, even though Finland shares the longest border with Russia. The election battle ground has instead been over the economy. And Finns are making a big choice on their country's future direction. The main challenge to Sanna Marin's Social Democrats comes from the right. After four years of opposition Petteri Orpo's conservative National Coalition Party has high hopes of forming a coalition, but this could be the populist Finns Party's best chance to lead a government yet. When Ms Marin, now 37, burst on to the scene four years ago, she was the world's youngest prime minister at the head of a coalition of five parties, all led by women. Although her poll ratings are still high, she is seen as a polarising figure and came under heavy scrutiny last summer when a video emerged of her singing, dancing and drinking at a party.

When 31-year-old hot dog vendor Dirk Frazel heard the news that Donald Trump had been indicted, he "knew he had to do something", so he got in his car. His destination was Mr Trump's home at the Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida, a five-hour drive from Mr Frazel's home in St Augustine. The Mar-a-Lago rally, along with a second event held outside a nearby Trump-branded golf course, totalled no more than several dozen people on Saturday, despite earlier calls for protests by Mr Trump ahead of the indictment. "I heard he was indicted on Twitter and knew there would be people down here," Mr Frazel told the BBC, standing on a bridge near Mar-a-Lago where he was handing out "Trump hot dogs" to passing motorists. Inside the resort a few hundred metres away, Mr Trump has reportedly been meeting with his advisers and legal team to plan his legal defence against criminal charges in connection with a $130,000 (£105,000) pay-out to porn star Stormy Daniels.

For decades the huge monolithic block of granite in the middle of the cemetery in the Swiss town of Chur was ignored by passers-by; no one seemed to know quite what it was. But the 13-tonne stone monument that dwarfs the nearby gravestones is now causing controversy - and embarrassment. Research by a local journalist has revealed links to Nazi Germany, and to neutral Switzerland's own awkward relations with its World War Two neighbours. Chur's cemetery is in the centre of town. Many people, like radio journalist Stefanie Hablützel, pass it every day on the way to work or out shopping. Nowadays the monument at the cemetery, untended, is covered in moss. The engravings on it are difficult to discern.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is urging travelers to Guinea and Tanzania to be mindful of contracting the deadly Marburg virus. The CDC is also sending personnel to Africa to assist stopping the outbreak of the disease. The Marburg virus is an infectious disease that has high fatality rates and, according to the World Health Organization (WHO), has epidemic potential. This week, the CDC announced that it is sending its National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases to respond to the outbreaks in Guinea and Tanzania.

A group called Ultima Generazione or Last Generation have poured what they described as a charcoal-based black liquid into the water of the Barcaccia fountain at the base of the Spanish Steps in central Rome. The group posted a video on Twitter, showing three men and a woman inside the fountain opening paper bags of a black powder. “It is absurd that this gesture should shock you, when we are experiencing a drought emergency that is putting agriculture, energy production in crisis,” the group said in the tweet.

Controversial social media influencer Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan have been moved from custody to house arrest following a ruling by a Romanian judge. The ruling by the Court of Appeal in Bucharest replaces the latest period of custody, which was to end on 29 April. Two associates, Georgiana Naghel and Luana Radu, are also being released. All four have been ordered to stay in the buildings where they live, unless they have judicial permission to leave. A spokeswoman for the Tate brothers told the BBC the brothers were "ecstatic". The brothers have been detained since December and are being investigated on allegations of rape, people trafficking and forming an organised crime group. Both have denied wrongdoing. Lawyers for Mr Tate have argued that keeping him in preventative custody is unnecessarily harsh, when other judicial options such as house arrest are available.

Imagine you're a low-wage worker in India who is offered a day's employment as an extra in a Bollywood film. Your role? To go to a cash point and withdraw some money. In 2018, several men in Maharashtra state thought they were accepting a bit-part in a movie - but in fact they were being tricked into being money mules, collecting cash in an ambitious bank heist. The raid took place over a weekend in August 2018, and centred on Cosmos Co-operative bank, which has its headquarters in Pune. On a quiet Saturday afternoon, staff in the bank's head office suddenly received a string of alarming messages. They were from the card payment company Visa in the United States, warning it could see thousands of demands flooding in for large cash withdrawals from ATMs - by people apparently using Cosmos Bank cards. But when the Cosmos team checked their own systems, they saw no abnormal transactions.

Are you tired of constantly being glued to your smartphone? The ceaseless and mind-numbing doom scrolling? The constant barrage of notifications and the pressure to be connected to the world 24/7? Do you yearn for the good old days when phones were just for making calls and sending texts, and maybe the occasional game of Snake? Well, you're not alone. In recent years, there has been a growing trend of people ditching their flashy smartphones and returning to simpler, more classic phones - lovingly dubbed "dumbphones" by many. But why the sudden resurgence in interest? Let's investigate some of the reasons behind this retro revolution.