Bus

• Das Startup TextWeave sicherte sich im vergangenen Monat eine Seed-Finanzierung in Höhe von 10 Millionen US-Dollar, um LLMs für die Erstellung von Marketing-Copy für kleine Shops zu nutzen. • Die Plattform deckt Nischenbedürfnisse bei der Content-Erstellung ab und zeigt, wie spezialisierte AI-Lösungen das Startup-Wachstum fördern. • Diese Finanzierung steht im Einklang mit den Trends zur Einführung in Unternehmen, bei denen generative AI die Schlagzeilen der Technologie-Startups für Aufgaben wie automatisiertes Schreiben anführt.

Philip Young ändert alle Plädoyers auf schuldig, nachdem er die Vorwürfe der Erstellung unangemessener Bilder von Kindern zunächst bestritten hatte Ein ehemaliger Stadtrat der Konservativen, der fast 50 Straftaten des Betäubens, der Vergewaltigung und des sexuellen Missbrauchs seiner ehemaligen Ehefrau gestanden hatte, hat sich in weiteren Anklagepunkten wegen der Erstellung unangemessener Bilder von Kindern schuldig bekannt. Philip Young, 49, bekannte sich im Januar vor dem Winchester Crown Court in 11 Fällen der Vergewaltigung und 11 Fällen der Verabreichung einer Substanz mit der Absicht, seine ehemalige Ehefrau Joanne Young, 48, die auf ihr Recht auf Anonymität verzichtet hat, zu betäuben, schuldig. Weiterlesen...

• Anthony Odiong wird beschuldigt, drei spirituell verletzliche Gemeindemitglieder in Waco sexuell missbraucht zu haben • Es laufen Pläne der römisch-katholischen Erzdiözese New Orleans, den Namen eines Priesters von einer Kapelle zu entfernen, die er außerhalb der Stadt mit aufgebaut hat, während in Texas ein Strafprozess gegen den Geistlichen wegen Vorwürfen des sexuellen Missbrauchs von drei spirituell verletzlichen Gemeindemitgliedern bevorsteht, wie der Guardian erfahren hat. • Berichten zufolge hatte Anthony Odiong 600.000 US-Dollar gesammelt, um die Our Lady of Guadalupe Healing Chapel in Luling, Louisiana, im Jahr 2020 zu bauen und zu eröffnen, während er Pfarrer an einer benachbarten Kirche war – Jahre bevor ihn die Behörden in Texas strafrechtlich anklagten, wo er zuvor ebenfalls tätig gewesen war.

• Autofahrer scheinen sich von hohen Kraftstoffpreisen und düsteren Wettervorhersagen nicht beirren zu lassen, während Bauarbeiten Verzögerungen für Bahnreisende bedeuten • Autofahrern wurde geraten, mit dem verkehrsreichsten Verkehr an einem Mai-Feiertagswochenende im Vereinigten Königreich seit Jahren zu rechnen, trotz hoher Kraftstoffpreise und des drohenden Endes der Schönwetterperiode, die das lange Wochenende zu trüben droht • Laut Untersuchungen der Automobilorganisation RAC werden über das lange Wochenende von Freitag bis Montag mehr als 19 Millionen Freizeitfahrten mit dem Auto erwartet – der höchste Wert seit 2016

Das Fahrzeug war in Juvisy-sur-Orge unterwegs, als es von der Fahrbahn abkam und in den Fluss stürzte. Vier Personen wurden aus der Seine in der Nähe von Paris gerettet, nachdem ein von einem Fahrer in Ausbildung gesteuerter Bus mit einem geparkten Fahrzeug kollidierte, bevor er in den Fluss stürzte. Der Bus war in der Stadt Juvisy-sur-Orge südöstlich der französischen Hauptstadt unterwegs, als er von der Straße abkam und in die Seine fiel, so die Staatsanwaltschaft. Weiterlesen...

• FOX Business Network (FBN) übertraf CNBC bei den Zuschauerzahlen während des Geschäftstages, der Marktstunden und des Programms am Gesamttag im April 2026, laut den am 29. April veröffentlichten Daten von Nielsen Media Research. • Die FBN-Flaggschiff-Sendungen „Varney & Co.“ und „Kudlow“ behaupteten ihre Positionen als die beiden führenden Wirtschaftssendungen im Fernsehen und übertrafen ihre CNBC-Pendants im 50. bzw. 55. Monat in Folge. • Der Sieg bei den Einschaltquoten unterstreicht die wettbewerbsübergreifende Dominanz von FOX Business auf dem Finanznachrichtenmarkt während eines Zeitraums bedeutender politischer Ankündigungen der Federal Reserve und Marktvolatilität.

Aktivisten kritisieren, dass Schutzanordnungen für öffentliche Räume auch dazu genutzt werden, eine Vielzahl alltäglicher Aktivitäten zu kriminalisieren • Jeder fünfte Gemeinderat hat das Fluchen unter neuen „Besserwisser-Anordnungen“ verboten, im Vergleich zu jedem zwanzigsten Rat im Jahr 2022. • Ein neuer Bericht der Campaign for Freedom in Everyday Life hat ergeben, dass Public Spaces Protection Orders (PSPOs) – ursprünglich gedacht, um schweres antisoziales Verhalten zu bekämpfen – von Räten in England und Wales genutzt werden, um eine breite Palette alltäglicher Aktivitäten zu kriminalisieren, darunter das Stehen in Gruppen, Schreien und das Aufheben von Steinen. Weiterlesen...

• Inhaber von blauen Parkausweisen und Betreuende berichten, dass sie von Fremden belästigt, gefilmt und bedroht werden, die glauben, die Behinderung sei vorgetäuscht. • Menschen mit Behinderungen, die blaue Parkausweise für ihren Alltag nutzen, gaben an, belästigt, infrage gestellt und sogar angegriffen zu werden, da eine Rhetorik gegen Sozialleistungen im Vereinigten Königreich immer mehr an Popularität gewinnt. • Etwa 3 Millionen Menschen im Vereinigten Königreich besitzen derzeit einen blauen Parkausweis, darunter jeder 15. Erwachsene in England. Die Anzahl der Personen, die für dieses System – welches es Fahrern ermöglicht, auf barrierefreien Parkplätzen zu parken – qualifiziert sind, hat einige dazu veranlasst, vor Missbrauch und Betrug zu warnen.

Sky Roberts sagte, dass Überlebende „immer noch darum kämpfen, gehört zu werden“, nachdem der König, dessen Bruder Andrew von Giuffre des Übergriffs beschuldigt wurde, sich nicht mit ihnen getroffen hatte.

CCTV footage circulating on social media showed children at the Little Aresha daycare centre in Yogyakarta, most under two, lying on the floor wearing only diapers with their hands and feet bound with rags.

Lauren Ashley Mastrosa given 18-month community corrections order after book was read by handful of advance readersThe author behind an offensive novel depicting toddler role-play has been convicted but spared jail for penning child abuse material.Lauren Ashley Mastrosa, a 34-year-old former marketing executive for a Christian charity, wrote Daddy’s Little Toy under the pen name Tori Woods and published it through an online pre-release in March 2025. Continue reading...

Police warn of violent pornography and ‘toxic’ influencers as suicides outstrip homicides for third year runningThe first teenage girl has been identified as having been driven to kill herself after domestic violence, as police chiefs blamed violent pornography and “toxic” influencers for being behind a rise in teen abuse.Suicides after domestic abuse have outstripped homicides for the third year running, according to the Domestic Homicide Project, which records deaths in England and Wales after domestic abuse. Continue reading...

• Delta Air Lines reported first-quarter net income of $1.8 billion, up 22% year-over-year, benefiting from strong leisure and business travel demand with average fares rising 8% despite lower capacity growth across the industry. • CEO Ed Bastian stated that forward bookings through summer 2026 indicate "resilient demand," with premium cabin bookings up 15%, offsetting concerns about potential economic slowdown and suggesting corporate travel spending remains solid. • The strong results bolstered airline sector sentiment, lifting Southwest Airlines and United Airlines stocks by 2.4% and 1.9% respectively on optimism about sustained pricing power and margin expansion through peak summer travel season.

Students aged 12 to 15 steered bus to safety and called for help after driver lost consciousness from asthma attackMiddle school students in Mississippi acted quickly to halt their school bus from crashing after their driver passed out while on a highway, prompting the operator to declare: “They saved my life.”The bus in question had just left the Hancock middle school in the Mississippi community of Kiln on Wednesday when the driver, Leah Taylor, suffered an asthma attack and lost consciousness. Continue reading...

Kendrick Guidry, alone among judges, initially ruled that the state supreme court’s decision to uphold a ‘lookback window’ for abuse claims did not set a binding precedentOnly one judge in Louisiana has ruled in favor of the Catholic church’s ongoing attempts to strike down a law there which allowed old abuse claims their day in court – even after a state supreme court decision upheld the constitutionality of that so-called “lookback window”.But now, that judge – Kendrick J Guidry of Lake Charles – is being forced to acknowledge that his ruling benefited a specific church on whose finance committee he sits, giving him a direct financial interest that required his recusal under the state’s judicial code. Continue reading...

Labour MPs are reportedly urging colleagues to demand Burnham’s return in order to position him as Starmer’s eventual successorIf Keir Starmer is looking for a saviour to keep him in No 10 after the May elections and the scandal of the Mandelson saga, there is an unlikely figure in the north-west who might help him – temporarily.It has been the week where the prime minister seemed at his most isolated. But Labour MPs told the Guardian they were urging colleagues not to depose Starmer next month, and were instead preparing to demand that Andy Burnham return to parliament in order to succeed him before the next general election. Continue reading...

Police allegedly found images on iCloud account of singer accused of killing 14-year-old Celeste Rivas HernandezA Los Angeles prosecutor said that the singer D4vd, who was charged this week in the killing of 14-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez, was in possession of a “significant amount of child pornography”.Police allegedly found the images on the iCloud account of the 21-year-old singer, whose legal name is David Anthony Burke. Continue reading...

HMRC owed more than £640,00 by company that advised clients such as TikTok, GSK and PalantirPeter Mandelson’s former consultancy business, Global Counsel, went bust owing £4.6m – including more than £600,000 to the taxman – a report by the group’s administrators reveals.The company, which provided advice to high-profile clients including Chinese-owned TikTok, US tech business Palantir and UK pharmaceutical firm GSK, collapsed into administration in February, after it lost a series of accounts over the peer’s relationship with the convicted child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Continue reading...

Analyst who worked on Internet Watch Foundation report says content exists ‘across all social media platforms’ and is ‘very easy’ to findThe number of commercial child sexual abuse websites has doubled in a year as experts say that criminal gangs are making “huge profits” from online sexual exploitation.According to data collected by the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF), 15,031 commercial child sexual abuse sites were found in 2025, compared with 7,028 found in 2024, a 114% increase. Continue reading...

Partner of soldier accused of war crimes says the couple discussed possibility of moving overseas to ‘create some normalcy in our lives’Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastBen Roberts-Smith was planning to leave Australia to live overseas and had a business class flight out of the country booked in four days’ time when he was arrested at Sydney airport this month, court documents allege, with investigators telling a court “his willingness to return to Australia to face prosecution cannot be judged”.Roberts-Smith was ultimately granted bail last week under strict conditions, a move opposed by prosecutors who said there was potential concern he was a flight risk and might try to avoid ever having to face trial for a series of alleged murders he committed in Afghanistan. Continue reading...

• The number of small businesses in the United States continues to grow amid entrepreneurial optimism. • Owners report increasing difficulty securing startup capital needed to launch and expand operations. • Policies associated with President Trump are cited by business leaders as dampening access to financing for new entrepreneurs pursuing the American Dream.

Exclusive: Corrective Services investigates how Richard Guilliatt of The Australian was able to interview Rob and Karen Gilfillan for Shadow of DoubtFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastCorrective Services New South Wales is investigating how a journalist from The Australian was able to interview a man and a woman convicted of abusing their daughter for a podcast that raised questions about their guilt.After legal restrictions were lifted last month the victim said the podcast had been highly detrimental to her mental health. Continue reading...

Amid growing congressional scrutiny of his conduct, Patel has claimed he has ‘never been intoxicated on the job’US politics live – latest updatesHouse judiciary Democrats have launched a formal inquiry into FBI director, Kash Patel’s alleged drinking habits, demanding he complete a standardized alcohol abuse assessment and submit the results to Congress.In a letter sent on Tuesday, led by Jamie Raskin, a Maryland representative, Democrats on the committee called on Patel to take the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (Audit) – a 10-question World Health Organization screening tool used to identify harmful patterns of drinking – along with a sworn statement attesting to his answers. Lawmakers also requested all security clearance questionnaires Patel has completed since taking the role. Continue reading...

ABF, which owns Kingsmill, Twinings and Patak’s, to demerge fashion chain to maximise shareholder returnsBusiness live – latest updatesPrimark is to break free from its sister food company, which owns Twinings, Kingsmill and Patak’s, next year despite warning that the conflict in the Middle East is likely to hit consumer spending.The fashion chain’s owner, Associated British Foods (ABF), confirmed the plan to split off Primark from the rest of the group, first mooted last year. Continue reading...

‘Stone age’ system of booking cross-border rail tickets holding back climate action by consumers, says thinktankEurope’s “stone age” system of booking train tickets makes it needlessly difficult for travellers to avoid polluting flights, a report has found.Booking equivalent train tickets is “difficult or impossible” on almost half of the EU’s busiest international air routes, analysis from the Transport & Environment (T&E) thinktank shows. Continue reading...

Preston Davey died aged 13 months after ‘routine abuse’ by Jamie Varley and his partner, John McGowan-Fazakerley, jury hearsA baby boy was “routinely ill-treated, sexually abused and physically assaulted” before he was killed by a secondary school teacher adopting him, a jury has heard.Jamie Varley, the teacher, 37, and his partner, John McGowan-Fazakerley, 32, were in the process of adopting Preston Davey. Continue reading...

The 82-year-old was accused of abusing girls in the 1960s but was acquitted in Perth despite judge finding the alleged victim was telling the truthGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe former champion footballer Barry Cable has been acquitted of a slew of historical child sexual abuse charges despite a judge finding the alleged victim was likely telling the truth.The 82-year-old faced a judge-only criminal trial over allegations he abused a girl aged about eight or nine at his family home in the late 1960s. Continue reading...

Owner of X summoned along with former CEO Linda Yaccarino over investigation by cybercrime unitBusiness live – latest updatesEurope live – latest updatesElon Musk has been summoned to Paris, where investigators are looking into allegations of misconduct related to the social media platform X, including the spread of child sexual abuse material and deepfake content.The world’s richest man and Linda Yaccarino – the former chief executive of X – were on Monday summoned for “voluntary interviews”, while other employees of the platform were scheduled to be heard as witnesses throughout this week, the Paris prosecutor’s office said. Continue reading...

Retail analysts say breaking up food and fashion group would make sense in challenging business environmentPrimark may break free from Kingsmill, Twinings and the sugar business this week when Associated British Foods announces plans on a mooted demerger.The potential split comes at a tricky time for the group controlled by the billionaire Weston family, with its fashion and food arms facing tough competition and rising costs. Continue reading...