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• The United States defeated Bosnia-Herzegovina in a World Cup round of 32 match on Wednesday night. • According to Fox Sports, the game drew over 24.4 million viewers, setting a new record as the most-watched soccer telecast in English language history. • This viewership milestone highlights a massive surge in "World Cup fever" and the growing popularity of soccer within the U.S. market.

• Kevin Warsh has held his first FOMC meeting as chairman, introducing a policy shift that prioritizes price stability over the traditional dual mandate balance. • Warsh warned that financial markets have become overly fixated on Fed expectations, which diminishes their effectiveness as a forward-looking policy tool. • This trend is critical because it prevents stock prices from accurately reflecting real-time economic data and business operations, hindering the Fed's ability to use market signals.

Go Cornish Celebration engages younger generation as council finalises strategy to boost everyday use of Kernewek Seven-year-old Albie, a pupil at Trewirgie infants’ school in Redruth, did not hesitate when asked why he liked learning Kernewek, the Cornish language.“We used to talk this way in the old days,” he said. “And I like speaking now. I enjoy the songs we sing, the Cornish books we read, all the words. It’s fun.” Continue reading...

• Telangana has launched a Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of its electoral rolls following the discovery of 89.88 lakh voters with data "anomalies." • These discrepancies, which mirror "logical discrepancies" previously seen in West Bengal, involve inconsistencies in voter data that could impact election integrity. • The process is further complicated by ongoing concerns regarding language barriers and the accuracy of voter registration.

Tory leader reprimanded by speaker for invective against minister and saying Starmer had ‘400 knives in his back’Labour MPs have criticised Kemi Badenoch after a fractious prime minister’s questions on Wednesday, in which she accused the education secretary of being a “spiteful class warrior”.In a rare move, Badenoch was chastised by the speaker, Lindsay Hoyle, in the chamber of the House of Commons after she took the personal swipe at Bridget Phillipson before saying that Keir Starmer had been betrayed and had “400 knives stuck in his back”. Continue reading...

• Former BBC Three presenter Ashley Cain has issued a public apology after his show was pulled following the discovery of historical sexist tweets. • Cain stated he is "not proud" of the language used in the past, asserting that he has grown and changed since the posts were originally published. • The incident highlights the ongoing scrutiny of public figures' digital histories and the BBC's strict standards regarding offensive content.

• The BBC has canceled the upcoming BBC Three documentary series *Into the Danger Zone* and announced it has no future projects planned with presenter Ashley Cain. • The decision follows accusations that Cain used sexist language, leading the broadcaster to pull the series from its schedule. • Cain is a former Coventry City FC player who transitioned into media through podcasting, reality TV, and a 2025 appearance on *Celebrity MasterChef*.

• The Welsh-language film *Effi o Blaenau* has officially been released in cinemas across the UK. • The plot centers on a young woman struggling with unemployment and the socio-economic challenges of living in a town in north Wales. • The film is being highlighted for its ability to transport audiences into a specific culture and language, offering a "sensational" glimpse into regional Welsh life.

Five episodes have been dubbed into Australian language Yolŋu Matha for Naidoc Week, with Bandit voiced by a founding member of rock band King StingrayIt’s already been translated into 120 languages around the world but soon the globally loved children’s show Bluey will be available in an Australian Indigenous language for the first time.Five episodes from seasons one and two have been dubbed into Yolŋu Matha, the Australian First Nations language of North-east Arnhem Land, as part of an initiative for National Aboriginal and Islanders Day Observance Committee (Naidoc) Week. Continue reading...

• Press Gazette released its monthly ranking of the top 50 most popular English-language news websites globally, utilizing data from Similarweb. • The BBC saw a significant traffic increase in May, with visits rising 9% from April to reach a total of 1.1 billion. • In contrast, Indian news brands were the most negatively impacted group, experiencing the sharpest drops in traffic during the same period.

Parliamentary rule that only English is allowed has reignited debate about language, legitimacy and postcolonial identityWhen the Jamaican MP Nekeisha Burchell stood up to give her maiden speech, she was keenly aware of how much her country’s parliament mirrored the Westminster version thousands of miles away in London.As in the UK, the session on 12 May had started with the arrival of the ceremonial mace – a 1.7-metre ornamented silver staff representing the British monarch’s authority over parliament – which now rested on a table between the government and the opposition. Despite the heat outside, debate was presided over by the speaker dressed in a ceremonial robe. Continue reading...

Learn Cornish launched few months after language given new level of protection Listeners tuning in to the BBC’s latest podcast offering on Friday may find themselves saying dydh da to a language that is enjoying something of a resurgence. The new programme called Learn Cornish will be fronted by the Radio 1 host Danni Diston and includes guests such as the Bafta-winning director Mark Jenkin.Diston, who is from north Cornwall, said that she initially did not know any Cornish “other than small words that I’ve learned growing up and mainly dialect … [but] the idea would be to learn alongside other people”. She will be joined by co-presenter Sarah Buck, a fluent Kernewek speaker, throughout the weekly episodes that are designed to introduce basic phrases in the Cornish language. Continue reading...

Jeremy Hansen praised for speaking French in space after Air Canada chief’s linguistic snub exposed tensions and drew rebuke from PMFew people foresaw humanity’s quest for the moon as accurately as the 19th-century French author Jules Verne, whose two works –From the Earth to the Moon and Around the Moon – anticipated many of the features of modern lunar exploration.But Verne’s language had never been spoken in deep space until the Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen uttered four words during Nasa’s recent Artemis II mission. Continue reading...

The Trump administration takes pleasure in deploying dysphemism to describe the killing of IraniansOn 23 March, Donald Trump said that if things didn’t go to his liking in Iran, “we just keep bombing our little hearts out”. A week later the US president told journalists on Air Force One: “You never know with Iran because we negotiate with them and then we always have to blow them up.”On 4 March, Pete Hegseth squirmed in pleasure as he described “death and destruction from the sky all day long”. Whatever happened to the subtle art of political euphemism? Continue reading...

Trade body attends meeting with Rachel Reeves, hours after saying it was pulling out over suggestions of price gouging• Watchdog puts UK fuel retailers ‘on notice’ over profiteering from Iran warThe trade body for the UK’s petrol station industry has got into a row with the government after claiming the “inflammatory language” used by ministers to describe rising pump prices may have incited abuse against forecourt staff.The Petrol Retailers Association (PRA) said ministers had for several days suggested that forecourts might be “price gouging” and “ripping off” motorists as global oil markets have surged in response to the war in Iran. Continue reading...