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• German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has indicated a potential cabinet reshuffle following the resignation of Jens Spahn as parliamentary leader. • The departure of Spahn, a top figure within the CDU, increases political pressure on the ruling conservative party. • This leadership instability comes at a critical time as the government prepares for upcoming key regional elections.

• Liverpool is reportedly monitoring 25-year-old French midfielder Manu Kone, who is currently linked with a move from Roma. • Roma is seeking a transfer fee of approximately £47 million, though Liverpool faces stiff competition from Premier League rivals Manchester United and Chelsea. • Kone has requested that his agent suspend all transfer negotiations until after the conclusion of the World Cup to resolve his future.

• Hungary's president signed a constitutional amendment into law on Saturday that officially ends his term in office. • The move resolves a political dispute between the president and the country's new government, which had been attempting to oust him. • This action is part of a broader effort by the current administration to purge officials appointed during the tenure of former leader Viktor Orban.

Jens Spahn had criticised ‘rented wombs’ and his party is strongly opposed to surrogacy, which is banned in GermanyA senior German politician and key ally of chancellor Friedrich Merz has resigned as chair of the Christian Democrat (CDU) party after he and his husband used a surrogate mother to become parents, a practice he has criticised in the past and his party is vehemently opposed to.Surrogacy is banned in Germany, a policy Jens Spahn refused to relax when he was health minister in 2020, so he and his husband, Daniel Funke, used a surrogate mother in the US. Continue reading...

• Rangers are reportedly competing with Cardiff City to sign a highly-rated Norwegian midfielder, though reports of an Ibrox delegation visiting the Arctic Circle have been disputed. • Record Sport clarifies that the Rangers hierarchy remains in Spain, where manager Derek McInnes is concluding a week-long training camp this Friday. • The news comes amid a broader window of activity as major Scottish clubs, including Celtic, Hearts, Hibs, and Aberdeen, pursue new signings.

Designers say that as well as offering a degree of protection from surveillance, their clothes make a powerful fashion statement about the importance of privacyAs facial recognition technology is rolled out across Britain’s public spaces, a new generation of designers say privacy could be the next big fashion trend.Companies have started incorporating “adversarial patterns” in their garments – carefully designed arrangements of shapes, colours and repeated motifs said to exploit weaknesses in some computer vision systems. Continue reading...

Telco outlines reasons for network failure that hit mobiles, trains and retailers ahead of appearance at Senate inquiryFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastTelstra has blamed the lack of a software update for a key time-keeping system for outage that caused nation-wide chaos last week, with its maintenance teams also unaware of a design change that affected how it would reset.Ahead of an appearance by its chief executive, Vicki Brady, at a Senate inquiry over the mobile outage on Friday, Telstra provided a written submission that revealed the cause. In it, the company stated it didn’t lack redundancy in its network – but the redundancy also did not prevent the outage. Continue reading...