Daughter of Maggie Gyllenhaal and Peter Sarsgaard arrested at Columbia University protests

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Ramona Sarsgaard, 18, given ticket for criminal trespassing after Wednesday’s actions against Israel’s war in Gaza

The daughter of actors Maggie Gyllenhaal and Peter Sarsgaard was among those arrested at the latest Columbia University protests, marking the latest development in the anti-war demonstrations that also led to the temporary suspension of student journalists.

On Friday, the New York Post reported that 18-year-old Ramona Sarsgaard, a Columbia freshman, was arrested during Wednesday’s campus protests where students demonstrated against Israel’s deadly war in Gaza.

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Google agrees to pay Texas $1.375bn over data-privacy claims

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State attorney general said company secretly tracked users’ movements, searches, voiceprints and facial geometry

Google has agreed to pay $1.375bn in a settlement in principle reached with the state of Texas over allegations the company violated users’ data privacy, the Texas attorney general, Ken Paxton, said on Friday.

The agreement settles two lawsuits that covered three products for allegedly violating Texas consumer protection laws.

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India-Pakistan updates: Explosions heard after ceasefire – dw.com

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  1. India-Pakistan updates: Explosions heard after ceasefire  dw.com
  2. Live updates: Pakistan and India agree to ceasefire after weeks of tensions  CNN
  3. Explosions reported after India and Pakistan agree to ceasefire  Reuters
  4. Trump says the U.S. helped broker ceasefire between India and Pakistan  NPR
  5. Govt confirms Pak has broken ceasefire, Army to deal strongly with violations  Hindustan Times
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‘I wanted so much to come here’: Pope Leo visits Marian shrine outside of Rome – Catholic News Agency

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  1. 'I wanted so much to come here': Pope Leo visits Marian shrine outside of Rome  Catholic News Agency
  2. Pope Leo XIV prays at tomb of late Pope Francis at St. Mary Major  Vatican News
  3. How Pope Leo became a beloved Peruvian figure  NBC News
  4. Pope Leo visits Pope Francis' tomb and Marian shrine on first trip outside Vatican  Reuters
  5. Pope prays at tomb of predecessor during first outing since election  Sky News
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4.1-magnitude earthquake rattles Tennessee and southern US

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Meteorologists at television news stations serving Georgia and North Carolina reported feeling the tremors

A 4.1-magnitude earthquake in Tennessee woke up families and rattled homes as far away as Atlanta as it spread tremors across portions of the southern US on Saturday morning. No injuries or major damage were immediately reported.

The website for the United States Geological Survey (USGS) said the earthquake originated shortly after 9am EDT about 12 miles (20km) from Greenback, Tennessee, which is about 30 miles (48km) south of Knoxville.

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‘From all sides’: universities in red states face attacks from DC and at home

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As universities begin to push back on Trump’s policies, those in Republican-led states face multiple threats

Days after the University of Michigan president, Santa Ono, announced that he was leaving his post to lead the University of Florida, his name was quietly removed on Wednesday from a letter signed by more than 600 university presidents denouncing the Trump administration’s “unprecedented government overreach and political interference” with academic institutions.

As Ono is set to become the highest-paid public university president in the country, in a state that has often been at the forefront of the rightwing battle against higher education, the reversal, first reported on by Talking Points Memo, underscored the challenges of standing up against the government’s sweeping attacks on education in solidly red states.

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One Week Into Campaign, Party Votes on Replacing Nominee – Newser

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  1. One Week Into Campaign, Party Votes on Replacing Nominee  Newser
  2. South Korea's conservatives settle on Kim Moon-soo after nomination turmoil exposes rifts  Reuters
  3. South Korean conservative party fails in a bid to switch presidential candidates  AP News
  4. South Korean conservative party moves to switch presidential candidates as election turmoil deepens  CNA
  5. PPP’s midnight coup leaves South Korea’s democracy on the brink  Asia Times
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Pope visits Marian sanctuary outside Rome – Vatican News

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  1. Pope visits Marian sanctuary outside Rome  Vatican News
  2. Pope Leo XIV prays at tomb of late Pope Francis at St. Mary Major  Vatican News
  3. Pope Leo visits Pope Francis' tomb and Marian shrine on first trip outside Vatican  Reuters
  4. Pope makes surprise outing to visit shrine dedicated to Saint Augustine  Crux
  5. Pope Leo XIV live updates: Pope Leo makes 1st trip outside Rome as pontiff  Good Morning America
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Police given second week to question four Iranian men in custody

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Reports suggest four detained under Terrorism Act were allegedly targeting Israeli embassy

Four Iranian men who were arrested on suspicion of preparing a terrorist attack in London can be detained and questioned in custody for another week, police said on Saturday.

Five men were arrested last week, with armed police and in at least one instance special forces soldiers sent in to detain them, with reports suggesting the alleged target was the Israeli embassy in Kensington.

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House of Commons speaker has kept almost 300 gifts over past four years

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Lindsay Hoyle’s freebies include champagne, whisky, food hampers, skincare sets and presents for his pets

Lindsay Hoyle, the speaker of the House of Commons, has kept almost 300 gifts over the last four years including dozens of bottles of alcohol, hampers, ties, cufflinks and chocolates, his declarations show.

The speaker received a large volume of presents from foreign dignitaries such as ambassadors, MPs and sometimes companies and chose to keep hundreds of them rather than donating them to Speaker’s House – his residence and office – or parliament.

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Hampers, cufflinks … and a lot of alcohol: 20 gifts kept by Lindsay Hoyle

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The wheels of diplomacy are oiled by the exchange of tokens – and plenty of booze, it seems

Lindsay Hoyle, the speaker of the House of Commons, has declared hundreds of gifts he received from foreign dignitaries and others since 2021. Here is a small selection of the items he kept.

1) Bottle of rum

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Operation to recover Mike Lynch’s superyacht suspended after diver dies

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Work to raise the Bayesian is put on hold as investigators seek to establish the cause of the 39-year-old Dutchman’s death

Recovery operations to raise the late tech tycoon Mike Lynch’s superyacht Bayesian from the seabed off Sicily have been suspended after a diver died during underwater work.

Rob Cornelis Maria Huijben, a 39-year-old Dutch diver, died on Friday while doing preparation work to cut the ship’s mainmast. He was employed by the maritime company Hebo, whose barge arrived last week in Porticello, a fishing port near Palermo. The luxury vessel was anchored just off Porticello when it was struck shortly before dawn by a violent storm on 19 August 2024. It sank within seconds, killing seven people, including Lynch and his daughter Hannah.

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