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The Real Madrid coach, Carlo Ancelotti, who is on trial for allegedly defrauding Spain’s tax office of more than €1m in undeclared earnings from image rights, has told a court he believed his financial affairs were in order and “never thought a fraud could have been committed”. Prosecutors allege the 65-year-old former Chelsea and Everton … Read more

Italy’s interior ministry has written to police forces across the country to increase security at Tesla dealerships after 17 of the electric cars made by Elon Musk’s company were destroyed in a fire in Rome. Italy’s state police anti-terrorism unit, Digos, is investigating whether the fire at the Tesla dealership in Torre Angela, a suburb … Read more

Parents can now block their children from communicating with specific friends or playing certain games on Roblox, an online gaming platform popular with children. The changes form part of a suite of safety updates intended to give parents more control over their child’s experience on the platform. From Wednesday, parents and caregivers who identify themselves … Read more

Good morning. The liberal judge Susan Crawford won the race for a seat on the Wisconsin supreme court on Tuesday in a major coup for Democrats, after Elon Musk backed the conservative candidate, making it the most expensive judicial contest in US history. “Today Wisconsinites fended off an unprecedented attack on our democracy,” Crawford said … Read more

A third former South Yorkshire police officer has been arrested as part of an investigation into child sexual exploitation in Rotherham. The ex-constable, aged in his 50s, was arrested on Monday on suspicion of raping a teenage girl in the town in 2004. It follows the arrests late last year of two former South Yorkshire … Read more

Clergy abuse survivors who were ousted from a committee trying to negotiate a settlement resolving the New Orleans Catholic archdiocese’s bankruptcy say they have lost their confidence in the judge presiding over the case. Their comments come after it was revealed that Judge Meredith Grabill ignored US justice department recommendations against expelling the survivors from … Read more

Israel’s defence minister has said the country intends to “seize large areas” of the Gaza Strip amid a major expansion of aerial and ground operations in the besieged Palestinian territory. Israel Katz said in a statement on Wednesday that “troops will move to clear areas of terrorists and infrastructure, and seize extensive territory that will … Read more

In its first abortion-related case since Donald Trump retook control of the White House, the US supreme court will hear oral arguments on Wednesday morning in a case challenging South Carolina’s attempt to effectively “defund” Planned Parenthood because the reproductive health giant performs abortions. The case, Medina v Planned Parenthood South Atlantic, deals with a … Read more

A stretch of country road in Wiltshire that was so badly buckled in a landslip it became a hotspot for skateboarders and BMX riders, who used its wild undulations for spins, jumps and flips, has finally been fixed three years on. The 140-metre stretch of the B4069 was broken up and shifted 25 metres downhill … Read more

Airlines warned Heathrow about risks to its power supply days before the airport was shut down by a substation fire, a Commons committee was told. The Heathrow chief executive, Thomas Woldbye, apologised for the disruption, which affected more than 200,000 passengers on Friday 21 March, but defended the decision to close as he said staying … Read more