Duke is ‘one of two claimants whose claims are still live’ against NGN, court told, the other being ex-MP Tom Watson

The Duke of Sussex is continuing his lawsuit against the publisher of the Sun over allegations of unlawful information gathering, the high court has heard.

Prince Harry “is one of two claimants whose claims are still live” against Rupert Murdoch’s News Group Newspapers (NGN), his barrister David Sherborne said, with the other being the former deputy Labour leader Tom Watson. The court was told 39 cases had been settled since a previous hearing in July.

West Side Story actor soon to take on iconic Disney role backs down after re-election response led to backlash

The West Side Story and Snow White actor Rachel Zegler has apologised after criticising Donald Trump and his supporters.

The 23-year-old, currently starring in Broadway’s re-imagined Romeo + Juliet , had posted a lengthy response to the re-election of Trump and the “four years of hatred” he would bring about in America.

In a space that usually rings with opera, a poignant and moving video installation examines the intimate connection between our voices and our selves

A child speaks into total darkness: “This is my voice.” Clear articulation, delivery just slightly hurried. As we descend in a huddle through the auditorium of the Linbury theatre, other voices – older, more obviously gendered – speak the same refrain. Some sound confident (“this is my voice”, trumpets one), others less so. Some overlap, speaking almost in chorus. All are unmistakably individual.

Three scrims hang in the main performance space. “What does it mean to have a voice?” The question appears silently, white type on black fabric. “And what does it mean to lose it?” In the week that Google has released Gemini Live , an AI voice assistant that allows users to have “natural conversations” with its chatbot, and months after Afghan women responded to the Taliban outlawing female voices in public by posting videos of themselves singing, such issues are critical. But in a space that often rings with the sound of highly trained operatic voices, audience chatter and critical opinion, the questions posed by The Sound Voice Project’s immersive installation are unusually self-conscious.

Exclusive: UK energy secretary says at Cop29 that people see the economic advantages of making the transition

• Cop29 climate summit – live updates

Renewable energy is now “unstoppable”, and no government can prevent the shift to a global low-carbon economy, UK energy secretary Ed Miliband has said.

He said the UK was acting out of national self-interest by taking a global lead on cutting greenhouse gas emissions and boosting financial help available to poor countries at crunch UN climate talks this week.

• British cyclist confirms retirement after 18th season
• Deignan plans to continue to work in the sport

Lizzie Deignan, the London 2012 silver medallist and former world road race champion, has confirmed that 2025 will be her final year in the women’s peloton.

“Next year will be my final season,” said Deignan, who has moved back to her native Yorkshire after a long period based in Monaco. “It’s been a question that’s been asked of me, over and over, the last couple of years – ‘When are you going to retire?’ – and I have been thinking about it.”

Hillsborough, handball and an inexplicable love for Mario Balotelli. How some of our readers will remember the outgoing Match of the Day host

I will be forever grateful for Lineker’s concise but considered remarks on Match of the Day on April 30th 2016, following the exoneration of Liverpool fans that week by the second set of Hillsborough inquests. He said: “Well, whatever happens on Sunday, nothing comes close to the victory achieved by the Hillsborough families this week. We’ll leave you with the words of the BBC’s Peter Jones from the day of the tragedy. After 27 years, the truth is out.”
Edward Barrett, 54, Bebington

Judge to audit if conspiracy theorist’s bankruptcy auction was fair, which could delay buying process for satire site

A judge has intervened and ordered a hearing to review the purchase of the conspiracy theorist Alex Jones ’s InfoWars site by the satirical news site the Onion.

On Thursday morning, it was announced that the Onion had bought InfoWars at Jones’s bankruptcy auction.

Kidman is not the first female actor to have criticised the director – whose potential next projects include biopics of Sinatra and Jesus – for his choice of subject matter

Nicole Kidman has expressed the desire to work with director Martin Scorsese in a new interview – as well as her scepticism about whether it might happen.

Speaking to Vanity Fair , Kidman said: “I’ve always said I want to work with Scorsese, if he does a film with women.”

Some cafes and visitor centres to close with job losses while reserves in Suffolk and Hertfordshire among those in peril

The future of several RSPB nature reserves is in doubt as the charity makes cuts, citing cost of living pressures.

The bird charity told its workers at an all-staff meeting on Thursday that cafes and visitor centres across some of its sites would be closing, and staff would be made redundant. It also said it was in the process of transferring ownership of some of its sites to other companies.