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Alejandro Toledo is one of five former Peruvian presidents jailed in recent years as political turbulence continues.Published On 4 Sep 20254 Sep 2025A Peruvian court has sentenced former President Alejandro Toledo to 13 years and four months in prison for money laundering, his second conviction in connection with widespread corruption.Toledo is one of five ex-presidents imprisoned in recent years in Peru, including ex-President Martin Vizcarra, who was released by a court on Wednesday as he awaits trial for allegedly taking bribes more than a decade ago.Toledo, 79, who was president from 2001 to 2006, was found guilty of using bribe…

Baxter HolmesSep 3, 2025, 12:17 PM ETCloseBaxter Holmes (@Baxter) is a senior writer for ESPN Digital and Print, focusing on the NBA. He has covered the Lakers, the Celtics and previously worked for The Boston Globe and Los Angeles Times.The LA Clippers and team owner Steve Ballmer reportedly have been accused of circumventing the NBA’s salary cap by paying $28 million to Kawhi Leonard for a “no-show job.”Pablo Torre, a podcaster and former ESPN contributor, reported Wednesday that the Clippers paid Leonard through a now-bankrupt company owned by Ballmer.NBA spokesman Mike Bass said in a statement later Wednesday that the…

Scale AI, which helps tech companies prepare data to train their AI models, filed a lawsuit against one of its former sales employees and its rival Mercor on Wednesday. The suit claims the employee, who was hired by Mercor, “stole more than 100 confidential documents concerning Scale’s customer strategies and other proprietary information,” according to a copy seen by TechCrunch. Scale is suing Mercor for misappropriation of trade secrets and is suing the former employee, Eugene Ling, for breach of contract. The suit also claims the employee was trying to pitch Mercor to one of Scale’s largest customers before he…

Top-seed Jannik Sinner cruised through the semifinals, losing only seven games to Italian compatriot Lorenzo Musetti.Published On 4 Sep 20254 Sep 2025Defending champion Jannik Sinner continued his ruthless run at the US Open by beating 10th seed Lorenzo Musetti 6-1 6-4 6-2 on Wednesday in the first all-Italian men’s Grand Slam quarterfinal.The world number one, who also holds the Australian Open trophy, extended his hardcourt winning streak to 26 matches and will take on Canadian 25th seed Felix Auger-Aliassime in the semifinal on Friday.“It was a good performance, I was very solid, I started well … It’s nearly midnight, so…

Carlo Chatrian will preside over the international competition jury at this year’s Tokyo International Film Festival. The Italian film executive previously ran two of Europe’s most prominent festivals, directing Locarno from 2013-2018 and Berlin from 2020-2024. Chatrian’s Berlin tenure was marked by notable policy changes, particularly the elimination of gendered acting categories in favor of performance-based awards. The move influenced similar reforms at other international festivals and established Berlin’s reputation for progressive industry practices. He has maintained strong connections to Japanese cinema through various programming initiatives and multiple visits to Tokyo for the festival. His background includes extensive work as…

Smitha Mundasad and Judith BurnsBBC NewsMerope MillsMartha Mills died aged 13 after developing sepsis.Martha’s rule, a way for families to seek an urgent second opinion if they are concerned about the care their loved ones receive, will be rolled out across all English hospitals delivering acute or short-term treatment. The telephone helpline, the result of a campaign by the parents of 13-year-old Martha Mills who died after serious failings in her care, has been piloted in 143 hospital sites in England since April 2024.Figures from NHS England show that since then there have been almost 5,000 calls, resulting in 241…

Jannik Sinner continued his march toward a second consecutive US Open title on Wednesday night, dispatching the 10th-seeded Lorenzo Musetti 6-1, 6-4, 6-2 in two hours flat in the first ever all-Italian men’s quarter-final at a grand slam tournament. The world No 1 and top seed in New York was tested only in flickers but proved unmovable, saving all seven break points he faced while converting five of his six opportunities. The result laid bare once again the gulf between Sinner’s metronomic consistency and the rest of the field, even when confronted with a compatriot armed with one of the…

A US federal court has told Google to pay $425m (£316.3m) for breaching users’ privacy by collecting data from millions of users even after they had turned off a tracking feature in their Google accounts.The verdict comes after a group of users brought the case claiming Google accessed users’ mobile devices to collect, save and use their data, in violation of privacy assurances in its Web & App Activity setting.They had been seeking more than $31bn in damages.”This decision misunderstands how our products work, and we will appeal it. Our privacy tools give people control over their data, and when…

Scientists have for the first time confirmed the age of the felled Sycamore Gap tree, adding weight to a theory that it was planted in the late 19th century by a landowner hailed as “the man who saved Hadrian’s Wall”.Historic England published the conclusion of an investigation by a team of experts who carried out the first dendrochronological – or tree-ring counting – analysis of the tree.The evidence suggests the tree was at least 100-120 years old when it was felled, and almost certainly older, probably appearing in the landscape in the late 19th century or earlier.That would tie in…

Scientists have for the first time confirmed the age of the felled Sycamore Gap tree, adding weight to a theory that it was planted in the late 19th century by a landowner hailed as “the man who saved Hadrian’s Wall”.Historic England published the conclusion of an investigation by a team of experts who carried out the first dendrochronological – or tree-ring counting – analysis of the tree.The evidence suggests the tree was at least 100-120 years old when it was felled, and almost certainly older, probably appearing in the landscape in the late 19th century or earlier.That would tie in…