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Hundred-metre wide asteroid rises to top of impact risk lists after being spotted in December by automated telescopeA 100 metre-wide asteroid has triggered global planetary defence procedures for the first time after telescope observations revealed it has a chance of colliding with Earth in 2032.Asteroid 2024 YR4 was spotted by an automated telescope in Chile on 27 December last year but has since risen to the top of impact risk lists maintained by the US and European space agencies. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/jan/30/asteroid-spotted-chance-colliding-with-earth-2032 Author : Ian Sample Science editor Publish date : 2025-01-30 14:25:00 Copyright for syndicated content

US president signs executive order to prepare huge detention facility at Guantánamo Bay he says could hold 30,000 immigrantsRights groups were swift to condemn Donald Trump’s announcement that he would order the construction of a migrant detention facility in Guantánamo Bay.Amnesty International said Guantánamo has been a “site of torture, indefinite detention without charge or trial and other unlawful practices”.Sending scores of immigrants to an inaccessible military base in Cuba could enable the government to deprive them of basic human rights, far from lawyers, the press, and Congressional oversight. Unfortunately, that appears to be the point.If that’s what conditions at

Online gambling firm’s service ‘issues’ left bettors apparently unable to ‘cash out’ on busy night in European footballThe online gambling company Bet365 has been flooded with complaints after it suffered an outage during one of the busiest nights of European football this season.Customers claimed to have lost out on thousands of pounds due to what the company called “issues with our service” during the second half of Wednesday night’s 18 Champions League games. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/jan/30/bet365-gamblers-complain-tech-issues-champions-league-matches Author : Rob Davies Publish date : 2025-01-30 12:05:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.

EU migration commissioner says bloc is working on ‘tighter rules’ following German plan chancellor describes as ‘unforgivable’… and as the ministers go to talk behind the closed doors, let us take a look at what’s happening elsewhere in Europe.Ingrid Gercama spoke with students protesters in Serbia to give you an idea on what is happening on the ground after the country’s prime minister Miloš Vučević resigned earlier this week following months of protests over the fatal collapse of a train station roof in November.Sitting on the balustrade of a viaduct in Belgrade, Uroš Pantović wasn’t in the mood to mince