‘We can’t stop for a second’: the centre tracking South Korea’s stalkers in real time

Since June, an app has allowed survivors, who are overwhelmingly women, to see exactly where their stalker is

On a large screen in a control centre in eastern Seoul, a dot representing a man closes in on a woman. The dot changes direction, and the distance reading between them falls from 845 metres to 792.

On the woman’s phone, the same map is loading. A probation officer rings her: the stalker is approaching, don’t panic, officers have been dispatched. The man is a stand-in and the scenario is staged, but the system is real.

Tiananmen Square vigil organisers jailed for seven years in Hong Kong

Pro-democracy activists Chow Hang-tung and Lee Cheuk-yan were found guilty of ‘incitement to subversion’ in controversial national security case

Two pro-democracy activists who were put on trial for organising an annual Tiananmen Square massacre vigil in Hong Kong have been sentenced to seven years in jail, in one of the city’s most significant national security cases.

Chow Hang-tung, 41 and Lee Cheuk-yan, 69, were found guilty in August of incitement to subversion. The court found they had “incited other persons to organise, plan, commit or participate in acts by unlawful means with a view to subverting the state power”.

Taipei Story by Rebecca F Kuang review – the torture and hilarity of learning Chinese

An American Chinese student studies Mandarin in Taiwan, in this heartfelt journey of self-discovery and family secrets

What is Taiwan? A former Japanese colony? A centre of the semiconductor industry? A democracy overseen by American imperialism? China’s next military target? An island of Austronesian Indigenous tribes? Is Taipei a cultural emblem of Taiwan, or just another booming global capital out of touch with the rest of the country? What stories will Lily Chen, an American Chinese student at Yale and Rebecca F Kuang’s funny and deadpan protagonist in Taipei Story, discover in this melting pot while spending 10 weeks learning Mandarin?

A prolific maverick with rare satirical wit, Kuang has built a career debunking authoritative institutions. Babel (2022) highlights the prejudices of the British empire through a fantastical Oxford translation institute; Yellowface (2023) transplants a heist thriller into the dark heart of American publishing; Katabasis (2025), a journey into the underworld, gives the academic inferno at Cambridge a new lease of death. Centring on a tough Mandarin language school, Taipei Story explores the torture, hilarity and pretension of learning a second language, but here Kuang also offers a heartfelt journey of self-discovery and family wounds.

JD Vance to address Republican midterm convention after Trump’s $5,000 offer sparks bribery claims – live

Trump will also speak again but assured audiences it would not be another two-hour address

The Supreme Court has blocked a federal judge’s ruling that would’ve restored Republican-drawn congressional districts in Missouri.

The decision, issued by justice Brett Kavanaugh, appeared to sound a death knell for efforts by the Missouri GOP to extract an additional Republican-leaning congressional seat for their party ahead of the midterm elections.

More Anthropic researchers warn of AI’s perils but Musk dismisses ‘psyop’

Insiders at the firm fear tech’s advancement could cause human extinction, while others are calling their declarations of concern a ‘setup’

A day after a former researcher at Anthropic made an apocalyptic declaration about artificial intelligence, more researchers and staff members at the AI startup publicly agreed with him and posted their own dire warnings.

In response, Elon Musk and other conservative figures on X, formerly Twitter, called the chorus of concerns a “setup” and a “psyop”.

Sesko soars as Manchester United surge past Sabah on Champions League return

It was a night for romance given the astonishing story that Sabah brought with them to Old Trafford for their Champions League debut. This is a club that did not even exist a decade ago and nobody saw their bolt to the title in Azerbaijan coming last season; in 2024-25, they had finished 41 points off the top. The job that their manager, Valdas Dambrauskas, has done since taking over in the summer of last year is extraordinary.

It was also a night for cold, hard reality. Manchester United were back in Europe’s elite competition after a two-year hiatus and in need of something to soothe them after the trauma of their last-gasp coughing up of two points in last Sunday’s Premier League draw at Everton. And before the extremely serious business of the derby here against Manchester City on Sunday. They got it on the back of a first-half performance that burned slowly before catching fire.

The Paper season two review – one of the best comedies on TV right now

This spin-off from the US Office is so brilliant that it might even eclipse its mother show. And as for the hilarious Sabrina Impacciatore – just hand her all the awards!

Pity the poor TV writer foolish enough to make a show about journalism. The world is full of inaccurate and illogical medical dramas, but they survive because real life doctors and nurses only tend to grumble about them to themselves. But when you make an inaccurate and illogical show about journalists, real life journalists get to yell about it from the streets. This is probably why Aaron Sorkin’s The Newsroom ended so early, because we all got to bleat about it through our little megaphones.

The makers of The Paper must have been anticipating a similarly rough ride. It is, after all, explicitly a sitcom about the death of print media, and, Lord knows, nothing wounds us like staring the truth in the face. And yet last year’s first season emerged as one of the best new comedies on television.

The Paper was on Sky One and is on Now. In the US, it airs on Peacock. In Australia it airs on Binge and Foxtel.

Lindsay Clancy’s lawyer asks judge to find her not guilty after mistrial

Kevin Reddington says prosecution did not offer evidence that client’s killing of her children constituted murder

Lindsay Clancy’s lawyer on Thursday asked the judge who oversaw the Massachusetts woman’s murder trial to declare her not guilty of murder by reason of insanity, saying prosecutors had failed to ⁠prove that, despite being mentally ill, ⁠she knew killing her three young children would be wrong.

Defense attorney Kevin Reddington made the request to Judge William Sullivan six days after the trial ended in a deadlock, and as a fourth member of ⁠the 12-member jury went public to describe how a single juror had prevented the panel from reaching a unanimous verdict.

Canada offers air defense support for Ukraine as Zelenskyy visits

Canadian PM Mark Carney hosts president in Calgary, where he grew up alongside large Ukrainian community

Canada offered support on Thursday to boost Ukraine’s air defenses and help replenish its drone stocks, as the countries pledged to deepen their alliance during a visit by Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

Mark Carney hosted the president of Ukraine in Calgary in the western province of Alberta, where the Canadian prime minister grew up among a large community of people with Ukrainian heritage.

Cresce em silêncio

Surpreendia-se sempre que reparava que uma delas tinha crescido sem que ele desse por isso. Como era possível?, perguntava-se, se tinha estado ali todos os dias. Crónica de Cláudia Lucas Chéu

Florida sues Netflix over misleading parents over minors’ data collection

Lawsuit brought by James Uthmeier, the attorney general, marks latest action by the state against big tech companies

Florida officials filed a lawsuit against Netflix, accusing the streaming giant of misleading parents about its collection of minors’ data and using features that encourage children to “binge watch” content.

The lawsuit, filed Wednesday and led by James Uthmeier, the Republican Florida attorney general, marks the latest action by Florida against major technology companies. The red-leaning state has taken an increasingly aggressive approach toward big tech, particularly during the rise of artificial intelligence (AI).

Regresso à AR: de Neves às fragatas, passando por exames, IRS, PSU e licença parental

A assuntos já em discussão, como a reestruturação do Tribunal de Contas e o INEM, soma-se agora a redução do IRS, os casos de Neves e da compra de fragatas. Licença parental deve ser fechada em breve.

Erin Brockovich, do filme à batalha ambiental contra os centros de dados

A mulher que ficou conhecida por enfrentar uma gigante energética encontrou um novo alvo: as infra-estruturas que alimentam a Inteligência Artificial e se alimentam de água, energia e território.

Yinka Esi Graves aparece e desaparece na abertura da temporada do CCB

Na coreografia The Disappearing Act, a criadora britânica de ascendência ganesa questiona a invisibilidade da herança africana no flamenco. Esta sexta-feira e sábado na rentrée do CCB.

A nossa casa está a arder

Scherzetto review – Toni Servillo brings gravitas to a dithering Neapolitan ghost story

Venice film festival
The Venice fixture plays an illustrator haunted by his boyhood in Mario Martone’s part spooky, part sentimental oddity

It’s always good to see the veteran Italian star Toni Servillo at Venice; in fact, the festival is pretty much unthinkable without him. But this initially promising prospect – adapted from a novel by Domenico Starnone – is a minor, quibbling tonal oddity, unsure if it wants to be scary or sentimental. Servillo lends it as much gravitas as he can: his mere presence is valuable ballast and the streetscape scenes of Naples are handled with a connoisseur’s touch by director Mario Martone, whose previous Naples-set movie Nostalgia was far superior.

Daniele (played by Servillo) is a septuagenarian book illustrator whose old-fashioned, hand-drawn artistry is something he testily treasures. He has come back to his family home in Naples, to the gloomy apartment where he was brought up, just behind the train station, and where his grownup daughter Betta (Serena Rossi) now lives with her husband and their five-year-old son Mario (newcomer Lorenzo Perrotta), who is adorable and as bright as a button, but also borderline insufferable.

O Sporting soma pontos e sobe degraus na escada europeia

“Leões” subiram ao 17.º lugar no ranking UEFA dos coeficientes. O FC Porto continua a ser o melhor clube português (15.º) e o Benfica está no 20.º posto.

Despiste de autocarro provoca vários mortos na Suíça

Autoridades ainda não confirmaram número de vítimas mortais ou feridos.

Sócrates diz que não consegue arranjar advogado e acusa bastonário de ser “activista político”

Após a renúncia de Pedro Delille, antigo primeiro-ministro acusa o tribunal de não respeitar o seu direito de defesa, por dar apenas 10 dias aos advogados para conhecerem o processo.

iPhone Duo estreia-se com elogios ao ecrã e dúvidas sobre o preço

Os primeiros testes ao dobrável da Apple destacam a ausência de vinco no ecrã e a qualidade de construção. O preço, a partir de 2399 euros em Portugal, poderá limitar a sua adopção.

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