Tesla slump and falling prices set to change EV market
Tesla slump and falling prices set to change EV market
A worldwide shake-up in the electric vehicle market, including a Tesla sales slump and policy changes in several countries, could benefit *********** motorists and send prices plummeting.
Drivers could expect electric cars to break the $20,000 barrier this year, for example, and to see a ******* range of battery-powered vehicles, including more electric utes and vans.
Everything Electric global chief executive Dan Caesar issued the predictions on Monday, one month before the launch of the company’s third electric vehicle show in Australia and in a year he said would prove a tipping point for the nation.
His forecasts come after Australia recorded significantly lower sales for new electric cars in January, however, following a year of steady growth.
Electric vehicle sales are also tipped to change in other parts of the world, including the United States where President Donald Trump removed a 2030 EV sales target and threatened to impose tariffs on electric cars imported from Canada and Europe.
While the changes could slow sales in the US, Mr Caesar said they could encourage more automotive brands to import electric vehicles to Australia and at lower prices.
******** brands, locked out of the US with a 100 per cent tariff introduced in 2024, were already boosting competition and lowering prices in the market.
“For places like Australia and the ***, they actually go up the pecking order from an export point of view for ******** car makers and that will further drive price reductions,” Mr Caesar told AAP.
“We’re seeing ******** brands that have amazing tech but there is a trade-off in that they are new brand and to get people to trust them… they’ll have to drop their prices a little.”
Electric vehicles launched at the show would include a model from a ******** brand priced around $20,000, he said, which would break a record in Australia where the cheapest EVs have yet to fall below $30,000.
Competition among electric vehicle brands could also be heightened by the worldwide sales slump for Tesla, he said, which had dominated the industry for several years.
Tesla’s sales in Australia have fallen by more than 30 per cent, while other countries have recorded greater falls, such as Spain where sales dropped by 75 per cent.
While the slump is bad news for the pioneering company, Mr Caesar said, it could be an opportunity for new and established brands to find an audience.
“My reading of the data indicates that Tesla does have a perception problem which relates to Elon Musk but I’d like to see how that pans out over the next couple of months,” he said.
“Tesla has an incredibly loyal group of car buyers and their retention rate is scarily high so if some of those buyers are in play again, for the new brands that’s a whole bunch of consumers.”
As many as six new electric vehicle models will be launched at the Sydney Showground car show, held from March 7 and 9, which will feature electric utes, vans, motorcycles and marine vessels, and offer up to 7500 test drives.
More than 240,000 electric vehicles have been sold in Australia since 2011, according to the Electric Vehicle Council, though battery-powered cars represented only 4.4 per cent of new car sales last month.
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Court blocks Trump admin from sending Venezuelan immigrants to Guantánamo – Axios
Court blocks Trump admin from sending Venezuelan immigrants to Guantánamo – Axios
Court blocks Trump admin from sending Venezuelan immigrants to Guantánamo AxiosUS judge blocks possible transfer of Venezuelan detainees to Guantanamo Reuters CanadaCourt Blocks U.S. From Sending 3 Venezuelan Migrants to Guantánamo The New York TimesFederal court blocks Trump admin from sending detained Venezuelan immigrants to Guantánamo Bay Fox NewsVenezuelan detainees in US file motion over possible Guantanamo transfer Yahoo
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Super Bowl 59: Patrick Mahomes says losing Super Bowl ‘worst feeling in the world’
Super Bowl 59: Patrick Mahomes says losing Super Bowl ‘worst feeling in the world’
Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes says losing the Super Bowl is “the worst feeling in the world” after his side were beaten 40-22 by the Philadelphia Eagles in New Orleans.
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Astronomers Find a 200,000-Light-Year ****** Hole Jet in the Early Universe
Astronomers Find a 200,000-Light-Year ****** Hole Jet in the Early Universe
Astronomers have detected the longest ****** hole-driven jet observed in the early universe, stretching at least 200,000 light-years—twice the width of the Milky Way. The discovery was made in a quasar identified as J1601+3102, which existed when the universe was only 1.2 billion years old. Despite the immense size of its jet, the supermassive ****** hole at the heart of this quasar is not among the most massive, with a mass of 450 million times that of the Sun.
Observations from Multiple Telescopes
According to research published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, the jet was first identified using the Low-Frequency ARray (LOFAR) Telescope, a network of radio telescopes spanning Europe. Additional observations were conducted using the Gemini Near-Infrared Spectrograph (GNIRS) and the Hobby Eberly Telescope. Scientists have been investigating quasars with strong radio jets to better understand their formation and their role in galactic evolution.
As reported by space.com, Anniek Gloudemans, a researcher at NOIRLab and the study’s lead author, saidthat the findings suggest exceptionally massive ****** holes or high accretion rates are not always required to generate powerful jets in the early universe.
Unusual Jet Structure
The research revealed that the two jets emitted from J1601+3102 are not symmetrical. One is shorter and fainter than the other, indicating that environmental factors may be influencing their development. Differences in brightness and length suggest that interactions with surrounding matter could be affecting the jet’s expansion.
Frits Sweijen, an astronomer at Durham University and part of the research team, said that initial expectations were that the southern jet would be much smaller and possibly unrelated. Observations from LOFAR, however, revealed intricate radio structures extending over vast distances.
Significance of the Discovery
This discovery sheds light on how ****** holes and their jets influenced early galactic evolution. While supermassive ****** holes are found at the center of most galaxies, only some power quasars with visible jets. The detection of such an immense structure in the early universe demonstrates the effectiveness of combining data from telescopes operating at different wavelengths. Scientists now aim to determine the quasar’s accretion rate to gain further insights into how these cosmic giants interact with their surroundings.
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WA election 2025: Nationals dump candidate Edward Richards over extreme social media posts
WA election 2025: Nationals dump candidate Edward Richards over extreme social media posts
The WA Nationals’ push into metropolitan territory has had a major setback after the party was forced to oust Edward Richards over his extreme views shared on social media.
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Alarm as JD Vance rips ‘********’ court order pausing DOGE access to Treasury
Alarm as JD Vance rips ‘********’ court order pausing DOGE access to Treasury
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Experts and officials expressed alarm on Sunday after Vice President JD Vance suggested federal courts “aren’t allowed” to limit the White House’s “legitimate power.”
The controversy began on Sunday morning, when Vance tweeted his views on executive power.
“If a judge tried to tell a general how to conduct a military operation, that would be ********,” he wrote on X. “If a judge tried to command the attorney general in how to use her discretion as a prosecutor, that’s also ********. Judges aren’t allowed to control the executive’s legitimate power.”
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The post was seemingly in reference to a Saturday decision from a federal judge temporarily barring political appointees and “special government employees” like White House adviser Elon Musk from accessing sensitive data and payment systems at the Treasury Department.
Earlier in the day, Vance reshared a post from a Harvard Law School professor arguing “judicial interference” with the executive branch is a violation of the Constitution’s separation of powers, itself a response to a post from Senator Tom Cotton calling the DOGE ruling a decision from an “outlaw” judge.
Vance has long argued the White House can defy orders it views as unconstitutional.
“And when the courts — because you will get taken to court — and when the courts stop you, stand before the country like Andrew Jackson did and say: ‘The chief justice has made his ruling. Now let him enforce it,’” he told a podcast in 2021.
Observers on the left said Vance’s view went against the Constitution and Supreme Court precedent from the earliest days of the U.S. government.
“JD, we both went to law school,” Senator Adam Schiff wrote on X. “But we don’t have to be lawyers to know that ignoring court decisions we don’t like puts us on a dangerous path to lawlessness. We just have to swear an oath the constitution. And mean it.”
Meanwhile, Liza Goitein, co-director of the Liberty and National Security Program at the Brennan Center for Justice, wrote on X that Vance’s comments suggested the Trump administration was “gearing up to defy a court order,” a moment that represented “the battle lines for our democracy have been drawn.”
She pointed to the famous 1803 Supreme Court ruling in Marbury v. Madison, itself a dispute over executive power and staffing.
The case established the principal of judicial review in the U.S. and contains an oft-quoted line, “It is emphatically the province and duty of the judicial department to say what the law is.”
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Criticisms of federal courts came as judges have paused parts of White House adviser Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency spending cutting agenda (via REUTERS)
“The answer to that question is 100% settled and has been for 222 years,” she Goitein wrote of the case, adding, “This has nothing to do with partisan politics or whether you like Trump’s policies.”
The Independent has contacted the White House for comment.
In the face of such criticisms, Trump administration officials defended their stance.
In response to a critical post from Biden administration Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller wrote, “Hey Pete, care to show us the line in the Constitution where it says a lone unelected district judge can assume decision-making control over the entire executive branch affecting 300M citizens? Any mention of nationwide district court [temporary restraining orders] TROs? Or permanent all-powerful bureaucracy?”
“And also,” he added, referencing the Constitution’s description of presidential power, “can you tell us in whom the Constitution vests the duty to “’take care that the laws by faithfully executed’?”
As The Independent has reported, with Republican control of both houses of Congress, and a muted protest response to Trump in comparison to his past term, the federal courts are seen as the most likely venue where Trump’s policies may face challenges.
“I think the real question is not whether the courts are going to do their job, but whether or not, once they do their job, it’ll have much effect on Trump, unless and until the Supreme Court intervenes, because that’s the only court he seems to listen to,” Ty Cobb, a former White House counsel during Trump’s first administration, told The Independent this week.
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Eagles running back Saquon Barkley sets the NFL's season rushing record, including the playoffs – The Associated Press
Eagles running back Saquon Barkley sets the NFL's season rushing record, including the playoffs – The Associated Press
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Derby man left waiting more than a year for a wheelchair
Derby man left waiting more than a year for a wheelchair
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Mr Taylor says the delay is affecting his mental health
“I’ve been waiting so long, it is affecting my mental health – it feels as if I’m just stuck and relying on everybody else.”
Robert Taylor has a spinal condition that means he is unable to walk unaided.
The 56-year-old, from South Normanton, Derbyshire, was left with mobility issues after complications during spinal surgery in 2019.
He was referred for a wheelchair in February 2024 but is still waiting to receive the custom piece of equipment.
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Robert can no longer work or drive and uses crutches to move small distances
Mr Taylor has Cauda equina syndrome which occurs when spinal nerves are put under pressure or squashed.
He was referred to AJM Healthcare Wheelchair Service in Derbyshire by his physio at the spinal injuries unit at Sheffield’s Northern General Hospital.
“It took me about two months just to get an appointment to be measured,” he told the BBC.
“It would have been at the end of May [2024] that I went and they measured me up and showed me a couple of options, I decided to go for a lightweight sports one so I could easily get it in and out of the boot of the car.”
After the initial appointment Robert said he spent months “chasing” the whereabouts of his chair.
“I have to do the chasing, they never ring me, I’ve explained my situation, I’m really struggling and I just get fobbed off,” he said.
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Mr Taylor bought a wheelchair but found it was not the right size for him
A spokesperson for AJM Healthcare said: “We are actively supporting the people affected to reduce any further unnecessary delay and/or miscommunication.
“We know that a timely resolution is of the utmost priority for everyone experiencing an issue, and we are committed to strengthening our processes and ensuring that our communication channels are clear and effective.”
Mr Taylor currently uses two crutches to move around the house and to walk small distances.
“There is too much fatigue and pain,” he said. “I could hardly get to the car at the bottom of the drive with crutches, I’ve been needing a wheelchair for a while now.
“We bought our own wheelchair but it’s not suitable, it just doesn’t fit right, it’s far too small, my knees are under my chin so I never used it properly.
Mr Taylor said losing his mobility had turned his life “upside down” as he is unable to work and is “nigh-on housebound.”
“I can’t get out and about, I can’t go anywhere with my wife and son,” he said.
Future ‘taken away’
Gary Dawson, support network manager at the Spinal Injuries Association said that Mr Taylor’s situation was not uncommon.
“Wheelchair services are massively burdened by being so under-funded and under-staffed that it’s become incredibly common for people to be waiting not only six months but potentially years for a custom piece of equipment that can be absolutely life changing to them.
“When you can’t access a piece of mobility equipment that’s going to enable you to be independent it means that you are stuck
“So that means all this rehabilitation that you’ve already gone through, the future that you’ve been set up for all of a sudden has been taken away from you and completely put on hold while you’re waiting, for your own wheelchair.”
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Xi accepts invite to attend Russia’s Victory Day in May
Xi accepts invite to attend Russia’s Victory Day in May
******** President Xi Jinping has accepted Russia’s invitation to attend the commemorations of the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany in World War II, TASS state news agency reported.
“******** President Xi Jinping has accepted an invitation to take part in the celebrations on May 9 in Moscow on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War,” TASS cited Russian ambassador to China, Igor Morgulov, as telling Russian state television on Monday.
The Kremlin said in December it had invited “many countries” to attend the 80th anniversary of the end of the war, which Russians call the Great Patriotic War.
The Soviet Union lost 27 million people in World War II, including many millions in Ukraine, but eventually pushed Nazi forces back to Berlin, where Adolf Hitler committed suicide and the red Soviet Victory Banner was raised over the Reichstag in 1945.
Nazi Germany’s unconditional surrender came into force at 11.01pm on May 8, 1945, marked as Victory in Europe Day by France, Britain and the United States. In Moscow it was already May 9, which became the Soviet Union’s Victory Day in what Russians call the Great Patriotic War of 1941-45.
Victory Day has become Russia’s most important secular holiday.
Morgulov said Xi in return, invited Russian President Vladimir Putin to China for the country’s commemoration of the end of World War II, which are planned for September.
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Colombian pair who fought for Ukraine ‘kidnapped by Putin’ in Venezuela
Colombian pair who fought for Ukraine ‘kidnapped by Putin’ in Venezuela
For six months, Otilia Ante barely slept, enduring an agony that began when her son disappeared. Or, more accurately, when Vladimir Putin kidnapped him.
It happened on July 18 last year, on the Colombian’s journey home after nine months fighting for Kyiv in Ukraine.
Doña Otilia, as she is known in the Colombian city of Popayán, had braced herself countless times for the possibility that her “hijito” (her “little boy”) might be killed in the war.
She never imagined danger would come after he laid down his arms, or that her son would be at the centre of an international scandal, albeit one that has received little attention. And that he would appear on a video along with a compatriot speaking from a Russian jail.
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Along with a compatriot, Otilia’s son Alexander is the first Ukrainian fighter detained in a third country unrelated to the war.
It is believed the pair were snatched as they passed through Venezuela’s capital Caracas and extradited to Russia – a gift from Nicolás Maduro to Putin, one dictator to another.
It also represents a clear warning from Moscow to foreign fighters who sign up to join Kyiv’s cause: no one is beyond the Kremlin’s reach.
“I’m tired of living. I don’t know what else to do, always thinking about my son,” Otilia tells The Telegraph, burying her face in her hands.
“I don’t know if he’s cold, if he’s hungry, or how they’re treating him. I know nothing! It’s so hard… Sometimes I wish I could catch a plane and leave, but where could I go?”
At 46, Alexander dreamed of moving his mother out of their troubled neighbourhood.
Drawing on his experience fighting guerrillas in the Colombian army, he flew to Ukraine and enlisted in 2023.
His mother said he never caused trouble. He phoned every night and paid for his mother’s medication during his absence.
Every night, Otilia lights candles and prays to the saints asking for her son’s return – Fermin Torrano
“He has no vices; he’s always looking out for me,” Otilia says.
Unlike many of the soldiers in the 49th Infantry Battalion Karpatska Sich, Alexander survived, and by the summer of 2024, he was coming home.
He called his mother on Thursday, July 18, just hours before embarking on his return journey.
“Mamita, I’ll be home on Saturday. Keep some sancocho (a typical Colombian stew) for me,” he told her.
After crossing from Ukraine into Poland by land and flying to Madrid, he still had three more flights – Caracas, Bogotá and Cali – before finally reaching home.
But Saturday passed without news. Sunday and Monday followed in silence. Then Tuesday arrived, and with it “the waiting, and the waiting”.
Nine kilometres away from Otilia’s home, another woman, Cielo Paz, found herself similarly anxious. Her husband, José Aron Medina, had stopped replying to her messages.
José Aron Medina’s wife, Cielo Paz, with their young daughter, Samara – Fermin Torrano
He had sent a video of himself boarding in Madrid with Alexander, followed hours later by a location pin from Venezuela’s Caracas Airport.
He had planned to return to Popayán in time for the weekend to celebrate his 37th birthday. But José Aron never arrived, and none of his wife’s loving text messages ever reached him.
And so, the search began.
Missing-person reports, appeals to the local council, the prosecutor’s office and the ministry of foreign affairs…
With almost no resources, Otilia and her other children and Cielo and her siblings moved heaven and earth to find the pair. Official and unofficial inquiries turned up nothing.
An official missing person report describing the disappearance of Jose Aron – Fermin Torrano
Alexander’s Ukrainian brigade only sent back his military passport, seen on top of his missing person report – Fermin Torrano
Then on Aug 30 last year, 43 days after Alexander and José Aron vanished, they reappeared.
Russia Today, the Kremlin-controlled television channel, broadcast a staged “interview”, revealing that the two former Colombian soldiers were being held in Moscow. The headline read “Inevitable Punishment”.
In the footage, handcuffed and flanked by two balaclava-clad guards, José Aron emerges from a cell.
Trembling and avoiding the camera’s gaze, Alexander identifies himself.
The propaganda video, in which both men express regret for their time in Ukraine, offered a brief flash of hope to their families.
Yes, they were in detention, looking frail and coerced, but at least they were alive.
But relief quickly turned into a nightmare. It was the first and last proof of life their families received.
Since then, neither family has managed to contact the men or speak to the court-appointed lawyer assigned by Russia. It is a voiceless, inescapable tunnel.
Why were these two Colombians detained? What happened during the month and a half of their disappearance? How did they end up going from Caracas Airport to a Moscow prison? And what might their abduction signify on the global stage?
Venezuela and Russia have maintained diplomatic silence. RT claims Russian intelligence captured the men without specifying where.
Interviewed by The Wall Street Journal, Héctor Arenas Neira, the Colombian ambassador to Russia, acknowledges that he does not know how they arrived in Moscow and avoids commenting on the violation of international law and Colombian sovereignty.
The only certainty is that Alexander and José Aron landed in Venezuela on a Plus Ultra airline flight, which only operates with Latin America, after breaking their contracts with the Ukrainian army.
Neither their arrest nor their extrajudicial transfer was ever officially issued, but it took place just days after Venezuela’s fraudulent election.
Maduro may have found a gift in these two Colombians to bolster Russian support before entrenching himself in power.
Alexander and José Aron are now serving half a year “on remand”, and face a possible 12 to 18 years in prison for “being mercenaries”, according to Mr Neira.
“Russia can call them mercenaries, but they still have rights that must be upheld. And it’s even worse if they weren’t active combatants at the time,” explains a member of Congressman José Jaime Uscátegui’s team, which legally supported the case from the beginning.
“You could argue they’d laid down their arms and were simply going home… in which case, international humanitarian law gives them special protection.”
Colombian authorities have not pressured Venezuela or Russia, and the consul in Moscow has made only one visit in the past six months.
Their defence is handled by a public defender who does not speak Spanish – a lawyer selected by the very Russian state that abducted them thousands of miles from its jurisdiction, on charges that are hard to justify.
“Russia claims they were captured in Moscow,” Mr Neira tells The Telegraph. “How did they get to Moscow? I don’t know.”
He says he doesn’t plan to investigate or complain. “I am not here to judge or criticise the Russian judicial system.”
According to the Geneva Convention, international military volunteers in Ukraine should not be considered mercenaries, as they sign official contracts with Kyiv’s army and share both responsibilities and salaries with other regular soldiers.
What sets Alexander and José Aron’s case apart is that they are the first combatants detained in a third country unrelated to the war.
This marks yet another red line crossed by Putin, and the message is clear from the Russian despot: no one is safe from the Kremlin’s grasp.
What is to be done? Mr Uscátegui’s team filed a forced-disappearance complaint at the International Criminal Court in December.
This crime is notoriously difficult to prosecute, as it requires evidence of systematic attacks against a specific civilian group.
To strengthen the case, the complaint includes other Colombians who vanished after crossing into Venezuela.
Yet, official indifference remains the greatest obstacle to building the political pressure needed for their release.
Otilia Ante goes through every single photo of her son she has – Fermin Torrano
“I’d like to speak to that man Petro. I voted for him!” Otilia exclaims, her voice trembling as she talks about Gustavo Petro, Colombia’s president.
“He’s from around here, from El Tambo. A country boy, just like us. He used to be poor, like me, and God gave him the gift of becoming president,” she says.
Alexander’s mother prays he will one day visit the Cauca Valley. She imagines wrapping the Colombian flag “like a dress” around her and throwing herself at his feet in the street.
José Aron’s daughter Samara spends many hours alone and her hope of seeing her father again soon diminishes every day – Fermin Torrano
Cielo is less optimistic. “If our president were a different man… but this one was once a guerrillero,” she sighs, as her daughter reaches for her phone as she struggles to cope with the loss of her father.
“My husband and Alexander are retired Colombian soldiers; they fought for our country. Why won’t he help them? Yet for another guerrillero he sent a letter asking for extradition.”
She is referring to the US Colombian embassy plea for the release of Simón Trinidad, a former Farc commander serving a 60-year sentence in a US prison.
On Nov 25 last year, officials justified the request with appeals to “humanitarian spirit” – the same rhetoric Petro used when urging the Trump administration to show dignity in the deportation of migrants.
But no such calls have been made for Alexander or José Aron.
For six months, Colombia’s diplomatic corps has remained silent. The foreign ministry says nothing. Petro says nothing. No moves have been made to secure their freedom.
The president’s overtures to Russia are well known. Initially, he refused to send Soviet-era weapons and helicopters to Ukraine in exchange for US replacements, and he has never condemned Putin’s invasion.
His only protest came after a pizzeria attack in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kramatorsk in the summer of 2023, which left 13 dead and 61 injured – including three Colombian civilians: former politician and philosopher Sergio Jaramillo, writer and journalist Héctor Abad and reporter Catalina Gómez.
“There’s an ideological agenda in this radical Left government. They’re unwilling to take action, all in the name of bogus neutrality,” Mr Uscátegui says.
But “to be honest, without wanting to justify them, Colombia is already grappling with over 13,000 violent killings, 4,000 disappearances, 90 massacres and 138 murdered social leaders every year. That’s the reality we face at home when we think about those abroad”.
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Honor Announces Integration of DeepSeek-R1 AI Model With Yoyo Assistant in China
Honor Announces Integration of DeepSeek-R1 AI Model With Yoyo Assistant in China
Honor, the ******** smartphone brand, announced the integration of its Yoyo virtual assistant with the DeepSeek-R1 artificial intelligence (AI) model on Saturday. The company claimed to have become the first Android manufacturer to offer the AI model in its devices. With this, the company’s native assistant will be able to tap into the capabilities of the reasoning model to complete complex tasks. Notably, in the previous weeks, Perplexity and Microsoft’s Azure AI Foundry have also added the DeepSeek-R1 model as an on-platform offering. Notably, the Yoyo assistant is currently only available in China.
DeepSeek-R1 Integrated With Honor’s Yoyo Assistant
In a post on Weibo, the official handle of Honor announced the integration and the new capabilities that the Yoyo assistant will now support. The large language model (LLM) is available for those using MagicOS 8.0 and newer with the Yoyo assistant version 80.0.1.503 and newer.
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To use DeepSeek-R1, Honor users in China will have to go to the Yoyo smart store and find the model to initiate a conversation with it. The DeepSeek welcome screen contains the description, “I am an intelligent agent based on the open-source version of the DeepSeek-R1, dedicated to bringing users an immersive deep thinking experience, helping users to dig deeper and gain insight into the essence in the process of exploring knowledge, solving problems, and stimulating creativity,” as per a Huawei Central report.
Notably, the integration has currently been rolled out in beta, and as such, it might come with glitches and bugs that can dampen the user experience. As per Honor, DeepSeek-R1 will improve the virtual assistant’s natural language processing, logical reasoning, and contextual understanding of complex commands. The company also announced that more than 13 crore monthly active users use the Yoyo virtual assistant.
The DeepSeek-R1 is a reasoning-focused model with chain-of-thought (CoT) transparency. This means users can see the thought process of the AI while it breaks down complex problems, double guesses its output and verifies it using alternative methods. The company did not reveal whether the AI model will also be able to communicate and draw information from other apps or not.
While the current rollout only includes China, it is unclear whether Honor will also introduce the open-source AI model to global markets. Notably, the ******** AI model has faced security concerns after a cybersecurity firm found evidence in the DeepSeek chatbot’s source code that links it to a ******** telecom firm that is banned in the US. *********** government and regulators in Italy have already banned the AI platform.
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Holocaust becomes political bludgeon as Netanyahu returns to a country at crossroads – CNN
Holocaust becomes political bludgeon as Netanyahu returns to a country at crossroads – CNN
Holocaust becomes political bludgeon as Netanyahu returns to a country at crossroads CNNTrump says US might lose patience with ceasefire deal ReutersHamas Makes Gaunt Israeli Hostages Thank Captors Before Release The New York TimesChoking, Hanging, Starvation: Hostages Reportedly Faced Severe Torture in ****** Captivity Haaretz
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Honor Announces Integration of DeepSeek-R1 AI Model With Yoyo Assistant in China
Honor Announces Integration of DeepSeek-R1 AI Model With Yoyo Assistant in China
Honor, the ******** smartphone brand, announced the integration of its Yoyo virtual assistant with the DeepSeek-R1 artificial intelligence (AI) model on Saturday. The company claimed to have become the first Android manufacturer to offer the AI model in its devices. With this, the company’s native assistant will be able to tap into the capabilities of the reasoning model to complete complex tasks. Notably, in the previous weeks, Perplexity and Microsoft’s Azure AI Foundry have also added the DeepSeek-R1 model as an on-platform offering. Notably, the Yoyo assistant is currently only available in China.
DeepSeek-R1 Integrated With Honor’s Yoyo Assistant
In a post on Weibo, the official handle of Honor announced the integration and the new capabilities that the Yoyo assistant will now support. The large language model (LLM) is available for those using MagicOS 8.0 and newer with the Yoyo assistant version 80.0.1.503 and newer.
DeepSeek in the Yoyo smart store Photo Credit: Weibo/Honor
To use DeepSeek-R1, Honor users in China will have to go to the Yoyo smart store and find the model to initiate a conversation with it. The DeepSeek welcome screen contains the description, “I am an intelligent agent based on the open-source version of the DeepSeek-R1, dedicated to bringing users an immersive deep thinking experience, helping users to dig deeper and gain insight into the essence in the process of exploring knowledge, solving problems, and stimulating creativity,” as per a Huawei Central report.
Notably, the integration has currently been rolled out in beta, and as such, it might come with glitches and bugs that can dampen the user experience. As per Honor, DeepSeek-R1 will improve the virtual assistant’s natural language processing, logical reasoning, and contextual understanding of complex commands. The company also announced that more than 13 crore monthly active users use the Yoyo virtual assistant.
The DeepSeek-R1 is a reasoning-focused model with chain-of-thought (CoT) transparency. This means users can see the thought process of the AI while it breaks down complex problems, double guesses its output and verifies it using alternative methods. The company did not reveal whether the AI model will also be able to communicate and draw information from other apps or not.
While the current rollout only includes China, it is unclear whether Honor will also introduce the open-source AI model to global markets. Notably, the ******** AI model has faced security concerns after a cybersecurity firm found evidence in the DeepSeek chatbot’s source code that links it to a ******** telecom firm that is banned in the US. *********** government and regulators in Italy have already banned the AI platform.
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Silent Witness creator Nigel McCrery dies aged 71
Silent Witness creator Nigel McCrery dies aged 71
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Nigel McCrery created TV dramas Silent Witness and New Tricks
Nigel McCrery, the creator of the TV crime dramas Silent Witness and New Tricks, has died aged 71.
His agent confirmed the news of his death to BBC News “with a heavy heart”.
The screenwriter and novelist was diagnosed with a terminal illness in October 2024.
Silent Witness, which follows a team of forensic pathologists investigating crimes, is one of the BBC’s longest running dramas. New Tricks, about a group of retired detectives helping police with cold cases, ran for 12 series over more than a decade.
His agent told BBC News: ‘It’s with a heavy heart that we share the news of screenwriter, author and producer Nigel McCrery’s passing.
“As the creative mind behind such hits as the much loved long running BBC drama series Silent Witness and New Tricks, Nigel captivated and inspired audiences for years with his work.
“His numerous contributions to the arts will always be remembered. Nigel had an incredible career and will be greatly missed. Our thoughts are with his family at this time.”
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Nigel McCrery served as a police officer with the ******* squad in Nottingham before he began his TV career.
After leaving Nottinghamshire Police, he joined the BBC on a graduate entry scheme in 1990, and soon moved into the drama department.
He used his background in policing to create Backup, a drama about a police operational support unit. It ran between 1995 and 1997.
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Silent Witness has run for 28 series
He then went on to create the drama Silent Witness in 1996.
It follows forensic pathologists and scientists investigating crimes and trying to catch the people responsible.
Initially starring Amanda Burton and then Emilia Fox, it became one of the BBC’s most enduring dramas. Its 28th series was broadcast earlier this year.
McCrery created New Tricks in 2005.
The show, which focused on three retired police officers who were drafted in to help solve cold cases, and became a starring vehicle for Dennis Waterman, ran for 10 years.
He also wrote several novels as well as a number of non-fiction books.
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Aussie sharemarket wipes billions on latest Trump tariff announcement
Aussie sharemarket wipes billions on latest Trump tariff announcement
The Aussie sharemarket fell heavily on Monday as traders reacted to the latest round of tariffs and the impact they could have on the domestic market.
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He lost his father and now he’s fighting for his life. He’s one of the young victims of the Philadelphia plane ******
He lost his father and now he’s fighting for his life. He’s one of the young victims of the Philadelphia plane ******
Andre Howard Jr. had just picked up his three children from school and taken them to Dunkin’ Donuts for an evening snack, a cherished weekly family ritual that abruptly turned into a terrifying, narrow escape from tragedy.
Their wholesome tradition was violently disrupted when a medevac jet crashed in a northeast Philadelphia neighborhood on January 31, showering flames and debris on homes and vehicles traveling on the street, including the Howard family’s truck.
“My babies wanted some strawberry donuts, so we went to Dunkin’ Donuts,” Howard told CNN. “We heard a *****, a really loud *****, and we saw a fireball that covered the whole entire sky.”
Seven people were killed — all six aboard the flight and a father who was inside his car — after the twin-engine jet carrying a child patient and her mother crashed. At least 24 people were injured on the ground.
Valentina Guzmán Murillo, the child on board, had just been released from the hospital where she was receiving treatment for her spina bifida condition before she was killed along with her mother.
Among the injured were at least two other children, including a 10-year-old, who was struck by debris in his head while shielding his little sister, and a 9-year-old battling burns on 90% of his body after losing his father in the ******.
Here are their stories.
‘Did I save her from the ******?’
“Andre is my superhero,” says his dad, Andre Howard Jr., after his 10-year-old son protected his sister. – Courtesy Andre Howard
It was a nightmare unfolding in real time: Howard described how he immediately put his truck in reverse to avoid the debris. The family watched cars being engulfed in flames, a man on fire and people flying into the air.
“In those couple of seconds, everything was moving in slow motion,” Howard said.
Amid the chaos and panic, Howard said he heard his 10-year-old son Andre, who is named after him, tell his 4-year-old sister to get down. Andre then dove on her to shield her from flying debris.
When he checked the back seat, his daughter and another son, 7, were physically fine, but he discovered Andre had something lodged in his head.
“I see my unconscious son with a piece of metal in his head. I got out of the truck and put a sock on his head, and as I moved him, the metal piece fell, and he was gushing out blood,” Howard told CNN, fighting back tears.
Howard said a man approached, took off his shirt and handed it to him to help with the bleeding. A woman came over and looked after his two other kids while he was tending to Andre, he added.
They flagged down a police car about 30 feet from the scene. The family got in the back seat and made it to Jefferson Torresdale Hospital in less than 10 minutes, Howard said.
The plan was to get Andre flown from there to a local children’s hospital that would be better suited to treat pediatric patients. “But if we put him in the flight, he’s not going to make it,” Howard recalled a doctor telling him. With time running out, Andre underwent emergency surgery at the hospital.
The medical team warned him there was a possibility Andre would never be able to walk again, and his vision could be impaired.
Following the surgery and a CT scan, Andre was transferred to Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia in stable condition. Since then, he’s been making progress. He’s expected to walk, and his vision is fine, his father said.
When Andre came to, the first thing he did was ask about his sister. “Did I save her from the ******?” Andre asked his dad.
For Howard, there’s no doubt in his mind Andre saved his sister’s life.
“Andre is my superhero,” he said. “As a dad, I’ve always instilled in them (his two sons) to protect your sister when daddy is not around. And I’m grateful to have a son like Andre.”
‘They lived every moment together’
Valentina Guzmán Murillo and her mother, Lizeth Murillo Osuna, died in the Philadelphia plane ******. – Obtained by CNN
Hours before the ******, staff at a Philadelphia hospital gathered for a loving send-off for Valentina Guzmán Murillo and her mother, Lizeth Murillo Osuna, ahead of their flight home to Ensenada in the ******** state of Baja California.
Valentina had been receiving care for a pressure sore related to her spina bifida condition, said Susan Marie Fasino, the founder of His Wings Ranch, an organization that provides care to special needs kids and was helping the family access treatment. The 11-year-old had faced numerous health challenges and was very frail, Fasino wrote in a Facebook post. Spina bifidia occurs when there’s a problem with the development of the spinal cord, leaving a gap or a split in the spine.
“The plan was to bring them home to live out the rest of her life surrounded with love and with her adoring family,” Fasino said.
Caregivers, staff and patients joined together to “wish her well on her journey and to punctuate her time at Shriners Children’s Philadelphia as meaningful and impactful,” Shriners spokesperson Mel Bower told CNN.
The young girl formed close bonds with other patients and all the staff who knew her, Bower said. “She will be remembered for her sweet spirit, and we will take that spirit with us as we go forward.”
In the last six months of her life, Osuna was finally able to see her daughter “getting the help she desperately fought for her whole life,” Fasino said. Osuna was “one of the most adoring, attentive mothers a child could ever have.”
“She literally never left her side,” Fasino said. “They lived every moment together and they entered eternity together.”
He’s ‘a happy kid’
Ramesses Dreuitt is fighting for his life after his father was killed when their car caught fire near the ****** site and engulfed the 9-year-old’s body in flames, the child’s grandmother told CNN affiliate KYW.
Virgen Viera was scanning her phone for updates about the ****** when photos and videos began flooding social media. Then she came across a heart-wrenching video showing her own grandson.
“A couple minutes later, I see the internet video of somebody coming out from the fire,” Viera told KYW. “In an instant when I see him, I say, ‘That’s him .’”
Ramesses Dreuitt is fighting for his life after the vehicle he was in caught fire near the ****** site. – From Yahaira Morales
First responders at the scene found a person dead inside one of the vehicles. The Philadelphia medical examiner’s office identified that man as 37-year-old Steven Dreuitt, Ramesses’ dad, from Philadelphia.
Viera shared a photo with KYW of her grandson lying in a hospital bed, his entire body wrapped in bandages. The young boy, who she described as “a happy kid,” has been recovering in a burn unit in Boston, she said.
The family launched a GoFundMe page to support Ramesses, who is currently in a coma and will need surgery, according to the online fundraiser.
While they grieve the death of Ramesses’ father, the family has asked for privacy and is focused on the boy’s recovery.
After receiving so much love for her son Ramesses, his mother was moved by everyone’s kindness and asked for prayers.
“I wasn’t gonna put any of this on social media,” his mother said in a Facebook post. “But I understand that it is about him and the love y’all want to show him. I ask for prayers, He is strong and my faith in God is big. But I feel like my prayers are not enough.”
CNN’s Sarah Dewberry, Rebekah Riess and Danny Freeman contributed to this report.
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New Strain of Bird Flu in Nevada Reveals a Concerning Mutation – ScienceAlert
New Strain of Bird Flu in Nevada Reveals a Concerning Mutation – ScienceAlert
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Six Nations 2025: ‘Complete team’ Ireland in driving seat after dominant Scotland win
Six Nations 2025: ‘Complete team’ Ireland in driving seat after dominant Scotland win
When Ireland emerged from a chaotic, injury-filled game at Murrayfield with a win two years ago, it put them on the verge of the Grand Slam.
There may be three rounds of fixtures left this year, but Sunday’s 32-18 success in Edinburgh coupled with France’s defeat by England on Saturday means they are the only team still capable of securing the clean sweep.
And given the manner in which they battered Scotland, having put England to the sword in the second half last week, the evidence suggests it will take an almighty effort from Wales, France or Italy to derail Ireland’s hopes of a third successive Six Nations title.
All that is to come. For Ireland and interim boss Simon Easterby, though, Murrayfield was about laying down a marker. They achieved that emphatically to ensure a maximum return of 10 points from the first two weekends.
Ireland were clearly irked by how they bookended last week’s win over England. They were slow out of the blocks, trailed at half-time and switched off in the closing stages after storming into a big lead in the second half, handing England two late tries and a losing bonus point.
As a result, the motivation from the Irish coaches and players in the build-up to Sunday’s game was clear: silence Murrayfield quickly and shatter their hosts’ dreams of a first green scalp since 2017.
That part of the gameplan was nailed, and it laid the groundwork for one of the most convincing triumphs of their 11-game winning streak against Scotland.
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Gosnells ******: Man dies after Holden ute collides with Toyota Landcruiser on Albany Highway
Gosnells ******: Man dies after Holden ute collides with Toyota Landcruiser on Albany Highway
The tragedy happened after the driver collided with another vehicle on Albany Highway in Gosnells this morning.
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Low expectations for China are big opportunity for returns: strategist
Low expectations for China are big opportunity for returns: strategist
China is poised for economic stimulus and major structural changes that will set corporates up for strong returns, according to Andrew Swan, head of Asia equities at Man Group.
“The sentiment around the China market obviously has been pretty poor, not just recently, but for some time now. I think investors are ignoring some of these positive developments,” Swan told CNBC’s “Squawk Box Europe” on Friday.
“People seem to have a short memory. Back in August, September [of] last year, leadership in China was very clear that they now understand the challenges that the economy is facing, particularly around deflation. And I think [in] 2025, we’re going to see the rollout of those policies they mentioned to support the economy.”
******** policymakers have already cut interest rates to boost growth, and traders now await more detail on the nation’s promised stimulus measures, which are expected to target areas including weak consumer demand and the struggling real estate market.
The world’s second-largest economy beat forecasts with 5.4% growth in the final quarter of 2024, but significant concerns remain over deflation and the potential impact of U.S. President Donald Trump’s new 10% tariffs on ******** imports. Beijing has already responded with targeted retaliatory duties and this week vowed to take measures to protect its interests in the face of “bullying.”
Swan told CNBC that tariffs would have less of an impact now than they would have eight years ago, and that implementation can be avoided through a deal. Economists broadly reckon that, in their existing form, the trade measures will have a relatively contained impact even on the export-reliant ******** economy, as many businesses have already taken pre-emptive measures to shift their supply chains following the U.S.-China trade war during the first Trump presidency.
Capital Economics estimates U.S. goods demand accounts for less than 3% of China’s GDP, and that most of this trade will continue.
Turning point
Swan argued that technological developments — including the democratization and proliferation of AI, thanks to startups such as China’s DeepSeek — and economic shifts would have a ******* impact on ******** returns.
“I think we’re going to see a different economic model emerge, not just some cyclical support for the economy, but I do believe we’re on the verge of some pretty significant structural changes in how the growth model works. And I think we potentially will look back at this time as a turning point for consumption share of GDP, as an example, perhaps led by low income groups,” he said.
“I think that’s where the big picture is here, and that’s going to maybe change perceptions.”
Swan said ******** earnings had come under pressure for a number of years because of the macro environment, and that expectations for corporate profit growth were very low, reflecting in their valuations.
“We believe, and there’s a lot of evidence, that what really drives the equities in the region is growth rates relative to expectations, as opposed to just absolute growth rates.”
He added, “What you tend to see is when those expectations start to be bettered, or beat expectations, equity markets do very well. The Asian markets are all very fundamentally driven. They’re driven by corporate profitability. Corporate profitability is now at an historical low, and valuations are close to that level as well. So any improvement in corporate profitability can deliver very strong returns.”
Swan acknowledged that investors were concerned about factors including tariffs, tight ******** government control, geopolitical risk and the baggage of the recent property market ******, making investment in a nearby democracy such as India appealing.
Lincoln Pan, partner and co-head of private equity at Asia-focused alternative investment firm PAG, told CNBC’s Emily Tan last month that investors should look for “quality alpha” in India and Japan over the next six to nine months due to uncertainty in China.
“I’d say it explains why the market is where it is,” Swan said of those jitters. “The real question is, what’s the outlook, and does it change from where we’ve been? If we don’t change, the market is going to continue to underperform and suffer.”
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Super Bowl 2025: Philadelphia Eagles beat Kansas City Chiefs – as Trump makes history and Taylor Swift is booed – Sky News
Super Bowl 2025: Philadelphia Eagles beat Kansas City Chiefs – as Trump makes history and Taylor Swift is booed – Sky News
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Six Nations 2025: England, Ireland & Italy win – round two talking points
Six Nations 2025: England, Ireland & Italy win – round two talking points
Wales’ 22-15 defeat by Italy in Rome made it a record-extending 14 losses in a row for a team that has now fallen below Georgia to 12th in the world rankings.
Former Wales international James Hook said on the BBC’s Rugby Union Weekly podcast: “The scoreline definitely flattered Wales. Italy were completely dominant and Wales were second in pretty much every facet of the game.
“The frustration from Welsh supporters is that we’ve not seen any progression either. If you see some sort of development and something to be optimistic about, you think ‘OK, we are actually developing’. But we haven’t really improved.”
Warren Gatland wants to fight on as head coach but, with another Wooden Spoon potentially looming, what positives can Wales take from their final three games against Ireland, Scotland and England?
Ex-captain Sam Warburton said on BBC One: “All I want to see is some players – there won’t be 10 of them – but we need three, four or five, on top of people like Jac Morgan and Tomos Williams, to say: ‘I’m an international-class player and this is going to be my shirt for the next five to 10 years’.
“We need guys to step up and own that shirt.”
Questions, of course, are being asked about what can be done to arrest the national team’s decline and Jones, like many other pundits and journalists, believes the problems are deep-rooted.
“It goes back 10-15 years,” he said. “It’s about management, finances, pathways – there is so much to fix and it’s a depressing situation when you think what a great rugby nation this is.”
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Police call for public's help to stop domestic violence
Police call for public's help to stop domestic violence
Police have urged the public to take action to help fight domestic violence, after an Alice Springs mother died in a “sustained, violent and horrific” attack.
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Asil Nadir, Polly ***** business tycoon turned fugitive, dies aged 83
Asil Nadir, Polly ***** business tycoon turned fugitive, dies aged 83
NICOSIA (Reuters) – Turkish Cypriot businessman Asil Nadir, once a fugitive from justice for stealing millions from his British Polly ***** conglomerate, has died, a social media post by his wife said. He was 83.
Nadir was being treated at a hospital in the breakaway Turkish Cypriot enclave in northern Cyprus and died overnight, Turkish media reported hospital officials as saying.
Once one of Britain’s richest men and a Conservative Party donor, Nadir was accused of stealing from Polly ***** – a fruits-to-electronics conglomerate that had a meteoric rise in the 1980s – to fund a lavish lifestyle including purchases of antiques, racehorses and country houses.
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Nadir fled Britain in 1993 on a private jet before the start of his trial for the northern Cyprus enclave, which has no extradition treaty with Britain and is not generally recognised internationally.
He spent the next 17 or so years mainly living under the radar at a secluded villa overlooking the Mediterranean in northern Cyprus, occasionally courting media on his claims of innocence and that he would never get a fair trial in Britain.
Nadir voluntarily returned to Britain in 2010, vowing to clear his name.
But in 2012, Nadir was convicted by a British court of plundering millions from Polly *****, which he bought as a struggling textiles manufacturer and built into a business powerhouse with a stable of brands from Japan’s Sansui Electric to a division of Del Monte fruits.
Four years into a 10-year sentence, in 2016, he applied to serve the remainder of his term in Turkey. After his transfer there, he was released after one night in jail.
In its heyday, Polly ***** was the top performing stock on the London Stock Exchange. Nadir was feted by Margaret Thatcher’s Conservatives as a major donor and he was a frequent visitor to Downing Street.
It was one of Britain’s biggest corporate failures, leaving thousands of shareholders and employees out of pocket. Some saw its rapid rise and fall emblematic of the excesses of the 1980s and a precursor to future financial crises.
Nadir had admitted to taking money from Polly *****, but insisted he always balanced the books by paying money into other parts of the business.
Born in 1941 in Lefke, Cyprus, Nadir began selling newspapers on the streets aged six, before moving with his family to London. His big break came after the Turkish Cypriot administration invited him to take over crop export plants on fertile orchards seized from displaced Greek Cypriots in the 1970s.
In Cyprus, Nadir had interests in real estate and a media group, which he sold in 2022. A bank he chaired, Kibris Endustri Bank, was seized by Turkish Cypriot banking authorities in 2002, one of several in a financial crisis which rattled the tiny enclave.
A charismatic figure, Nadir was revered in his native north Cyprus as a generous benefactor to the community, a breakaway state isolated from most countries except Turkey.
But he also had enemies in the Greek Cypriot community, who accused him of cashing in on fruit crops on land seized in ethnically split Cyprus, which was divided after a Turkish invasion in 1974 following a brief Greek-inspired coup.
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