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Spotify will no longer allow developers building third-party apps with its Web API to access several features within the music streaming platform, such as song and artist recommendations, the company announced in a developer blog post on Wednesday. The company appears to be limiting third-party developers from building AI apps using data from Spotify listeners.…

AFP The man is seen offering prayers on top of a shipping container, moments before soldiers approach him Pakistan’s security forces have been accused of pushing a man off a stack of cargo containers during Tuesday’s protests in the capital Islamabad, where crowds demanded the release of former President Imran Khan. Khan’s party said the incident…

Joyce Liu / BBC Mahmoud is a cheeky teenager who beams the biggest of smiles even though he lost his front teeth in the rough and tumble of kids’ play. He is a Sudanese orphan abandoned twice, and displaced twice in his country’s grievous war – one of nearly five million Sudanese children who have…

US weapons scanning company Evolv Technology will be banned from making unsupported claims about its products in a proposed settlement with the US government. The company had claimed its AI scanner, used in the entrances of thousands of US schools, hospitals and stadiums, could detect all weapons. However BBC investigations showed these claims to be…

BBC Tony Chambers, pictured with members of his legal team, did not contact the police for almost a year after first being made aware of concerns about Lucy Letby The former chief executive of the hospital where Lucy Letby murdered seven babies said the father of the serial killer “made threats” in “angry meetings”. Tony…

Storm Conall has brought another day of rain to southern England, causing disruptions including cancellations of train services. There are currently 75 flood warnings in England with flood-hit areas still recovering from the days of downpours during Storm Bert. The new storm broght fewer issues as it passed over southern England on Tuesday night and…

Lancashire Police Kiena Dawes, 23, died in July 2022 A vulnerable mother who took her own life had sent messages to her partner saying: “I’m sick of you hitting me.” Kiena Dawes, 23, died on a railway line in July 2022 after allegedly suffering years of abuse by partner Ryan Wellings, who is being tried…

UK Pool Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch has said her party got it “wrong” on immigration, leading to a strain on public services and making integration harder. Badenoch outlined the core principles of Conservative new immigration policy – including re-committing her party to a “strict numerical cap” on migration. The Conservatives spent 14 years in government…

PA/Joe Giddens Slowthai arrived at court alongside his wife, the popstar Anne-Marie A friend of Grammy-nominated rapper Slowthai forced himself on a woman at an after-show house party, a court has heard. Alex Blake-Walker is accused of raping the woman at the party in the early hours of 8 September 2021. It happened after the…

Getty Belfast City Airport has warned of some disruption on Wednesday evening Belfast City Airport has cancelled the majority of its flights amid a yellow weather warning for fog. All of Wednesday’s remaining departures, and all but two arrivals, have been cancelled. The disruption is expected to continue until Thursday morning. The alert, which was…