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A landmark deal to cut global shipping emissions has been abandoned after Saudi Arabia and the US succeeded in ending the talks. More than 100 countries had gathered in London to approve a deal first agreed in April, which would have seen shipping become the world’s first industry to adopt internationally mandated targets to reduce…

Zoe KleinmanTechnology editor BBC Tech firms such as Microsoft, whose Majorana chip is pictured here, are racing to embrace quantum There’s an old adage among tech journalists like me – you can either explain quantum accurately, or in a way that people understand, but you can’t do both. That’s because quantum mechanics – a strange…

A foodbank is asking donors to consider trying a “reverse advent calendar” this year – giving 24 items to help provide Christmas hampers to families in need. Salisbury Foodbank in Wiltshire, part of the Trussell Trust network, said it was in need of donations to make up packages for 200 local families. Manager Maria Stevenson…

However, at 07:04 Eastern Time (11:04 GMT) on Monday, before US markets opened for the week, the president posted on his Truth Social platform that Washington had held “VERY GOOD AND PRODUCTIVE CONVERSATIONS” with Tehran over a “COMPLETE AND TOTAL RESOLUTION” to hostilities.