Fuel prices begin to fall in Ireland after excise duty cuts

Taiwan says it will block access to popular Chinese social media app RedNote or Xiaohongshu for one year following concerns over online shopping scams. The island’s Criminal Investigation Bureau said Thursday it detected more than 1,700 fraud cases on the app since last year, with total losses worth more than NT$247m (£5.9m; $7.9m), local media…

Eleanor LawsonWest Midlands West Bromwich Emergency Pet Pantry Louise Colledge, of West Bromwich Emergency Pet Pantry, says some owners love their pets so much that they go without food so their pets can eat “A lot of people seem to think you shouldn’t have a pet if you can’t feed it, but it’s a bigger…

Hundreds and hundreds of ships. But they’re all in the wrong place. “Oh my goodness,” says Michelle Wiese Bockmann, senior maritime intelligence analyst at Windward, a maritime AI company, as she checks the live positions broadcast by commercial vessels in waters off Iran, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar.

When Jane Kingsbury, 80, last had her eyes tested, she says her optician told her that her eyesight was OK. But Jane, from Cambridge, says she is giving up driving at night because the feeling of being “dazzled” by other vehicles has left her feeling unsafe. “I am worried about the glare from oncoming lights,”…