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A €5bn (£4.3bn) EU fund which invests in some of the continent's most promising scale-up technology companies is leading a $100m (£73.9m) funding round for Tandem Health, an AI medical assistant which has built a presence at the epicentre of Britain's private healthcare industry.

Swedish voters have headed to the polls in an election that could bring a far-right party into government for the first time.

Robert Jenrick has said Donald Trump's call for Irish reunification was "completely wrong".

Indonesian officials have launched a search for a passenger ship carrying more than 240 after it lost contact in the Java Sea during bad weather.

At least six people have died and 129 people are still missing after a passenger ship in Indonesia carrying more than 240 people lost contact in the Java Sea during bad weather, officials say.

An American diplomat accused of possessing indecent images of children was "secretly flown out of the UK", according to reports.

Celine Dion was brought to tears as she returned to the stage for the first time in almost six years after revealing she was battling a rare neurological disorder.

Tech bosses Elon Musk and Sam Altman have backed a call from the head of Anthropic to have permanent third-party reviewers inside "frontier" AI companies.

There have been scuffles in Portsmouth as anti-migrant protesters chased down anti-racism demonstrators, with police warning that anyone wearing a face covering could be arrested.

British cryptocurrency billionaires Ben Delo and Christopher Harborne have made history with donations of £36m each to Reform - the largest single donations to a British political party on record.

Donald Trump said he would "love to see" a reunified Ireland, claiming "it's going to happen eventually".

One person has died and two others were taken to hospital after a fire in a 17th-floor flat in east London.

A 15-year-old boy survived on top of an overturned boat in Alaska's Bering Sea for around two days, having lost his older brother and then his cousin after the skiff capsized.

Angela Eagle, the new environment secretary, held her first face-to-face talks with Thames Water bosses this week as Britain's biggest water utility and the creditors trying to rescue it seek clarity over Andy Burnham's desire for "greater public control" of the industry.

A Greek woman has given birth aged 54, beating a government deadline to use one of her embryos, which had been frozen for 22 years.

Police in Mississippi have arrested a man in connection with the death of a black woman found hanging from a tree last month.

Donald Trump has arrived in Ireland amid what's being described as one of the biggest security operations ever implemented by the country's police.

Reform UK's two biggest donors have each handed the party a record-breaking £36m.

Reform UK has received a £36m donation from British cryptocurrency billionaire Ben Delo - making it the largest single donation to a UK political party on record.

More than £10m of Premier League funds will remain frozen amid an international criminal investigation into its former fantasy football game partner.