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Self-driving car owners will NOT face crash blame: Motorists should not be criminally liable if there is an accident involving their automated vehicle, experts say Government law experts made the legislative proposals in a new report They set out a framework for a complex shift in legal responsibilities when self-driving vehicles take to the streets … Read more
Climate change – not Genghis Khan – was to blame for wiping out Central Asia’s medieval river civilisations 700 years ago, a new study claims. UK researchers investigated the river channels around the Aral Sea in Central Asia, which was historically a vast body of water but is now a fraction of its former size. Hundreds … Read more
For some diehard Remainers, the images are a vision of what is to come after Britain leaves the European Union – especially if No Deal is in play. Snaking queues of lorries on the approach road to Dover port and far beyond; shipping containers piling up on docksides; a logjam of goods for distribution, from … Read more
More than 500 people have been struck down a mystery illness in India which locals have blamed on ‘mass hysteria,’ feral pigs and pesticides. The government rushed medics to Eluru in Andhra Pradesh state to investigate after patients presented with blackouts, amnesia, vomiting and chronic pain on Saturday. Doctors say that most of those infected … Read more
Furious Slough locals today scolded lockdown rule-breakers who don’t wear face masks or keep a social distance for the borough being plunged into Tier 3 amid rising cases of coronavirus. While other parts of Berkshire – including neighbouring Windsor where the Queen will spend Christmas – are under Tier 2 restrictions, Slough has been put … Read more
Ex-Debenhams boss says he’s not to blame for the chain’s demise after his tenure left it loaded with more than £1bn of debt Rob Templeman, 63, was CEO of Debenhams for eight years until 2011. He denied the sale-and-lease-back of 23 stores contributed to the firm’s demise It owed £700 million to creditors when it … Read more
Iranian security agencies are blaming each other for the lapse which led to the killing of the country’s top nuclear scientist in Tehran on Friday. Mohsen Fakhrizadeh was killed in broad daylight in a targeted attack on his car, despite having bodyguards from the elite Revolutionary Guards Security Force. Commander Hossein Dehghan, a former defence … Read more
‘You’re signing your life away’: The Bachelor’s Keira Maguire says editing is to blame for the franchise’s decline in popularity… and urges future stars to be aware of the fine print By Kristy Johnson For Daily Mail Australia Published: 13:05 GMT, 29 November 2020 | Updated: 13:05 GMT, 29 November 2020 This year’s finale of … Read more
Philip Larkin’s poem, ‘They f*** you up, your mum and dad . . .’ might not have been written about health, but there’s little doubt now that if you have heart disease, you can certainly blame your mum. Your dad, it seems, can’t carry the can for this one! Most parents try to make their … Read more
Children don’t spread the virus like teachers do A Public Health England analysis found 70 children out of 1.6million who had returned to school in June tested positive for Covid-19. Another 128 members of staff tested positive. And only 30 outbreaks were confirmed at 23,400 reopened schools (0.01 per cent). The analysis, published on August … Read more