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Although BMW Group sales are down 4% to 2,450,804 units year over year, there are still reasons to celebrate. M had record deliveries in 2024, and the core BMW brand maintained its status as the world’s biggest luxury automaker. In addition, the share of electrified vehicles went up to 24.2%. That means that nearly one in every four cars sold was either a plug-in hybrid or an EV.A total of 593,215 cars had a charging port, an increase of nearly 27,000 units or +4.8% compared to the previous year. Purely electric models from BMW, MINI, and Rolls-Royce represented 17.4% of…

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Senior police officers fear that government pressure to reinvestigate closed historic cases of gang grooming could make it harder to catch those targeting children today.The government on Thursday announced more reviews of past cases and also that victims, whose cases did not end in prosecutions, will be given a new right of appeal to have their investigations reopened.It came with police figures showing that just a fraction of child sexual abuse allegations – 0.6% – relate to grooming and abuse by male groups or gangs.Multiple senior police sources told the Guardian of concern that teams combating sexual violence against women…

Getty ImagesThousands of TikTok users have migrated to popular Chinese social media app RedNoteA looming TikTok ban has connected Chinese and American citizens like never before, as they swap jokes and memes in what one user described as a “historic moment”.It’s all unfolding on a popular Chinese social media app called RedNote, or Xiaohongshu (literally translates as Little Red Book), which doesn’t have the usual internet firewall that separates China from the rest of the world. It has been drawing self-professed US “TikTok refugees” seeking a new home on the internet – despite the fact that their own government is…

Sony has cancelled two live-service titles that were being developed by Bend Studio and Bluepoint Games. The new was broken by gaming pundit Jason Schreier over at Bloomberg, and then apparently confirmed by Sony themselves who confirmed that two “live-service” projects had been cancelled “following a recent review”.  “Bend and Bluepoint are highly accomplished teams who are valued members of the PlayStation Studios family, and we are working closely with each studio to determine what are the next projects,” the spokesperson told Bloomberg. On Bluesky, Schreier offered further details, stating that the cancelled live-service game at Bluepoint was actually a…

Shop sales in the UK unexpectedly fell in the run up to Christmas due to a “very poor month” for food being sold in supermarkets, adding to concerns over the health of the UK economy.Sales fell by 0.3% in December, according to official figures, well below expectations of a 0.4% rise.Food sales sank to their lowest level for more than 10 years last month, but clothing shops and department stores saw a boost in trade.The weak data followed sluggish economic growth figures, although a report from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) later on Friday saw it upgrade its forecast for…

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The U.S. government has announced sanctions against a Chinese organization with links to Salt Typhoon, the hacking group responsible for the largest telecoms hack in U.S. history.  The Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) announced on Friday that it had sanctioned a China-based cybersecurity company, known as Sichuan Juxinhe Network Technology, which it says is directly linked to the China-backed Salt Typhoon hacking group. Salt Typhoon was recently identified as carrying out the largest telecommunications hack in U.S. history, after infiltrating at least nine U.S. telecom and internet providers, including AT&T and Verizon, to gain access to the…

Police have urged the public to use different pin codes at the gym after a prolific thief stole hundreds of pounds from a man he snooped on while entering a locker code that he also used for his bank card.Last September Declan Murphy, 35, secretly watched the victim as he typed in a locker code at a luxury central London gym. After stealing the victim’s phone and bank card from the locker, Murphy then successfully guessed that the four-digit code on the card would be the same as the locker code.He stole £500 from the account and bought himself time…

Getty ImagesThe US Supreme Court has upheld a law that bans TikTok in America unless its China-based parent company ByteDance sells the platform by this Sunday.TikTok had challenged the law, arguing it would violate free speech protections for the more than 170 million users it says it has in the US.But that argument was rejected unanimously by the nation’s highest court, meaning TikTok must now find an approved buyer for the US version of the app or face removal from app stores and web hosting services. The White House said it would fall to incoming President Donald Trump’s administration, which…