A radar image of a speed offender caught in central Switzerland last month has revealed that the culprit was not only a duck but probably a repeat offender, local authorities have said. The duck was caught going 52km/h (32mph) in a 30-km/h zone, the post said. It turned out that a similar-looking duck was captured flying in the same spot at exactly the same speed, on exactly the same date seven years earlier, the Facebook post said. But the police inspectorate said it was impossible to doctor images or manipulate the radar system. The computers are calibrated and tested each year by Switzerland’s federal institute of metrology, and the photos taken are sealed, the municipality said.

Stock markets across Asia rose Monday as investors waited for details about the talks, including hopes of a partial rollback of the tariffs. China’s trade surplus with the United States topped $100 billion last year. Chinese tariffs on U.S. agricultural products, retaliation for the tariffs Trump issued over fentanyl, will also remain. The shift is likely, analysts said, because the trade war is taking a toll on both economies. Even before the trade war began, the Chinese economy was already suffering from stubborn unemployment, sluggish consumer spending and a looming deflation crisis.

Donald Trump hailed a “total reset” in relations between China and the US after the countries agreed a 90-day pause to the deepening trade war that has threatened to upend the global economy, with tariffs to be lowered by 115 percentage points. “We have all the cards,” the president claimed, using similar rhetoric to describe relations with the EU that he was using about China just weeks ago. The US trade representative, Jamieson Greer, said China’s retaliation had been disproportionate and amounted to an effective embargo on trade between the world’s two biggest economies. The fentanyl-related tariff will still apply, and Trump stressed that sector-specific US tariffs on cars, steel and aluminium will be unaffected. After the announcement of the US-China agreement, analysts at the Dutch bank ING lifted their forecast for China’s growth this year.

Koyo Kouoh, the groundbreaking Swiss-Cameroonian curator who was to become the first African woman to head up the Venice Biennale, died suddenly on Saturday, the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa announced. Kouoh, 57, had been put in charge of the 61st edition of the Biennale Arte, which will take place in Venice from April to November 2026. In a statement, the management of the Venice Biennale said they were “deeply saddened and dismayed to learn of the sudden and untimely passing of Koyo Kouoh”. They said Kouoh had “worked with passion, intellectual rigour and vision on the conception and development of the Biennale Arte 2026”. Zeitz MOCAA said it had closed its doors and suspended all programming until further notice.

The two sides will issue a joint statement agreed during the talks on Monday, the vice-premier said. The US trade representative, Jamieson Greer, who spoke alongside Bessent, suggested more strongly that a deal had been reached. “We want to see, for the good of both China and the U.S., an opening up of China to American business. “They all look a little bit like the UK deal but each one is bespoke,” he said. But Hufbauer cautioned he was “very sceptical that there will be any return to something like normal US-China trade relations”.

Donald Trump has hailed a “total reset” in US-China trade relations after the first day of talks between top American and Chinese officials in Geneva aimed at defusing a trade war sparked by his tariff rollout. The US president praised the “very good” discussions and deemed them “a total reset negotiated in a friendly, but constructive, manner”. Trump’s tariffs imposed on China this year currently total 145%, with cumulative US duties on some Chinese goods reaching 245%. View image in fullscreen Members of the Chinese delegation after leaving the trade talks in Geneva, Switzerland, on Saturday. Trump said on Friday that an 80% tariff on Chinese goods “seems right”, suggesting for the first time a specific alternative to the 145% levies he has imposed on Chinese imports.

Weight loss jabs may be good for people’s mental health as well as helping curb their appetite, according to research. The Institute for Fiscal Studies calculates that about 13-15% of working-age people in England and Wales have a long-term mental health or behavioural condition, with 2 million people in contact with NHS mental health services in December 2024. The authors found that treatment with the medicines, which include semaglutide (sold as Ozempic or Wegovy) were not associated with worse mental health, nor greater risk of new mental illness or psychiatric admissions. For adults without mental illness, the weight loss injections had a greater beneficial effect on mental health than insulin and other antidiabetic drugs. “While this study into weight loss jabs is important and promising, we believe such medications are only a short-term solution.

Real-world geoengineering experiments spanning the globe from the Arctic to the Great Barrier Reef are being funded by the UK government. Getting this “critical missing scientific data” is vital with the Earth nearing several catastrophic climate tipping points, said the Advanced Research and Invention Agency (Aria), the government agency backing the plan. Geoengineering is controversial, with some scientists calling it a “dangerous distraction” from cutting emissions and concerned about unintended climate impacts. The Aria programme, along with another £10m project, makes the UK one of the biggest funders of geoengineering research in the world. The Aria programme will also assess space reflectors, which are sunshades placed into orbit, using modelling to determine their feasibility.

Bessent’s first statement, that there have been no negotiations with China directly contradicts a claim Trump made two weeks ago that there have been talks. I think have your reporting wrong.” As Mason clarified that he “was saying what China said”, Trump abruptly ended the press availability. Bessent also contradicted a previous claim from Trump that talks with China had been going on for weeks. I think have your reporting wrong.” As Mason clarified that he “was saying what China said”, Trump abruptly ended the press availability. Two weeks ago, Trump offered the same incorrect response to questions about the tensions in Kashmir which revealed his lack of understanding about the history of the conflict there.

Taken together, a picture emerges of a brutal and systemic assault on Ukrainian prisoners. Satellite imagery shows that as the prison filled up with Ukrainians, during the summer of 2022 it was reinforced with new steel roofs. The first Ukrainian prisoners were sent there in April 2022, often tied up and blindfolded onboard military trucks daubed with the Z symbol. All Ukrainian prisoners who passed through Taganrog reported horrifying and sustained torture, including civilians and female prisoners. The information suggests Ukrainian detainees have been scattered across Russia, held as far as 600 miles from the border with Ukraine.

Spain and Portugal suffered the worst blackout in living memory in Europe this week. ‘People were stunned’: how massive blackout unfolded across Spain and Portugal Read moreDid renewable energy play a part? Spain and Portugal lead the EU in renewables and were sourcing about 80% of their electricity from solar and wind when the blackout hit on Monday. Pratheeksha Ramdas, a senior analyst at Rystad Energy, said: “We cannot say that high wind and solar power caused the blackout – in the days before we saw far greater amounts of renewables on the system. Yet there’s limited research into how climate change will affect future power systems, or how to design grids that are truly robust.” Spain and Portugal power outage: what caused it, and was there a cyber-attack?

Electricity had been restored to nearly 90% of mainland Spain by early on Tuesday, the grid operator REE said. Power was restored overnight to around 6.2m households in Portugal out of 6.5m, according to the national electricity grid operator. In scenes reminiscent of the 2003 outage that caused widespread blackouts in the US north-east, rail services across the Iberian peninsula were halted, air traffic disrupted and traffic lights extinguished. In Madrid and other cities, traffic lights ceased to function, causing gridlock as vehicles slowed to avoid collisions, while metros were halted. He said the situation across the country remained very “asymmetric” on Monday night, with some regions already having 90% of their power restored, while others had recovered less than 15%.

Tens of millions of people across Spain and Portugal have been plunged into a huge power blackout blamed by the Portuguese operator on extreme temperature variations, leaving them without trains, metros, traffic lights, ATMs, phone connections and internet access. The Spanish government convened a crisis meeting at the national grid operator, Red Eléctrica, to discuss the outage. View image in fullscreen Fans at the Madrid Open tennis tournament after matches were suspended due to the power outage. The Portuguese operator, REN, said the outage was caused by a “rare atmospheric phenomenon”, with extreme temperature variations in Spain causing “anomalous oscillations” in very high-voltage lines. In Portugal, the outage hit the capital, Lisbon, and surrounding areas, as well as northern and southern parts of the country.

Vancouver police have ruled out terrorism after a car ramming attack that killed at least 11 people at a Filipino heritage festival in the Canadian city. Canadian prime minister Mark Carney expressed his 'deepest condolences' and sent his wishes for strength and compassion to those affected. Other officials could barely speak as the extent of the tragedy shook the Vancouver community.

Houthi rebels in Yemen said 68 people has been killed and 47 injured in a US strike on a detention centre holding African migrants in the city of Saada. The rebel group, which governs north-western Yemen, said the shelter was under the supervision of the International Organization for Migration and the Red Cross and that targeting it was 'a full-fledged war crime'. The US military had no immediate comment