UK charges against former directors of Entain and five others relate mainly to provision of services in Turkey

Former directors of Entain, the gambling company that owns Ladbrokes and Coral, are among 11 people who have been charged with offences including bribery, fraud, cheating the public revenue, tax evasion and perverting the course of justice.

The Crown Prosecution Service said on Thursday that it had authorised the prosecution of 11 individuals for seven alleged offences in relation to the provision of gambling services in Turkey between 2011 and 2018.

FCA will look at allegation the biomass power station misled investors, and Whitehall, about its wood sourcing

• Drax shares plunge after FCA launches investigation

The financial watchdog’s decision to investigate the sustainability claims made by the owners of the Drax power plant came as little surprise to Britain’s energy industry. For years the former coal generator has faced a torrent of criticism for collecting billions of pounds in renewable energy subsidies in exchange for burning wood pellets – shipped thousands of miles from North America – at its vast power station in North Yorkshire.

Drax faces allegations that it may have misled investors and the government over the sustainability of its wood sources. In its investigation, the Financial Conduct Authority will in effect follow in the footsteps of the industry regulator, Ofgem, as well as the National Audit Office and the public accounts committee in scrutinising whether the company’s green claims stack up.

Docu-opera explores encounters and ethics of Günter Wallraff’s undercover work in 1980s, which he now describes as an existential necessity

Few people have done more to change the way postwar Germany looks at itself than Levent “Ali” Sigirlioğlu. A 1985 bestselling book detailing the inhumane working conditions and everyday racism that the 26-year-old Turkish migrant worker endured at Ruhr valley steel plants, asbestos-infested building sites and fast-food restaurants was the first to expose the dark underbelly of a booming postwar economic revival.

The only catch is that “Ali” was not a young Turk at all, but a then 43-year-old white German.

Rapper accused of spitting on and cutting a security guard on the face with her fingernail in an ongoing trial in LA

Cardi B testified on Wednesday that she didn’t touch a security guard who alleges the rapper cut her face with a fingernail and spat on her in an altercation outside an obstetrician’s office during the hip-hop star’s not-yet-public first pregnancy.

“She couldn’t get a scratch from me because I didn’t touch her,” Cardi said on the stand in her second day of testimony in a Los Angeles county court.

• Four-time Tour winner stable in Toulon hospital

• Scans showed five broken ribs and vertebrae fracture

Four-time Tour de France champion Chris Froome is in a stable condition after he was airlifted to hospital in Toulon following a crash which left him with multiple injuries.

The British rider was on a training ride when the accident occurred and needs to undergo a back operation.

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Suspect, 59, from Lancashire bailed as police say more arrests expected over ‘appalling’ online abuse during Euros

A man has been arrested in Lancashire after racist and abusive messages were sent online to the England defender Jess Carter during the women’s Euros in July.

The UK football policing unit launched an investigation after receiving a report that the messages had been sent on social media. Officers worked in partnership with social media companies to identify the people responsible.