Marshall Islands launches world’s first universal basic income scheme offering cryptocurrency

Quarterly payments of $200 to be offered via stablecoin or traditional currency in a scheme designed to ease cost of living pressures in the Pacific nation

UK insists US tech deal not dead as Trump threatens penalties against European firms

Keir Starmer’s office claims UK still in ‘active conversations’ about deal for tech industries in both countries to cooperate

Jared Kushner’s firm exits takeover battle for Warner Bros Discovery

Affinity Partners, key backer of hostile bid by Paramount, reportedly steps back following scrutiny of Kushner’s role

Nick Reiner: what do we know about Rob Reiner’s son who was arrested?

The 32-year-old screenwriter, who has dealt with addiction and homelessness, has been arrested after the deaths of of his parents

Nick Reiner to be charged with first-degree murder of his parents, Rob and Michele Reiner

LA district attorney says charges could carry the death penalty, after Nick Reiner arrested in murder of his parents

Democratic senators investigate data centers’ effects on electricity prices

Elizabeth Warren, Richard Blumenthal and Chris Van Hollen demand answers from tech firms including Google and Amazon

George Osborne joins OpenAI: ex-chancellor adds tech post to his CV

Former Tory chancellor tasked with helping ChatGPT owner develop ties with governments

US date rape survivors file lawsuit accusing Hinge and Tinder of ‘accommodating rapists’

Civil suit, citing the Dating App Reporting Project, argues that dating apps could kick off serial rapists but don’t

From Harry Potter to The Crying Game, Susie Figgis’s explosive enthusiasm made her an irreplaceable casting director

Producer Stephen Woolley pays tribute to Figgis, who has died aged 77, a brilliant professional whose ‘molotov cocktail personality’ enabled her work in British and Hollywood cinema

Disclosure Day: first trailer for Steven Spielberg’s star-studded UFO movie

Emily Blunt, Josh O’Connor, Colin Firth, Colman Domingo and Eve Hewson head up the director’s latest effort

The Housemaid review – Sydney Sweeney takes the job from hell in outrageous suspense thriller

Amanda Seyfried and Brandon Sklenar co-star as Sweeney’s secretive bosses in an upstate New York mansion, and director Paul Feig ramps up the sexual tension with evident gusto

Being Charlie: the film Rob and Nick Reiner made together offers home truths

The 2016 drama, loosely inspired by the father-son relationship, is a gritty drama about addiction that has now become a puzzle piece

‘To be really successful, you have to be sexy in a straight way’: Ben Whishaw on libidinous New York and playing Peter Hujar

Peter Hujar captured a queer Manhattan demi-monde that is now lost to Aids. Whishaw reveals what he learned playing the photographer in a minimalist film being hailed by some as a masterpiece

The Vietnam War ended 50 years ago. But its lessons live on in The Quiet American

Phillip Noyce’s political drama is a searing critique of American interventionism that feels all too pertinent today

Panya the pygmy hippo: how a tiny baby animal became a sensation

Just in time for Christmas, a little calf has arrived at a German zoo and gone viral. But is he cuter than Moo Deng?