Meta's Landmark Trial, UK Jobs Slide, Tragedy

Several US states have opened a landmark trial against Meta, demanding sweeping reforms to Instagram and Facebook to shield children from addictive design and harmful content. The pressure comes as Britain's economy cools further: job vacancies fell to a five-year low as smaller firms blamed rising costs, and the state-owned Clyde shipyard in Scotland confirmed 70 of its 283 workers will leave through voluntary redundancy. The morning also brought grief. British newlyweds Alexander Cromie and Marie Ebert were killed with their pilot when their helicopter crashed on a Greek island during their honeymoon, while in Ireland officers were ordered to break off a motorway pursuit of a car driving the wrong way shortly before it caused a fatal crash. Separately, an IVF clinic in northern Cyprus is accused of misleading British parents about sperm and egg donors. Elsewhere, water has returned to most Kent homes hit by a recent disruption, and Wladimir Klitschko described his family's "profound shock" at the death of actress Hayden Panettiere, mother of his daughter. Kanye West announced Russian tour dates that would make him the first major Western artist to perform there since the Ukraine invasion, while a new UK trial is testing whether AI can steer planes away from the conditions that form climate-warming contrails.