| | | | | | | Hello. Today we're reporting on an unprecedented verdict in the US, where the parents of a Michigan teenager have been convicted of manslaughter after their son killed four of his schoolmates. My colleague Imran Qureshi is writing from Bengaluru, in India, a sprawling IT hub facing water shortages because of its booming population. We're also just hearing news about technical troubles leaving McDonald's customers unable to order in various places around the world. I have more stories on a James Bond star's modest legal troubles, and baseball icon Shohei Ohtani's new "normal Japanese" wife. |
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| | | | Top of the agenda | | The parents convicted of their son's murders |  | | Prosecutors said James Crumbley and his wife Jennifer had not done enough to address their son's declining mental health. Credit: Reuters |
| | James Crumbley, a 47-year-old father from Michigan, has been convicted of manslaughter after his teenage son killed four students at his school. His wife Jennifer had been convicted in February and their son, Ethan, is serving a sentence of life in prison without parole. It's the first time parents have been charged with manslaughter over their child's role in a shooting in the US. But prosecutors argued this was an rare case. The Crumbleys had given Ethan a gun in November 2021. Days later, he would use it to kill his schoolmates. On the morning of the shooting, Ethan's parents had cut short a school meeting about a disturbing drawing their son had made. "James had no idea that his son was having a hard time", the father's lawyer argued in court. However, after the verdict, prosecutor Karen McDonald said: "These parents could have prevented this tragedy with just the smallest of efforts." | | | | |
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| | | | | | World headlines | | • | Russian election: Voting has begun in the three-day ballot that is all but certain to hand Vladimir Putin another six years in power. Our report has details of the Kremlin's choreographed campaign and near-caricatured videos from the president's three less-than credible opponents. | | • | War in Gaza: Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu's office has downplayed the chances of a truce, saying Hamas is "holding to unrealistic demands" in its vision presented to mediators. Meanwhile, Israel has denied involvement in an incident that reportedly killed 20 people and injured scores more at an aid drop-off point. | | • | Senegal: Opposition leaders have been released from prison, days ahead of an election in which one of them is among the favourites to win. Nicolas Négoce and Gloria Aradi explain the context. | | • | Flight of the Concorde: A British Airways Concorde jet was transported back to the Intrepid Museum in New York, after a seven-month restoration. Take a look as it's craned over the Hudson river. | | • | Hike another day: Ex-James Bond star Pierce Brosnan has pleaded guilty to hiking too close to sensitive geothermal pools in a closed part of Yellowstone National Park, and paid a fine for the offence. |
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| AT THE SCENE |  Bengaluru, India | | A water crisis in India's Silicon Valley | | India's Bengaluru (formely known as Bangalore) is a sprawling IT hub in the south of the country. But years of rapid expansion are straining the city's resources. Now some of the 15 million people in the metropolis are struggling to get the water they need. | | | | In apartment buildings in Somasundarapalya, a few kilometres from the upscale HSR Layout suburb where many tech workers live, most of the tenants work as cooks and security guards. A man who did not want to be named said the caretakers of his building had stopped pumping water to the topmost four floors. "We have to collect water in buckets from a storage tank in the building and carry them all the way up to our houses. This is to ensure that we use less water," he said. |
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| | | | Beyond the headlines | | Stockholm's pop tech |  | | Abba is still one of the forces behind Stockholm's music tech boom. Credit: Getty Images |
| | Stockholm may be the world capital of pop music, having spawned Abba and countless producers behind artists such as Britney Spears and Taylor Swift. But it's also a hub for music start-ups hoping to transform a struggling industry. From concert holograms to AI discovery of real artists, Maddy Savage takes you on a tour of Sweden's music tech scene. | | | | |
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| | | | Something different | | Can't touch this | | Stay away from the Pokémon-like "blue dragons" washing up on Texas beaches. | | |
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| | | | And finally... | | After weeks of speculation and a well-kept mystery, Japanese baseball superstar Shohei Ohtani has unveiled the identity of his new wife. Mamiko Tanaka, who was first described by Ohtani as a "normal Japanese woman", is a former professional basketball player. Here are the newlyweds. |
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