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James, who must wear an electronic tag and obey a curfew, is the son of Labour MP Diane AbbottCredit: Reuters
Diane Abbott says she would support the Labour Parties position to 'abolish private schools' despite sending her son to one
Ford recalls 600,000 midsize cars in U.S. to fix brake problem
(AP) - Ford is recalling more than 600,000 midsize sedans in the U.S. to fix a problem with the brakes that can increase stopping distance and possibly cause a crash.
The recall covers certain 2006 through 2010 Ford Fusion, Mercury Milan and Lincoln MKZ cars.
Ford says a valve inside the hydraulic brake control unit can stick open, resulting in extended brake pedal travel.
The company says there have been 15 reports of crashes related to the problem.
Two people were hurt.
The cars were built at a plant in Hermosillo, Mexico from Feb. 22, 2006 to July 15, 2009.
Dealers will inspect the control unit for signs of a stuck valve and replace it if necessary.
They'll also flush the system and replace the brake fluid and reservoir cap.
Owners will be notified starting the week of Jan 13.
Brighton vs Chelsea: Alireza Jahanbakhsh's Overhead Kick Earns Brighton A Draw Against Chelsea
Alireza Jahanbakhsh's spectacular overhead kick earned Brighton a share of the points against Chelsea and dampened Frank Lampard's New Year celebrations on Wednesday as Aston Villa secured a vital win against Burnley.
Kicking off a packed day of top-flight action, Chelsea's 1-1 draw on England's south coast meant they missed out on the chance to pull seven points clear of fifth-placed Manchester United in the race to secure Champions League football for next season.
Cesar Azpilicueta gave the visitors an early lead, tapping in from close range following a corner in the 10th minute but Brighton were never out of it and pulled level in the 84th minute courtesy of Jahanbakhsh's moment of magic.
Chelsea were quickly on top from the start of the match but Brighton came into the contest as it wore on, enjoying a spell of possession towards the end of the first half.
Leandro Trossard tested Kepa Arrizabalaga with a powerful strike but the Chelsea goalkeeper parried the shot with his right hand.
Lampard's team were again dominant after the break.
Christian Pulisic came close to doubling Chelsea's lead at Brighton after 55 minutes while N'Golo Kante and Reece James were denied.
But Brighton kept battling and Kepa was forced to produce an outstanding save from Aaron Connolly in the 80th minute as the home side pushed for an equaliser.
Their persistence paid off minutes later.
Lewis Dunk kept the ball alive from a corner-kick and Iranian midfielder Jahanbakhsh acrobatically found the bottom-left corner to give his team share of the points.
In the other early kick-off, Villa beat Burnley 2-1 despite seeing Jack Grealish's opening goal controversially chalked off by VAR.
Wesley put Villa ahead in the 27th minute and captain Grealish doubled his side's advantage four minutes before the break as his powerful effort found the top corner.
Chris Wood pulled a goal back for Burnley with 10 minutes to go.
Second-placed Leicester take on Newcastle later on Wednesday, with Tottenham and Wolves, also chasing Champions League football next season, also in action.
Pep Guardiola's Manchester City are hosting Carlo Ancelotti's Everton in one of the early evening matches before Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's Manchester United kick off against Arsenal in the late match.
Runaway leaders Liverpool face Sheffield United on Thursday.
European Parliament sends more than 100 half-empty chauffeur-driven cars miles every month
The European Parliament sends a fleet of chauffeur-driven cars hundreds of miles every month... with hardly any passengers in them.
The convoy of 105 vehicles makes the 560-mile round trip from Brussels to the French city of Strasbourg, despite most MEPs choosing to fly or go by train.
This is so MEPs have a limo on standby should they wish to attend functions or go on trips around town.
Last month the EU passed a motion declaring a "climate emergency" in a bid to force its institutions to do more to tackle climate change.
But the disclosure renewed criticism of the so-called "travelling circus," which sees around 4,000 Brussels officials and politicians decamp to Strasbourg for one week every month.
Brexit Party MEP Alexandra Phillips said: "This shows that the EU's virtue signalling on tackling climate change is nothing more than hot air.
It's an absolute disgrace that hardworking British taxpayers are footing the bill for this extravagant nonsense.
Brexit can't come soon enough.
Geoffrey Van Orden MEP, leader of UK Conservative MEPs, said: "This just underlines the total waste and extravagance in having two seats for the European Parliament.
British Conservatives have led the campaign against Strasbourg for years.
Most MEPs are against it, but it's in the EU Treaty and the French government blocks change.
Mercifully, on 31 January [when the UK is due to leave the EU], British MEPs will cease to be caught up in this.
Brussels already splashes tens of millions of pounds of European taxpayers" cash every year on chartering special trains for the hundreds of MEPs and their staff to travel to Strasbourg.
The decision to host a second seat for the parliament was dreamt up to appease France and was enshrined in the EU treaties.
It involves 2,500 boxes of material being moved from MEPs" offices in Brussels to the French city, where they stay in hotels and dine out courtesy of the taxpayer.
The arrangement is thought to cost more than £100 million a year.
Last night a European Parliament spokesman defended its convoy of cars being sent every month.
They claimed it was "sound financial management" because it would be cheaper than having a fleet which stays in Strasbourg.
They said 15 of the 120-strong fleet are fully electric and only 105 can make it to Strasbourg.
They are believed to be mostly hybrid and petrol cars.
In November, just 25 MEPs went to the full plenary session in Strasbourg by car, meaning the vast majority of vehicles make the journey to Strasbourg with no passengers.
MEPs have access to the chauffeur-driven fleet in Brussels and Strasbourg at a moment's notice, by simply catching a lift down into the parliament's basement where they are on standby.
They simply flash their badge and tell the chauffeur their destination before being driven there for free.
MEPs also enjoy grace-and-favour perks of a £90,000 annual salary and £3,900-a-month expenses, which they do not have to provide receipts for and last year voted to keep secret.
They can claim an additional €300 (£255) a day for turning up to the debating chamber.
Any change to hold hearings in Brussels-only would require a unanimous decision by the European Council at a summit of the bloc's 28 leaders, soon to be 27 after Britain leaves on January 31.
Tests raise alarms over fuel blends coming for ocean-going vessels
HOUSTON (Reuters) - As a global clean-fuel mandate takes effect Jan. 1, testing companies examining newer, low-sulfur marine blends acquired in Antwerp, Belgium; Houston and Singapore have found sediment at levels that could damage the engines of ocean-going vessels.
FILE PHOTO: Crude oil tanker Maran Cassiopeia is pictured in the waters off Tuas in Singapore July 15, 2019.
Routine tests by AmSpec Services and a unit of Lloyd's Register have raised alarms about safety and compliance just ahead of the new International Maritime Organization (IMO) 2020 standard.
Such tests, paid for by suppliers of bunker fuel, have been conducted more frequently this year due to the shift.
The standard prompted an industrywide shift to cleaner burning marine fuel in an effort to reduce coastal air pollution.
It requires fuel with less than 0.5% sulfur in ocean-going ships not equipped with emission scrubbers.
The potential hazards were demonstrated in 2018 when some ship operators were forced to pay for costly repairs after buying bunker fuel contaminated by a chemical used in epoxy.
That incident affected about 200 vessels, according to an attorney for one operator.
Some 60% of the recipes for making low-sulfur fuel proposed by bunker suppliers near the top U.S. oil port of Houston failed to meet sediment specifications when tested by AmSpec, said Shannon Boudreaux, a fuel blending specialist at AmSpec, in an interview on Tuesday.
Marine fuel suppliers "are struggling with sediments," Boudreaux said.
Producers have continued to tweak their recipes to get the fuels on spec, he said, adding he did not expect a widespread problem for shippers.
AmSpec's tests for sediment levels increased earlier this year, though some testing had begun in 2018.
Fobas, a fuel testing company owned by Lloyd's Register, said this month it also found high sediment levels in bunker fuel samples in Singapore, Antwerp and other European ports.
The levels exceeded international residue standards.
"We need the supply side to fully contribute to a smooth changeover so that we do not have any incidents due to incompatible fuels," said Guy Platten, secretary general of the trade association International Chamber of Shipping, in a statement.
Ship operators will have to manage IMO 2020 suppliers with more care, said AmSpec's Boudreaux.
Mixing two or more low-sulfur bunker fuels can raise the sediment levels, producing a residue that could clog and damage an engine.
There was no residue problem from mixing high-sulfur fuels from different suppliers, he said.
"The industry is concerned about these different types of very low-sulfur fuel oil concoctions, that when blended meet specifications, but when mixed together may all of a sudden be off specification," said Andy Lipow, president of Lipow Oil Associates in Houston.
Reporting by Collin Eaton in Houston and Jonathan Saul in London; Editing by Richard Chang
We haven't quite dealt with all of the repercussions of tech's domination of the past decade - there will be regulations, a lot of tech is still addictive, and digital hate will continue to travel halfway around the world before the truth gets out of bed - but there are some big, positive ideas that I think you will he...
While I have been a strong critic of tech, and it is easy to chew over what's gone wrong - it makes for a large meal - I think it is more helpful, as 2020 dawns, to put forth five predictions that I hope will allow us to live more peacefully with the tech that we love and hate.
More investment in tech that addresses climate change.
With all due respect to Greta Thunberg and the efforts of young people across the globe to bring attention to climate change, governments may never agree on how to properly address our lurch toward environmental suicide.
Which is why it is critically important that tech turn its focus toward creating products that will save us.
The amount of investment in green technology remains stubbornly low compared with other tech sectors.
Bill Gates and Elon Musk have been making more investments in this area, but they remain the only big names doing so.
That's too bad, since I think the world's first trillionaire will be a green-tech entrepreneur.
There are many areas to explore, including battery storage, renewables, software and artificial intelligence to help us understand climate data, the food ecosystem and even the way we construct our buildings.
The most important challenge is finding a way to keep carbon in the ground - and figuring out the best way to do that provides a golden opportunity for entrepreneurs.
Automation for good.
There has been a lot of discussion about the job-killing potential of tech, including how an unholy combination of automation, robotics and artificial intelligence will be the death of employment.
Many jobs will, in fact, be replaced by tech, especially ones that are rote and also many that are high paying in medicine, law and more.
But this is also an opportunity to rethink the entire way we imagine employment and education.
The smartest minds in tech should be thinking about reformulating and recalibrating the workplace and the structure of businesses.
And rather than accept that poor pay and poor protections for gig workers are inevitable and that the pressures of a global work force are too hard to push back, tech companies should figure out how to creatively and humanely deploy talent across the world to show that they are interested in dealing with the consequenc...
Is there a business in depolarization?
I get that the forces of cynicism, manipulation and hate are forever on the digital march, but I am convinced that there is money to be made in appealing to our weariness with how our tech lives have been shaped.