Vegan cheese made from home-grown vegetable oils is healthier, greener and more “oozy”, scientists have found.

The cheese substitute is typically made from a combination of starch and solid fats like coconut or palm oil.

The fats give it the “sliceable, meltable” texture people expect from cheese – but also mean vegan cheese often ends up with a high saturated fat content.

Now a team at Heriot-Watt University (HWU) has developed a way of making vegan cheese slices from vegetable oils like rapeseed and sunflower, rather than the coconut and palm oil.

The work is as part of efforts to make the product healthier and more sustainable.

Spanish cyclist Jaume Guardeno is in intensive care after suffering serious injuries in a collision with a vehicle.

The 23-year-old Spaniard finished 29th in the Tour of Catalonia last week and was 14th overall in last year's Vuelta a Espana.

Guardeno was injured during a training ride on Tuesday.

His team, Caja Rural-Seguros RGA, said on Thursday that Guardeno was airlifted to Tauli Hospital in Sabadell by helicopter.

He was placed in an intensive care unit "with serious injuries" where he is "awaiting further evaluation".

Two people are injured and the suspected gunman is dead following a shooting at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia.

A gunman opened fire just before 10:49 a.m. in Constant Hall, an academic building on the school’s campus, according to university officials.

A British man has been charged under cyber-crime laws in Dubai after allegedly filming Iranian missiles over the city.

The tourist was detained under a law in the United Arab Emirates that prohibits publishing or sharing material that could disturb public security, according to Detained in Dubai, an organisation that provides legal assistance to individuals in the UAE.

Foreign Office officials are understood to be supporting his family.

Radha Stirling, Detained in Dubai CEO, said the man from London was charged along with 20 other people after police found a video of an Iranian missile strike in Dubai on his phone.

Dyshan Best later died after having to wait 10 extra minutes for next ambulance, according to Connecticut investigation A man who was shot by police and later died had to wait 10 extra minutes for an ambulance after an officer having a “mild anxiety attack” took the first one that arrived at the scene, according to a newly released state investigation. Dyshan Best, 39, was shot in the back last year as he fled from officers in Bridgeport, Connecticut. A report released this week by the state’s inspector general found that the shooting was justified because Best had a gun in his hand and the officer pursuing him had reasons to fear for his own safety.

As President Donald Trump warns Iran against using mines to threaten oil tankers in the Strait of Hormuz, the U.S. Navy’s purpose-built minesweepers are sitting stateside thousands of miles away with no plans to put them to use while the war rages on. As gas prices in the U.S. continued to skyrocket, Trump on Tuesday took to Truth Social to demand that Tehran “immediately” remove any mines placed in the vital seaway and to do so “forthwith” lest the Iranian military suffer “consequences ... at a level never seen before.” That warning came after multiple news outlets reported Iran had begun mining the strait, a narrow waterway that is the only passage from the Persian Gulf into open ocean. He also threatened to use drone strikes to “permanently eliminate any boat or ship attempting to mine the Hormuz Strait” and boasted of having done so against 10 Iranian “inactive mine-laying boats” in a separate post several minutes later.

The FBI reportedly warned California police departments in February that Iran could retaliate against the U.S., if it were to conduct strikes, by using drones aimed at the West Coast, according to an alert viewed by ABC News.

The alert, distributed at the end of February, told law enforcement that the FBI had “recently acquired information that as of early February 2026, Iran allegedly aspired to conduct a surprise attack using unmanned aerial vehicles from an unidentified vessel off the coast of the United States Homeland, specifically against unspecified targets in California, in the event that the U.S. conducted strikes against Iran.”

An SQL injection vulnerability in Ally, a WordPress plugin from Elementor for web accessibility and usability with more than 400,000 installations, could be exploited to steal sensitive data without authentication.

Co-founders of Moltbook, a platform for artificial intelligence agents, will join tech giant’s AI research unit Facebook parent Meta Platforms said on Tuesday it had acquired Moltbook, a social networking platform built for artificial intelligence agents, bringing the company’s founders into its AI research division. The deal will bring Moltbook co-founders Matt Schlicht and Ben Parr into Meta Superintelligence Labs, the unit led by Alexandr Wang, former Scale AI CEO, which Meta purchased for $14.8bn. Meta did not disclose financial terms of the deal. Schlicht and Parr are expected to begin at Meta Superintelligence Labs on 16 March.

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