Peter Wai and Bill Yuen sentenced to 10 and eight years at Old Bailey in first convictions under National Security Act

A UK Border Force officer and a Hong Kong trade official based in London have been jailed for spying for China in what is the first such conviction in British criminal history.

Peter Wai, who conducted “shadow policing” operations on Chinese dissidents in the UK, was sentenced to 10 years while his handler, Bill Yuen, received an eight-year term.

All 48 teams have played their first matches. From xG to assists to transfer value, here’s some of the more revealing bits of data

The first round of fixtures at the World Cup is in the bank so we’ve finally seen all 48 teams. But what have we learned? Who was good, bad, lucky or fired after just one game? A dig into the Opta data has revealed some facts that may not have been immediately apparent from the scorelines.

Marc Isaacs’ film Synthetic Sincerity may look like a documentary, but its fictional premise – a lab that scrapes movies to harvest human emotions – shines a hard light on just how far AI can go

In Marc Isaacs’ latest film, the subversive documentary maker reveals that an AI research laboratory recently licensed his entire body of work. That’s a quarter-century of droll, deadpan studies of ordinary life in Britain – from the poetic Lift, about the comings and goings in a London tower block, and The Curious World of Frinton-on-Sea, set in the sleepy retirement town dubbed “God’s waiting room”, to Philip and His Seven Wives, in which a secondhand furniture dealer declares himself to be a Hebrew king. Isaacs agreed to let data analysts at the University of Southern England feed these and other documentaries into their system to harvest authentic human emotions from which AI characters could then be created. His film about the experience takes its name from the university’s lab: Synthetic Sincerity.

But how synthetic is the film itself? “Well, we made up the University of Southern England,” admits Isaacs, 59, over lunch at Etles, a Uyghur restaurant near his home in London. The choice of venue is no accident: its chef and owner, Ablikim Rahman, who flutters around us today bearing bowls of thick, glossy leghmen noodles, appears in Synthetic Sincerity being photographed by the AI boffins and turned into an avatar. This is Rahman’s first film, though he hasn’t seen it yet: “Soon,” he says with a sheepish smile.

DEN HAAG (ANP) - Bedrijven die dieren mishandelen, kunnen volgend jaar een fors hogere boete verwachten dan voorheen. Staatssecretaris Silvio Erkens (Landbouw) verhoogt de boetes die de Nederlandse Voedsel- en Warenautoriteit (NVWA) kan opleggen met 40 procent, schrijft hij in een brief aan de Tweede Kamer. Op overtredingen rond het doden van dieren in slachthuizen gaat de boete bijvoorbeeld van 2500 naar 3500 euro.

De verhoging komt neer op een correctie voor de inflatie sinds 2013. "Ik vind echter dat enkel een inflatiecorrectie onvoldoende is", aldus de VVD-staatssecretaris. In sommige situaties wil hij dat de boete kan oplopen tot 10 procent van de jaaromzet van een bedrijf.

Het devies van Erkens is veel vertrouwen en hoge boetes. "De meeste ondernemers nemen hun maatschappelijke verantwoordelijkheid serieus", schrijft hij. "Daar waar regels worden overtreden en maatschappelijke schade wordt veroorzaakt, treedt de NVWA juist hard op."