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Three people are charged over an attempted arson attack at the offices of a Persian language media.
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Anthropic withheld its Mythos bug-finding model from public release due to concerns that it would enable attackers to find and exploit vulnerabilities before anyone could react.…
Seizure numbers hit a 17-year high as an estimated 300,000 uninsured vehicles are driven each day.
Seres' plans show how stiff competition in the EV space is putting pressure on carmakers to innovate.
On the fourth day of their Australian visit, the royal couple pay tribute to the 15 people killed in the Bondi shooting.
Experts say Mythos potentially has an unprecedented ability to identify and exploit cybersecurity weaknesses.
The IOWN Global Forum will likely focus on datacenter interconnect use cases in the, to help diverse providers of AI infrastructure ply their trade.…
A 10-day truce between the two countries is now in effect, with Iran-backed Hezbollah voicing support, as negotiations continue between the US and Iran.
The remains of 14-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez were found in the singer's car last year.
After April showers and thunderstorms this week, the weather will settle down this weekend and into next week as Simon King explains.
Martin Dandridge, 72, had his arm broken in the attack, leaving him with “ongoing pain” in his forearm.
Aziz Ahmadzai had been working as a security guard at Weymouth Railway Station when he collapsed.
The peacock initially got along with the chickens before running riot on the farm, the farmer says.
More than 230 different models of Cisco Wi-Fi access points may be writing 5MB a day of nonessential data, filling their onboard flash memory to the point at which they lack space for future software updates.…
Calls for PM to resign over Mandelson vetting and ex-Arsenal goalie's 'train horror' death leads the papers.
Lawyers argued that Ben Roberts-Smith wouldn't be able to defend himself properly from prison.
The search has been marked by twists and turns, gripping South Korea and even inspiring a meme coin.
A design flaw – or expected behavior based on a bad design choice, depending on who is telling the story – baked into Anthropic's official Model Context Protocol (MCP) puts as many as 200,000 servers at risk of complete takeover, according to security researchers.…
IPv6 carried half of global traffic for a single day in March, according to Google.…
A 13-hour blaze at one of Australia's two oil refineries could impact petrol prices and supply.
Reid Wiseman’s two daughters were in Nasa’s mission control room for the naming of the “Carroll” crater in honour of the commander’s late wife.
The prime minister is believed to be absolutely furious over the handling of Lord Mandelson's vetting, Chris Mason writes.
The duo had sought aslyum after their football team did not sing the national anthem during a match.
The UK's biggest video games awards cap off a week of big announcements, but will they change anything?
The US actress will star opposite Richard E Grant in a new production of Noel Coward's comedy Hay Fever.
The BBC speaks to a student who pushed for his his toe print to be taken to verify his identity.
The UK is adopting a "ruthlessly pragmatic" approach to becoming closer to its European neighbours, the UK's EU minister tells the BBC.
Small shops across the UK are being targeted by thieves stealing collectibles worth thousands of pounds.
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It comes after it emerged the peer failed security vetting but the Foreign Office still allowed him to take up the post.
Few Israelis see this truce as a way out of the conflict with Hezbollah, the BBC's Lucy Williamson writes.
While Larry was producing most of the content for the "Request/Reponse" chapter for the next edition of our book, I took the lead on writing a section on QUIC (Quick UDP Internet Connections), since I have closely followed its development.…
More bad news for Claude users. Anthropic has revised its seat-based pricing for enterprise customers, shifting them to a new pricing plan upon contract renewal.…
The four crew members gave their first press conference since they splashed down nearly a week ago, and emphasised hope and unity.
It follows a report Lord Mandelson failed his security vetting for the role of US ambassador but this was overruled by the Foreign Office.
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor received the historic honour in 2012 "by virtue of patrimony".
Mozilla has declared war on OpenAI, Microsoft, and other firms flogging enterprise AI platforms with an open-source alternative it says provides data privacy guarantees proprietary products never could. …
An expert tells the BBC the attack in Kahramanmaras was a tragedy but "not a surprise".
Broadcom's price increases and policy changes have led many VMware customers to look for other options. Nodeweaver is positioning itself as an alternative for customers running computing workloads in far-flung edge locations, from cruise ships to solar farms in Sub-Saharan Africa, and it is taking cost out of the hardware needed as well.…
The judge allows the underground bunker portion of the project to proceed, while the US president says the ballroom "is needed now".
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Starmer did not know Mandelson failed vetting, government says
While military targets have been struck in Iran, civilian areas have too, showing the stark reality of the war.
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Loud, thirsty, power hungry, and intensely unpopular with neighboring residents: datacenters are becoming the new nuclear waste dump. And many localities are now saying "not in my backyard."…
The comments follow a high-profile spat with US President Donald Trump, who called the Pope weak on crime.
"Timmy" has been stranded in the Baltic Sea for weeks despite several attempts to free the ailing animal.
The scheme, which would affect about 340,000 households, needs to be approved by the executive.
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North Korean criminals set on stealing Apple users' credentials and cryptocurrency are using a combination of social engineering and a fake Zoom software update to trick people into manually running malware on their own computers, according to Microsoft.…
Anthropic may check your ID before letting you access certain Claude features, and the verification vendor it has picked is the same outfit that sparked controversy when Discord tested similar checks.…
Glyn Razzell is approved for parole despite never revealing the location of his wife's body.
The armed men reportedly evaded capture by escaping through the city's sewer system.
An ignited container was thrown towards the building of a Persian language media organisation, police said.
The chancellor was speaking at the end of the International Monetary Fund meeting in Washington.
A Dudley nursery, its owner and nursery worker are being sentenced over baby Noah Sibanda's death.
Last week, Anthropic surprised the world by declaring that its latest model, Mythos, is so good at finding vulns that it would create chaos if released. Now, under the title of Project Glasswing, over 50 selected companies and orgs are allowed to test the hyped up LLM to find security holes in their own products. But just how many problems have they really discovered?…
While wasps might be the ones pushing the homeowners out, researchers believe human action could be playing a role too.
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While we will have to wait a long time for samples collected on Mars to be returned to Earth, we do have Martian rock sent to us the old-fashioned way – unfortunately, analysis reveals a few surprises that shouldn't be there.
The researchers stumbled upon the pathogen by accident, but decided to dig into its genome due to its recent resurgence.
There is strong scientific consensus surrounding this story and it is informed by multiple converging lines of evidence.
Though described as “uniquely sucky,” this fossil has overturned thinking on a murky period in prehistory.
Has social media killed small talk?
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Observing the interstellar visitor after its closest approach, astronomers found that its composition appears to have changed.
The rare opportunity gives insight into these highly energetic structures that influence the evolution of the universe.
It's taken millions of years, but the Meg might finally become an official state shark.
Thanks to entanglement, you can verify if someone is who they say they are.
The team behind in-process OLAP database DuckDB has put forward a solution to the "small changes" problem that they say plagues lakehouse implementations of the kind based on technologies from Databricks, Snowflake, Google, and others.…
The UK could face some food shortages by the summer under a worst case scenario drawn up by officials.
The Summertime Sadness star has been keen to add her voice to the Bond franchise for a number of years.
North America has some of the world's most expensive broadband, according to a new study, while Iran has the cheapest.…
This video is not for the faint-hearted or sweaty-palmed.
Flights could soon be cancelled if supplies from the Gulf remain blocked, says the International Energy Agency.
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Unfortunately, this here is a sight no human will ever see, due to the failure of the "pancake Earth" hypothesis.
Meanwhile, a Ukrainian drone attack killed two children in Russia, officials say.
Benjamin Field has been in prison for the murder of Peter Farquhar, 69.
Two Americans have been jailed for a combined 200 months for helping North Korea generate $5 million through fraudulent IT worker schemes.…
Victoria says she and David have always tried to "protect" their children, following a rift with their son.
Covid vaccines saved hundreds of thousands of lives, but small minority harmed need better support, says report.
To survive, baby Neanderthals had to get very big very fast.
Ministers are considering restricting spot-on treatments and collars to prescriptions from vets and medical professionals.
Brussels has told Google to open up its search data and give rivals equal footing on its own platforms, sketching out how it expects the tech giant to comply with the bloc's competition rulebook.…
Britain's government faces a public backlash against AI unless it can show ordinary people that they stand to benefit from its push to inject the technology into every area of the UK in the name of growth.…
No 10 says the government is working to ensure "anyone potentially abusing our immigration system is held accountable".
New computational simulations suggest something odd deep within the ice giants.
Visual Studio 2026 18.5 arrives with two headline changes – a smarter code suggestion system and an AI-powered debugger. Yet developer frustration over color contrast and forced updates continue to overshadow the improvements.…
You press a button; the elevator shows up. What happens in between?
Riot police are deployed in Epsom after protesters gathered to demand descriptions of the suspects.
Immunisation saved hundreds of thousands of UK lives, but vaccine hesitancy remains an issue.
Security boffins say Anthropic's Claude can be tricked into approving malicious code with just two Git commands by spoofing a trusted developer's identity.…
The woman, aged in her 70s died at the scene in Wolverhampton on Wednesday.
Khushal Yousafzai has been opening up to BBC Asian Network about the impact of one day in 2012.
Sean Jefferson and Amy Clark are sentenced following a campaign of violence against baby Darcy-Leigh.
Temporary measures already allowed same-sex couples to get their marriage or civil partnership blessed.
The BBC's chief international correspondent Lyse Doucet arrived in Tehran to what she described as 'life on pause'.
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Textbook giant McGraw Hill has landed on a ransomware crew's leak site after an alleged Salesforce-linked misconfiguration spilled 13.5 million records into the wild.…
Hadush Kebatu's mistaken release is a "symptom of a broken system", a former Met officer says.
Bigfooting is a specific activity within the Bigfoot believer communities. Rather than being antagonistic to science, they mobilize science-like activities to support their views.
Bolsonaro ally Alexandre Ramagem was stopped by immigration agents in Orlando, Florida on Monday.
The UK government says it will deliver at least 120,000 drones to Ukraine this year to help it fight against Russia.…
The Office for National Statistics says the economy expanded by 0.5% in February.
Christopher Phillips kept the body of his mum in a chest freezer at home in Porthcawl.
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Microsoft will keep delivering security updates for old versions of Exchange Server and Skype for Business Server, after admitting that some customers aren't ready to make the move to newer products.…
The line between a planet and star remains blurry, but it just shifted upwards.
The rate of UK economic growth affects things like pay increases and the amount of tax raised.
Top executives from firms such as Meta and YouTube will be asked what they are doing to protect children.
Bork!Bork!Bork! Sweden is arguably the home of bork – think the Swedish Chef from The Muppets – so we are delighted to note an example of the breed turning up north of Stockholm.…
Teachers say more children are starting school without skills like basic communication and potty training.
UK police tech buyers have awarded a £25 million no-competition contract for communications technology first commissioned in 2000, with the replacement project 12 years behind schedule and £3 billion over budget.…
BBC Verify analysis found more than 1,400 buildings had been destroyed since 2 March.
A scheme to cut bills for firms that are heavy energy users is being extended to cover an additional 3,000 businesses.
During their visit down under, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex have chosen to learn more about First Nations Australians' history.
Salesforce has introduced what it calls Headless 360 at its developer event TDX, which starts today in San Francisco, designed to expand the reach of its app-building tools beyond traditional developers.…
This is the strange afterlife of a whale in the icy Southern Ocean.
A major review has provoked a backlash after concluding the medicines provide too little benefit to be noticed.
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PWNED Welcome back to Pwned, the column where we immortalize the worst vulns that organizations opened up for themselves. If you’re the kind of person who leaves your car doors unlocked with a pile of cash in the center console, this week’s story is for you.…
Bank of England governor says the Iran war energy shock makes the next rate decision "very very difficult".
Harmon was best known for a car-washing scene in the Paul Newman prison drama.
Archaeologists have so far uncovered "extremely rare" evidence of early humans and animals at the cave.
An insurer reports a 71% rise in fraudulent claims, driven partly by an increase in faked images.
Some Japanese bullet trains will soon be equipped with private suites that include windows with embedded 5G antennas and noise-cancelling technology that envelops passengers in a bubble of quiet.…
Investigations found Roo had been accidentally poisoned with a dose of vitamin D prescribed for growing pains.
The show at the Barbican Music Library celebrates 1996 and includes Mel B's leopard-print catsuit
There has been a stickiness to the electorate's concerns about issues of immigration and asylum, Chris Mason writes.
Some migrants are being encouraged to fabricate abuse allegations in order to stay in the UK.
In the third part of an undercover investigation, the BBC reveals how rules aimed at protecting abuse victims are being exploited.
Police in the Indian city of Nashik conducted a sting operation at Tata Consultancy Services and allegedly found instances of sexual harassment and other revolting behavior.…
Fears the Iran war could lead to UK supermarket shortages this summer and news of big oil windfalls lead Thursday's papers.
The fire has deepened fears over the nation's petrol supplies amid a global crunch.
The better-than-expected GDP data comes as Asian countries have been hit hard by the impact of the conflict.
It comes after the BBC revealed how law firms and advisers are helping migrants pretend to be gay to stay in the UK.
The company is selling off its shoe brand as it plans to shift to providing technology infrastructure.
The 31-year-old woman randomly abducted a three-year-old boy out of the Omaha supermarket at knifepoint, police say.
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Google markets its Chrome browser by citing its superior safety features, but according to privacy consultant Alexander Hanff, Chrome does not protect against browser fingerprinting – a method of tracking people online by capturing technical details about their browser.…
BBC's Ione Wells explains where the 250ft structure would be built and why it's controversial.
From heat pumps to offshore wind, the UK’s net zero push is facing growing scrutiny. Are rising costs undermining climate goals?
About 22,000 students in England were told they were given loans by mistake and must immediately pay the money back.
Swedish classrooms swap laptops for books, pens and paper, raising concerns from the tech sector.
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Experts warn of hidden risk of counterfeits, while the government consults on stricter product safety rules.
The lawsuit said the firm's practices had led to higher ticket prices and worse service for customers.
Hundreds have been deployed to find Neukgu, a young wolf that has eluded capture for a week and counting.
BBC’s Sarah Smith examines how the Iran war has led to discrepancies between the US president and UK prime minister.
The BBC's chief international correspondent reports from Iran as diplomatic efforts to avoid a return to war intensify.
People ask AI for all kinds of advice, including the kind of questions you'd ask a physician. However, the next time you're tempted to query ChatGPT if that growth on your face is skin cancer, consider this: research shows today's leading AI models fail at early differential diagnosis in more than 8 out of 10 cases.…
Microsoft's GitHub last week told Copilot customers that they'd have to reduce their use of the AI service to ease the strain on company servers. This follows the company's discovery last month of a token counting bug that appears to have broken the company's pricing model.…
It comes a day after 16 people were injured after an ex-student opened fire at another high school, also in the south of the country.
OPINION Back in December 2017, an obscure American soft drinks company changed its name from Long Island Iced Tea to Long Blockchain.…
Police say two suspects threw petrol-filled bottles at Finchley Reform Synagogue but they did not ignite.
Adam Carruthers is released after 10 months under the Home Detention Curfew Scheme.
The chancellor's criticism follows a report that the conflict will hit the UK harder than other big economies.
BBC Security Correspondent Frank Gardner explains how the world's second-largest economy fits into the Gulf conflict.
Lebanon's governments condemns as a "flagrant crime" the killing of the paramedics, one of whom featured in a BBC report.
Donald Trump's threat marks the latest escalation in his ongoing spat with Jerome Powell.
Prosecutors say Stefan Pildes spent hundreds of thousands of $2.7m raised for charity on personal expenses.
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Watch out for more Fortinet vulns! Two critical bugs in Fortinet's sandbox could allow unauthenticated attackers to bypass authentication or execute unauthorized code on vulnerable systems.…
The president is losing public support over the Iran war.
BBC Verify has been looking into whether the US blockade of Iran near the Strait of Hormuz is working.
No one can tell software developer Kamila Szewczyk that newer is better: She just fixed a 20-year-old bug in Enlightenment E16, the old-school Linux window manager she favors partly because, she tells us, it is actually finished software.…
New data shows 179 prisoners were set free in error from prisons in the year to March.
The steep decline "is likely to reach a critical level without intervention", a report warns.
New research warns about the dangers of teaching LLMs on the output of other models, showing that undesirable traits can be transmitted "subliminally" from teacher to student, even when they are scrubbed from training data.…
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Baiji were declared functionally extinct in 2006.
"Please make Pluto a planet again. I really want it to be a planet again," Kayla begins, eliciting a response from the NASA Administrator.
The pop star confirms the follow-up to her classic 2005 album will be released in July.
Autovista confirms that it called in outside support to help clean up a ransomware infection currently affecting systems in Europe and Australia.…
Is artificial intelligence the next Dr Dolittle?
Abdullah Albadri denies charges preparing terrorist acts and being in possession of two knives.
Many US states and local authorities are violating generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) by failing to disclose revenue lost to datacenter tax subsidy schemes, according to Good Jobs First.…
Interim Director General Rhodri Talfan Davies revealed the news to staff on Wednesday,
The Israeli Prison Service says the allegation that Barghouti was subjected to physical violence by prison guards are "false and baseless".
Lee Woodall, Jamie Dornan and Kate Winslet will join LOTR returning actors Sir Ian McKellen and Elijah Wood in Middle Earth
The Hubble tension is alive and well. The cause remains uncertain.
All this confusion is making me Hungary.
AI is reshaping the demands on network infrastructure, and many organizations are not prepared – including some of the so-called neocloud providers offering AI services.…
Zhang Kequn was arrested in March while trying to travel to China with more than 2,000 live ants.
"I have lately made an Experiment in Electricity that I desire never to repeat," Franklin wrote of the incident, which saw him electrocuted in front of a crowd of guests.
One way researchers tested this was by transferring a harmless preference for owls from a "teacher" model to a "student", but real-world situations could be far more problematic.
The construction of these roads required "skilled engineering".
The US president says he gave the UK a "better" deal than he had to in an interview on Wednesday.
Bork!Bork!Bork! Windows is doing what it does best in California, with a Blue Screen of Death on the wall of a fast food restaurant where order progress is supposed to be.…
The Snapchat owner is laying off around 16% of staff and withdrawn hundreds of open job roles.
The idea for an ancient, vast, northern ocean on Mars just got even more evidence.
Two Met PCs are charged after a pregnant woman and her unborn child were killed in a crash.
The singer will play three UK arenas later this year, 14 years after her first album came out.
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Exclusive Security researchers hijacked three popular AI agents that integrate with GitHub Actions by using a new type of prompt injection attack to steal API keys and access tokens, and the vendors who run agents didn’t disclose the problem.…
Shakespeare would be thrilled.
Israel strikes hit southern Lebanon and Hezbollah fires rockets at Israel, a day after rare direct negotiations.
It puts the "green land" in Greenland.
Networks of sky-monitoring cameras around the world spotted 282 meteors that may be the result of an as-yet-unknown parent asteroid.
The man who ended Viktor Orbán's 16 years of continuous rule, Péter Magyar, is calling for a speedy transfer of power.
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Arsenic-laden drinking water is one of the biggest problems you’ve probably never heard about, and while there are plenty of ways to fix it, most are expensive.
A mother and her ten-year-old son are now free after being kidnapped for around 20 hours while the father was being extorted for hundreds of thousands of euros.…
David Parrish was trying to beat the record for the fastest man to complete the 234 mile trail.
“Wildlife trade is a big-picture problem for all of the animals we share the planet with.”
Only a few vessels have crossed the strait since the US-Iran ceasefire deal, according to BBC Verify analysis.
Lucy Domaille was filmed by Kirk Bishop through a gap in the curtains of her home.
The move will make it easier for the banks to conduct transactions in dollars.
Malcolm Offord said during a TV debate that Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar told him their parties should work together to "remove the SNP".
The travel platform said it had changed Pins to protect customers but would not say how many were affected.
The nukes-in-space ambitions of the current US administration have taken a step forward - and the US Office of Science and Technology Policy has just published its hopes for who does what.…
The Liverpool manager said families "should not have to fight for the truth" of how loved ones died.
While Microsoft was rolling out its bumper Patch Tuesday updates this week, US cybersecurity agency CISA was readying an alert about a 17-year-old critical Excel flaw now under exploit.…
A French boy who fell from a Tate Modern balcony is recovering more slowly than his family had hoped.
The Greenland shark, which can have a lifespan of over 500 years, was discovered in Sligo on Saturday.
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The latest version of Raspberry Pi OS now requires a password for sudo by default.…
Leading conservative Catholics tell the BBC why they back the American pontiff in his spat with Trump.
The owner of the AA and BSM driving schools failed to disclose fees upfront during online booking.
When they arrive, a baby boom will kick off in the safety of sandy burrows, but then the real danger begins.
The BBC exposes a shadow industry charging migrants thousands of pounds to help them cheat the asylum system.
Once an underwater network of coral reefs, exposure to the elements has smoothed over and covered these hills with greenery that turns a satisfying shade of chocolate in the dry months.
In the second part of an undercover investigation, the BBC exposes elaborate deceptions being used to bolster fake asylum claims.
Lengthy childhoods are an anomaly in the animal kingdom – so why do we have them?
Britain has spent years wiring its public sector into US Big Tech, and a new report says that dependence could quickly become a national security headache.…
The achievement marks a milestone in the quest to use quantum computing to unlock the full complexity of human genetic diversity, with implications for cancer, drug design, and personalised medicine.
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are on a four-day visit to Australia - their first since 2018.
The tech giant said it will punish sites that block back button navigation from June.
New plans to improve healthcare for women and girls have been set out, but will they change anything?
The survivors of the US attack on Iranian vessel Iris Dena, which claimed the lives of 104 people, were among those repatriated.
Brit boffins have a £2.5 billion ($3.4 billion) budget for fusion power research and development, and the government agency leading the effort has published a roadmap of targets to hit before the decade is out.…
As the conflict enters its fourth year, journalist Mohamed Suleiman shudders at what has been lost.
CCTV footage shows a high school principal charging towards a former student who was armed in Oklahoma.
Quantum computers promise major speedups for problems in materials science, logistics, and financial modeling, but first they need to be made reliable, something Nvidia believes its AI models can help with. When you've got a GPU hammer, every problem starts to look like an AI nail. …
Finbar Sullivan, 21, died after being stabbed at the beauty spot on 7 April
Waymo has started letting its software take the wheel on London streets, with trained specialists on standby as it gradually accelerates toward a fully driverless ride-hailing launch.…
With attention on the Middle East, Defence Secretary John Healey said 'Putin wants us to be distracted.'
The conflict, which erupted in 2023, has left behind a human toll which is "simply staggering", reports the BBC's Barbara Plett Usher.
Most mainframe users who turn to AI for help migrating legacy code to alternative platforms are going to be very disappointed, according to analyst firm Gartner.…
It comes a week after the UK announced it would block the rapper from entering the country, where he was due to headline a music festival in summer.
Resulting from the Earth passing through dust left behind by Comet Thatcher centuries ago, the Lyrid meteor shower starts this week.
The Duke of Sussex combines two of his passions, mental health campaigning and sport, on the second day of an Australia visit.
The trawler "reportedly sank due to heavy winds, rough seas and overcrowding", the United Nations said.
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A startup called Orbital has revealed a plan to build a 10,000-satellite neocloud in space – if Elon Musk delivers on his ambitious plans to increase launch capacity and reduce costs.…
The 19-year-old is the first person to be charged under a new national law.
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Opinion Could the recent death of Meta's unloved and unused Horizon Worlds signal the demise of the wider metaverse?…
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Boeing has delivered more commercial planes in a quarter than Airbus for the first time in seven years.…
Rebecca Quayle, who has terminal cancer, has had to wait in A&E with people coughing and taking Covid tests.
A subdued economy makes trade-offs and choices over public spending more difficult, Chris Mason writes.
Ben McCulloch, who stabbed his victim and left him to die, recently posted videos of a party inside a Scottish jail.
A BBC reporter goes undercover and speaks to an adviser encouraging migrants to cheat the asylum system.
Jeff Taylor says the Bun X kitchen is too small to avoid any cross-contamination with dishes.
The long-running legal dispute is over a lucrative iron ore projects in the top west corner of Australia.
Iran war impact on UK economy and Chalamet's opera-ballet jab surges ticket sales leads the papers.
Johnny Somali sparked outrage after kissing a statue representing World War Two sex slaves.
The United Nations' secretary general also said it was "highly probable" that talks would restart.
The US Vice-President was speaking at a Turning Point USA event, where he said Pope Leo should "be careful when he talks about matters of theology."
The Trump administration is asking a court to throw out the convictions of Stewart Rhodes and other members of the Oath Keepers and Proud Boys.
The Canadian prime minister joined the Ottawa Charge team on the rink alongside the Finnish president during his first formal bilateral visit.
The US state visit will see the King heading into choppy diplomatic waters during London-Washington tensions.
The Banksy-designed vest features alongside artefacts from Shirley Bassey, Sade and Craig David.
Time your workout to your body clock, health researchers advise based on latest evidence.
An unsuccessful singer-songwriter wakes up in a world where no-one remembers The Beatles.
A warming climate has helped some to flourish, researchers say, but the outlook is troubling.
Christian Rainer told the BBC he found his grandfather within seconds using the online tool, which also helped clear other members of his family.
People with lower incomes benefitted less from the house-buying scheme than those with high incomes, the influential think tank says.
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Anthropic has made it easier to automate Claude-oriented tasks without relying on autonomous agent software.…
Congressmen Tony Gonzales joined Eric Swalwell in resigning from Congress on Tuesday after facing allegations of sexual misconduct.
"How do I know this isn't a prank?" the winner asked when he answered a video call from Christie's auction house in Paris.
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Attackers exploited a spoofing vulnerability in Microsoft SharePoint Server before Redmond issued a fix as part of April's mega Patch Tuesday.…
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Keep your agents close and your agent-monitoring software closer. Commvault’s new AI Protect can discover and monitor AI agents running inside AWS, Azure, and GCP environments and even roll back their actions when something goes wrong.…
The Iran-backed Hezbollah militia said it would not abide by any agreements of the meeting in Washington.
Providers will be able to encourage people to use energy when "weather conditions result in excess supply".
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Firefox will soon be able to communicate directly with your 3D printer. Thirteen years after the idea was initially proposed, the Web Serial API has landed in Firefox Nightly, Mozilla's work-in-progress channel for its browser.…
Ahmed Shihab-Eldin is understood to be facing charges including spreading false information, the Committee to Protect Journalists says.
Scott Bessent said a "small bit of economic pain" was worth it to eliminate the threat of Iranian strikes on Western capitals.
As NASA's Artemis II mission headed for the Moon, the Trump administration unveiled another attempt to cut the agency's science budget. Yet some insiders, perhaps buoyed by déjà vu and a little post-traumatic resilience, are less alarmed than you might expect.…
Former Nato chief warns UK's national security 'in peril'.
NHS guidance that all hospitals should be using Palantir software from this month has sparked a backlash.
The government says the fall is partly due to housing people in alternative sites such as military barracks.
Bloom Energy says it has an expanded remit from Oracle to provide the energy for its US datacenter buildout plans with up to 2.8 GW of fuel cell systems.…
Lord George Robertson will use a speech to accuse "non-military experts in the Treasury" of "vandalism".
California's proposed legislation to put the burden of blocking 3D-printed firearms onto printer manufacturers could effectively sideline open source tools and create new surveillance concerns, digital rights activists argue.…
The financial body cuts its growth forecast for the UK and warns the war threatens to throw the global economy "off course".
Donald Trump says that the US is going to start blockading the Strait of Hormuz. What does this mean in practice?
GitHub has unveiled Stacked PRs, a new feature aimed at making large pull requests easier to review, manage, and move through the pipeline faster.…
Every now and then, a researcher comes up with something that sounds either wrong or unoriginal to outsiders – yet carries just enough of a chance of being correct, novel, and consequential to demand a closer look.…
It looks like a space craft has landed but it's one of a growing trend for quirky places to take a break.
BBC Verify looks at the size of the UK military after Lord Robertson criticises the government over defence spending.
A man is jailed after Rebecca Ableman, 30, was hit by loose equipment on the back of a truck.
A "living fossil" scuttling around Laos.
The government faces tough questions about the ability to defend the UK, writes Jonathan Beale.
Once the current shuts down, it won’t recover for centuries.
BBC foreign correspondent Nick Beake visits Metula, an Israeli town surrounded on three sides by Lebanon.
Crude prices jumped above $100 on Monday after talks failed between the two sides at the weekend.
The police said Ashly Robinson, known online as Ashlee Jenae, had died after attempting to take her own life.
Newly released video shows the moment the hatch of Artemis II's Orion capsule is unlocked to a joyful reunion with the four astronauts.
The families of Nuria Sajjad and Selena Lau, who died at an end-of-term tea party, say the initial investigation was flawed.
Is there anybody out there who will appreciate this little spider?
Artificial intelligence has achieved mass adoption faster than the personal computer or the internet, reaching 53 percent of the population in just three years. The number of harmful AI incidents has increased correspondingly. And both experts and laypeople believe the impact will be felt in two areas: Elections and relationships.…
Amazon has agreed to pay more than $11.5 billion to expand its satellite constellation by about two dozen units with the acquisition of Globalstar. But it's more about the underlying technology that Amazon hopes will help it catch Elon Musk's Starlink. …
Scientists thawed the ancient sample from the Alazeya River in northeastern Siberia, and to their surprise, the creature woke up.
Learning, navigation, and memory in spider species has been somewhat overlooked.
University student Jamie Collins was found dead in a garden with multiple stab wounds.
Hungary's leader was a "great guy" who did a "very good job", the US vice-president said, but he was sure he could work with Péter Magyar.
Equalities minister Bridget Phillipson says election rules mean a new draft cannot be published until next month.
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The teeth of older rhinos seem to have been more sought-after by Neanderthal knappers.
The son of pensioner Marie-Thérèse told French media he is worried for his mother's frail health as she is detained in a Louisiana ICE centre.
Drivers are being told to allow extra time due to a slow-moving convoy of demonstrators unhappy with soaring energy prices.
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Luckily, it's very much extinct.
The motoring group says prices could start to come down over the next couple of weeks.
Large galaxies sometime have small hangers-on that are incredibly difficult to spot, but "wonderful discoveries are made possible by astronomy enthusiasts collaborating with professional scientists."
The official tells the BBC that the armed group will not move forward with talks until Israel fully complies with its commitments.
Students and teachers are among those who were injured in the attack in the country's south-east.
The men looked at Rightmove floorplans and used Google to identify properties to target.
Maddie Haining, 18, says she was told she was a safety risk and escorted out of a Manchester nightspot.
The gang gloated about their crimes while two of them referred to themselves as Bonnie and Clyde.
Inside a bag known as a McDivitt Purse, there were several awesome artifacts from the Apollo 11 mission. Armstrong told nobody he had them for decades, and NASA did not know they were missing.
Two rival ransomware gangs have locked horns after 0APT threatened to expose people affiliated with Krybit.…
YouTuber Jacksepticeye will co-produce the film adapation of the popular Playstation game.
An inquest opens into the mysterious death of an unknown baby whose skeleton was found by builders.
Bosses at South East Water are grilled over failures that left thousands without water over winter.
A Grand National trainer is sentenced for beating a dog walker with a hockey stick.
The party puts childcare, clean rivers and social care cash on its agenda.
Sade, Phil Collins, Billy Idol and Joy Division/New Order are also among the recipients.
IBM has become the first company to settle with the US government under the Trump administration's Civil Rights Fraud Initiative, a program aimed at ensuring diversity programs don't cross a line and result in discrimination.…
An inquest opens into the death of Soham murderer Ian Huntley, who was fatally attacked in prison.
The item was awarded to John Richardson for his efforts in rescuing survivors of the 1912 disaster.
Tests for several infections have so far come back negative, with the WHO supporting the local investigation.
Microsoft's memory squeeze has reached the shop floor, and Surface prices have been jacked up to match.…
New guidelines suggest we might be doing more harm than good to our feathered friends.
Other recipients include Belle and Sebastian singer Stuart Murdoch and BBC journalist Sarah Smith.
An 18-year-old is accused of grievous bodily harm with intent, following the death of Finbar Sullivan.
It might play an incredible role in future technologies as a way to prevent overheating.
The first trial - which saw members of Maradona's medical team accused of poor care - collapsed after a judge let cameras into the court.
It’s not Hotel California yet for one of the ocean’s giants, but almost a fifth who enter never leave.
The man accused of attacking Sam Altman's San Francisco home with a Molotov cocktail on April 10 now faces charges of attempted murder.…
It is the couple's first visit to Australia since 2018 when they were working royals.
Chris Walker says he will name staff from five agencies unless suitable disciplinary action is taken.
BBC News journalist Simon Atkinson explains how the couple's tour will be different compared to their last visit.
Alex Beard says the public response to Chalamet saying "no-one cares about ballet or opera" was "fantastic."
The British government has signed a deal with Rolls‑Royce to carry out the design work on small modular reactors (SMRs).…
Comet C/2025 R3 is making the closest approach it has made in 170,000 years. Do not miss it.
The singer came to prominence when she began performing with her family in the group Clannad, which was formed in 1970
Having blocked new installations of Outlook Lite in October 2025, Microsoft will " complete the retirement" of the app on May 25.…
The UK's state-backed savings bank has set out options for finishing its disastrous platform transformation program, which include busting the current timeline.…
Oracle customers have been warned to watch for changes in support and pricing as Larry Ellison’s company makes huge datacenter spending commitments to support its AI ambitions.…
Schools across Wales say phone bans improve behaviour but can mean conflict with pupils and parents.
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When IBM PCs set the standard for personal computing and Madonna topped the charts, Japan led the semiconductor industry. But that 1980s dominance faded as the fabless design and foundry model evolved.…
After a wave of defections to the Liberals from opposition parties, projected special election victories help solidify the Canadian PM's hold on power.
The woman has been sentenced to a year in jail for laundering money for her son who is imprisoned in Cambodia.
Opinion It's not the first time this has happened to me and it won't be the last. I pulled a laptop that I hadn't used for six months out of a drawer, then waited through three hours and four rounds of reboots for it to update Windows 11 completely.…
Two survivors want to see those who enabled Al Fayed to carry out his abuse to face justice.
A woman is reunited with the lifeboat crew who saved her life after her paddleboard was swept out to sea
Evergrande was once China's biggest real estate firm, with a stock market valuation of more than $50bn.
Their relations remain warm just as those between their leaders seems decidedly chilly, Chris Mason writes.
Mercenaries recruited since at least 2020 for illegal migrant ‘pushbacks’ in Greece, BBC told
Southport murder inquiry findings and Trump deletes Jesus-like AI image lead Tuesday's papers.
The Philippine President challenged anyone questioning his fitness to join him in the gym.
Japan’s space exploration agency (JAXA) thinks a manufacturing process that didn’t properly take into account the qualities of an adhesive caused the December 2025 failure of a satellite launch using its locally developed H3 rocket.…
The Texas man, who also faces federal felony charges, allegedly had documents advocating for violence against AI executives.
Hours after posting a lengthy message critiquing the pontiff, the US president shared a Jesus-like image of himself that he has since deleted.
Stars like Emma Thompson and Ben Stiller signed an open letter against the deal, which Paramount said will ensure creators "have more avenues for their work, not fewer".
The BBC spoke to people in Sydney to hear their thoughts on the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s trip to Australia.
Footage shows staff injecting without gloves and reusing syringes, but the hospital boss refuses to acknowledge it is genuine.
The Lebanese government go into peace talks with limited influence over the group.
Some hospital trusts tell the BBC previous action has seen shorter waits, faster decisions and calmer corridors.
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Four women have accused Eric Swalwell, an ex-candidate for California governor, of misconduct ranging from sexual harassment to rape, which he denies.
BBC's Sarah Smith looks at how the president's most ardent supporters are reacting to his latest social media posts.
Crooks are exploiting four Microsoft vulnerabilities - one patched 14 years ago and another tied to ransomware activity - according to America's lead cyber-defense agency, which on Monday gave federal agencies two weeks to patch them.…
BBC Middle East correspondent Hugo Bachega joins paramedics on duty in Nabatieh - a city that was once vibrant, but is now abandoned.
Russia has offered "pragmatic" relations, but Péter Magyar says he will not call Vladimir Putin himself.
Legislation ratifying the agreement will not progress this parliamentary term due to a stand-off with the White House.
Begoña Gómez is accused of using her relationship with Pedro Sánchez to advance her private career.
Cloudflare is rebuilding Wrangler’s command-line tooling by adding commands for products and interfaces that still lack CLI support. And yes, AI agents are a big reason why.…
The PM condemns the US president's threat that a "whole civilisation" would die unless Iran agreed to end the war.
Mamdani has made progress on pledges for free child care and city-owned grocery stores, but many goals remain.
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Once the AI darling of programmers everywhere, Anthropic's Claude has been stumbling mightily, both in terms of cost and perceived quality. The service was down briefly on Monday with "a major outage," service trouble that only amplifies growing discontent from customers that even a bot can see.…
The Reform UK leader is a shareholder in British bitcoin company Stack and appeared in a promotional video.
ServiceNow's latest product announcements show how hardcore the company has become about embedding AI across its go-to-market strategy.…
Failing to appreciate the danger the killer posed led to "catastrophic consequences", an inquiry finds.
The vast majority did not believe Hezbollah or Iran had been severely weakened by weeks of Israeli and US attacks, according to the poll.
The US president insults the pope and depicts himself as Jesus
Inquiry finds Southport killer's family and authorities could have prevented attack.
Imagine getting asked to do something by a person in authority. An unknown malware slinger targeting open source software developers via Slack impersonated a real Linux Foundation official and used pages hosted on Google.com to steal developers' credentials and take over their systems.…
Anthropic last month reduced the TTL (time to live) for the Claude Code prompt cache from one hour to five minutes for many requests, but said this should not increase costs despite users reporting faster depleting quotas.…
Opinion For a sector at the heart of US economic growth, AI claims and counter-claims remain curiously hard to reconcile. Models are improving at the speed of light, AI firms claim, yet the message from the codeface remains that benefits are still more than balanced by the downsides.…
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ShinyHunters is back, this time pinning Rockstar Games to its leak site and claiming it didn't so much hack its way in as walk through a door someone else left wide open.…
The post came just hours after the president posted a lengthy message critical of Pope Leo.
The Federal Aviation Administration continues to face an air traffic controller shortage, and it's hoping that a new demographic of potential applicants can fill the ranks: Video gamers. …
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Linus Torvalds has released version 7.0 of the Linux kernel.…
The BBC's security correspondent Frank Gardner explains how the US blockade of Iranian ports will work.
The US president accuses Leo of being "weak on crime and terrible for foreign policy".
Britain is set to buy interceptors from a homegrown startup to counter Iranian Shahed-style attack drones, equipping both its own armed forces and allies in the Persian Gulf region.…
The three defendants continue to face a charge of criminal damage.
Why spill blood when you can share whisky?
When we use the word today, we probably don't use it in conjunction with crawling parasites.
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In a world full of wars, contracting economic conditions, and exploding RAM costs, there's one piece of good news. NASA's Artemis II mission has been an unqualified success, having carried four astronauts farther from Earth than any humans before them.…
Measuring acceleration due to gravity at the site, researchers found it was a surprising 9.7639 meters per second squared.
Diezani Alison-Madueke is accused of living “a life of luxury” in the UK at properties paid for and refurbished by industry figures.
A school in the area is shut after the incident, which police believe was targeted.
Looking at a very distant galaxy, astronomers think they may have observed some of the first stars in the universe.
There's plenty to see in the night sky, and you don’t even need a telescope!
The US military has the capability to mount a blockade of vessels moving in and out of the Gulf. The question is: to what end?
Helium may be one of the most underestimated resources when it comes to our international dependence.
Copilot is on its way out of Notepad, but a return to the basic text editor is not on the cards.…
Rosie Slater is also handed a 12-month community order after making £4,000 from fraudulent sales.
Rolls-Royce has said the project will create 8,000 jobs across Britain.
Jordan Herring, 22, is jailed for five years following the attack in November 2022.
Trump sued the newspaper and its owners including Rupert Murdoch in a Florida federal court last summer and asked for at least $10b (£7.4bn) in damages.
Booking.com is warning customers that their reservation details may have been exposed to unknown attackers, in the latest reminder that the travel giant still can't quite keep a lid on the data flowing through its platform.…
We still don't know which human species made or used Acheulean tools.
Microsoft is giving the Windows Insider program another makeover in the hope of making it less baffling.…
It’s almost like the most powerful health official in the world jumped to conclusions without looking at the evidence.
Inquiry Chair Sir Adrian Fulford said the Southport attack could have been prevented if authorities and the killer's parents had acted more quickly.
Thomas Partey, 32, pleads not guilty to two new allegations of rape at Southwark Crown Court.
Experts say noble false widow spiders could be to blame for an increase in bites being treated in hospital.
A federal spending watchdog has found the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) faced "challenges" in understanding the correct number of licenses it should hold for the top five vendors in its $985 million annual software expenditure.…
Snowflake is betting that the biggest bottleneck to building more and better AI agents isn't the models themselves but whether the data those agents depend on is clean, accessible, and governed, Snowflake’s director of product management James Rowland-Jones told The Register.…
Airlines warn of further disruption due to the introduction of a new EU digital border control system.
With 144m daily users, the gaming company is extending its tech to introduce two age‑specific accounts.
Keir Starmer's approach has provoked anger from the Conservatives and Reform UK.
Batten down the hatches, it's a big one.
Many critics say the third season of the hit HBO drama doesn't live up to its previous heights.
The singer, who died at the age of 92, will be cremated with full state honours on Monday.
The conflict in the Middle East could raise the cost of petrol, household energy bills and even food.
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Adobe has released a fix for an Acrobat and Reader zero-day that attackers had been exploiting for months.…
The incident marks the second time the games giant has been hacked by young, English-speaking hackers.
Basic-Fit, Europe's largest gym chain, has confirmed data including the bank details of around a million customers was stolen from its systems.…
Virologists are learning more about this rare but deadly pathogen.
Sir Keir Starmer is planning a law which will mean that the UK government can adopt EU single market rules, without them being voted on in Parliament.
After his performance, the former Migos rapper was described by his mum as a "miracle walking".
Viktor Orbán's 16 years in power is over, defeated by a 45-year-old ex-party insider who convinced a majority of Hungarians to oust him.
UK minesweepers and anti-drone capabilities will continue operating in the region, as pressure ramps up to reopen the key shipping route.
Opinion You want to know who's even sicker of President Donald Trump than American liberals? European governments and companies who are realizing that putting all their eggs in one US basket was a stupid move.…
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Its a bird eat bird world.
Security chiefs will not be able to block spies from giving evidence to future public inquiries.
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NHS England is spending £46,000 on "benchmarking" as it gears up for what looks like the next round of negotiations behind one of the UK public sector's biggest software deals.…
The failure of negotiations at the weekend has raised concerns that the global energy crisis will deepen.
It's no-man's land. Literally.
Schools are being told to cut down on sugary desserts, and provide more vegetables and whole grains.
European leaders share Hungarians' joy over the ousting of Vladimir Putin's EU ally, writes the BBC's Europe editor.
The singer voluntarily checks herself into a treatment facility, three weeks before her court date.
France’s Interministerial Directorate for Digital Affairs (DINUM) will drop Windows desktops, and adopt Linux instead.…
Who, Me? The best part of the working day is lunchtime, but The Register tries to start Mondays in a pleasant fashion by bringing you a new installment of "Who, Me?" – the reader-contributed column in which you admit to your mistakes and detail your escapes.…
Helen could never have imagined a virus she may have had for years would leave her with brain damage.
Sandy Peters broke her nose, cheekbones and teeth when she was crashed into by a Forest e-bike rider.
Asia In Brief China’s National Data Administration last Friday published its action plan for AI in education which calls for upskilling of the nation’s citizens to ensure they can put the technology to work.…
Top Democratic allies intensified pressure on him to exit the gubernatorial race.
Péter Magyar's historic win offers peace for a country exhausted by the tensions of Viktor Orbán's rule, Nick Thorpe reports from Budapest.
Six people were killed and ten injured after a man went on a stabbing rampage in an Australian mall.
Rajini Vaidyanathan broadcasts from outside Hungary's parliament as crowds hear about the prime minister's concession.
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FEATURE Spring has sprung and that means another wave of open weights AI models from the likes of Google, Microsoft, Alibaba, and Nvidia. But this time feels a bit different.…
Nine million voters have been dropped from rolls in West Bengal, raising concerns over exclusion and fairness.
A woman who wed a romance conman says victims receive abuse on social media "blaming" them.
Moerdijk has been earmarked for removal, to make way for a vast electricity substation.
Starmer ruling out the UK's role in the US blockade of Iran's ports and Hungary electing a new leader lead Monday's papers.
Kettle Anthropic dropped a doozy on us this week with the launch of Mythos, an AI model it says is able to find and exploit zero-day vulnerabilities with a shocking level of ability. …
Leo XIV wants the world's attention on a continent vital to the Church's future, an aide says.
Across 5,200 km of Canada's Arctic, some 1,300 members of Canada's military spent two winter months on a mission to meet the challenges of a changing north.
The government had previously announced opening hour extensions in England and Wales for some knockout matches - but has now widened the eligibility.
Despite strides in feminism, why do teen girls still seem to view themselves through the lens of boys?
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The conflict is now a test of wills - Iran’s capacity to absorb strikes versus Trump’s tolerance for the war's costs.
The allegations, which he denies, have upended his bid to be California's next governor.
Claims made by leaders of six political parties who took part in a TV debate for the 2026 Holyrood election campaign are checked.
It was a difficult mission, negotiating on behalf of a president whose messaging on the war has been mixed from the start.
The 50th Oliviers at the Royal Albert Hall provided some memorable conversations away from the ceremony.
Red Hat appears to have fired its entire engineering team in China, which it no longer thinks is a country it needs to prioritize. Most of the team will move to India.…
The beloved bear's stage show won seven prizes including best new musical and three acting prizes.
The SNP leader made the claim in the BBC's televised debate ahead of next month's Scottish election.
'A truly historic moment': Hungarian opposition wins election landslide
The 19-year-old woman killed in the attack is understood to be Jamie-Lea Biscoe.
The Nigerian Air Force has not addressed reports it struck a village market while targeting militants.
Jeremy Kimmel at The Amelia Scott says the town has been shaped by centuries of royal connections.
ITN, which is also named as a respondent to Claudia-Liza Vanderpuije' case, said it is "denied in full".
Stage stars posed for pictures ahead of a night of celebration for UK theatre at the Royal Albert Hall.
Her infectious voice got fans dancing and singing, becoming the soundtrack for generations of Indians.
"We're taking it one step at a time," Declan Holmes said, as his 66-year-old father recovers in hospital.
About 100 people missed their flights because of border control queues at Milan's Linate airport.
A property company owned by the Reform UK deputy leader failed to pay £91,000 in tax on dividends, according to the Sunday Times.
The bus, believed to be operated by Ember, left the road on Sunday morning north of Aviemore.
The star spent much of the gig singing along to YouTube videos of early hits like Baby and Never say Never.
Campbell Scott's body was found in a pineapple sack about 60 miles from Nairobi where he was attending a conference in February last year.
Vibe coding works. I wish it didn't. But it does, well enough. And barring some revolution that overturns the new world disorder, machine learning cannot be undone.…
And what stopped an agreement?
A current six-day strike in England is set to end at 06:59 on Monday.
A 27-year-old man is due to appear in court on Monday charged with Finbar Sullivan's murder.
The world waits for Trump's verdict after the talks failed to yield a deal, writes the BBC's Lyse Doucet.
Most polls favour Péter Magyar, who fronts a grassroots party, but PM Viktor Orbán has been in a defiant mood.
A woman in her 20s was followed after leaving a nightclub and raped outside Epsom Methodist Church.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says his nation's forces would respond "symmetrically" to Russian attacks.
The health secretary says the UK - which is not involved in the talks - wants to see a deal that ends Iran's nuclear ambitions.
Event organisers said it would show the "resistance" to the ban on the group was "stronger than ever".
Easter festivities are muted in Kharkiv as Ukrainians expect fighting to flare up again after a weekend truce.
In recent years Scotland has struck out on a different path to the rest of the UK when it comes to income tax and social security.
A BBC Disclosure investigation has uncovered significant questions about what happened at the hotel where Charmain died.
A university student in the US is in data limbo after Apple removed a character from its Czech keyboard, preventing him from entering his iPhone passcode.…
The Lionesses’ journey to their historic victory in the UEFA Women’s Euro 2025.
The incident occurred at a "tourist event attended by many young people", Haiti's prime minister says.
The BBC's Europe Editor Katya Adler reports from Prime Minister Victor Orbán's home town of Felscút.
The US vice-president made the announcement after 21 hours of negotiations in Islamabad, Pakistan.
The rise and decline of the Kray twins, London's most legendary gangsters.
BBC Radio 5 Live's Matt Chorley talks to voters in England, Scotland and Wales to get the real story on May's elections.
The birds could be reintroduced as early as next year following a £1m injection from the government.
The public inquiry was set up following a knife attack which led to the deaths of three young girls.
BBC Science Editor Rebecca Morelle reflects on how it felt to watch history being made.
The cast of the Balamory reboot coming soon to our screens say it's a 'love letter to the original' children's TV hit.
Misinformation about contraception has been spreading on social media, alongside the "very real frustrations" of women complaining about side effects.
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"Slopaganda" is too weak a term to capture how powerful this "highly sophisticated" content is, one expert says.
The UK government believes the rise of China's car industry could be good for UK consumers and industry.
