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The pollution caused the death of brown and migratory sea trout in the Inler river.

Five of France's unions join a wave of strikes and protests in a national day of action.

Aina's ring can also take calls and help you dictate notes on your Mac.

Telecoms group reports £1.1bn pre-tax profit in six months to end of September and share price touches five-year high Business live – latest updates BT has cut almost 8,000 jobs from its workforce since the end of March,…

Patriots owner Robert Kraft is recovering from back surgery, which he said will force him to miss Rob Gronkowski's team Hall of Fame induction.

Miami star Malachi Toney has a high ankle sprain and will have surgery, sidelining the receiver for Saturday's game against Notre Dame and beyond.

Tramell Jones Jr. is set to make his second career start for Florida when the No. 24 Gators host Oklahoma, a source confirmed to ESPN.

Victor Wembanyama had career highs of 52 points and 24 rebounds along with eight blocks to power the Spurs past the Mavericks on Wednesday night.

Cristiano Ronaldo has retired from international football following a fall-out with Portugal boss Jorge Jesus.

Former army surgeon and Gaza volunteer Hamawy is the first Muslim American elected to the US Congress from New Jersey.

Cost of servicing external debt is preventing developing countries from investing for future Debt owed by developing countries rose to a record $9.4tn (£7tn) last year, with the poorest paying the highest interest rates…

As Cristiano Ronaldo retires from international football, Guillem Balague looks at why and what is next for the Portugal legend.

The midterms showed that challenging support for Israel can win votes. But changing US foreign policy may be harder.

Taiz residents face health risks as waste accumulates amid sniper fire, forcing people to burn it in the streets.

Arab-led parties won a record 19 seats in Israel's 120-seat parliament in last week's general election.

UK hit by first interest rate rise in three years, as Bank predicts inflation will approach 5% by middle of 2027 UK government bond prices are also rallying today.

The system can supposedly answer queries four times faster, with 20% fewer errors and 90% fewer tokens used.

Wong, 30, is among hundreds of Hongkongers detained under the controversial national security law.

What can the Democratic party actually change when it comes to Donald Trump’s decisions, policies and presidency?

The BBC's economics editor views one more interest rate as likely, but thinks that will be all.

Job, loans and savings are all affected by the rise in interest rates announced by the Bank of England.

Discovered Materials, a months-old YC startup that uses AI to find chip materials, is offering $200,000 for each solution to five open materials science problems.

At least 15 planes forced into emergency landings or diversions two days after hoax alerts affected air travel Europe live – latest updates Bomb threats have caused diversions and emergency landings for at least 15 fligh…

A new study looks at the recommended amount of daily exercise for adolescents — and how few are getting it.

Democrats have regained control of Congress. They have a long list of investigations into Trump planned. And, not all races have been called. Here's a look at how they could affect the Dems' majority.

Agility arrives on the Nasdaq today as the first publicly-traded pure-play humanoid robotics company.

Scientists have developed a revolutionary gel that could regrow lost tooth enamel by harnessing minerals naturally found in saliva, potentially overcoming one of dentistry’s biggest limitations.

After four of the biggest competitors in the AI race held quarterly earnings calls late last month, two things are clear: Big Tech is not done spending record amounts on the AI data center buildout, and the AI data cente…

A consultation will consider fines and other ways to clamp down on dangerous e-bike riders.

A little-known investment group has made a bid to buy the business.

Democrats’ success was helped by popular anger over tech, AI and the super rich – life for billionaires could become much more difficult The photo of Silicon Valley centi-billionaires at Donald Trump’s inauguration – Mus…

Gordon Brothers still in ‘active discussions’ with interested parties and seeking to ‘protect as many jobs as possible’ The US owner of Poundland has said the high street chain remains “challenged and vulnerable” after h…

The American singer-songwriter and poet visited with the American pope at the Vatican during a break between concert dates in Italy. The Vatican said the encounter was brief.

All-round upgrades fit a bigger OLED screen in a smaller and lighter body with water resistance for first time The new iPad mini takes Apple’s fan-favourite tiny tablet and upgrades just about everything about it, includ…

Wong was sentenced for his second conviction under a Beijing-imposed national security law, in a case that critics say reflects the crackdown on the city's once-thriving pro-democracy movement.

Delivering net zero also at risk, say MPs as they call for centralised policy and funding for mines and diversification The UK is “dangerously” dependent on China for critical raw materials needed for the military, renew…

The vice-president's blunt assessment of Republican election defeat marked one of the sharpest breaks with a sitting president in recent memory.

The company is said to be significantly dropping the amount it's spending on AI for its engineering teams.

Even for countries where typhoons are a way of life, the last few months have brought unusually wild weather.

With smartphone sales tanking by around 20 percent compared to 2025, Qualcomm is looking to data centers to help boost its bottom line.

One of the basic problems of spending too much time on social media is that you are cooking your brain by reading posts from a pack of attention-seeking lunatics.

Musk spent nearly $500m in the 2026 US midterm elections, an individual election spending record.

Historically, most physicians who served in the House or Senate have been Republicans. In the next Congress, physicians who are Democrats made significant gains.

Minister hints at restriction on selling technology ‘to certain users’ amid worries over surreptitious filming of women The government is considering placing restrictions on smart glasses amid concerns the technology is…

AT&T's smart home security system now integrates with Gemini for Home. The company says its Connected Life system is the "first" home security product to integrate with Google Home Premium, enabling a bunch of Gemini-pow…

Nothing CEO Carl Pei said in a post on X that the company's launching its first AI device in December. That's just a little over a year after Pei announced plans for "AI-native" devices and an AI operating system.

Patient is ⁠in ​stable condition and will be transferred to a specialist ‘high consequence’ infectious disease unit A British healthcare worker with Ebola is being evacuated from the Democratic Republic of the Congo to t…

Democrats can vote legislation through. But Trump still has veto power.

The number of deaths linked to cocaine use in England and Wales has nearly quadrupled in a decade.

The French Blood Establishment (EFS) said cold rooms storing blood were impacted by hackers.

Party expected to get less than a third of the vote amid frustration over water outages and power cuts The African National Congress is on course for a bruising result in South Africa’s local elections on Wednesday as vo…

Michigan's first Muslim senator-elect, Abdul El-Sayed, discusses his historic victory, an unlikely agreement with Trump on Israel military aid and the political divisions that remain.

Scientists have discovered a compound that transforms a natural muscle-repair protein into a more powerful version dubbed "Super HGF," more than doubling its ability to bind to a key receptor while protecting it from age…

Temperature and defrosting thresholds raised to ‘very high levels’ at three cold stores stocking vital blood products France’s national blood service has said hackers accessed control systems and boosted temperatures at…

From Kyiv to Moscow, and Tehran to Tel Aviv, all eyes were on the Democrats' big win as foreign powers weigh how a flipped Congress will affect international relations.

MIT scientists have challenged two decades of conventional thinking by discovering that flexible molecular connections, rather than rigid ones, can unlock entirely new ways to arrange nanoparticles.

The prince says 2026 was the first summer he felt "worried about the scale of the wildfires".

NASA is exploring a daring plan to save the legendary Hubble Space Telescope from its eventual fiery plunge into Earth's atmosphere.

For nearly 90 years, scientists believed magnetism fell into just two categories, but researchers have now confirmed a remarkable third type called altermagnetism.

On Wednesday morning, Delhi's air quality index reading stood at 377, in the "very poor" category.

The prince says 2026 was the first summer he felt "worried about the scale of the wildfires".

Graduates are spending more time managing AI, but are they missing out on other work experience?

The aim is to detect hard-to-diagnose abdominal cancers, including liver, ovarian and pancreatic cancer, much sooner.

An engineer was contacted through a legitimate job-hunting platform and invited to bogus job interviews with fake company representatives, Binance says.

Supermarkets in countries including Ireland, Sweden and Belgium reported fridges being hiked in temperature on Monday.

Researchers have been chasing the dream of a cancer vaccine for decades. Some recent successes with mRNA technology are garnering excitement from patients, doctors, government and investors.

Many people are swapping out their fluoride dental products for ones made with a mineral called hydroxyapatite. What do dentists say about it?

Concerns from staff, parents, carers or the child themselves will trigger an immediate escalation of care.

Sen. Chris Murphy is expected to fully recover from his stroke. The acronym BE FAST can help you remember the symptoms of stroke and what to do when it happens: Call 911 quickly.

Saskia Reeves-Priestley didn't know she had a Vitamin D deficiency until she suddenly collapsed at work.

There is no end in sight for the drivers of illegal mining, while police action appears ineffective Cora Bailey has been encountering illegal miners ever since she first started treating injured animals in the townships…

Critics cite Lana Nusseibeh’s denial of accusations the UAE is fuelling Sudan war by supporting paramilitary RSF Members of the Sudanese diaspora and international human rights monitors have denounced the candidature of…

Chomping on vegtable skins, seeds and stalks could give us vital fibre, say food scientists.

Warnings of escalating clampdown on press freedom come after Cairo court convicts Attalah of managing an unlicensed website Lina Attalah, a prominent Egyptian journalist and the editor-in-chief of the news outlet Mada Ma…