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

Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial news Today’s decision is an opportunity for the Bank of England to push back against market expectations for several rate rises in 2027.

He had told his employer, an Australian restaurant, that pineapple on pizza was "offensive" to Italian culture.

Wong, in prison since 2020, was found guilty of colluding with foreign entities in violation of national security law.

Seoul proposes extending its Cheonghae unit’s patrols to waters near Oman’s Duqm amid US pressure over Iran war.

Nearly 200 countries pledged to limit warming to 1.5C. We look at who has delivered and who has fallen short.

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz expects US President Donald Trump to keep bypassing Congress despite midterm losses.

Como equal Champions League record with stunning 9-1 win at Lens as Haaland rescues Manchester City at Leipzig.

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.

Gordon Brothers will meet Jonathan Reynolds on Wednesday as the investment firm faces scrutiny over Poundland.

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.

LeBron James is cautioning against any proclamations the 76ers are NBA Finals-bound despite a blistering 8-1 start.

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.

The Cardinals are finalizing a trade to send quarterback Jacoby Brissett to the Ravens, sources told ESPN's Adam Schefter and NFL Network's Ian Rapoport.

Sources said Wednesday was the first time some players had seen Jalen Hurts since he was put on injured reserve because of blood clots in his lungs.

Democrats will hold Congress but President Donald Trump still has the power to block their plans.

Future brightens for US developers in particular after election when voters rejected Trump’s war on clean energy After years as collateral damage in Donald Trump’s war on climate action, the Democrats’ sweeping triumph i…

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…

Pound reaches highest level against a basket of currencies since the Brexit referendum a decade ago

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

The tech billionaire set spending record as he poured $446m into campaigns for failed Republican candidates Elon Musk set a record for election spending this year after pouring nearly half a billion dollars into backing…

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

Data center opposition crossed party lines in Tuesday’s midterms.

Exclusive: Government should introduce ‘flexi-jobs’ alongside subsidies and skills support, former minister will say The British state should create and subsidise paid jobs for thousands of disabled young people as part…

Most analysts are predicting an increase from 3.75% to 4%, the first increase in more than three years.

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

AI industry PACs spent millions influencing the 2026 midterms, with mixed results. Political groups are already looking toward the next election cycle.

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

While it's not yet clear what kind of product the smartphone startup is cooking up, Nothing's CEO said the product is designed to leverage AI for productivity gains.

During its busiest week last quarter, Uber said only four people booked a ride using an AI agent.

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.

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.

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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.

Democrats have won the House and the Senate, taking full control of Congress for the first time since 2023. And history was made in several states. Here's what happened last night.

Documents show Home Office developing programme to use technology for general immigration enforcement The Home Office is preparing to deploy facial recognition technology at transport hubs and public events as part of th…

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.

Stanford researchers have discovered an AI-identified natural molecule that dramatically suppresses appetite and promotes fat loss in animals, potentially offering an Ozempic-like weight-loss treatment without common dig…

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.

Nobel winner warns the tech could be near to triggering major incident such as power or banking shutdown One of the “godfathers of AI”, Geoffrey Hinton, has said it could turn out that humans would have been better off n…

Firm reveals details about how its cryptocurrency exchange was compromised, saying operation began in June The hackers behind the $6.3bn (£4.7bn) Binance heist used bogus job interviews, malicious software and an interna…

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.

Drax’s FTSE 250 owner strikes £20bn deal to build infrastructure in what it says is site’s ‘next chapter’ Britain’s most polluting power plant could soon power the country’s largest datacentre under a £20bn deal to build…

A watchdog has criticised the lack of progress made by organisations in tackling climate change.

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.

It's been just over two years since the rise of Make America Healthy Again, or MAHA. How well is the Trump administration meeting its promises?

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…