Nottingham Forest appoint former Burnley and Everton manager Sean Dyche as their new head coach - becoming the club's third different boss this season.

Unravelling the case of a US fugitive who claimed to be the victim of mistaken identity after being traced in Glasgow.

Calendar cock-up exposed recipients' details

Anti-fraud nonprofit Cifas was left red-faced after sending out a calendar invite that exposed the email addresses of dozens of individuals working across the fraud space.…

Nicolas Sarkozy declared his innocence and held hands with his wife before entering prison to begin his five-year sentence.

Since the arrival of Martin Zubimendi at Arsenal, BBC Sport looks at how Declan Rice has completed his transformation to an all-round midfielder.

Matt Richardson is preparing for his maiden track cycling World Championships since his surprise switch from Australia to Great Britain.

The incoming president of the Oxford Union debating society has lost a confidence vote over remarks he made about the shooting of US conservative personality Charlie Kirk.

BBC Sport F1 correspondent Andrew Benson answers your latest questions following the United States Grand Prix.

Demolition on parts of the White House’s East Wing has begun in order to build Donald Trump’s new ballroom.

The Toronto Blue Jays reach their first World Series since 1993, beating the Seattle Mariners in the deciding game seven of the American League Championship Series.

Jahmyr Gibbs stars as the Detroit Lions earn a dominant 24-9 win against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

Australia is one of the world's biggest biodiversity hotspots, home to more than a million different species.

12 more hours of pain followed initial outage

Amazon Web Services has revealed that its efforts to recover from the massive mess at its US-EAST-1 region caused other services to fail.…

BBC Sport profiles Arsenal and England forward Alessia Russo, one of five nominees for the BBC Women's Footballer of the Year 2025 award.

BBC Sport profiles Chelsea and England goalkeeper Hannah Hampton, one of five nominees for the BBC Women's Footballer of the Year 2025 award.

BBC Sport profiles Barcelona and Spain midfielder Patri Guijarro, one of five nominees for the BBC Women's Footballer of the Year 2025 award.

BBC Sport profiles Arsenal and Spain midfielder Mariona Caldentey, one of five nominees for the BBC Women's Footballer of the Year 2025 award.

BBC Sport profiles Barcelona and Spain midfielder Aitana Bonmati, one of five nominees for the BBC Women's Footballer of the Year 2025 award.

Four defeats in a row and four points behind Premier League leaders Arsenal. BBC Sport looks at the problems Liverpool boss Arne Slot needs to solve.

Denise Bacon says she is experiencing improvements in her ability to walk.

Charlotte and Tom Hardwick say the quality of care and service has declined, leaving them anxious.

Prince Andrew continues to dominate the papers alongside a tech outage that rippled around the world.

Good afterevenmorn, Readers! I am writing this the day after returning from my favorite genre literary convention ever with a report. Can*Con is the kind of SFF convention I will try very hard to never miss.

Sanae Takaichi has been voted in as Japan's first female prime minister.

A chess grandmaster has died unexpectedly at the age of 29.

Better scheduling and resource-sharing for inferencing workloads using multiple models, not a training breakthrough

Chinese tech giant Alibaba has published a paper detailing scheduling tech it has used to achieve impressive utilization improvements across the GPU fleet it uses to power inferencing workloads – which is nice, but not a breakthrough that will worry AI investors.…

Platform outage checker Downdetector said the issues have impacted more than 1,000 different businesses.

An official preliminary report into last month's deadly funicular crash in Lisbon has been released, putting the blame on a faulty steel cable and other maintenance flaws.

The government is facing increasing pressure to formally strip Prince Andrew of his dukedom.

Crews tore down a massive covered entryway and windows in the East Wing to make way for Trump's new event space.

The BBC speaks to Nasa astronaut Eileen Collins, the first woman to pilot and command a spacecraft.

Rossi, who claimed to be the victim of mistaken identity, was jailed for at least five years in Utah.

A neighbour died after falling to the ground in a failed attempt to escape through a window.

Bob Vylan's frontman has said he does not regret chanting "death, death to the IDF" at Glastonbury - and would do it again.

Will there be pressure on the Palace to reveal any information they hold on Prince Andrew and Epstein?

The Met Police says its revised strategy targets organised crime links to phone thefts in London.

The talks in Washington were a win for Australia, but at home many are nervous about the relationship.

Conservatives have tabled an amendment to the sentencing bill to make sure serious offenders stay locked up for longer.

Shall I refer thee to all those lawsuits about fair use? Researchers think this result makes them worth revisiting

Readers of texts created to use the styles of famous authors prefer works written by AI to human human-written imitations, but only after developers fine-tune AI models to understand an author’s output.…

Two days from today, October 22nd, was Google’s deadline to begin opening up its app store, stop forcing developers to use Google Play Billing, let them set their own prices, and more, following Epic’s repeated wins in Epic v. Google. But both Epic and Google have just successfully and mysteriously argued for one final week’s […]

Actors, studios, agents, and the actors union SAG-AFTRA have all expressed their concerns about appearing in Sora 2’s AI-generated videos ever since the deepfake machine was released last month. Now a joint statement from actor Bryan Cranston, OpenAI, the union, and others says that after videos of him appeared on Sora — one even showed […]

The deal is expected to be the focus of talks between US President Donald Trump and Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on Monday.

The two countries agree to a framework that includes investments in projects to expand mining and processing of rare earth and critical minerals.

A prominent expert in recovering stolen works of art has told Sky News it was "a matter of time" before the Louvre was targeted - and UK museums could be next.

When the first 3D Ninja Gaiden came out on Xbox in 2004, I really wanted to play it; though the game looks a little antiquated now, at the time, teenage me thought that ninja protagonist Ryu Hayabusa was cool as hell. But alas, I didn't have an Xbox, and I don't think I could have […]

West Ham lost their fourth home match of the Premier League season on Monday, with manager Nuno Espirito Santo admitting his side "have a problem".

Israeli club Maccabi Tel Aviv say they will not accept any ticket allocation from Aston Villa should the decision to ban their supporters from next month's Europa League match be overturned.

It's Typhoon season…year round

China's Salt Typhoon gang appears to have successfully attacked a European telecommunications firm, according to security researchers at Darktrace.…

The department, tasked with safeguarding the US nuclear stockpile, has never before furloughed workers.

You might find it kind of sad to put your hard-earned Switch 2 into a protective case. To me, it’s freeing. Using a case relieves me of the worry that it will accumulate tons of little scratches, or worse. I’ve tested several types of cases on the Nintendo Switch 2 since its June 2025 debut, […]

Brentford earn their first Premier League away win of the season to ruin Nuno Espirito Santo's first home game in charge of struggling West Ham.

John Healey says "we will be ready" if Trump is able to secure a deal with Putin in Hungary in the coming weeks.

The government in the Netherlands has taken control of the company

Nexperia, a Dutch chipmaker that's found itself at the center of a geopolitical crisis, has denied claims by its former CEO that its Chinese division is now operating as an independent entity.…

A preliminary report says a cable that broke on the Glória funicular last month had never been certified, and mentions other failures.

The Pope acknowledged "resistance in some parts of the world" to permanently remove a priest who abuses a child, the group said.

Nicholas Rossi, an American man who faked his death and fled to Scotland to escape rape charges, has been jailed for at least five years.

The 18 decommissioned Confederate monuments have been deconstructed and displayed to make a statement on the horrors of slavery.

After governing with an iron rod for so many years, is Hamas really prepared to relinquish control in Gaza?

Researchers accuse tech firms of profiting from exploitative AI imagery

The starving child whose picture broke your heart when you saw it on a charity website may not be real. Global health researchers say that stock image companies like Adobe are profiting from AI-generated "poverty porn" that non-profits are using to drum up donations.…

Maccabi Tel Aviv fans will not be able to buy tickets to their club's match with Aston Villa next month, the Israeli club have said.

Apple’s latest iOS 26.1 beta has a new option that lets you tint Liquid Glass elements of iOS 26 so that they are more opaque. Since announcing Liquid Glass at WWDC this year, Apple has tweaked exactly how glassy Liquid Glass is — early on, there were some legibility issues — but this new setting […]

Some portions of the OS are still stuck on light

Windows 11 launched way back in October 2021 and has become Microsoft’s must-have OS thanks to the impending end-of-life for Windows 10. After all that time, there are still significant portions of the OS that don’t do dark mode. However, Redmond is making significant progress, bringing a couple of key dialog boxes into compliance.…

A glass screen protector is one of a few essential accessories that every Switch 2 owner should make, along with a select few others. In fact, it should be a priority to stick one onto the console’s screen as soon as possible to avoid accidental scratches.  To test the candidates below, I installed and removed […]

The ex-husband of Britney Spears makes a number of allegations against her - and she has accused him of attacking him.

The Neighbours star has been forced to pull out of the show with a torn calf.

The move comes as an investigation into Father Ted creator Graham Linehan is dropped, after his arrest over a post on X.

A security worker at the Louvre has told Sky News that "obsolete" equipment and a "drastic cut in staff" meant they had "reached the limit" of what they could do to protect the world-famous museum.

The government will allow thousands of rapists, child sex offenders and other violent criminals to be released early from prison, the Conservatives claimed as a row over sentencing law reforms erupted.

When your best engineers log off for good, don’t be surprised when the cloud forgets how DNS works

column  "It's always DNS" is a long-standing sysadmin saw, and with good reason: a disproportionate number of outages are at their heart DNS issues. And so today, as AWS is still repairing its downed cloud as this article goes to press, it becomes clear that the culprit is once again DNS. But if you or I know this, AWS certainly does.…

Several dozen patients regained some of their vision thanks to an implant inside their eye paired with a set of smart glasses. The study was published Monday in The New England Journal of Medicine, and researchers report that patients could see well enough using the technology to fill out crossword puzzles and read regular books […]

The prince was interviewed in 2019 about his friendship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein by BBC Newsnight's Emily Maitlis.

There are but three certainties in life: death, taxes, and Google’s next Pixel phone getting thoroughly leaked before the company can even announce it. (Multiple generations of Pixel have been publicly unboxed, disassembled, and even reviewed before Google can show them off.) But it seems Google doesn’t want leakers to have all the fun — […]

The US and Russian presidents announced on Thursday that they planned to meet in Budapest.

Danny Rohl has taken on one of the toughest managerial jobs in world football by succeeding Russell Martin at Rangers, writes Tom English.

Attempted exploit was a feeble effort to target Windows users

Someone managed to insert a compromised file into the downloads section of the website for Xubuntu, the official Ubuntu flavor with the Xfce desktop environment. The malware was designed to steal cryptocurrency, but so far, there are no reports of actual theft.…

Virginia Giuffre details allegations against Prince Andrew in posthumous memoir.

With La Liga and Serie A set to stage regular-season matches overseas, how successful have the NFL's international games been, and what do players and fans think of them?

The UK is ready to spend "well over" £100m on a possible deployment of British forces to Ukraine if Donald Trump secures a peace deal with Russia, the defence secretary has said.

Before Monday, Hamas had handed over all living hostages and 12 out of 28 deceased hostages under a ceasefire.

Southport attacker Axel Rudakubana was judged by a mental health service to pose no risk to others just six days before he murdered three girls at a dance class, a public inquiry has been told.

Bridget Phillipson confirmed the plans for the next two years, with fees to increase automatically after that.

Sri Lanka captain Chamari Athapaththu produces an "outstanding" final over as her side take four wickets in four balls to beat Bangladesh in the ICC Women's Cricket World Cup.

AI arms dealer relies on Taiwanese advanced packaging plants for top-specced GPUs

US manufacturing of Nvidia GPUs is underway and CEO Jensen Huang is celebrating the first Blackwell wafer to come out of TSMC's Arizona chip factory. However, to be part of a complete product, those chips may need to visit Taiwan.…

What started as a WhatsApp group for dozens of grieving families has ended up gathering enough momentum to reach Westminster.

Prince Andrew faces more scrutiny as the posthumous memoir by Virginia Giuffre makes more claims.

The comet-like object Chiron has been caught in the process of forming new rings, which could help us understand how these complex systems work

'US is … the greatest source of chaos in cyberspace'

China has blamed the US for a "major cyberattack" against its National Time Service Center, alleging it could have disrupted the country's communications, financial, and transportation networks, and even caused power outages.…

The world-famous museum in Paris is still closed on Monday after a masked gang raided one of its galleries.

Sri Lanka took four wickets in the final over to complete a nail-biting victory over Bangladesh and keep their slim hopes of qualifying for the World Cup semi-finals alive.

Small power banks are a dime a dozen, but Iniu’s Pocket Rocket P50 stands out for its combination of size, capacity, and features. We saw this model drop in price during Amazon’s recent October Prime Day sale, but a fresh discount has now made the power bank cheaper than ever. Right now, you can pick […]

UK Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy tells MPs local authorities in Birmingham should reverse the ban.

Emeka Ilione's ball-carrying ability has been praised by England coach Steve Borthwick after Saracens number eight Tom Willis slipped out of Test contention.

If you live in NYC, there’s almost no way you’ve missed the Friend AI pendant subway ad fallout — whether you’ve taken pictures of the most inspired graffiti on the ads in the tunnels, tried to avert your eyes from the near-constant presence of the device pictured on all the ads inside subway cars, or […]

Donald Trump has said he doesn't think Ukraine can win the war against Russia - as reports emerge of a less-than-harmonious meeting between the US president and Volodymyr Zelenskyy .

A major Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage took down multiple online services for several hours this morning, including Amazon, Alexa, Snapchat, Fortnite, ChatGPT, Epic Games Store, Epic Online Services, and more. Some of the impacted platforms, including Fortnite, Epic Games Store, and Perplexity had announced that they are fully recovered and back online earlier this […]

Knowing what’s coming out of your body can be just as useful for maintaining a healthy lifestyle as being choosy about what goes into it. As part of a new initiative focused on “turning the bathroom into a connected, data-informed health and wellness hub,” Kohler has announced a health tracker called the Dekoda you attach […]

Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta speaks of his admiration for Atletico Madrid boss Diego Simeone before the two sides meet in the Champions League on Tuesday.

The move will lead to more than 1,200 redundancies, but 64 other restaurants will be saved.

The attacker is seen striking the 55-year-old woman with a large wooden stick during the assault in the West Bank village of Turmus Ayaa.

Too many services depend not just on one cloud provider, but on one location

Analysis  Amazon's US-EAST-1 region outage caused widespread chaos, taking websites and services offline even in Europe and raising some difficult questions. After all, cloud operations are supposed to have some built-in resiliency, right?…