Veteran cabinet minister Michael Gove has been awarded a peerage in Rishi Sunak's resignation honours list.

Mohamed Salah is excited Liverpool "have a chance to win other trophies" as he signs a fresh two-year contract.

Three people have already appeared in court charged over damage caused to the golf course.

India accuses Tahawwur Rana of playing a role in the deadly 2008 attacks that killed 166 people.

A new alternative for those pondering what to do when vSphere 7.x goes end of life in October

VMware has revealed another big upgrade is on the way, this time for its vSphere Foundation suite.…

The Doctor Who star will appear in a new play which examines the rivalry between Marlowe and Shakespeare.

The family of one of three teenagers killed when a car and a bus collided in west London have said they are "completely devastated" by his death.

Often dubbed "Scotland's Chernobyl", only a handful of residents remain in Clune Park in Port Glasgow.

The number of people choosing to live in vans across Bristol is up from 150 in 2020 to 680 in 2025.

A first phase of demolition is about to start on the derelict Clune Park estate in Port Glasgow

Thousands of scams linked to fraudulent QR codes have been reported since 2019, the BBC finds.

Along with Celine Dion and Elton John - plus some good music too

The Brian-Eno-composed sound played by Windows 95 when booted has been added to the US Library of Congress’s list of nationally significant recordings.…

The president made a partial reversal this week - here's a look at where it leaves five of his key ambitions.

The Duke of Sussex's trip to Ukraine and further reaction to Donald Trump's tariffs feature on Friday's front pages.

Under-audit political squad also said to be drafting invoices for Uncle Sam

In February, Elon's Musketeers at President Trump's cost-trimming DOGE operation turned up at the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, which regulates the kinds of self-driving cars the billionaire wants to build.…

'Wolf of Wall Street' Jordan Belfort has told Sky News there's "no way" Donald Trump is guilty of insider trading or market manipulation.

A groundbreaking new cancer treatment, hailed by patients as "game-changing", will be available via the NHS from today.

It’s been a while since we’ve had the chance to bring you a brand-new convention offering, and in 2025 we’re bringing you two. First up is one of the biggest celebrations of all things spooky, creepy, and downright chilling heading to Chicago for the first time this May.

The former first lady says people were wrong to make assumptions that the couple were getting a divorce.

The cast of Alex Garland's film Warfare on how a tough bootcamp taught them to play a US army unit.

Students, staff, and parents alike are traumatised by what has happened and the destruction that surrounds them.

Former policy boss claims Facebook cared little about national security as it chased the mighty Yuan

Facebook's former director of global public policy told a Senate committee that Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg was willing to do almost anything to get the social network into China - including, she alleged, offering up Americans' data.…

President Javier Milei has made sweeping cuts to public services since he took office 16 months ago.

Big G reckons this agentic IDE speeds up or simplifies coding. Developers who've used it aren't so sure

Cloud Next  Google on Wednesday announced Firebase Studio, a product pitched as "a cloud-based agentic development environment" – in other words, a browser-based coding workspace that includes AI to help developers to prototype and build apps without writing every line of code themselves.…

Microsoft is starting to gradually roll out a preview of Recall, its feature that captures screenshots of what you do on a Copilot Plus PC to find again later, to Windows Insiders, according to a blog post published Thursday. This new rollout could indicate that Microsoft is finally getting close to launching Recall more widely. […]

England's Justin Rose leads the Masters after threatening to break the Augusta course record on an opening day where Rory McIlroy fades after a fast start.

Reigning champion Scottie Scheffler features in the best shots from day one at the Masters at Augusta.

A unique study is tracking the development of hundreds of babies whose parents have also been studied since birth.

A tattoo belonging to a man from Derbyshire has appeared in a US government document used to identify members of Tren de Aragua, a notorious Venezuelan gang, despite the man having no connection to the group.

Cocoa prices are soaring so new chocolate firms are looking at an alternative ingredient.

One year ago, Cassius Walker-Hunt was working at Port Talbot's steel plant.

A company started by "two blokes in a Cardiff garage" is about to launch a game-changing space factory that could start a new industrial revolution.

With £99 a month to live off Aida has turned to a food bank.

Sir Keir Starmer needs to reassure the public more over tariffs - and tell them Donald Trump is wrong, Harriet Harman has said.

Tickets are now on sale for the latest Electoral Dysfunction podcast live show.

Andre Onana was at fault for both Lyon's goals in his side's 2-2 draw in the Europa League on Thursday.

News of the US president's plan to halt higher-band taxes came as a surprise on Wednesday, but was it part of a plan?

Bluesky is updating its app to version 1.100, and the update includes a more comprehensive search page and new chat reactions. The search page is now known as “Explore,” where you can find trending topics, suggested accounts, and starter packs to jump-start stuff for you to follow on the app. This new Explore page still […]

I’ve long lost the ability to keep track of whatever’s happening in the Amiga community, and personally I tend to just focus on tracking MorphOS and AROS as best I can. The remnants of the real AmigaOS, and especially who owns, maintains, and develops which version, are mired in legal battles and ownership limbo, and since I can think of about a trillion things I’d rather do than keep track of the interpersonal drama by reading various Amiga forums, I honestly didn’t even realise there’s been a development in the Hyperion Entertainment situation.

Nathan Aspinall delights his home crowd in Manchester as he claimed his first nightly win of the year to move into the Premier League play-off places.

After years of stuntwork largely being overlooked by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the Oscars are about to add a new category. Today, the Academy announced that it intends to start giving out Oscar statues for stunt design starting with films released in 2027 for the awards ceremony’s 100th anniversary. “Since the […]

Well, this you certainly don’t see every day. This is a “rough draft” of SDL2 for MacOS 9, using CodeWarrior Pro 6 and 7. Enough was done to get it building in CW, and the start of a “macosclassic” video driver was created.

England's Justin Rose makes consecutive birdies on holes 15 and 16 to extend his lead in the first round at the Masters at Augusta.

The White House also confirmed that the tariffs on China would reach 145% due to a pre-existing 20% levy on fentanyl

There are local elections to 24 of England's 317 councils and mayoral authorities on 1 May.

The BBC follows raids on hundreds of High Street businesses suspected of money laundering.

The Duke of Sussex visits an orthopaedic clinic in the western city of Lviv.

Razer has finally launched its platform for streaming PC games to mobile devices at their native screen resolutions, aspect ratios, and refresh rates. Razer PC Remote Play is now available for download on the App Store and Google Play and is compatible with Windows, Apple, and Android mobile devices running at least Windows 11, iOS […]

LLM query caching also lands soon

The return of Redis creator Salvatore Sanfilippo has borne fruit in the form of a new data type - vector sets - for the widely used cache-turned-multi-model database.…

Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) fired about 30 members of the National Highway and Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) in February, and many of them were part of a department that assesses the risks of self-driving cars, according to the Financial Times. One worker laid off from the NHTSA’s so-called “office of vehicle automation […]

Garmin has announced a new addition to its Varia line of safety and visibility accessories for cyclists. The Varia Vue is the first to pair a bright headlight with a front-facing 4K camera designed to automatically record incidents and save the footage locally or send it to the cloud through a smartphone. It’s available now […]

Billionaire 'tried every tool available to harm' us, says super lab, and it wants a judge to end 'harassment'

OpenAI has countersued co-founder Elon Musk, accusing him of unlawful and unfair tactics to derail its restructuring plans and demanding a judge hold him liable for damage allegedly inflicted on the AI super-lab.…

A helicopter has crashed in the Hudson River near Manhattan, the New York Police Department has said.

Investigators say they are "looking into" reports a large flock of birds was seen before a deadly helicopter crash in New York City.

The Deputy Prime Minister says striking Birmingham bin workers should accept an improved offer.

If you were hoping to cop a OnePlus Watch 3, you can finally buy one starting today. The problem is it’s no longer the $329.99 price that was originally intended when OnePlus announced the device a few months ago. It’s now $499, a $170 or roughly 52 percent markup. The price hike was spotted by […]

The three teenagers have been named by police as 17-year-old Star Tomkins, 18-year-old Harley Woods and 17-year-old Jimmy Savory

A lightning strike at a school playground has injured five students, leaving one unconscious, according to local media.

Vampire Survivors is finally launching cross-saves today, but they won’t be available on PlayStation to start and have a “very slim” chance of coming to the platform because of a “legal issue.”  “Last month, we told everyone that cross-save would be available on PlayStation 4 / 5, PC, Xbox, Android and iOS alongside our next […]

Wider hips may make childbirth easier, but increase the risk of other health issues

A fossil jawbone found by fishers in the Taiwan Strait has extended the known range of ancient Denisovan people thousands of kilometres to the east

Traders are trying to reckon with impact of Trump's shifting tariff policy.

How much attention did you pay to what has been going on in the world over the past seven days?

Admiral Sir Tony Radakin discussed "issues of common concern" with China's military leaders in a rare trip by the UK's most senior military officer.

She weighed down her keyboard to stop her laptop going into standby and browsed shopping sites for hours.

Three years after signing an overall TV production deal with Amazon, Mike Flanagan is finally developing a new project for the studio. Deadline reports that Amazon is moving forward with a Carrie series adaptation from Flanagan based on Stephen King’s 1974 novel about a girl born with telekinetic powers. In addition to writing and showrunning […]

The King and Queen were doing a walkabout in the Italian city of Ravenna and it felt like a world away from last year.

Canva is launching its latest smorgasbord of generative AI-powered workspace tools in its attempt to cram everything that Microsoft, Google, and Adobe can do into a single platform. Canva’s Visual Suite is being redesigned to combine its design and productivity tools into a single interface, alongside adding new coding, photo editing, spreadsheet, and AI chatbot […]

Pope Francis visits St Peter's Basilica in the Vatican, still with an oxygen tube, as he continues to recover from ill health.

The company says Mordaunt would be "asked to contribute her insights" on tobacco harm reduction.

Props for the transparency though

US sensor maker Sensata has told regulators that a ransomware attack caused an operational disruption, and that it's still working to fully restore affected systems.…

Schrödinger called his metaphorical cat “quite ridiculous” but the quantum weirdness it represents has become a useful benchmark for the quantum computing industry, finds our quantum columnist Karmela Padavic-Callaghan

Claim follows Mr Musk's own lawsuit earlier this year against OpenAI's Sam Altman.

As Sonos continues a company-wide effort to redeem itself after last year’s app snafu, it’s adding a well-known industry name to its board of directors. This morning, Sonos announced that Hugo Barra is joining the board to replace Mike Volpi, who is stepping down after 15 years — the longest tenure of any board member. […]

A foldable phone isn’t for the faint of heart. They’re generally heavier, pricier, and have less capable cameras than a standard slab-style phone. And while they’re far less fragile than when they first debuted, foldables are still susceptible to the kind of damage a regular smartphone can shrug off. You really don’t want any dust […]

President Donald Trump’s “90-day pause” on high tariffs for many countries could be good news for Nintendo. The shift marks an opportunity for the company to ship more Switch 2 units from Vietnam to the US. And customs data reported on by Bloomberg suggests the company has already been stockpiling Switch 2 units from Vietnam […]

Just ahead of the second season of The Last of Us on HBO, Sony is making it a little easier for newcomers to get the full game experience. The company just announced The Last of Us Complete for the PS5, which is exactly what it sounds like: a collection feature The Last of Us Part […]

Apple airshipped 600 tons of iPhones to the US from India before new US tariffs were scheduled to take effect, as reported by Reuters and The Times of India. Meanwhile, Nikkei Asia reports Apple, Dell, Microsoft, and Lenovo were pressing to ship as many “premium” devices as possible, like high-priced computers above $3,000 that would […]

The father of a grooming gang victim has told Sky News the government should be "ashamed" of itself over the confusion surrounding inquiries - accusing it of "messing around with survivors' lives".

Earlier this year, modular computer company Framework began a quest to fix “entry-level laptops” with the Framework Laptop 12, its first 12-inch laptop and its first 2-in-1 touchscreen PC. And as you might expect, Trump’s new US tariffs are making entry-level pricing difficult for Framework, which at least briefly delayed US preorders of the new […]

Operators mulling whether to price tech into subs, says report, which notes Musk's Starlink satellite dominance

This year will be Ground Zero for the commercialization of satellite smartphone services, but a key question is whether operators will charge extra for this capability or include it as part of customer subscriptions.…

“Coalition of the willing” meet in Brussels to discuss plans for peacekeeping force.

Last week, President Donald Trump declared a series of tariffs that pitted the United States against the rest of the world. Big companies stayed nervously silent; small ones panicked. The stock market plunged. And surely worst of all, Switch 2 preorders were delayed. Then, the same day the largest tariffs went into effect, Trump hit […]

It comes after Kemi Badenoch told the BBC Tory local leaders would be free to share power with Reform.

Some analysts say that if costs incurred by tariffs pass to consumers, US iPhone prices could rise by hundreds of dollars.

Pilot lost control after bird in cardboard box slid off a passenger's knee and knocked controls, aviation authority finds.

What is the situation after the historic upheaval in American trade policy.

Globally, only 14 per cent of the plastic we use is recycled – but some countries achieve higher rates and new technologies could change the picture drastically

Bosch should be worried after several bicycle brands just announced their first e-bikes built on top of DJI’s compact and lightweight Avinox drive system, which is surprisingly powerful and torquey. These international brands include Forbidden, Unno, Smartmotion, Megamo, Paprika 53, and Teewing, all of which have new e-bikes built around the 1000W Avinox motor that’s capable […]

I wasn’t really sure what to expect from Microsoft’s 50th birthday party. Sure, cofounder Bill Gates and former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer would be there, but I was keen to see how Microsoft would create a party atmosphere while also launching new Copilot features. As it happens, having three CEOs onstage, some energetic hosts, and […]

Apparently it's time to assume you will work with AI and must 'move from doing the thing to being the architect of the thing'

Atlassian has decided to make its Rovo AI suite free but will in future introduce fees for use beyond a yet-to-be-determined threshold.…

Prince Harry has visited war victims in Ukraine as part of his work with wounded veterans, a spokesperson has said.

OpenAI is getting ready to unveil a number of new AI models, sources familiar with the company’s plans tell The Verge. Among the new AI models will be a release of what I’m expecting will be branded GPT-4.1, which one source describes as a revamped version of OpenAI’s GPT-4o multimodal model. GPT-4o was originally introduced […]

The King and Queen took in Italy's cultural highlights and celebrated their 20th wedding anniversary

People were getting ‘yippy’ according to the president…

People were getting ‘yippy’ according to the president…

Trump's 4D game of chess has left China in check - and now there is an anxious wait to find out how this unfolds

A strike by hundreds of Birmingham refuse workers has seen rubbish piled high on streets.

The analysis shows Israeli troops fired 100 shots during the attack which killed 15 people.

Manchester United legend Eric Cantona says co-owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe is "destroying" the club.