Becks, Goldenballs and now officially Sir David - football star David Beckham has received his knighthood from the King.

At least 26 people have died after Typhoon Kalmaegi unleashed heavy rains and floods across the central Philippines, trapping people on their roofs and submerging cars.

Building a working quantum internet would require overcoming a host of technical challenges, but researchers who have built one of the most advanced quantum networks to date say they think it is possible

The "extraordinary bravery" of the LNER worker who intervened during the train mass stabbing attack on Saturday has been hailed by his company.

Captain Ben Stokes extends his England central contract through to the end of the next home Ashes series in 2027.

How to build a trillion-dollar industry: Step 1, invest in your customers. Step 2, sell them stuff

Feature  In late 2025, a series of multi-billion-dollar deals in the artificial intelligence sector is causing déjà vu among industry veterans. Money, computer chips, and cloud credits are rotating in a closed loop among a handful of companies: Nvidia, OpenAI, Microsoft, Oracle, AMD, CoreWeave, xAI, and a few others. This has fueled a trillion-dollar AI boom or bubble built on intertwined investments and contracts.…

Scientists have spotted the brightest flare yet from a supermassive black hole that shines with the light of 10 trillion suns.

To understand why Rachel Reeves stood up at 8am in Downing Street in an unprecedented news conference to foreshadow the budget, you need to understand the depth of the problems facing the chancellor.

Possession and publication of such material will be a criminal offence, under amendments to the Crime and Policing Bill.

The find shows that the technology was passed down through thousands of generations.

A distant black hole has been caught releasing the brightest flare ever, which is the result of it ripping apart and devouring an enormous star

Enamel does not naturally regenerate, which can lead to painful cavities, but a gel that harnesses some of the properties of saliva could restore the hard, shiny layer to teeth

Hundreds of victims have called on the government to launch a public inquiry into a pregnancy drug linked to cancer.

Opinion polls suggest left-wing candidate Zohran Mamdani is ahead of former state governor Andrew Cuomo for Tuesday’s race.

Government spending watchdog eviscerates penny wise, pound foolish approach

Britain's Ministry of Defence (MoD) is being criticized for undermining its F-35 stealth fighter program through years of short-term budget decisions that have increased long-term costs and left the fleet understrength and undercapable.…

World number one Aryna Sabalenka will face Nick Kyrgios in a 'Battle of the Sexes' exhibition match in Dubai later this year.

A French climber has said she was "lucky" to survive an avalanche in which her husband died, as rescue teams work to recover the bodies of seven people killed in the Himalayas on Monday morning.

At the start of 2025, Victoria Mboko was ranked outside of the world's top 300. Now the teenager has cracked the top 20 after winning another WTA title.

Passengers are being told not to travel north of Preston as work on the line continues.

Shankar, a 29-year-old male elephant, died in September after spending much of his life in isolation.

The man was trapped for several hours after part of the Torre dei Conti, on the edge of the Roman Forum, gave way.

Rachel Reeves has refused to rule out breaking her manifesto pledge not to raise certain taxes, as she lays the groundwork ahead of the budget later this month.

Sir Alan Bates has reached a seven-figure deal to settle his claim over the Post Office Horizon scandal, more than 20 years after he began campaigning over what turned into one of Britain's biggest miscarriages of justice.

Bayern Munich are the only unbeaten team across Europe's top five leagues, but how has Vincent Kompany turned them into a formidable force?

Kate Clanchy was accused of using racist descriptions of children in her book.

Tommy Robinson has been found not guilty of a terror offence after refusing to give police access to his phone when they stopped him at the Channel Tunnel last year.

BBC Sport F1 correspondent Andrew Benson answers your latest questions before the Sao Paulo Grand Prix.

From the "soul of the team" to an "absolute warrior", here are the Premier League's 20 key players, as chosen by our fan writers.

Experience leads company boss to decide 'I cannot rely on having a Google account for production use cases'

The founder of a service that manages SSL certificates says Google Cloud has suspended his account three times, without good reason, and recommended not using the G-Cloud for serious workloads.…

American actress and Wild at Heart star Diane Ladd has died aged 89.

Trent Alexander-Arnold returns to Liverpool for the first time since moving to Real Madrid on Tuesday, when he will discover if absence has made Anfield hearts grow fonder.

South Korea's president laughed, so perhaps it was funny? Unlike China's censorship and snooping

Chinese president Xi Jinping has joked that smartphones from Xiaomi might include backdoors.…

Australia seamer Ryan Harris needed a second chance at being a professional cricketer, but when it came he formed one of the Ashes most clinical partnerships with Mitchell Johnson.

Jan Sears says the passengers were told to run as fast and as far away as they could from the station.

Alain Berset, Council of Europe secretary general, said human rights laws may need to "change or adapt".

Police probing other knife-related incidents and the chancellor flagging "tough decisions" in a pre-Budget speech leads the papers.

Jamie Melham becomes only the second female jockey to win Australia's most famous horse race.

Superapp company that chased Uber away built its own model to do the job right

Proprietary large language models are bad at interpreting Asian languages, according to Singaporean super-app company Grab, which has built its own model instead.…

55 cuffed last week after court ruled sting operation was legal

Australian police last week made 55 arrests using evidence gathered with a backdoored messaging app that authorities distributed in the criminal community.…

Prince William has talked about the need for more good leaders, as well as putting on a display of his less serious side, on the first day of his tour to Brazil.

'Unified Edge' designed so even retail workers can replace a server

Cisco entered the server market in 2009 because the company thought incumbent vendors weren’t satisfying customers. On Monday, the networking giant entered the edge infrastructure market for the same reason.…

If you want your First Amendment rights, make money the Palantir way

Palantir CEO Alex Karp used his quarterly shareholder letter to take aim at critics after the company beat Q3 2025 earnings estimates.…

Demand for weight-loss drugs has soared in India, home to millions with obesity and Type 2 diabetes.

Mohamed Hamdan Dagolo will either lead a breakaway state or seek to take control of the whole country, Sudanese say.

Kardashian plays a divorce lawyer in drama All's Fair but is more keen on criminal law in real life.

Campaigners say IVF treatment should be less stigmatised in the workplace and come with legal entitlements to time off

Four rival carnivore families battle it out for rule over a remarkable river valley in Zambia.

But some people said borrowing from their nearest and dearest had affected those relationships.

Sunderland captain Granit Xhaka was called the signing of the season - and then came his biggest contribution so far with his strike against Everton.

After every round of Premier League matches this season, Troy Deeney gives us his team of the week. Do you agree with his choices?

A smart lock is an easy solution to some common problems. Locked yourself out? Need to let a friend in to water the plants? Your latchkey kid lost their key? Hands are full, and it’s raining cats and dogs? A smart lock solves all of these problems and more. One of the best smart home […]

With 10 games gone in the Premier League season, BBC Sport looks at what history tells us we can read into the table.

Even AI has doubts about the claim that '80% of ransomware attacks are AI-driven'

Do 80 percent of ransomware attacks really come from AI? MIT Sloan has now withdrawn a working paper that made that eyebrow-raising claim after criticism from security researcher Kevin Beaumont.…

Granit Xhaka scores his first Sunderland goal as the Black Cats come from behind to draw with Everton and move up to fourth place in the Premier League.

Sensitive research into alleged human rights abuses is alleged to have been shut down by Chinese agents.

OpenAI says ChatGPT’s behavior “remains unchanged” after reports across social media falsely claimed that new s updates to its usage policy prevent the chatbot from offering legal and medical advice. Karan Singhal, OpenAI’s head of health AI, writes on X that the claims are “not true.”  “ChatGPT has never been a substitute for professional advice, […]

Apple has just released iOS 26.1, which includes a new transparency toggle for Liquid Glass. The toggle helps address some of the legibility issues introduced in iOS 26 by allowing iPhone users to tone down the glassy design for buttons, tabs, and other navigational elements. As teased during the iOS 26.1 beta, with the toggle, […]

If you know where to look, you can often score discounts on Apple’s ever-expanding AirPods lineup. Both the newer AirPods Max and AirPods 4 (with or without ANC) now consistently receive discounts, as do the second-gen AirPods Pro with USB-C. Events like Prime Day, Black Friday, and Cyber Monday often bring the steepest discounts, though […]

The prince has key environmental work planned with the Earthshot Prize and a speech at the COP30 summit - but started with a cable car trip up Sugarloaf Mountain.

"We were blessed to have her," said her daughter, actress Laura Dern. The two acted together in many films and the HBO show Enlightened.

A judge in Colorado has rejected a plea deal for a funeral home owner accused of storing nearly 190 decomposing bodies in a bug-infested building, after relatives of the deceased argued the proposed 15 to 20-year sentence was far too lenient.

Rogues committed extortion while working for infosec firms

A ransomware negotiator and an incident response manager at two separate cybersecurity firms have been indicted for allegedly carrying out ransomware attacks of their own against multiple US companies.…

While the best iPad deals usually land during major sale events like Black Friday and Amazon Prime Day, many great iPad deals are available outside of those times. The day-to-day discounts come and go like changing winds, so there’s often some amount to be saved, particularly on Apple’s most affordable iPad, the iPad Mini, and the […]

Still available via API, the developer-facing AI isn't even really designed to answer general-purpose questions

If Google's Gemma were an employee, it might be facing HR right now. The company yanked the model from AI Studio after it allegedly invented criminal accusations about a US senator and a conservative activist. However, it seems like the aggrieved parties went out of their way to get the offending output.…

Sir Keir Starmer says AI will improve public services, put money in your pocket, create jobs and improve your children's future.

Last month, General Motors added its name to the growing list of automakers who are pursuing a novel type of partially automated technology called "eyes-off driving." What they didn't do, though, is provide a thorough description of how they'll take responsibility when something goes wrong. Not to be confused with the type of "eyes-off" distracted […]

Guns N' Roses will also top the bill at the rock and metal festival, with dozens of other acts to appear.

Gary O'Neil pulls out of the running to become Wolves manager after coming close to a shock return.

Zohran Mamdani calls himself "Donald Trump's worst nightmare". They are the words of a man living the dream.

Last year's winner scored a $65M funding round on a $300M valuation

Cloud and AI security startups have two weeks to apply for a program that fast-tracks access to investors and mentors from Amazon Web Services, CrowdStrike, and Nvidia.…

And what does new polling tell us about how US voters see Trump?

Apple has launched its App Store on the web, offering a central hub where you can browse through different categories of apps across all of the company’s devices, as spotted earlier by MacRumors and 9to5Mac. Now, when you navigate to apps.apple.com, you’ll see the revamped interface instead of a webpage that just contains information about […]

Gaming laptops come in various shapes and sizes, though many of the heavy hitters remain thick and beefy machines that maximize cooling to get the most out of their powerful chips. Most are awash in RGB lighting and edgy designs geared toward capital-G Gamers, but there are also thinner, lighter options that are more portable […]

Former England goalkeeper Mary Earps tells BBC Sport she did not write her autobiography to "tear anyone down" and feels reaction to it has been "distorted".

A person claiming to be one of the University of Pennsylvania hackers says that about "1.2 million lines of data" will be kept private for the group to sell before it is made public. The group also plans to make other documents public. In comments to The Verge, the hacker or hackers distanced themselves from […]

England back row Ben Earl says he trusts Steve Borthwick if the head coach decides to deploy him as a starting centre.

Strangulation pornography will be banned following a review which found such images have helped to establish it as a sexual norm.

Stephen Crean was among those injured in a knife attack on a train in Cambridgeshire on Saturday evening.

Euro 2028 co-hosts England face playing one group match and a possible last-16 game away from Wembley.

BBC Verify uses witness statements and video evidence to piece together a timeline of a devastating stabbing.

With everything from the next Knives Out movie to the final season of Stranger Things on the way, there’s going to be a ton of great stuff to stream in the coming weeks. And if you want to watch it all in glorious 4K resolution, Google’s TV Streamer (4K) is a great streaming device that’s […]

Apple has shared a new intro sound and video that will accompany things you watch on the newly-renamed Apple TV streaming service. Apple rebranded Apple TV Plus to just Apple TV last month, and the previous intro prominently highlighted the plus, so it makes sense that Apple made a new version to accompany the updated […]

Your Party membership stands at 50,000, Sky News can reveal.

A force is investigating three other knife-related incidents in Peterborough over the weekend.

The UK has begun sharing quantum research with other members of the G7 and Australia, as the race to develop the new technology heats up.

Witnesses talk about what they saw on the train where a mass stabbing has taken place.

Amazon deal still dwarfed by $250B Azure commitment made as part of OpenAI's for-profit transformation

OpenAI has signed a seven-year, $38 billion agreement with Amazon Web Services, adding another hyperscaler alongside Microsoft Azure for its growing AI compute needs. Where it's getting all this money was not disclosed.…

The technology secretary says O2's higher-than-expected price increase is "disappointing" given the cost of living.

The prime minister has commended the "heroic" driver and staff who were working on board a train when multiple people were stabbed on Saturday night.

A victim of the Cambridgeshire train stabbings has spoken of the injuries he suffered, as an investigation was launched into whether the suspect was involved in other incidents.

Accenture to poke around the beleaguered airline's IT infrastructure

Alaska Airlines has called in consultants to advise it on what went wrong during a late October IT meltdown that grounded flights and wreaked havoc for two days.…

Peter Mandelson was sacked in September due to his links with Jeffrey Epstein being exposed.

The spending will continue until ROI improves

Tech companies continue to sling crazy amounts of money at AI, with Microsoft announcing deals worth billions in Texas and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), while Google parent Alphabet is selling bonds in Europe to raise cash for more AI expansion.…

The ex-footballer goes on trial over social media posts about presenter Jeremy Vine and pundits Eni Aluko and Lucy Ward.

The seven-year agreement will see OpenAI gain access to Nvidia graphics processors to train its artificial intelligence models.

Old-school cargo heists reborn in the cyber age

Cybercriminals are increasingly orchestrating lucrative cargo thefts alongside organized crime groups (OCGs) in a modern-day resurgence of attacks on freight companies.…

New Ofsted inspections will go ahead as planned this month after the NAHT union's failed legal challenge.

More than 700 officers will be on duty for Aston Villa's Europa League match against Israeli side Maccabi Tel Aviv on Thursday.

The Content Overseas Distribution Association (CODA), an anti-piracy organization representing Japanese IP holders like Studio Ghibli and Bandai Namco, released a letter last week asking OpenAI to stop using its members’ content to train Sora 2, as reported by Automaton. The letter states that “CODA considers that the act of replication during the machine learning […]

Coca-Cola is once again using generative AI to reimagine its classic Coke caravan holiday commercials, and in doing so, killing some of the festive joy you have for the brand. After receiving backlash for airing three AI-generated holiday commercials last year that featured gliding wheels and uncanny-looking faces, the company has doubled down with a […]