Joe Fishburn, from Scarborough, says winning the show in front of his grandma made it extra special.
Car rental giant Hertz is alerting customers that personal information including credit card details and Social Security numbers may have been stolen in a data breach that impacted one of the firm’s vendors. In a notice posted to its website, Hertz says that company data “was acquired by an unauthorized third-party” during a cyberattack exploiting […]
With Luka Modric investing in Swansea City, BBC Sport asks why? How did it happen? What will his role be? And what does it mean for the Welsh club?
UK's play to win a quantum computing race that is still highly theoretical
To mark World Quantum Day, the UK government says it will stump up a £121 million ($158 million) investment in the ever-distant technology that proponents claim has the potential to shake up the world.…
The number of job vacancies and people on payrolls fell ahead of changes to National Insurance and wages.
Wayne Rooney, Andrew Cole, Tyrese Campbell and more discuss the life and tragic death of former Arsenal and Everton striker Kevin Campbell.
A man has been jailed for eight-and-a-half years after enabling cybercriminals to defraud around one million victims in 91 countries.
The Old Town Road rapper reassures fans saying he'll "look funny for a lil bit but that's it".
England assistant coach Arjan Veurink is to leave his role at the end of this summer's European Championship to become head coach of the Netherlands' women's team.
Bob Arum - who promoted Tyson Fury for years - does not think fans should expect a comeback from the retired heavyweight.
See no error, hear no error, speak no error
The three wise Microsoft monkeys have spoken. If Windows Update displayed an error after installing the April 2025 Windows Recovery Environment release, you didn't see anything. Best to ignore it and move on.…
Victims of the Post Office Horizon scandal have been urged to take legal action against the government over compensation delays.
Could volcanic ash close down airspace across the UK and Europe bringing widespread the disruption we experienced in 2010.
The future of Britain's last major steelmaking plant is uncertain.
Seven people have been arrested and a crossbow recovered following reports of a gun being brandished during a disturbance in Salford, police have said.
That would put America on the same level as China for espionage
The European Commission is giving staffers visiting the US on official business burner laptops and phones to avoid espionage attempts, according to the Financial Times.…
The government is "not ruling out" another Chinese partner for British Steel, the industry minister has said, putting her at odds with Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds.
Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds has said it is "likely" that British Steel will be nationalised.
Concacaf president Victor Montagliani criticises a proposal to expand the 2030 men's World Cup to 64 teams.
Twice a year, the Thiruvananthapuram airport shuts operations for a few hours for a temple procession.
The owner of Pontins holiday parks has been charged with corporate manslaughter after a grandmother died following a ceiling collapse at a resort.
When the power went out, they didn’t switch on
Google has revealed that a recent six-hour outage at one of its cloudy regions was caused by uninterruptible power supplies not doing their job.…
BBC Sport F1 correspondent Andrew Benson answers your questions following the Bahrain Grand Prix.
Jose Mourinho reveals his inspired psychological tactics which helped Inter Milan win the Champions League in new BBC Sport documentary.
Rory McIlroy's Masters win puts him in the pantheon of golfing greats and as the first European to complete the feat, in the conversation to be considered the continent's greatest ever, writes Iain Carter.
Childcare costs for parents of under-twos in Wales are more expensive than anywhere else in Britain.
A social media "investigator" prompts a review of parking signs on a Manchester city centre street.
PSG teenager Desire Doue has gone from a false start to the talk of European football, says BBC Sport's chief football writer Phil McNulty.
A man has pleaded guilty to murdering two women and trying to kill two other people in a suspected stabbing in Milton Keynes on Christmas Day.
Patients with diseases such as eczema and acne are waiting up to two years for appointments.
Some tell the BBC they are encouraged to compete over the number of procedures they carry out on pets.
The BBC speaks to young women who are now working to support their families in one of few jobs they are allowed to do.
Rare accounts of life in el-Fasher - the last major city in Darfur controlled by the Sudanese army - on the second anniversary of the civil war.
Meanwhile in China, factories that work for Apple and HP are reportedly closing some production line
Tech manufacturers worked overtime in early 2025 to produce hardware before the US imposed tariffs that would increase the prices punters pay for product.…
Horrible Histories author Terry Deary describes the book as a "sickening artefact".
Synnovis' failure to provide the correct blood-test results amounts to a "scandal", the BBC is told.
US vice president JD Vance has said America and the UK are "working very hard" on a trade deal and he believes they will reach a "great agreement".
A number of Tuesday's front pages reflect on Katy Perry becoming the first pop star to venture into space.
The sandstorm blanketed southern regions in an eerie, orange haze and shut down airports.
Blackwell production already underway in Arizona with server manufacturing coming to Texas within 15 months
Nvidia wants to build and sell up to half a trillion US dollars of American-made AI supercomputer equipment over the next four years, with the help of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co, aka TSMC, and its partners.…
“Your honor, the FTC calls Mark Zuckerberg.†Flanked by two bodyguards, Meta’s CEO solemnly strode into a Washington, DC courtroom. Despite his last-ditch efforts to avoid a trial, he was there, jaw clenched, to defend his company from being broken up by the US government. Shortly after he was sworn in, the Federal Trade Commission’s […]
The US government is seeking to break up Meta by forcing a spinoff of Instagram or WhatsApp.
Princess Kate has described how she feels a "very spiritual and very intense emotional reconnection" when surrounded by nature.
The number of plays and musicals staged by the UK's main subsidised theatres is down by almost a third.
The UN cites "credible sources" for the estimated death toll of recent attacks on refugee camps in Darfur.
Wendy Jones died in hospital about six months after being injured at Pontins Brean Sands, in Somerset.
While the best iPad deals usually land during major sale events like Black Friday and Amazon Prime Day, many great iPad deals are attainable outside those times. The day-to-day discounts may come and go like changing winds, but there’s often some amount to be saved, particularly on the more affordable iPads. The most recent iPad Pro and […]
Donald Trump's return to the White House has created flashpoints between the North American neighbours.
Copilot vibe coding for OS development? Why not
Canny Windows users who've spotted a mysterious folder on hard drives after applying last week's security patches for the operating system can rest assured – it's perfectly benign. In fact, it's recommended you leave the directory there.…
In September, Apple launched its latest smartwatch, introducing the Apple Watch Series 10 alongside a black rendition of the Apple Watch Ultra 2. Each wearable has its own pros and cons, as does the second-gen Apple Watch SE, but the recent introduction of the new wearables also means there are now more Apple Watch models […]
After every round of Premier League matches this season, Troy Deeney gives us his team of the week. Do you agree with his choices?
Competing voices from the White House fuelled uncertainty before the president announced a sweeping pause, experts say.
Users, unsurprisingly, are not pleased and feel forgotten amid Redmond's Copilot frenzy
In June 2024, users of the OneDrive sync client for macOS and Windows began reporting that shared folders had vanished from their local drives, replaced with web shortcuts.…
Families of five of Hashem Abedi's victims tell the government he should not be allowed any privileges in prison, in a letter seen by the BBC.
Six women - including pop star Katy Perry - blasted off into space as part of an all-women suborbital mission
The US government has frozen more than $2.2bn (£1.67bn) in funding for Harvard university after defied demands made by the Trump administration to curb protests on campus.
IT admins, get ready to grumble
CA/Browser Forum – a central body of web browser makers, security certificate issuers, and friends – has voted to cut the maximum lifespan of new SSL/TLS certs to just 47 days by March 15, 2029.…
Apple says it’s found a way to make its AI models better without training on its users’ data or even copying it from their iPhones and Macs. In a blog post first reported on by Bloomberg, the company outlined its plans to have devices compare a synthetic dataset to samples of recent emails or messages […]
Samantha Davis died hours before the hospital where she had undergone surgery was planning to discharge her.
President Donald Trump wants to expand his already chaotic and cruel mass deportations. On Monday, he told reporters that he’s looking into the possibility of sending US citizens to a megaprison in El Salvador. “I’d like to go a step further,†Trump claimed at a press conference with Salvadoran president Nayib Bukele on Monday. “I […]
So, you’re thinking of buying a smart ring. Well, some good news. Picking the best of the lot is incredibly easy right now. The “bad” news is that, as far as trustworthiness and reliability, your choices are somewhat limited, as this is still a niche and emerging gadget category. Smart rings are in the middle […]
Sean "Diddy" Combs has pleaded not guilty to additional charges of sex trafficking and transportation to engage in prostitution, which were added to the indictment against him earlier in April.
Buy high, sell low: FPGA biz cost x86 giant $16B decade ago
A decade after gobbling up Altera, Intel is loosening its grip. On Monday, the x86 giant said it's flogging a 51 percent stake in the FPGA slinger to private equity firm Silver Lake.…
The raw materials needed to keep the blast furnaces running at British Steel's Scunthorpe plant will be delivered to the site today, the government has confirmed.
Nayib Bukele has won praise from Donald Trump for imprisoning some "very bad people" deported from the US.
Jackson Page becomes the first player to score a maximum 147 break twice in one match as he bids to reach the World Snooker Championship.
What's the goal here, Homeland Insecurity or something?
As drastic cuts to the US govt's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency loom, Rep Eric Swalwell (D-CA), the ranking member of the House's cybersecurity subcommittee, has demanded that CISA brief the subcommittee "prior to any significant changes to CISA's workforce or organizational structure."…
A landmark legal case begins against social media giant Meta.
Friends and colleagues of Rory McIlroy have hailed his career Grand Slam as "one of the greatest days in sport" - as the golfer's psychologist revealed how he overcame an 11-year wait for another major.
Donald Trump has questioned Volodymyr Zelenskyy's competence and suggested Ukraine started the war against Russia which is "20 times" its size.
Q1 sector growth unlikely to survive current trade policy
Profiteering resellers stateside filled up on smartphone inventory in calendar Q1 before the scheduled imposition of US tariffs, which have rocked global stock prices and US Treasury bonds since April 2.…
Vital materials stored nearby to the Scunthorpe plant will arrive in the "coming days", Downing Street says.
Ice cores that record 1.2 million years of Earth’s atmosphere are on their way to Europe to be analysed, and an Australian drilling team is hoping to go even further back in time
The month-long walkout has seen bin bags and fly-tipped rubbish piled high on Birmingham's streets.
Actress Samantha Davis, the wife of Warwick Davis, died after suffering a cardiac arrest hours before she was due to be discharged from hospital, an inquest has found.
The prime minister, his deputy and the chancellor publish summaries of their taxes for 2023/24.
OpenAI has introduced GPT-4.1, a successor to the GPT-4o multimodal AI model launched by the company last year. During a livestream on Monday, OpenAI said GPT-4.1 has an even larger context window and is better than GPT-4o in “just about every dimension,” with big improvements to coding and instruction following. GPT-4.1 is now available to […]
Want a premium pair of earbuds without having to pay a premium price? Right now, Sony’s noise-canceling WF-1000XM5 are on sale at Amazon and Target for $179.99 ($120 off), their best price to date. It’s possible Sony could release the WF-1000XM6 sometime later this year, but for now, few wireless earbuds offer as much value […]
Sales backstop deal? More like ... Sales? Back, stop! Deal!
Arizona electronics supplier Avnet has accused California semiconductor design firm Ampere Computing of going against its word and backing out of a server purchasing deal.…
Newcastle boss Eddie Howe thanks fans for their "messages and warm wishes" after the club announced he is recovering in hospital having being diagnosed with pneumonia.
A piece of golfing history is not all Rory McIlroy will receive for his triumph at Augusta National.
Puppies’ performance in cognitive tests at 3 to 7 months old can give a strong indication of their personalities and trainability as adults
Aston Villa boss Unai Emery says his players should view the second leg of their Champions League showdown with Paris St-Germain as a chance to write themselves into the club's history books.
The Star Wars strategy game announced in 2022 finally has a name: Zero Company, as EA revealed today. A website about the game describes it as a “single-player turn-based tactics game,” includes an image, and says that a “first look” will be shown at Star Wars Celebration Japan on April 19th. The game will be […]
Donald Trump has suggested "homegrown criminals" in the US could be deported to jails in El Salvador – saying the US attorney general is "studying the laws right now".
Watchdog wants to know whether EU posts were used without consent under GDPR
Elon Musk's social media outfit X is again under the regulatory microscope in Europe – this time for allegedly using EU users' public posts to train its Grok AI chatbot, possibly without the transparency or legal basis required under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).…
BBC Verify looks at what we know about the extent of Chinese investment in the UK economy.
Newcastle manager Eddie Howe is recovering in hospital from pneumonia and will miss two more games, the club has announced.
Meta has announced that it’s preparing to train AI on the data of EU users of its apps, including Facebook and Instagram. The company says that includes things like public posts, comments, and their chat history with Meta AI, but won’t include “private messages with friends and family.” It also only applies to those who […]
A 72-year-old woman and a 12-year-old boy were seriously assaulted by masked assailants during a home invasion believed to be linked to an ongoing gang feud that has spread from Edinburgh to Glasgow.
The agency says it is seeing "attack after attack" and supply shortages following an Israeli strike on al-Ahli hospital.
Samsung has announced new versions of its rugged tablets and smartphones designed for use in environments where they’re going to get dirty, wet, and knocked around. Both the Galaxy XCover7 Pro and Galaxy Tab Active5 Pro feature improved battery life, but the tablet goes one step further with a “dual hot-swap” feature allowing the battery […]
Steve Bray is found not guilty of flouting a police ban after playing loud music outside Parliament.
Using smartphones, computers and the internet seems to slow cognitive decline in people aged over 50
Paapa Essiedu will portray Severus Snape, while Paul Whitehouse has been cast as Argus Filch.
We’ve now figured out how to culture chocolate in the lab. The breakthrough could help with spiralling cocoa costs, and may even lead to tastier treats with more nutritional value
The UK will announce a £120m aid package for Sudan at a conference in London to mark the two-year anniversary of the conflict in the African country.
After weeks of speculation, Warner Bros. Discovery has officially announced the first cast members who will appear in its upcoming Harry Potter TV adaptation. The casting confirmations, focused around some of the most notable adult characters from the Harry Potter novels, are one of the most reassuring signs of life for the wizarding world series […]
Watch as a young Rory McIlroy speaks to BBC Sport NI in 1998 about his ambition of turning pro and winning all of golf's major championships.
