Five dead after Amazon cargo plane crashes at Miami airport
Video showed thick smoke rising from the plane crash of the Boeing 767 that the Federal Aviation Administration says overran the airport runway in Miami.
German exit polls suggest far-right party has big lead in regional election
Exit polls show Germany's AfD taking a commanding lead in a regional election, but it remains unclear whether the far-right party can form the country's first state government since World War II.
American Muslims are giving Texas barbecue a halal makeover
Even as anti-Muslim rhetoric rises in Texas, Muslim pitmasters are winning over diners and reshaping one of the state's most iconic culinary traditions.
Witkoff and Kushner call Kyiv talks 'substantive' after Moscow Putin meeting
U.S. envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner held meetings in Kyiv with Ukraine's President Zelenskyy on Sunday, a day after lengthy conversations with Russian President Putin in Moscow.
QUIZ: Ugh, I'll do it later. How much do you know about procrastination?
Learn a few surprising facts about procrastination — and helpful tools to overcome it — with this quiz. It's based on social scientist Itamar Shatz's new book, Solving Procrastination.
Whatever happened to kindness? Spoiler alert: Our readers prove it's alive and well
We asked readers to share stories about a moment of kindness involving a stranger. Here are some of their heartwarming anecdotes.
Jazz legend John Coltrane's Philadelphia house to become a cultural heritage site
On the centennial of father's birth, Ravi Coltrane talks about turning the home where the jazz legend spent a crucial period in the 1950s into a cultural heritage and community space.
U.S. and Iran trade attacks on ships as fighting flares up again
Opinion: A sculpture in perpetual motion, removed
"Blue," a statue that's been on the grounds of the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. for 7 years has been dismantled and removed.
Trump administration to dig at triumphal arch site despite no final federal approvals
The Trump administration says it will break ground on a 250-foot triumphal arch in Washington, D.C., without final federal approval and despite an ongoing lawsuit.
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Germany's far-right AfD set for big win in eastern state, just short of majority
Germany's AfD has hailed a "historic result" and is projected to win 44% of the vote, far ahead of the conservatives on 17%.
Zelensky says he expects war to continue into winter after talks with US envoys
There was no announcement of a major breakthrough, after Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner travelled to Kyiv.
Minister to meet Jaguar Land Rover boss as thousands of job cuts expected
The company is struggling with the impact of tariffs as well as the fallout from a major cyber attack last year.
Jamaica to bring slavery reparations petition to King Charles
The King will be asked to refer three questions to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council.
BBC News presenter Maryam Moshiri reveals she has blood cancer
Maryam Moshiri tells the BBC she wanted to reveal her diagnosis to raise awareness about the cancer.
140 migrants in single dinghy rescued in English Channel
They were transferred onto two lifeboats and taken to shore in the UK.
Dozens feared trapped in collapsed building in Delhi
As many as 50 people are thought to have been inside the five-storey hostel when it came down.
Volcano eruption leaves 170,000 passengers stranded in Indonesia
More than 170,000 airline passengers are stranded after ash was detected in airspace near Jakarta following the eruptions.
Iran warns of 'faster, heavier, more painful response' to US attacks
The comments came a day after Washington said it had struck Iranian oil tankers in response to Tehran's attacks on US warships in the region.
Fifa president Infantino will stand for re-election
Fifa president Gianni Infantino will stand for re-election in March, the world governing body has confirmed.
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Time lords prepare to kick leap seconds into the next millennium
Risk of an unprecedented negative adjustment prompts plan to let UTC drift by as much as an hour
US troops can still be tracked by purchased location data, and Congress wants to know why
DoD controls on mobile ad identifiers haven't stopped military location data turning up for sale
BepiColombo sheds its ride and starts the final glide to Mercury
Eight year after launch, Mercury probe and its Mercury Transfer Module consciously uncouple as orbit approaches
Anthropic lays groundwork for bots that shop for you
Now comes the harder sell: Convincing customers and merchants to trust AI with purchases
AMD's Threadripper Halo is a local-AI workstation for researchers with deep pockets
AI workstation promises to put up to 576 GB of HBM3e and 16 TB/s of memory bandwidth on your desk
ASCII smuggling isn't just an AI security risk
Phishers find a new use for invisible Unicode tag characters
Rogue OpenAI agents used dead German web site to communicate in May, months before Hugging Face incident
Two cases of agents escaping to solve unsolvable problems paints an uncomfortable question: Is the entire internet in OpenAI's experimental agentic firing line?
My Word. Microsoft's prepping Similarity Checker for retirement
Built-in plagiarism police to hand in badge next month
Canonical shuttering some of its legacy chat channels
The Ubuntu Pastebin went in June, IRC gets demoted next
Microsoft to bounce mail from outdated Exchange servers
2016 and 2019 installations must meet the October 2025 baseline to reach cloud-hosted inboxes
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German company becomes first in Europe to launch fully commercial orbital rocket
"We achieved within a few years what had taken the European space industry decades before."
Farmed salmon may not be as nutritious as it once was, new research suggests
The shift in the fish’s diet is having significant downstream impacts on the environment and climate.
Tesla’s Cybercab has been deployed, and it’s already under investigation
The US government is investigating whether the Cybercab meets vehicle safety standards.
After 8 years, Europe's BepiColombo mission is on final approach to Mercury
"Fundamentally, we want to learn about the origins of this planet and how it came to be like it is."
OpenAI agents discussed ways to escape their sandbox on public wiki
In all, 3,700 internal agents posted 18,000 messages discussing cheating on a test.
Measles killed 6-week-old baby, coroner confirms after RFK Jr. disputed deaths
"It’s long past time for RFK to stop playing games with people’s lives."
Trump admin fights ABC lawsuit as watchdogs worry Disney will settle with FCC
FCC tells court it is “open-minded" about whether ABC should lose licenses.
Medieval manuscripts are "biological time capsules" for deadly sheeppox virus
Other archives and libraries around the world may also contain genetic traces of past disease outbreaks.
“Trust, not features, is the real deficit”: VMware tries to appease SMBs
Broadcom admits it put “too big a focus on VCF.”
Once popular for attacking AI, ASCII smuggling is embraced by spammers
A once-overlooked block of unicode that's invisible to humans is gaining ever wider use.