Many spent their careers training on the mountains they'll be competing on at the Winter Games. Lindsey Vonn wanted to stage a comeback on these slopes and Jessie Diggins won her first World Cup there.

Alberto Castañeda Mondragón was hospitalized with eight skull fractures and five life-threatening brain hemorrhages. Officers claimed he ran into a wall, but medical staff doubted that account.

A collapsed sewer line, about 8 miles from the White House, pumped 368 Olympic-sized swimming pools worth of wastewater into the Potomac. Repairs could take longer than previously expected.

Amid an ongoing standoff between Harvard and the White House, the Defense Department said it plans to cut ties with the Ivy League — ending military training, fellowships and certificate programs.

Washington Post chief executive and publisher Will Lewis has resigned just days after the newspaper announced massive layoffs.

Nancy Guthrie was last seen a week ago. In the days since, investigators have launched a frantic search to return the 84-year-old home.

Olympic figure skating is often seems to take athletes to the very edge of perfection, but even the greatest stumble and fall. How do they pull themselves together again on the biggest world stage? Toughness, poise and practice.

Some film professors are bemoaning the shortcuts students take to avoid watching assigned movies: some don't know what happens at the end. NPR's Scott Simon offers his own synopses.

Leprosy is one of the least contagious diseases around — and perhaps one of the most misunderstood. The colonies are relics of a not-too-distant past when those diagnosed with leprosy were exiled.

The first season of The Pitt was about acute problems. The second is about chronic ones.

A pay-off given to Lord Mandelson after he was sacked as ambassador to the US is being reviewed, Foreign Office sources tell the BBC.

Many Labour insiders say Sir Keir may not be the man to take them to the next election, writes Laura Kuenssberg.

"We received your message," the US news anchor says in the latest video plea for the return of her mother Nancy Guthrie, 84, who is believed to be abducted.

The Prince of Wales has been on many official visits - but few places are as sensitive or controversial as Saudi Arabia.

Police say they are investigating three incidents targeting rail infrastructure that caused travel delays.

Jenni and Trevor Hicks are leading a new campaign to correct official court records from the 1990s.

Rain has fallen in south-west England and south Wales every day of 2026 so far, the Met Office says.

Team GB's mixed doubles curlers clinched their place in the Winter Olympics semi-finals with two matches to spare, after statement victories over heavyweights Canada and United States maintained their 100% record.

The British skeleton team - among Team GB's best hopes for medals at the Winter Olympics - will not be able to wear their new helmets after the Court of Arbitration for Sport said they do not comply with the sport's rules around shape.

Watch Japan's Kira Kimura win gold in the men's big air snowboarding final, as his last jump scores highest to beat compatriot Ryoma Kimata.

AI pioneer Vishal Sikka warns to never trust an LLM that runs alone

interview Don't trust; verify. According to AI researcher Vishal Sikka, LLMs alone are limited by computational boundaries and will start to hallucinate when they push those boundaries. One solution? Companion bots that check their work.…

Research shows productivity and judgment peak decades after graduation

A growing body of research continues to show that older workers are generally more productive than younger employees.…

Half a million businesses face successive price hikes ahead of PTSN shutdown

Openreach is warning British businesses that the old phone network shuts down in less than a year, with half a million commercial lines still unmigrated.…

Marketing stunt backfires with creators

The first rule of AI-generated job loss is you don't talk about AI-generated job loss ... if you're the company that caused it. Higgsfield.ai, a startup offering AI video creation tools, recently generated outrage when it claimed it had caused artists to hit the unemployment line.…

There’s about $35M up for grabs if your circuits can beat today’s limits

It's no lightweight matter. DARPA is putting about $35 million in total funding on the table in the hope that it will spur researchers to work around fundamental physical constraints and build much larger-scale photonic circuits that do more of the computing with light, not electronics.…

Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft eye $635B in infrastructure spend

Four tech megacorps intend to collectively fork out roughly $635 billion this year on capex, much of it for datacenters and AI infrastructure – more than the entire output of Israel's economy and well beyond all global cloud infrastructure services revenue generated last year.…

Attackers may have snapped user locations and activity information, message warns

Legacy image-sharing website Flickr suffered a data breach, according to customers emails seen by The Register.…

UK leaps to sixth in global flood charts as mega-swarm unleashes 31.4 Tbps Yuletide pummeling

Cloudflare says DDoS crews ended 2025 by pushing traffic floods to new extremes, while Britain made an unwelcome leap of 36 places to become the world's sixth-most targeted location.…

Rhapsody in beige

An enterprising engineer has evoked the spirit of Acorn's BBC Micro with a custom paintjob for a Raspberry Pi 500+ computer-in-a-keyboard and a natty set of replacement keycaps.…

System worked as intended, but staff then kicked out innocent bystander

A British supermarket says staff will undergo further training after a store manager ejected the wrong man when facial recognition technology triggered an alert.…

The Environmental Protection Agency has drastically pulled back on holding polluters accountable.

The $20,000 experiment compiled a Linux kernel but needed deep human management.

Claims of penis injections in ski jumpers has fillers spewing into the news.

Behold the most overwrought AI legal filings you will ever gaze upon.

Incident is at least the third time the exchange has been targeted by thieves.

Analysts expect Valve might be hit particularly hard by soaring RAM, storage prices.

Less pollution meant lower amounts of a methane-destroying chemical.

With Genie 3, Waymo wants to explore rare and even impossible driving conditions.

A new job posting suggests the debate may be swinging back toward reusing GS2.

This V8 hybrid with more than 900 hp replaces the V10 Huracán.