The global effort to end child marriage is in the news. In the U.S., there's a new bill before Congress (but it's controversial). And the U.N. is designating a day dedicated to ending the practice.

The judge in Lindsay Clancy's murder case has declared a mistrial after the jury was unable to agree on a verdict.

Changing SNAP eligibility actually can change consumption habits.

It's part of a political showdown with Marcos. A trial could impact her plans to run for president in 2028.

His trip to Vietnam marks his third visit to an ASEAN member state as he seeks to restore Myanmar's standing in the bloc.

Trump has asked the Supreme Court to lift the block on his plan for the USPS to restrict mail voting ahead of the midterm elections. And, diesel prices have reached a record high.

Germany's AfD's TikTok-fueled rise in Saxony-Anhalt is raising fears the country could see its first far-right governor since World War II.

Research published in the journal Science illuminates a "missing piece" in the biological understanding of profound autism and offers new targets for drug development.

Plus: George Santos is back in the news!

Research suggests that around half of all women in the menopausal transition years experience symptoms, like red, watery or gritty-feeling eyes. Hormonal shifts play a role, as do many other factors.

BBC News visits town where violence has escalated after the fatal crash and residents say they are living in fear.

The BBC's Ed Thomas has visited Grangetown, an area which has been the focus of an investigation following the deadly A66 crash.

The Reform UK leader promises to deliver on key priorities in the first 100 days of government, if the party wins power.

The Togo-sponsored resolution was backed by 164 nations - the US the only nation to vote against it.

There are still hundreds of workers trapped in a network of tunnels that run along the Trishuli river.

The unmanned aerial vehicle struck without warning in the heart of the Ukrainian capital.

Internet sleuths spotted sets of numbers in posters suggesting the map co-ordinates for Celtic's Parkhead stadium in Glasgow.

The comments come as Argentinian president Javier Milei says the "winds of change" favoured his country's claim on the British overseas territory.

Dame Angela Eagle warns the weather event could lead to extreme storms this winter.

Palestinian teenagers Omar al-Naasan and Khalil Abu Alia were shot dead when Israeli settlers and soldiers entered a village in the occupied West Bank.

Two cases of agents escaping to solve unsolvable problems paints an uncomfortable question: Is the entire internet in OpenAI's experimental agentic firing line?

Built-in plagiarism police to hand in badge next month

The Ubuntu Pastebin went in June, IRC gets demoted next

2016 and 2019 installations must meet the October 2025 baseline to reach cloud-hosted inboxes

Baked-in SQL syntax arrives through multi-vendor collaboration, although indexing still needs to catch up

Fully backward-compatible upgrade promises zero-friction speedup for monorepo wranglers.

No restoration time for platform used by more than 30,000 UK organizations, including NHS trusts and medical practices

15 Mustangs on the city streets, but the Nissan LEAF follow-up could dispense with the safety driver

The new extreme sport: Windows Updates

Customer alleges AI telco system had frequent issues, did not work as promised, as vendor sues separately for non payment

Other archives and libraries around the world may also contain genetic traces of past disease outbreaks.

Broadcom admits it put “too big a focus on VCF.”

A once-overlooked block of unicode that's invisible to humans is gaining ever wider use.

The Pentagon says the guidance is being updated after being online for one day.

"I think we can't get in trouble for that now. It's like 20 years ago."

Every neuron and connection in the brain of a fly has been mapped—twice.

Public-market scrutiny will intensify pressure on the Claude maker’s unusual attempt to balance profit and purpose.

Saying X is “formerly Twitter” in App Store lets Musk block use of Twitter name.

"Let me be clear: America is not only welcome—we want you there."

Two of Europe's leading launch startups announced new fundraising this week.