Russian strikes left much of Kyiv without heat, water and power during freezing temperature, even as Ukraine, Russia and the U.S. held talks on ending the nearly four-year war.

A look at the extreme winter storm impacting two-thirds of the U.S.

The incident, which was caught on video, marks the second deadly shooting by federal officers in Minneapolis in less than a month.

Federal agents have shot and killed another person in Minneapolis, this time a 51-year-old man.

The announcement is a reversal for Trump, who initially initially praised the agreement with China as something Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney "should be doing."

Dozens were killed and hundreds homes destroyed, according to the country's disaster management authority, in storms impacting 15 of Afghanistan's 34 provinces.

Analysts believe these purges aim to reform the military and ensure loyalty to Chinese leader Xi Jinping. Another commission member, Liu Zhenli, is also under investigation.

When he spoke at Davos this week, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney referenced a 1978 essay by Vaclav Havel, written when Czechoslovakia was under Soviet control.

Cardinal Blase Cupich of Chicago tells NPR's Scott Simon why he and two other Catholic cardinals released a statement critical of the Trump administration's foreign policy.

Reporters across the NPR Network are covering the impact of the storm and how officials are responding. We've also got tips for staying safe once bad weather hits.

Officials identified the man who was shot as 37-year-old Alex Pretti, a nurse and US citizen.

He says in a statement that he wants to back the Labour government "not undermine it".

The US president's praise follows his claim that allied forces avoided the front lines during the Afghanistan conflict.

With economic stagnation and extremes of inequality comes corrosion of trust in democratic institutions. So Trump may be a symptom, not a cause, of what Carney called a "rupture" with the post-WW2 order

The home secretary says policing is stuck "in a different century" and the new body will form part of wider reforms.

The Tory leader opens up about her life and career - and chooses her favourite music - on Radio 4's Desert Island Discs.

Dozens of patients became more unwell and some died with infections picked up at Glasgow's Queen Elizabeth University Hospital.

It's not just what they say or how they act that influences their fellow contestants - it's how they dress, too.

With GLP-1 drugs rising in popularity, how are businesses adapting to a new type of consumer?

BBC Analysis Editor Ros Atkins explores how Americans feel about their president during a nonstop start to 2026 shaped by pivotal events at home and abroad.

Bernard Lambeau, the human half of a pair programming team, explains how he's using AI

feature Bernard Lambeau, a Belgium-based software developer and founder of several technology companies, created a programming language called Elo with the help of Anthropic's Claude Code.…

Neurophos is developing a massive optical systolic array clocked at 56GHz good for 470 petaFLOPS of FP4 compute

As Moore's Law slows to a crawl and the amount of energy required to deliver generational performance gains grows, some chip designers are looking to alternative architectures for salvation.…

Drone, satellite, and other data combined to monitor unwanted vessels

The UK Home Office is spending up to £100 million on intelligence tech in part to tackle the so-called "small boats" issue of refugees and irregular immigrants coming across the English Channel.…

But ex-CISA boss and new RSAC CEO Jen Easterly will be there

exclusive The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency won't attend the annual RSA Conference in March, an agency spokesperson confirmed to The Register.…

UK watchdog investigates accuracy of data handed over for SMS market review

Ofcom is formally investigating whether Meta complied with legally binding information requests regarding WhatsApp's role in the UK business messaging ecosystem.…

If you skipped it back then, now’s a very good time

You've got to keep your software updated. Some unknown miscreants are exploiting a critical VMware vCenter Server bug more than a year after Broadcom patched the flaw.…

If you're serious about encryption, keep control of your encryption keys

updated If you think using Microsoft's BitLocker encryption will keep your data 100 percent safe, think again. Last year, Redmond reportedly provided the FBI with encryption keys to unlock the laptops of Windows users charged in a fraud indictment.…

'A lot more' victims to come, we're told

ShinyHunters has claimed responsibility for an Okta voice-phishing campaign during which the extortionist crew allegedly gained access to Crunchbase and Betterment.…

Where FOSS desktop OSes meet geopolitics

Hands On Uniontech's Deepin 25.0.10 release shows that the Chinese desktop world isn't waiting on Western tech. It's modern and good-looking, and (pausing only to sigh deeply) has built-in "AI".…

Pipe local wireless noise through an SDR into an RPi, and 64 LED filaments do the rest

Unless you live in a Faraday cage, you're surrounded at all times by invisible radio signals, from Bluetooth and Wi-Fi to cellular traffic. French artist Théo Champion has found a way to make that wireless noise visible, with an intense piece of Raspberry Pi-driven art that turns nearby radio activity into light.…

Destructive payload unleashed on 10-year anniversary of Russia's attack on Ukraine's grid.

Rice University chemists replicated Thomas Edison's seminal experiment and found a surprising byproduct.

While the rash has a clear link to ketones, the underlying mechanism remains elusive.

Dense narrative deduction game tells a compellingly academia-tinged sci-fi tale.

Intel is allocating more of its own production to its money-making server chips.

Community watch groups have a playbook to keep ICE away from subscriber information.

Lawyer calls it "outrageous that the White House would make up stories."

The LA startup said it would ship "millions" of TVs by 2024.

“I am so happy”: Trump closes deal that hands TikTok US to his allies.

With falling sales and shrinking profits, the recurring revenue will be most welcome.