The first day of school: Bells, bikes, buses and big feelings
Fifth graders calm school kindergartners in Los Angeles. Kids take the "bike bus" in Oklahoma. High school students take in a new high school building in Oregon.
'Her body temperature was 106': How heat is killing Americans in their homes
Heat kills thousands of people across the U.S. every year. The risk is especially high for the millions of Americans who live in manufactured housing like mobile homes and trailers.
The copper peptide trend has gone from creams to injections — ahead of the science
The peptide is supposed to deliver flawless and firm skin, promote wound healing and other anti-aging effects. So what's the evidence behind GHK-Cu?
Morning news brief
Five people are dead after a cargo plane crash at Miami International Airport, Trump's top envoys go to Ukraine with hopes of restarting peace talks, Germany's far-right party wins landslide victory.
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.
Germany's far-right achieves an electoral breakthrough in key state election
Germany's populist, far-right Alternative for Germany party has declared victory in the state of Saxony-Anhalt after more than doubling its share of the vote in the first of several regional elections this fall.
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.
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Watch: Anti-migrant boat protesters block roads in Portsmouth
The government condemned "the intimidating and thuggish behaviour" of the demonstrators.
Jaguar Land Rover to cut 4,000 jobs over next two years
The cuts come as the carmaker struggles with Chinese competition, US tariffs, and the transition to electric vehicles.
New videos of man at centre of 9/11 lawsuit reveal links to extremists and Saudi state
The footage and other evidence the FBI failed to share undermine Omar al-Bayoumi's 25 years of denials.
Germany's far-right AfD says 'democracy demands' parties work with them after state election win
The far-right party is trying to form a government in the state after falling three seats short of a majority.
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.
Kyiv air raid alerts at record high as Russia launches round-the-clock strikes
Schools, businesses and public transport are all struggling with the surge in Russian air attacks.
'The man who drugged and raped me was freed from prison and went on to kill'
One of Richard Scatchard's victims says his killing of Kelly Faiers in 2023 could have been avoided.
One million people to receive one-off pension top-up payment
About one million people - mostly women - are owed pension tax relief and will be contacted by HMRC.
Indonesia volcano eruption leaves 270,000 stranded as airports extend closure
Anak Krakatau, which lies about 150km from the capital Jakarta, began erupting late on Friday.
New Inbetweeners film confirmed by Netflix as lead stars return
Netflix has confirmed the original stars of the coming-of-age sitcom are set to reprise their roles for the film.
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UK food supply chain at risk from hostile attacks
Defending against cyber foes is among factors hitting food price inflation, report finds
Peers ask why UK cyber bill leaves execs off the personal liability hook
Ministers say £17M corporate fines and forthcoming board-level governance rules provide sufficient accountability
OpenAI's rebel agent swarm died young, but its chilling logs live on
'The Collective' learned to communicate, organize, cheat, and apparently sacrifice its own
Amazon-branded plane in fatal accident at Miami Airport
Couldn’t stop before the end of a runway
Who, Me? Techie sent to fix Nobel Prize winner’s PC almost set it on fire
Even the greatest scientific minds are at risk of rogue 9-pin connectors
Jensen's purchase of a new toy could reshape the entire AI industry
This week on The Kettle we weigh in on Nvidia's Hugging Face acquisition and why it could spell a new, more fragmented and siloed era of AI development
Might as well blame AI for this giant Linux release candidate, says Linus Torvalds
Last week, he blamed himself for being ‘a grade A nincompoop’ who assumed a system upgrade couldn’t possibly go wrong
Thailand pauses all datacenter builds and approvals
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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
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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.