BBC News Like Keerthana, Alicia Munhupedzi used the internet to find her dress – though it was a bit last minute. “I thought, ‘Where can I get a nice dress really quickly and cheaply?’” The answer? Depop, the second-hand clothing app popular among Gen Z shoppers that sold for $1.2bn (£890m) earlier this year. Like […]
BBC News Carl Jones said he and his partner of 20 years haven’t wed because even the simplest weddings are too expensive. “We want to get married but won’t, as it costs too much. It’s cheaper if we just have two witnesses, but why should our [12-year-old] daughter not be allowed to attend… It’s wrong.” […]
BBC News “Everyone thought she could pull it off because she’s smart and funny, but a chat show with multiple guests is very difficult to handle,” the Telegraph’s arts and entertainment editor, Anita Singh, tells BBC News. “You have to marshall the conversation, give each guest equal time, help them to plug whatever they’re plugging, […]
BBC News She said: “You’ve got your full firefighting kits, you’ve got all your tools, you’re carrying water and you’re trying to put out flaming moorland. “It’s really hot, really hard work, you get really dirty, but also you feel like you’re doing good work and really helping the environment. “You get competing emotions, you’re […]
BBC News This event is the latest in a string of worrying and weird examples of AI agents going rogue. In recent research, the UK’s AI Security Institute (AISI) found frontier AI models are so fixated on completing tasks they “cheated” in tests to achieve their goals. The research from AISI came with this worrying […]
BBC News One opposition MP, who asked not to be identified, put it more bluntly. “Ninety-nine per cent of these young people on the street have no clue how the ministry of defence is operating, how the general staff is operating,” he said. “They think Fedorov is good because he wants to fight with drones […]
BBC News A huge explosion triggered by a fire tore through an industrial unit in Essex on Friday, with more than 100 firefighters sent to tackle the massive fire. Video posted on social media captured the moment the explosion rattled the surrounding area, with some people seen running from the blaze. The Essex fire service […]
BBC News Between 2020 and May 2026, Comwel ruled that 46 warehouse and delivery workers, including Jang, died of a stroke or heart disease that count as work-related deaths. Jang aside, it’s unclear how many of them worked overnight shifts. Comwel did not say how many of these cases were also investigated for the role […]
BBC News Scott was not being caught, though. Not tonight. Not here. Not with his Scotland kit on and his team looking to him to spark their Games. A Games which he has backed vocally since Glasgow salvaged it from the wreckage of Victoria’s aborted bid. Almost exactly 12 years after he won his first […]
BBC News Paramount Skydance and rival Warner Bros Discovery have agreed to pause their $110bn (£82.8bn) merger until June 2027 while a judge weighs upon a legal challenge against the tie-up. The pause follows lawsuits from 12 US states and the Writers Guild of America (WGA), who argue the deal would harm competition and lead […]
