BBC News A public memorial for Ann Widdecombe will be held later this year, her family has said in a statement. Former Conservative minister and Reform UK spokeswoman Widdecombe, 78, was found dead in her Dartmoor home with serious head injuries earlier this month. Her family thanked the public for “the wide expression of condolences” […]
BBC News Having begun in 1930 as the British Empire Games, the Commonwealth Games face questions about their place and relevance in the modern world. England weightlifter Emily Campbell told the BBC the Games are “one of the best things that came out of colonisation” while three-time Olympic swimming gold medallist Tom Dean insists they […]
BBC News The co-founder of Hugging Face, a technology start-up that was hacked after some of OpenAI’s most advanced artificial intelligence (AI) models went rogue, said on Thursday that the incident is “a wake up call” for the industry. Thomas Wolf told the BBC that “this will be one of the most common types of […]
BBC News Couzens is a former Metropolitan Police officer serving a whole-life sentence for the rape and murder of Sarah Everard. He abused his police role to stage a fake arrest, highlighting severe vetting failures and multiple failed opportunities to uncover the risk he posed. ACC Ratcliff said the comparison was unhelpful and that no […]
BBC News With traditional number nines seemingly becoming a dying breed, clubs are turning to other positions to provide the goal threat. That makes the midfielder, particularly one with a bit of creativity who can unlock defences, a sought-after player. England seem to have produced a number of players who fit that bill within a […]
BBC News The school day had begun as usual, Amaineh says. Because it was the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, the children gathered inside the prayer hall to recite the Quran, she recalls, before she began teaching her pupils a new letter of the Persian alphabet. But, as the first attacks of the war unfolded […]
BBC News A White House adviser has accused China’s Moonshot AI of a “large scale” effort to steal the capabilities of top US artificial intelligence (AI) models. US President Donald Trump’s Science and Technology adviser Michael Kratsios said Moonshot AI carried out the campaign through what is known as distillation – when a weaker AI […]
BBC News The trial of ousted Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, is scheduled to begin on 1 June 2027, a New York judge ordered on Wednesday. Maduro is charged with narco terrorism, as well as drug and weapons related charges. He denies all the charges. The BBC’s Kayla Epstein explains what […]
