Holborn and St Pancras by-election result live: Greens concede Polanski ‘will come second’ as counting continues

7 reasons why G-Dragon is still K-pop’s ultimate fashion icon, 20 years on

From becoming Chanel’s first Asian global ambassador to creating sold-out Nike sneakers, G-Dragon has spent two decades breaking fashion rules – and inspiring a generation of K-pop stars to do the same.

OpenAI users in Russia, Iran used models to push political agenda online, in media

OpenAI banned several accounts associated with two propaganda operations based in Iran and Russia, respectively, it confirmed Thursday — the latter of which the tech company said had the greatest reach it has recorded since it began reporting on and disrupting such schemes. The influence operations used OpenAI models alongside "more traditional techniques and technologies...

Carney says Canadians will decide their future after Elon Musk expresses support for separatism

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney says that Canada’s future will be decided by Canadians and that they should be free from “large tech firms that think they can tell us what to do” when asked about Elon Musk’s call for Quebec, Alberta and Saskatchewan to separate from the country

Malaysia PM Calls Prabowo Over Haze as Kuala Lumpur Chokes

Malaysia’s prime minister has contacted Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto about efforts to tackle the thick smog that has choked Kuala Lumpur and other parts of the country as weeks of devastating wildfires consume swathes of the neighboring archipelago.

JD Vance rebukes selling access to government officials after Kimberly Guilfoyle’s ‘unseemly’ texts revealed

‘It's extremely unseemly, these text messages. There's no other way to read it,’ one Trump loyalist said of the U.S. ambassador to Greece’s reported conversation with a donor to the president

Federal agents involved in a shooting that wounds a person in New York, police say

New York Police say federal law enforcement agents shot and wounded a person in New York City

US to livestream firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter

The Pentagon says the military execution of Nidal Malik Hasan will be livestreamed after Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth said it would be “public”.

Mark Zuckerberg has an image problem - so why is Meta's business booming?

A new film paints the Meta founder as a villain. But the tech firm seems immune to bad publicity, writes our North America tech correspondent.

Character.AI chatbots encouraged users to cut and starve themselves, Kentucky alleges

Suspect linked to Monaco bomb attack on millionaire breaks silence to BBC

Vitalii Zhykovych gives his own account of the attempted assassination of Ukrainian-born businessman Vadym Yermolayev.

UK Police Arrest Latvian Men Found at Second Airbase Used by US

British police arrested two men on suspicion of trespassing and national security offenses at an airbase that’s used by the US for intelligence and analysis work, just weeks after a suspected terror plot at another base that was home to American bombers.