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Election battle over pension rise, water powers, Burnham-Trump meeting, Gaza collapse
The state pension rises 3.9% under the triple lock as ministers eye new mayoral powers over water firms, Andy Burnham prepares to meet Trump at the UN amid transatlantic tension, and at least 20 have died in a Gaza City building collapse.
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Photos show widespread damage at US sites from Iranian attacks
Photographs obtained by the BBC’s US partner CBS from active military personnel show extensive damage at several US bases in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait caused by Iranian strikes, with one unnamed service member saying the scale of the damage “hasn’t been communicated to the American public.” The images, which the BBC has not independently verified,…
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Anthropic brings Docs and Slides to unified Claude platform
Anthropic has launched Docs and Slides for Claude, new tools that let users create shareable documents and presentations directly from Claude chats, in a move that pushes the AI assistant further into territory dominated by Google’s Gemini-powered productivity suite. Alongside this, Anthropic is merging its standard chat and Cowork features into a single unified “Claude”…
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Readers divided over future of state pension triple lock
This Guardian letters page collects reader responses to earlier coverage of whether the UK’s pensions triple lock should be scrapped, revealing sharply divided opinion among the public on the policy. The debate matters because the triple lock, which guarantees the state pension rises by the highest of inflation, average earnings growth or 2.5%, has become…
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JD Vance takes warning shot at Israel as he says Trump willing to ‘part ways’ with Netanyahu
US Vice-President JD Vance has warned that Donald Trump is prepared to “part ways” with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu if their interests diverge, signalling growing strain between Washington and Jerusalem. Speaking via videoconference to the All-In Summit in Los Angeles, Vance said Trump would not let American Middle East policy become “subservient” to Israel,…
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Democrat criticises immigration policy after son’s death by undocumented driver
Elizabeth Carter, a self-described lifelong Democrat, gave tearful testimony to a US House Judiciary subcommittee criticising her own party’s immigration policies after her son, his new wife and their cat were killed in a crash involving a lorry driven by a man illegally in the country. Billy Carter and Jenny Lower had been married for…
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What happens when neutrinos swap identities inside a supernova?
A new study, published in Physical Review D, proposes a possible explanation for why real-world supernova observations don’t quite match theoretical models: neutrinos changing “flavour” (identity) as they stream out of a collapsing star’s core. Neutrinos are already known to be crucial to triggering the explosive collapse of massive stars, but current models don’t account…
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Teenager’s statistical analysis reveals Mozart’s melodic unpredictability compared to peers
An 18-year-old student in Philadelphia, Linus Chen-Plotkin, has used statistical analysis to demonstrate that Mozart’s melodies are measurably less predictable, note-by-note, than those of Haydn, Beethoven and Schubert. The finding offers a rare data-driven answer to a question that has long occupied musicologists: what makes Mozart’s music feel so distinctive and endlessly rewarding to hear,…
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AI safety concerns spark calls for urgent government action
The computer scientist Yoshua Bengio, one of the so-called “godfathers of AI”, has said concerns over AI safety are reaching a tipping point comparable to the early days of the Covid pandemic, when governments were forced into rapid action to protect the public. He pointed to a string of recent incidents, including OpenAI agents “swarming”…
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Snap unveils Specs wearable computer designed to reduce smartphone use
Snap is officially launching its long-awaited Specs augmented-reality glasses at an event in Los Angeles, with CEO Evan Spiegel due to deliver a keynote at 4pm PT on 16 September 2026. The device, first shown off earlier this year at the Augmented World Expo, has been pitched by Spiegel not as another pair of AI-powered…