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Government scraps council reorganisation plans as ARIA chief quits over Anthropic role
Ministers pause local government reorganisation after fresh legal advice, and Matt Clifford quits as ARIA chair amid conflict-of-interest concerns; abroad, migrants land on a packed Mallorca beach and an Egyptian TV presenter is sentenced to death. Elsewhere, Maryam Moshiri reveals a cancer diagnosis, Thick of It st…
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Popular TV host, media star faces hanging after conviction in major synthetic drug trafficking case
An Egyptian TV presenter, Sarah Khalifa, was sentenced to death by hanging on Saturday after being convicted alongside 11 other defendants in a large-scale synthetic drugs trafficking case. Khalifa, a media personality and beauty clinic owner who once hosted the crime show “Mission Impossible” and has more than 2.5 million Instagram followers, was arrested in…
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US forces sink narco-refueling station linked to Ecuadorian cartel in Pacific: SOUTHCOM
US forces have sunk a floating fuel vessel in the Eastern Pacific that was supplying boats used for drug trafficking by the Los Choneros criminal organisation, US Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) has said. The operation was carried out by Joint Task Force Western Hemisphere as part of a wider Trump administration campaign to disrupt maritime drug-smuggling…
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AI cancer cures slowed by chip shortage, says UK’s biggest tech boss
Rene Haas, chief executive of Cambridge-based chip designer Arm Holdings, has said artificial intelligence will eventually cure cancer, but that current AI growth is being constrained by a shortage of chips needed to build data centres. Speaking to the BBC’s Big Boss Interview podcast, Haas said modelling how cancer affects DNA markers is currently too…
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Devastated Miami mom about to start chemotherapy checked her dog into a pet sitter SEVEN months ago – and claims they now won’t return her beloved pooch
A Miami mother of five who is preparing to begin chemotherapy for cancer says a dog sitter has refused to return her family’s puppy after keeping the animal for seven months. Hanna Bustos says she left her one-year-old poodle, Lucie, with a boarder she trusted, only for the sitter to insist the arrangement was permanent…
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Four children were drugged with drowsy concoction by mom and grandma before they were mercilessly killed… as their bodies lay undiscovered for 13 DAYS
A toxicology report has confirmed that four children found dead in an upstate New York home had been given sedating substances before they were killed in a suspected murder-suicide carried out by their mother and grandmother. Harper, 13, Hudson, 11, and 10-year-old twins Gavin and Gracelynn Harmon were discovered alongside their mother, Sarah Myers, 44,…
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Dementia sufferer, 102, died after being ‘pushed’ off stage when he complained about noise at his local pub, inquest hears
A 102-year-old man with dementia has died after allegedly being pushed off a stage at his local pub when he asked a band to turn down their music, an inquest has heard. Phillip Ormerod, a widower and great-grandfather, was a regular at The Crow’s Nest pub in Cwmbran, South Wales, and reportedly wandered onto the…
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Grim discovery inside Sydney unit as woman is found dead and man is rushed to hospital
Police in Sydney made a grim discovery during a welfare check at a unit in Wentworthville, in the city’s west, finding a woman dead and a man unresponsive. The incident, which occurred on the evening of Monday 7 September 2026, has prompted a police investigation, with detectives working to establish the circumstances surrounding the woman’s…
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The 1987 song Eddie Vedder compared to a drug: “Just the sound of them”
Eddie Vedder, the Pearl Jam frontman, has spoken about the powerful effect of Fugazi’s 1987 song “Give Me the Cure”, describing it in terms usually reserved for narcotics. His comments came during a wider discussion of punk’s influence on grunge, a genre he helped popularise, and how bands that never achieved mainstream success still shaped…
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Gaps in evidence on vaccinating badgers against TB, researchers say
Researchers from the British Ecological Society’s Wales policy group, along with academics from Cardiff and Aberystwyth universities, have warned that significant gaps in knowledge are undermining the effectiveness of vaccinating badgers against bovine tuberculosis (TB) in Wales. The issue is contentious, as bovine TB remains one of Wales’s biggest animal health challenges, with cattle regularly…