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Anwar Hussein/Getty ImagesNorway’s King Harald V has died at the age of 89, after he was taken to hospital last week for treatment for a rare blood condition.The palace in Oslo said he passed away peacefully at 06:35 local time (04:35GMT) on Friday at the national hospital in Oslo. The royal flag on the roof of the palace has been lowered to half-mast.In the 24 hours leading up to his death, members of the royal family had visited the king, and crowds had laid flowers at the palace.Harald was Norway’s first king born in Norway since the 14th Century. He…
Watch: Algerians look on as deadly wildfires rage through nightAt least 12 people have died in the fires and Algeria’s president has announced three days of mourning.6 hrs agoWorld
Rockstar GamesGrand Theft Auto 6 is one of the most anticipated video games everAfter more than 18 months since the last official glimpse of Grand Theft Auto 6, developer Rockstar has shown fans a 26-minute preview of the upcoming blockbuster video game.Its “extended look” debuted on Netflix, six hours before going live on YouTube, and was the first chance players have had to see detailed footage of the title in action.The montage, with no commentary or explanatory captions, showed off improved graphics, detailed environments and a selection of car-chases and shoot-outs from the sequel.The broadcast followed a week of unauthorised…
BBCEighteen people have died and nearly 700 have been injured in fires caused by e-bikes and e-scooters, new data shows.Fatalities recorded by fire and rescue services across the UK from these fires include cases where people became trapped inside burning homes, died while trying to escape from a fire out of a high window, or from inhaling toxic smoke.More than 2,000 fires were started by e-bikes, e-scooters or their batteries between 2019 and 2025, Freedom of Information requests made by BBC Verify show.The number of incidents has risen year-on-year and nearly half the fires started in homes or garages, the…
AFP via Getty ImagesA judge has ruled the US Department of Defense acted unlawfully when it designated artificial intelligence (AI) startup Anthropic a supply chain risk, calling the move “illegal and baseless”.The company argued in the lawsuit that Defense Secretary Pete Hegeth overstepped his authority with the new designation. It followed Anthropic’s refusal to allow the military to use its AI models for things that included surveillance or autonomous weapons.US district judge Rita Lin said in the ruling that citing national security “is not a blank check to punish and retaliate against government critics”.Anthropic welcomed the ruling. The BBC has…
Getty ImagesRatcliffe was taken to Moscow in a US military planePresident Donald Trump said John Ratcliffe’s trip to Russia was a “semi-routine” visit but there is nothing routine about the CIA chief making a secret, 10,000-mile return dash to Moscow.Ratcliffe met Russian intelligence officials on Tuesday – notably his opposite number in Russia’s overseas spy agency, Sergei Naryshkin – after arriving unannounced on a US military plane, the Kremlin confirmed.It’s been nearly five years since his predecessor William Burns made this trip and that was at a similarly tense time, just as Russia was drawing up plans to invade Ukraine.…
ReutersAndrew and Tristan Tate have told a Florida court they should be released from jail so they can fight extradition to the UK on charges of rape and trafficking.Wearing tan jail uniforms, the brothers maintained they did not commit the alleged crimes as they slammed conditions in US custody.Government lawyers argued that the two were a flight risk and had bragged about having multiple passports, while defence attorneys said the two social media influencers’ high profile would make it almost impossible for them to flee.US Magistrate Judge Lauren Louis will issue a written ruling at a later date on whether…
Getty ImagesPeter Cullen voiced Optimus Prime in the original Transformers TV series and then the Hollywood filmsActor Peter Cullen, who voiced popular characters including Optimus Prime in Transformers and Eeyore in Disney’s Winnie the Pooh franchise, has died at the age of 85.The Canadian actor began his most famous role – as the heroic deep-voiced Optimus Prime – for the Transformers TV series in 1984, then returned for seven Hollywood films from 2007 to 2023 and other spin-offs.He voiced depressive donkey Eeyore in TV animation The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh from the late 1980s as well as numerous…
Watch: What is postpartum psychosis and why is it central in the Lindsay Clancy trial?Warning: This story contains distressing details and discussion of attempted suicideThe fate of US mother Lindsay Clancy is now in the hands of a Massachusetts jury, who must decide if she is guilty of first-degree murder – the intentional and premeditated killing of another person – in the deaths of her three children.For five weeks, the trial has gripped the country as Clancy’s lawyers have argued that she was suffering from postpartum psychosis when she killed her children, who ranged in age from eight months to…
AFP via Getty ImagesBeaufort is among the French cheeses to be covered by temporarily relaxed rulesFrance has temporarily relaxed rules for making some of its best-known cheeses after the summer drought drastically reduced the amount of grass available to feed milk herds.Government decrees to grant dispensations to manufacturers of Abondance, Beaufort and Comté cheeses – which come from mountains in eastern France – appeared on Wednesday.Several other cheeses are expected to receive similar waivers, allowing farmers to feed livestock with grass and hay brought in from outside their strict geographical zone.These include Cantal, Bleu d’Auvergne, Fourme d’Ambert, Bleu du Vercors-Sassenage,…