School headscarf ban sparks rare protests in Azerbaijan and row with Turkey
Protests have taken place over the rules which have seen pupils wearing hijabs turned away from schools.
Watch: Pupils heard ‘cracking’ sound heard moments before Pakistan school roof collapse
Our Urdu correspondent reports from the scene in Peshawar, north-west Pakistan, where emergency services have been responding to the incident.
Seven crew missing after drone attack leaves tanker ablaze off Romania’s coast
A search and rescue operation is under way in the Black Sea after the latest attack in the area.
MAGA DHS tipster busted for hate crime after two traffic stops in a minute
A far-right agitator who claims he fed federal investigators information on left-wing activists landed in jail on a Colorado hate crime warrant after two traffic
GOP candidate’s ‘sign of desperation’ flagged as wife seen ‘wandering around gas stations’
The wife of Michigan Republican Senate nominee Mike Rogers spent part of Wednesday handing out free $10 gas gift cards at a Detroit gas station
‘China’s Nostradamus’ makes 5 grim predictions for 2027
Jiang Xueqin has issued a bleak set of predictions for America (Picture: Youtube/Theo Von) A man known as ‘China’s Nostradamus’ has issued five rather bleak
ServiceNow makes it easier to build AI agents, gives them verifiable identities
ServiceNow is giving its AI Control Tower new features to make AI agents more governable — and a new name, Super Intelligence Control Tower (SICT)
Apple’s ‘Minions’ tech turns idle Macs into an AI data center
If your business has lots of Macs, what do you do with them at night? And how much money do you spend on AI inferencing?
‘We’re not a competitor to fusion. We are fusion’: Inside the race to harness unlimited solar power in space
The year is 2050, and as the sun sets, the night’s first constellations emerge in perfect rows. But these amber-glowing arrays aren’t stars at all;
Mysterious hole in Neanderthal shoulder blade may have been a ‘kill shot’ from a wooden spear, according to archaeologists
A Neanderthal who was buried 75,000 years ago in Shanidar Cave in Iraq died from a wooden spear straight through the chest, archaeologists have revealed.
Best wildlife cameras 2026: The ultimate buying guide to every major camera brand
Wildlife photographers need a camera that is reliable and built to capture fast-moving action at a moment’s notice. A fast burst rate, accurate autofocus and
A protective brain enzyme may counteract aging-associated cognitive decline
Cinzia Vicidomini, PhD, and Amar Sahay, PhD, of the Mass General Brigham Department of Psychiatry, the Harvard Stem Cell Institute and the Broad Institute of
Researchers identify molecular pathway that improves ultrasound-based bone defect healing
Researchers from Capital Medical University, Beijing, China, have identified a CaN/NFATC3/Id3/E2A/Bmp4 signaling pathway that helps explain how low-intensity pulsed ultrasound (LIPUS) promotes bone regeneration.
Trans people should use hospital spaces according to biological sex, NHS England says
New guidance says trans patients should be cared for on single-sex hospital wards or bays that align with their biological sex.