This Valentine’s Day, chocolate comes with new risks
Climate shocks and deforestation are reshaping cocoa supply and pushing prices into a more volatile era.
DIY Botox: Why Self-Injecting a Neurotoxin Is a Terrible Idea
DIY Botox is popular on TikTok, but injecting an internet-sourced neurotoxin into your face is a gamble that can can lead to serious harms. The
Watch: ‘I am a survivor’ Gisèle Pelicot tells BBC Newsnight in an in-depth interview
Ms Pelicot reveals it is “inconceivable” that the man she shared her life with “could have committed these horrors”.
‘Canadians are with you,’ says PM at Tumbler Ridge vigil
The Canadian prime minister attended a vigil with federal leaders and paid tribute to the eight victims.
US homeland security shutdown could mean airport delays, travel groups say
The shutdown won’t affect air traffic controllers but some TSA workers may go without pay.
Oil refinery ablaze in Cuba as fuel crisis deepens
The fire, which Cuban officials say was contained quickly, comes as electricity and fuel supplies dwindle.
Crossword: Copy That!
Solve the crossword from our March 2026 issue, in which we work on our code-switching.
Active SWAT operation underway near Nancy Guthrie’s home: report
An active SWAT operation is unfolding in Pima County, Arizona, near the neighborhood where Nancy Guthrie disappeared nearly two weeks ago, according to NewsNation. The
‘Unafraid’: Top Democrat crosses aisle to defend GOP lawmaker after alarming post
Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) publicly defended Rep. Thomas Massie after the Kentucky Republican sparked alarm Friday with a social media post declaring, “I am not
AI will likely shut down critical infrastructure on its own, no attackers required
With a new Gartner report suggesting that AI problems will “shut down national critical infrastructure” in a major country by 2028, CIOs need to rethink
FTC digs deeper into Microsoft’s bundling and licensing practices
The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) seems to be doubling down on its investigation of Microsoft and the tech giant’s potentially shady bundling and licensing
Canada could remove 5 times its annual carbon emissions by planting trees on edge of boreal forest, study finds
Planting trees on 6.4 million hectares of northern taiga forest could remove 3.9 gigatons of CO2 by 2100 — five times Canada’s annual emissions.
Archaeopteryx, one of the world’s first proto birds, has a set of weird, never-before-seen features, new study reveals
Iconic transition species between dinosaurs and birds may have had weird ‘teeth’ on roof of its mouth and a highly mobile tongue, study reveals
China banned all fishing to save the Yangtze River. This ‘nuclear’ option appears to be working.
Decades of overfishing and habitat degradation led to huge declines in freshwater biodiversity in China’s longest river, but there are signs of recovery after a