Watch: Blood donors get a Halloween fright in Thailand
Thai Red Cross workers dressed up as part of a Halloween-themed blood drive in the country’s capital Bangkok.
CCTV and zip ties: How US mail-in votes are secured and counted
BBC Verify goes to an election centre to get a behind-the-scenes look at how mail-in ballots for the US midterm elections are processed.
The fight to save Canadian town threatened by Trump’s tariffs
A century-old paper mill in Témiscaming, Quebec is indefinitely closed after the US imposed 50% tariffs on its products, putting hundreds out of work.
Actress Selma Blair says she’s ‘so sorry’ in first public remarks since incident on plane
Selma Blair has spoken publicly for the first time since she was charged with assault following an incident on a plane earlier this month.
Anthropic denies breach as tampered Claude Code extension hits Cursor users
A tampered copy of Anthropic’s Claude Code extension sat in Cursor’s extension marketplace for about 11 hours on Thursday 29 October. It reached up to
A Claude agent ran inside a Pentagon network for two months, WIRED reports
An Accenture contractor connected a sensitive Pentagon system to their personal Claude Code account. The AI agent then ran on a Defense Department network for
Thousands protest across Italy over living costs and military spending
Thousands have protested across Italy against rising living costs and increased military spending.
UFC champion Islam Makhachev says his next fight will be ‘one of last’
Makhachev, one of the best fighters in UFC history, wants to face the winner of next year’s Prates vs Morales fight.
Hundreds from Russian-occupied Oleshky land in Belarus en route to Ukraine
Four planes transporting evacuees from the war-ravaged city have arrived in Belarus’s Gomel.
Congo’s Ebola deaths top 5,000 as fear of continent-wide spread mounts
Deaths in Congo’s Ebola outbreak have topped 5,000 as the disease spreads relentlessly
In San Francisco’s A.I. Boom, a First Date Has Become an Interview
When there is A.I. to build, who has time for romance? Techies are going out less and expecting more on each date — including a
Evacuated Ukrainians from Russian-occupied Oleshky arrive in Belarus
Residents were taken out from the devastated city on Friday during a local ceasefire.
CCTV, zip ties and election watchers: How US mail-in votes are secured and counted
BBC Verify goes to an election centre to get a behind-the-scenes look at how mail-in ballots for the US midterm elections are processed.
Syrians struggle with soaring prices as crisis challenges post-Assad recovery
End of subsidies and rising prices drive discontent, testing support for Ahmed al-Sharaa’s government.