The TikTok star, whose legal name is David Anthony Burke, was the target of a grand jury investigation into the apparent murder of Celeste Rivas Hernandez, whose remains were found in his Tesla in September. The Los Angeles Police Department said on Thursday that the 21-year-old was being held without …

Finance ministers, central bankers and financiers have expressed serious concerns about a powerful new artificial intelligence (AI) model that could undermine the security of financial systems. The development of the Claude Mythos model by Anthropic has led to crisis meetings, after it found vulnerabilities in every major operating system and …

Chris Mason: Mandelson nightmare haunts Starmer again The prime minister's decision to send Lord Mandelson to Washington is like a horror film for Sir Keir Starmer, stuck on repeat. The whole saga has now cost another person their job – Sir Olly Robbins, the most senior civil servant in the …

'Summer of shortages' and 'War windfall' The Times reports that, during a rehearsal codenamed "Exercise Turnstone", government officials found that the UK farming and hospitality sectors would be hit "earliest and hardest" by any shortage of carbon dioxide caused by the continued closure of the Strait of Hormuz, and other …

Howl recordings and an AI image: Inside South Korea's long hunt for an escaped wolf Last week, a young wolf burrowed under a fence at his zoo in the South Korean city of Daejeon and escaped - becoming the country's newest, furriest fugitive. Since then, the hunt for two-year-old Neukgu …

At the heart of the arguments that rage around immigration and asylum are two of the most potent ideas in politics: fairness and control. A perceived absence of either, let alone both, is potentially toxic and particularly so around issues as salient and often divisive as how many people, and …

Sweden's government is championing a renewed focus on physical books, paper and pens in classrooms, designed to reverse falling literacy levels. But doubling down on analogue tools has drawn criticism from tech companies, educators and computer scientists, who argue it could impact pupils' employment prospects, and even damage the Nordic …

The city where primary school places come with a toilet-training guide Parents receiving offers for primary places in England and Wales are being reminded to help ensure their children are fully ready for school by September. The government wants 75% of children to have reached a good level of development …

BBC's Ione Wells: What has the US actually achieved in Iran? US President Donald Trump said the US had won a 'total and complete victory' after announcing a two-week ceasefire with Iran. The BBC's Ione Wells on what's next for the US and the region. World Americans react to Trump's …

Three successive Israeli attacks have killed at least three paramedics in southern Lebanon, including one featured in a BBC report this week, Lebanese officials say, as they accuse Israel of deliberately targeting health workers in its war against Hezbollah. A team from the Islamic Health Association was attacked as it …