Harry and Meghan's trip felt like a royal tour - except many Aussies weren't interested The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have finished their brisk four-day visit to the east coast of Australia. With an itinerary of Indigenous culture, Australian sport, multiple good causes and a trip to the national …

Should you really trust health advice from an AI chatbot? For the past year, Abi has been using ChatGPT – one of the best known AI chatbots – to help manage her health. It can feel impossible to get hold of a GP and artificial intelligence is always ready to …

It was just after midnight. Iryna Stetsenko had finished doing her nails for her wedding, opened the balcony door and was battling her nerves to get to sleep. In a nearby apartment packed with guests, her fiancé Serhiy Lobanov was asleep on a mattress in the kitchen. Then a "rumble" …

A new charity is being established to honour the life of Queen Elizabeth II, during a week in which the centenary of her birth will be marked. The government is providing a one-off payment of £40m to establish the Queen Elizabeth Trust, which will have King Charles III as its …

Police are treating an arson attack on a business in Hendon, north-west London, as an antisemitic hate crime. The Metropolitan Police said a man was seen lighting a bag, which was later found to have contained three bottles with fluid in them, in the doorway. Minor damage was caused to …

Scammers are becoming ever more sophisticated - this is what the fightback looks like In 2024, Kirsty, a woman in her 40s living in North Yorkshire, met a man on a dating website who said he was an English businessman working in Turkey. He shared a picture that he claimed …

Australia's most decorated living soldier, Ben Roberts-Smith, has publicly denied all allegations against him in his first statement after being charged with five counts of the war crime of murder last week. The Victoria Cross recipient, released on bail on Friday, said he was "proud of my service in Afghanistan", …

Why Starmer still can't move on from the Mandelson mess Everyone's cross. The prime minister's furious. Labour MPs are frustrated. But giving a top official, Sir Olly Robbins, the boot has not brought an end to this fiasco, nor to the political blowback for Sir Keir Starmer. As one party …

Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper has said she is "extremely concerned" ministers were not told sooner about issues raised in the vetting process to appoint Lord Mandelson as US ambassador. Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer is facing calls to resign from opposition parties and is due to answer questions on the …

The gap between AI insiders and everyone else is widening, and the spending, suspicion, and even new vocabulary are starting to show it. While OpenAI is busy buying up everything from finance apps to talk shows, a certain shoe company just rebranded as an AI infrastructure play, and Anthropic unveiled …