A ticket site for the Irish rap band's gigs in Hamburg, Berlin and Cologne confirms the summer shows are no longer going ahead.

There is no data on how widely cash is accepted which puts the UK at risk of becoming cashless, a report warns.

The United States told the International Court of Justice Wednesday that Israel must provide aid to Gaza, but the country does not have to work with the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees.

Internal documents and interviews with people familiar with the operation reveal how the White House seized on a wartime law to accelerate immigrant deportations.

A once-fringe movement claims having more babies is the only way to save civilization. NPR reporter Lisa Hagen and sociologist Karen Guzzo explain who's empowering pronatalism today.

The State Bar of California’s new exam has been rife with problems, an A.I. controversy and now the likelihood of delayed results.

Study provides hope for future of the axolotl amphibian, pushed to the brink of extinction in Mexico.

Plus, L.A. county’s budget crisis.

Nowhere in the world is the Roman Catholic Church growing faster than in Africa, a continent Francis showered with attention.

King Charles gives a personal message to others facing the anxiety of a cancer diagnosis.

A man is on trial charged with murdering a couple and taking their dismembered bodies to the Clifton Suspension Bridge.

As Puffy, Diddy or Love, the mogul found success and trouble. After years of accusations with few consequences, he’ll stand trial next month.

The United States has never seen an effort to expand presidential authority at the scale of Donald J. Trump’s second term.

Critics see the terminations as an effort to politicize the Holocaust museum. The White House says Trump will appoint new board members "who are also steadfast supporters of the State of Israel."

Officials in Oklahoma are laying the groundwork to push Christianity into public schools.

People in Spain and Portugal tell us what got them through a day with no electricity.

The slowdown in the market was expected due to the lowering of thresholds at which buyers need to start paying stamp duty.

Temperatures continue to climb with the hottest start to May predicted on Thursday.

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The government has been facing growing demands to reveal which areas are running grooming gang inquires.

Mohsen Mahdawi had been an organizer of pro-Palestinian protests at the university. The Trump administration is trying to deport him for it.

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A federal judge in Vermont ordered the release of Mohsen Mahdawi, a Palestinian student at Columbia University who was arrested at his US citizenship interview and ordered deported.

Miriam Haley is the first to testify of the three women whose accusations are at the center of the disgraced producer’s retrial on sex abuse charges.

Henry Pollock was playing in the second tier a little over a year ago. On Saturday he could take a big step towards a place in the British and Irish Lions squad.

Turkey has been building military bases on Iraqi territory, the BBC finds, raising fears of an occupation.

The deal is intended to give the U.S. access to proceeds from Ukraine’s reserves of rare earth minerals.

Reducing federal support for research and development could cause long-run economic damage and reduce government revenue.

Sundar Pichai told a federal judge that the government’s solution to fix its monopoly in search would harm innovation.

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Faced with tariffs introduced by President Trump on cars, steel and aluminum, Europe’s carmakers are pessimistic about the future.

A slowdown in commerce between the United States and China caused by escalating tariffs was evident in a report Wednesday on manufacturing activity in April.

Surging Vietnamese nationalism appeared on the streets, as thousands gathered to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the end of the war.

Mark Wood is irritated by a "golf, golf, golf" narrative around the England team, but admits they do not help themselves.

Prosecutors have said they will appeal the decision, although they lost a similar appeal this year.

With England due to name their first Test squad of the summer, former fast bowler Steven Finn compares today's selection process to the 'old school' methods of his career.

“Nothing like this has ever happened in Washington.”

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A sunken calf’s disappearance created a mystery in murky waters near San Diego.

The BBC's Emma Vardy talks through the footage shown in court as two men are accused of illegally chopping down the tree.

President Trump has shown no deference to Congress in his early day in office, and leaders on Capitol Hill seem willing to cede him more power.

The city’s Rent Guidelines Board appears likely to vote in favor of rent increases for nearly one million rent-stabilized apartments as landlords say they face rising costs.

Researchers at the Department of Veterans Affairs warn that crucial medical research is in jeopardy unless the Trump administration reverses course on cuts.

The conflict profoundly affected the American troops who served there, as well as the nation’s culture and politics. But 50 years later, veterans say they see its mistakes being repeated.

The retailer says it's disabled parts of its IT systems in response to the incident.

The panel, known as the Charter Revision Commission, may introduce ballot initiatives to limit lawmakers’ power to block housing development, among other changes.

If the bill is signed by Gov. Ron DeSantis, Florida would be the second state, after Utah, to ban the additive from its drinking water sources.

The company not saying who carried out the attack - or when their systems will be restored - suggests it's serious.

President Trump has shown no deference to Congress in his early day in office, and leaders on Capitol Hill seem willing to cede him more power.

Yinka Bokinni explores rap mogul Sean Combs's life and the criminal charges he denies.

Kaliyah Coa's body was recovered at Maritime Quay on the Isle of Dogs on 13 April.

The Vietnam War came to an end on April 30, 1975, when North Vietnamese forces captured Saigon.

A ticket site for the Irish rap band's gigs in Hamburg, Berlin and Cologne confirms the summer shows are no longer going ahead.

The conflict profoundly affected the American troops who served there, as well as the nation’s culture and politics. But 50 years later, veterans say they see its mistakes being repeated.

The countries’ top officials were trying to determine the cause of an outage that left tens of millions of people across the Iberian Peninsula without power.

Underlying economic growth remained solid in early 2025, but tariffs and uncertainty are expected to cause a further slowdown.

Former England striker Eni Aluko "steps back" from Women's Football Awards presenting role after criticism of fellow pundit Ian Wright.

During the first 100 days of the Trump administration, shock waves from the chaotic tariff rollout continue to send tremors through the global financial system.

The Justice Department has charged Amit Forlit with conspiracy to commit computer hacking, among other crimes.

BBC Sport's Alex Howell assesses why Arsenal fans should still be hopeful that their side can reach the Champions League final.

The BBC speaks to Romanian influencers, implicated in the unprecedented cancellation of an EU election

A sunken calf’s disappearance created a mystery in murky waters near San Diego.

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New data collected from more than 200,000 people across the world shows that young people aren’t as happy as they used to be.

The U.S. and Ukraine are expected to sign a deal to jointly invest in Ukraine's mineral, raw materials and natural resource wealth in exchange for future U.S. aid.

Soon after her officer training in Washington, she was recruited to a classified code-breaking team. She kept her work secret for decades, even from her family.

The fires interrupted memorial day ceremonies, and Israel’s top firefighter called the blazes “one of the toughest events” he has faced.

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A survey of 1700 Americans 45 and older found that 79% would want to know if they were in the early stages of Alzheimer's.

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Hello HN,We built Promptrepo to make finetuning accessible to product teams — not just ML engineers. Last week, OpenAI’s CPO shared how they use fine-tuning for everything from customer support to deep research, and called it the future for serious AI teams. Yet most teams I know still rely on promp…

The storm system brought destructive winds to the state, knocking down trees and power lines.

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Those without upgraded meters could also find their heating stuck on or off, energy watchdog Ofgem warns.

The strikes were south of Damascus, where Syrian security forces say they are battling gunmen from the religious minority.

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BBC Verify has looked into some of the claims made by the US president during his speech in Michigan.

Hey HN, I wanted to share a new project we've been working on for the last couple of months called ART (https://github.com/OpenPipe/ART).ART is a new open-source framework for training agents using reinforcement learning (RL). RL allows you to train an agent to perform better at any task whose outco…

How America’s biggest companies are reacting to Trump’s war on woke.

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Lawmakers voted to stop the state from requiring that an increasing share of new trucks sold there have zero emissions.

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Material prosperity isn’t everything.

When it comes to the Women's Super League, Chelsea are playing against themselves as much as any other side - and they could still break new ground this year.

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The case is from Oklahoma, which like 45 other states, has laws that say charter schools must be public schools funded by the state, closely supervised by the state, and be non-sectarian.

The storm system brought destructive winds to the state, knocking down trees and power lines.

The guest curator of a new Met exhibition on Black style offers an annotated early look at a Dapper Dan jacket, André Leon Talley’s luggage and more.

Facing financial headwinds, budget carrier Avelo Airlines struck a deal to operate deportation flights for ICE. Now it's dealing with angry customers and politicians at its hub in Connecticut.

Polygraph exams are commonly called "lie-detector tests" but experts say that's not true.

Dea Kulumbegashvili embedded for a year inside a maternity clinic for her new film, April, about an obstetrician in rural Georgia, as the country faces increased abortion restrictions.

Republicans have raced to approve the president’s picks to serve as top diplomats around the globe, in some cases with solid backing from Democrats.

On the 50th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War, U.S. companies that have come to rely on Vietnam’s factories, like Apple and Nike, are in a bind because of Trump’s tariffs.

The paper linked phthalates, commonly found in plastics, to 350,000 deaths globally. But the data come with caveats.

Lamine Yamal says he would not compare himself to Lionel Messi - and then puts in a performance a 17-year-old Messi could only have dreamed of.

The New York Republican is contemplating a run for governor and nursing a feud with the House speaker after seeing her cabinet dream evaporate.