Downing Street insists the $40bn Tech Prosperity Deal between the US and UK that is on hold is not permanently stalled. The BBC reported on Tuesday evening that the prime minister’s office claimed that the UK remains in “active conversations with US counterparts at all levels of government” about the wide-ranging deal for the technology…
Two gunmen shot and killed 15 people at a Hanukkah event on Sydney’s Bondi Beach on Sunday. The suburb has been a “sanctuary” for the community since the end of the Second World War, one Jewish Australian told the BBC. As mourners visited the area to pay their respects, one woman said the attack was…
Despite changing its name and using decidedly bird-free branding, X is trying to hold on to its original Twitter trademarks, TechCrunch reports. The xAI-owned social media platform has updated its terms of service to include references to Twitter after previously only mentioning X, and seemingly attempted to counter a startup’s petition to cancel the company’s…
Michele Singer Reiner, Rob Reiner and their son Nick in 2013. Michael Buckner/Getty Images for Teen Vogue hide caption toggle caption Michael Buckner/Getty Images for Teen Vogue Nick Reiner, the 32-year-old son of filmmaker Rob Reiner and photographer Michele Singer Reiner, is being charged with two counts of first degree murder. Los Angeles County District…
Steven Smith has been ruled out of the third Ashes Test on the morning of the match in extraordinary circumstances with Usman Khawaja earning a recall just a day after it seemed unlikely that he would play another Test for Australia. Smith left the ground during the warm-up after he had batted in the nets…
Activist Gautam Navlakha. File | Photo Credit: The Hindu The Bombay High Court on Tuesday (December 16, 2025) said it was inclined to permit human rights activist Gautam Navlakha to move to his Delhi home until proceedings in the Elgar Parishad–Maoist links case begin, noting that he has shown no tendency to abscond. A Division Bench of Justices…
Candidates prepare to take the written test of public subjects for the 2025 exam for civil servants at Nanjing Forestry University in East China’s Jiangsu Province, on December 8, 2024. Costfoto | Nurphoto | Getty Images A record number of educated young Chinese are flocking to government jobs for security as the world’s second largest…
Policing levels left Hanukah event attendees ‘sitting ducks’, says NSW Liberal leader Luca Ittimani Kellie Sloane, NSW’s opposition leader, has said police didn’t provide enough resources to Sunday’s attack. Sloane said more needed to be revealed about the decisions on police resourcing to protect Jewish events, both to protect the community and the police. She…
ANNAPOLIS, Md. — Maryland will create a commission to study potential reparations for slavery after lawmakers voted Tuesday to override a veto by Gov. Wes Moore — currently the nation’s only Black governor — that disappointed many fellow Democrats. Moore said in his veto letter in May that it was a difficult decision to veto…