Protests against the war in Gaza have spread from Columbia and Yale to other US universities as officials scramble to defuse demonstrations. On Monday night, police moved to break up a protest at New York University and made a number of arrests. Do...
A US spacecraft launched last week to try to land on the Moon has ended its mission in flames over the Pacific. Peregrine One suffered a propulsion fault that scuppered any prospect of a lunar touch-down and it was commanded to destroy it...
Amazon's takeover of vacuum cleaner maker iRobot is set to be blocked by the European Union's competition watchdog, the BBC understands. It's a blow to the tech giant, which was previously given the all-clear for the purchase by...
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Microsoft has completed its $69bn (£56bn) takeover of Call of Duty maker Activision Blizzard in the gaming industry's biggest ever deal. It comes as Microsoft, which owns the Xbox gaming console, was given the green light for the gl...
Hospital and school caterers are not doing enough to stop farmers from overusing antibiotics in their animals, according to campaign groups. Such overuse raises the risk of antibiotic resistance rendering key human medicines ineffective....
Wholesale gas prices in Europe have fallen after a planned strike at Australia's largest liquefied natural gas plant looked to have been averted. The walkout at Woodside Energy's North West Shelf plant had threatened to disrupt global LNG...
Meta boss Mark Zuckerberg has said he is "not holding his breath" over a proposed cage fight with rival Elon Musk. In a post on the new social media app Threads, Mr Zuckerberg said he had proposed 26 August for the showdown....
Controversial proposals to allow deep-sea mining will be centre-stage at global talks in Jamaica from Monday. It comes after a two-year ban on the practice expired when countries failed to reach agreement on new rules. Scientists...
The unrest started after French police shot a 17-year-old driver who refused to stop for a traffic check in the Paris suburb of Nanterre. Emergency services attended the scene but Nahel, the driver, died shortly afterwards. A video was released on ...
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Cathay Pacific Airways has fired three flight attendants after a complaint that they had discriminated against non-English speaking passengers. They were sacked after an audio clip of the cabin crew apparently mocking passengers went vira...
Bosses at three of the UK's water companies have decided not to take their annual bonuses after widespread public criticism over sewage pollution. Thames Water's Sarah Bentley said it did not \\\\"feel right\\\\" to take the bonus, alon...
The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared that Covid-19 no longer represents a "global health emergency". The statement represents a major step towards ending the pandemic and comes three years after it first declared its...
The World Health Organization has said that a batch of contaminated India-made cough syrup has been found in the Marshall Islands and Micronesia. The WHO said that the tested samples of Guaifenesin TG syrup, made by Punjab-based QP Pharma...
Italy has become the first Western country to block advanced chatbot ChatGPT. The Italian data-protection authority said there were privacy concerns relating to the model, which was created by US start-up OpenAI and is backed by Microsoft...
Hollywood actress Gwyneth Paltrow has thanked jurors who found her not liable for a 2016 ski crash at a resort in the US state of Utah. Retired optometrist Terry Sanderson, 76, had said Ms Paltrow crashed into him, inflicting life-changin...
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said the government will remain vigilant and take additional steps as needed to support the banking system....
Google has started rolling out its AI chatbot Bard, but it is only available to certain users and they have to be over the age of 18. Unlike its viral rival ChatGPT, it can access up-to-date information from the internet and has a "G...
Bard is a descendant of an earlier language model of Google's called Lamda, which was never fully released to the public. Google senior product director Jack Krawczyk has told the BBC that Bard is "an experiment" and he hopes people will u...