After months of political wrangling, Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer Todd Blanche has narrowly won Senate confirmation. He is now the United States’ top law enforcement official. Blanche secured the attorney general post in a 50-49 vote, with Republicans Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski joining Democrats in opposition. The decisive vote came from Louisiana Republican
What if the biggest cybersecurity threat wasn’t a hacker—but the AI built to stop one? That’s the unsettling question after Anthropic revealed that its Claude AI models breached the systems of three organisations during internal security testing. The company said the incidents happened after a configuration mistake. It accidentally gave the models internet access, despite
The US government says it’s recovering billions from healthcare fraud—but is the crackdown really accelerating? A new federal watchdog report paints a more complicated picture. The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Inspector General (OIG) said it generated $5.56 billion in expected recoveries and projected savings over six months. It claimed it returned
A family day out at a zoo turned into a nightmare. When a three-year-old boy was left fighting for his life after ending up inside a crocodile enclosure in eastern England. How such a horrifying incident unfolded is now at the centre of a major police investigation. Emergency services rushed to Johnson’s of Old Hurst,
France’s political stage just got a lot more crowded — and a lot more intense. Gabriel Attal, once the country’s youngest-ever prime minister, has officially thrown his hat into the ring for the 2027 presidential race. Declaring his candidacy in a rural French village under the blazing sun of Mur de Barrez. His message? He’s
A calm morning off Western Australia’s coast turned tragic in seconds. Raising once again the uneasy question swimmers and surfers always ask: how safe are these waters, really? A 38-year-old man has been killed after being attacked by a roughly 13-foot (4-metre) shark near Horseshoe Reef, north-west of Rottnest Island, close to Perth. Police say
What if an entire mountainside suddenly collapsed into the sea—what kind of wave would that create? In Tracy Arm Fjord, the answer was terrifying: a nearly 500-metre “megatsunami,” the second tallest ever recorded. It happened fast. In under a minute, around 64 million cubic metres of rock—think 24 Great Pyramids—plunged into the water. The result?
What happens when one life ends—but six others get a second chance? That’s exactly what unfolded at Hue Central Hospital, where doctors carried out a remarkable overnight operation, turning tragedy into hope. In a tightly coordinated effort, organs from a single brain-dead donor were used to perform six transplants—saving lives and even restoring sight. It
Can a chatbot be blamed for a crime it didn’t physically commit? That’s the uncomfortable question now hanging over one of the world’s biggest AI companies. OpenAI is facing a criminal investigation in the US after authorities in Florida said its tool ChatGPT may have been used by a 20-year-old student. In the lead-up to
The UK says it has tracked and deterred three Russian submarines. During what officials describe as a month-long “covert operation” near vital undersea cables and pipelines. These aren’t just ordinary sea routes—they carry the digital and energy lifelines connecting Britain and its allies. Defence Secretary John Healey didn’t hold back. He said Britain, working with
What happens when curiosity—or something more sinister—meets one of the UK’s most sensitive military sites? On Thursday, police arrested a 34-year-old Iranian man and a 31-year-old woman. They tried to enter HM Naval Base Clyde, better known as Faslane, home to Britain’s nuclear-armed submarines. According to Police Scotland, the pair didn’t force their way in.
In Japan, what should have been a family outing ended in tragedy. Eight-year-old Chloe Jeffries from Australia’s Gold Coast was fatally injured after a snowmobile accident in Hakuba Valley. Riding with her mother, the vehicle suddenly flipped on a forest trail, trapping her underneath. Despite being airlifted to hospital, she couldn’t be saved. Her netball
