Heathrow Airport in London was plunged into chaos after a fire at an electrical substation shut down operations at one of Europe’s busiest air hubs, forcing the airport to cancel or divert more than 1,000 flights on Friday and removing a global linchpin of air travel. Heathrow’s chief executive, Thomas Woldbye, described the disruption as […]
AFP Musk has described Grok as the “most fun AI in the world!” It all started with one question. A query last week from an X (formerly Twitter) account called Toka was enough to propel Elon Musk’s built in-chatbot called Grok 3 into a viral storm across India’s digital landscape. And no, it wasn’t some […]
Divisions on the right between those who believe in a global system backed by US military power and others who see that system as a drain on US resources are not new. That schism has persisted for decades. The latter group, which has often included ultra-nativist and racist figures, was pushed further to the fringes […]
Every Uber driver in the UK will be eligible for 20 hours of free childcare under a new scheme intended to get more women driving taxis. They will be able to use the allowance through a nannying and babysitting app for the rest of 2025. “We really, really would like to attract more female drivers […]
Kilmer S. McCully, a pathologist at Harvard Medical School in the 1960s and ’70s whose colleagues banished him to the basement for insisting — correctly, it turned out — that homocysteine, an amino acid, was being overlooked as a possible risk factor for heart disease, died on Feb. 21 at his home in Winchester, Mass. […]
Paul Glynn Culture reporter Getty Images Four of the UK’s biggest sports broadcast and production companies have been fined more than £4m for illegally colluding on freelance pay rates. The UK’s competition regulator said the BBC, BT, IMG and ITV must pay a combined £4.24m after being found to have shared information about fees for […]
PA Media Heathrow Airport was shut down and thousands of homes were left without power on Friday after a fire at a nearby electric supply substation. More than 1,300 flights have been cancelled, passengers are being told not to travel to the airport, and more than 150 people have been moved out of their homes. […]
Malcolm Prior and Jenny Kumah BBC News rural affairs team Getty Images The new Western Forest area will include a mix of 20m newly-planted trees and restored woodland Twenty million trees will be planted and 2,500 hectares of new woodland created in the west of England as part of a “national forest” drive, the government […]
As Heathrow Airport, Britain’s busiest travel hub, shut down on Friday because of a nearby fire and power outage, airlines told thousands of travelers not travel to the airport and to check online for updates. About 80 airlines operate at Heathrow, and they were diverting inbound flights to others airports in Britain, elsewhere in Europe […]
Tom Gerken Technology reporter Kayleigh Gresty Sadie said she didn’t think the filter should be allowed on TikTok without some kind of warning TikTok users have told the BBC they think a viral tool which makes people appear overweight should be banned from the platform. Known as a “chubby filter”, the artificial intelligence (AI) tool […]