You're viewing the US edition You can switch to the UK or AU homepage at any time using this menu. Weepy Ed Sheeran says'America is a scary place right now' as he lectures fans after bowing to pressure over stance on Israel RICHARD KAY: I spoke to Earl Spencer straight after Diana's death - what he said then about his row with Charles chimes with his damning memoir. ALISON BOSHOFF: Insiders reveal the blunder over class finishing times that helped spark Harry and Meghan's school switch. The ruthless rise of Bettina Trump: She takes selfies with the President and comforts'tense' Don Jr... but there are red flags her new family cannot ignore Lane Kiffin's daughter sends defiant message to Ole Miss fans after they hung vile sexual banner about her Legendary musician and former member of iconic band who helped define the sound of the 60s is seen grabbing breakfast during rare outing...can you guess who? Carrot Top was asked to pay $500,000 or risk having a'sexually explicit recording' LEAKED before shock suicide attempt, the star's lawyer claims Our 83-year-old Christian grandmother was euthanised against her will under Canada's assisted dying system - she died covered in blood with her hands clasped in prayer Lauren Boebert blasts'politically motivated' ethics complaint that accuses her of having sex with staffers and paying hush money Friends spill fears over Dakota Johnson's new romance with'immature' Machine Gun Kelly - and warn she's destined for more heartbreak: 'It has been hard for her to find her soulmate' Paris Hilton finally reveals her secret trick to going'undercover' in public: 'I actually do that all the time' Jittery Republicans weigh Trump's turnout energy with just 44 DAYS until midterms: 'He's not gonna help' Six drinks that can help prevent devastating liver disease... including the ones that may REVERSE damage Beware of'kind-hearted' colleagues bringing cupcakes into the office... they may be manipulating you College football fans left stunned as team makes catastrophic error that costs them shock win: 'Craziest ending I've ever seen' Which midterm races should YOU be watching?

Xi Jinping should bring Jimmy Lai to Washington when he meets Donald Trump, releasing the Hong Kong democracy advocate as a good-faith gesture amid trade and tariff talks.

Take, for example, the robots we saw at CES 2026. You can already chat with AI on your phone, ask it questions and even give some chatbots a personality. But Poketomo is designed to make those interactions feel less like opening an app and a little more like living with a tiny robot roommate. This palm-sized, meerkat-inspired robot remembers conversations and experiences, allowing its interactions with you to build on previous ones. It can also recognize faces and its surroundings, respond with movement and light and occasionally start a conversation on its own.

AI's existential threat to humanity is dominating headlines across the globe. But with so much attention on the fear of a future AI apocalypse, is the media ignoring the damage AI is already causing? And as AI CEOs join forces to call for regulations, is their motivation about public safety or to secure their grip on the technology's future? NAZA, a documentary that lifts the lid on Israel's calculated killing of Palestinians, has sparked outrage in Israel and accusations of treason against its Israeli filmmakers. They've faced threats from senior government and military officials, as well as journalists and online activists.

East Asia is facing a demographic reckoning, with societies in Japan, South Korea and Taiwan ageing rapidly. With a drastic shortage of burial space, a lucrative new market is emerging. From AI avatars to DNA gems, technology is bringing loved ones back to life - in digital forms - raising questions about whether it will help heal or hinder the grieving process. Can "super coral" and cooling the sea, save reefs from climate change? Is China seeking to copy Iran's Strait of Hormuz blockade around Taiwan? Vanishing forests: Why is the Philippines failing at reforestation?

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Is the war entering a new phase? Russian forces have launched widespread missile, drone, and artillery attacks across Ukraine, causing civilian casualties while hitting regional infrastructure and commercial shipping in the Black Sea. Ukraine's Air Force on Saturday reported facing a huge overnight barrage involving 174 drones from across Russia and Ukraine's annexed Crimean Peninsula, alongside two Zircon antiship missiles launched from Russia's Kursk region. "Enemy [Zircon antiship] missiles did not reach the targets," it said. Meanwhile, Russia's Ministry of Defence claimed its forces used Geran-4 Seeker loitering drones to strike two commercial vessels in the Black Sea - a Ukrainian dry cargo ship en route to Odesa and a docked tanker in the port of Odesa - asserting that both ships were carrying military supplies. In the Kharkiv region, Governor Oleh Syniehubov confirmed Russian attacks spanning 14 settlements killed five people and injured 15 others, causing heavy destruction in towns like Balakliya and Lypkuvativka.

China bogeyman looms large over American firms' AI doomsday scenario Silicon Valley China hawks, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei among them, fear the country surpassing US's AI lead as much as superintelligence destroying humanity "We're leading China in AI," Trump said. "We're the most sophisticated country in the world, and frankly, I want to keep it that way, because whoever wins AI, wins." Trump was echoing a message the AI industry has put out for years. The US is in a heated technological race with China, companies including Anthropic and OpenAI have argued, and any regulation that would cede the contest risks incalculable economic and political harm. Even as Dario Amodei, Anthropic's CEO, led an industry-wide call this week to "pace the frontier", he declared that the US could only slow down to the point where China could not catch up.

Flawed AI-linked intel almost led U.S. to board China ship, report says An F/A-18 Super Hornet is parked on the flight deck of USS George Washington aircraft carrier on Sept. 4. | U.S. NAVY / VIA AFP-JIJI Washington - The U.S. military came close to boarding a Chinese vessel in the Middle East earlier this year based on a flawed intelligence report prepared with the help of artificial intelligence, CNN said Friday. U.S. intelligence indicated the ship was carrying nuclear weapons-related components, leading American forces to prepare to intercept it, the broadcaster reported, citing four anonymous sources familiar with the incident. But the operation was called off after officials determined that an AI chatbot used by an analyst had misidentified the material the ship was carrying. CNN quoted one source as saying the intelligence report was "entirely false" but "almost started a war." It did not specify what the vessel was actually carrying or where it was bound.

Google said the hacks highlighted the importance of training its AI models to'act responsibly'. Google said the hacks highlighted the importance of training its AI models to'act responsibly'. In a first for Google, the company confirmed that its AI model, Gemini, breached the security of three other companies in May. The hacks occurred during a cybersecurity evaluation by AI-security firm Irregular. Irregular, an Israel-based startup that scrutinizes the security of advanced AI systems, was also at the center of some of the recent OpenAI and Anthropic hacks of third-party entities, including OpenAI's breach of AI software company, Hugging Face.