Image caption, Sir Ken McCallum gave his annual address at MI5's headquarters in central London MI5 is devoting more resource to countering state threats than during the Cold War, the head of the intelligence service has said, as he labelled Russia aggressor number one. Sir Ken McCallum warned MI5 was now facing a situation in which our terrorism and state threats operational missions are pretty much of equal scale because threats from foreign adversaries have quadrupled. He used an annual speech at the domestic intelligence service's headquarters in London to also warn of rising threats from Iran and extreme right-wing terrorism. Sir Ken also said MI5 had caught terrorists seeking to exploit AI, including by integrating the technology with drones - and warned the UK must stay ahead of the risk of new bioweapons being developed by violent groups. The MI5 head said Russia was waging hybrid warfare while carefully avoiding triggering a joint response from Nato, a line which he said the Kremlin would be foolish to cross.

Countries around the world have had their future economic prospects assessed by influential body, the International Monetary Fund (IMF). What the IMF says matters - it aims to keep the global economy stable and its twice-yearly forecasts are one of the most authoritative looks at what is really going on around the world. Yet like all forecasts they can also turn out to be incorrect, so they shouldn't be treated as gospel. Here are three things we've learnt about the UK from the IMF's latest report. The global economy has been rocked by the US-Israel war with Iran. The transportation and production of energy in the Middle East has been severely disrupted, causing oil prices to jump and inflation to rise.

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