Canva announces major job cuts after'our hardest year yet' Canva, one of Australia's best known start-ups, has announced a shake up of the business that will affect 22% of its workers, including job cuts. In what was without doubt the hardest moment in our thirteen-year history co-founder and CEO Melanie Perkins said 1,271 people would either lose their jobs, be asked to relocate or change roles. The firm's value has reportedly dropped in the past year over concerns about the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on its business as well as the cost of incorporating the technology into its platforms. It had been our hardest year yet, and as we shared earlier this year, our growth has slowed for the first time in a decade, Perkins wrote to staff. The incredibly hard decision meant significant changes, Perkins said.

Graduates are managing AI - but are they learning much else? Image caption, Managing AI agents is a big part of Lotte Underwood's job Recent university graduate Lotte Underwood is a public relations executive with a twist - she spends more time using AI than actually doing PR. Underwood, 25, joined London-based PR agency Fight or Flight in November last year, in the new role of AI associate after completing a degree and then a masters in marketing. She's part of a recently established, dedicated AI team that has built around 30 AI agents. Specific tasks include industry research, client reporting, media interview preparation, helping clients create clearer briefs, and image generation.

Poundland supplier'will lose millions' if retailer collapses One of Poundland's suppliers has said it will lose millions if the firm collapses. While that supplier will stay afloat, it is feared that some small and medium-sized suppliers could go under. This is in addition to potentially thousands of job losses among staff. Politicians have been putting questions to representatives of Poundland owners Gordon Brothers this week seeking clarity on plans for the retailer. Adam Turner, sales director at Highcrest Retail Brands - a family owned Bradford business - told the BBC that Poundland was one of Highcrest's biggest customers, and that the firms have had a relationship for decades.

Americans are electing members of Congress, which is made up of the House of Representatives and the Senate. All 435 House seats are up for election. In the Senate, only 35 of 100 seats are being contested because senators serve six-year terms. This results tracker shows both the races being decided now and the 65 seats that are not up for election this year - 34 held by Democrats and 31 by Republicans. To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.

Experts have cracked a four-letter code to open an ancient padlock from a shipwreck off the Welsh coast using modern scanning technology. The 400-year-old brass lock was discovered by metal detectorist Peter Hughes in the sand near Margam in Port Talbot, in 1999. It forms part of a wider treasure hoard from the Ann Francis ship that was caught in a storm on 28 December 1583 on the way back from Spain. Its cargo was hidden beneath the sand for centuries. Museum experts have used CT scanning to examine the lock's internal mechanism, identify the correct letter combination and solve the mystery.

There is a terrifying prospect of more UK wildfires in future due to climate change and preparation will be crucial, the Prince of Wales has said. Visiting Treherbert in Rhondda Cynon Taf, which was threatened by a huge mountain fire in August, Prince William praised a gargantuan effort to save homes, land and lives. We need to start taking wildfires as seriously as the continent has done, he said, raising issues such as a lack of firefighting aircraft. He also suggested the community's response to the incident was an example for others to follow, after locals rallied around to support those fighting the flames. The hillside, just metres away from the community centre where Prince William met fire crews, military personnel and local volunteers is burnt black.

A 24-year-old runner in the New York City Marathon collapsed and died just two miles from the finish line, despite being in perfect health, perfect shape, her father has said. Rachel Apa, from Lewisberry, Pennsylvania, was running on Sunday with the Parkinson's Foundation Champions to raise money and honor her grandfather who had the disease, she said in a fundraising page. It was Apa's first marathon, though she was an athlete and had trained for months, father Steve Apa told the New York Times. She died from rhabdomyolysis, a rare condition where muscles break down and poison the bloodstream, which can be brought on by overexertion, her father said. Near mile marker 24, Apa collapsed in Central Park and a bystander performed CPR before race medical staff arrived, race organiser New York Road Runners told the BBC's US partner CBS News.

The witness summons will see him giving evidence and taking questions, in a case in which a wealthy woman alleges she was cheated by her former financial adviser. Mountbatten-Windsor is not accused of wrongdoing, but he could face difficult questions about his financial arrangements as it is said that he was in receipt of some of the disputed payments, including a transfer to him of £750,000. His court appearance will be the first public questioning Mountbatten-Windsor has faced since his BBC Newsnight interview in 2019. It is also believed that Mountbatten-Windsor is the first royal since the 19th Century to be sent such a witness summons. Such an unusual royal moment is likely to receive widespread media coverage - not least for the opportunity to hear the former Duke of York's first public comments since being stripped of his titles.

A driver of a tipper lorry was electrocuted after part of his vehicle hit an overhead power line, an inquest has heard. Andy Lloyd, 56, who ran a family business, was delivering a load of hardcore to a farm with his 14-year-old son when the grab arm on his truck came into contact with the 11,000-volt overhead cables. Ruthin Coroner's Court heard Lloyd, from Bod Elian, Llanelian in Conwy, climbed down from the cab and was electrocuted when he came into contact with the metal step. He was pronounced dead at the scene in Tan y Dderwen Farm in Betws-yn-Rhos, Conwy on 1 May - less than a month before he was due to get married. The inquest heard that Lloyd's son, who cannot be named for legal reasons, had joined his dad in the lorry that day to gain work experience.

How'mogging' went from toxic term to mainstream To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mogging has seen its usage soar over the past year, with the Gen Z slang term being named Collins English Dictionary's word of the year. Finding its origins in the online language of the manosphere, an online community built around hyper-masculine and often misogynistic content, the term broke out into the mainstream this year, being used by celebrities and the media. The word is defined by Collins as being used playfully to mean the act of outshining or outperforming someone or something and is now widely employed in online discourse about celebrity culture, with signs it is making its way into everyday vocabulary. I heard someone the other day say they were'walk-mogged' - basically just someone else in the street about their age walking faster than them, says Tony Thorne, a language consultant at King's College London.