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Robots compete in boxing, football and sprinting at World Humanoid Games
To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The second edition of the World Humanoid Games kicked off in China on Saturday. The competition will run for five days and has already included a robot running faster than Usain Bolt's 100m sprint world record. Elsewhere at the event in Beijing, a robot performed Cristiano Ronaldo's iconic'Siuuu' celebration on the football pitch and droids took part in synchronised marching at its opening ceremony. Robots have also been competing in events including boxing, high jump and table tennis.
Zelensky has 'questions to answer' about corruption in his government, sacked minister tells BBC
Zelensky has'questions to answer' about corruption in his government, sacked minister tells BBC To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has questions to answer about corruption in his government, his sacked defence minister Mykhailo Fedorov has told the BBC. Fedorov, a popular minister who modernised the armed forces and pioneered drone warfare, was fired last month after reportedly falling out with the head of Ukraine's armed forces. He told the BBC a money laundering investigation announced last week raised questions about Zelensky's awareness of potential corruption in his inner circle. Fedorov also reiterated that democracy should not be the hostage of Putin - but stopped short of declaring his own political ambitions days after he posted a video calling for elections in Ukraine. Supporters have protested on Kyiv's streets weekly since he was sacked, calling on the president to reinstate him.
Trump Mobile promoted a 'Made in the USA' phone - but the details kept changing
Trump Mobile promoted a'Made in the USA' phone - but the details kept changing To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Trump Mobile promoted a'Made in the USA' phone - but the details kept changing Close When Trump Mobile was launched by US President Donald Trump's eldest sons in the summer of 2025, the company advertised that a T1 smartphone would be built in the US and shipped to customers within months. Over the last year, key details about the phone's manufacture, design and delivery date have changed, and some customers are still waiting for their phones - as Thomas Copeland explains. Updates from your News topics will appear in My News and in a collection on the News homepage . Updates from your News topics will appear in My News and in a collection on the News homepage .
Video appears to show police chase minutes before fatal A66 crash
To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Security camera footage appears to show several police vehicles chasing a car just minutes before a fatal crash that killed seven people, including two police officers, near Middlesbrough. The clip is thought to have been filmed on Lime Road at 03:36 BST on Saturday morning, around three minutes before a Volkswagen Passat travelling the wrong way on the A66 nearby collided into a marked police vehicle. A police source said the chase had been abandoned before the collision. Updates from your News topics will appear in My News and in a collection on the News homepage .
Watch: Moment robot attempts to beat Usain Bolt's 100m record
Watch: Moment robot attempts to beat Usain Bolt's 100m record To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Moment robot attempts to beat Usain Bolt's 100m record Close A humanoid robot has outperformed humans by breaking Usain Bolt's world record for the 100m sprint, according to its manufacturer. Chinese smartphone maker Honor said Lightning - a thin black and red robot - ran the distance in 9.32 seconds at the World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing. Eight-time Olympic gold medallist Bolt set the world record for humans in 2009, running 100m in 9.58 seconds. Other events at the robot games, which started on Saturday, include boxing and football, but also household tasks like folding laundry.
Laptop catches fire on US flight, with passenger treated at airport
One person has received medical treatment after a passenger's laptop caught fire on an American Airlines flight. The pilot had reported a cabin fire in the back of the airplane to air traffic control, saying the flight attendants are trying to put it out now, according to audio obtained by the BBC's US reporting partner CBS News. I think we have about four to five passengers that were burned by the laptop. The laptop is contained about mid-aircraft. One passenger received medical attention on site and was released after American Airlines Flight 2398 - coming from Atlanta, Georgia - landed at Dallas Fort Worth International Airport in Texas on Friday.
Multiple deaths after police vehicle and car crash during pursuit
Multiple people have died in a crash involving a police vehicle and a car following a pursuit, police have said. The collision involved a police vehicle and a Volkswagen Passat on the A66 in South Bank, near Middlesbrough in Teesside, at about 03:39 BST, Cleveland Police said. North East Ambulance Service said 14 ambulance resources attended and a number of patients died at the scene. A police spokesman said: Sadly, the collision has resulted in multiple fatalities. We are working to identify the victims and contact their families.
Burnham economic adviser O'Neill rules out government job
The economist Lord Jim O'Neill, who has been advising the prime minister, has said he will not be taking a job in Andy Burnham's government. Lord O'Neill, a crossbench peer, was once a treasury minister under the Conservatives. As first reported by, external the Financial Times, he said he did not want the constraints involved in taking on a formal role. The former chief economist at Goldman Sachs had been tipped to become Burnham's chief economic adviser. He said he was enjoying what he was currently doing too much and did not want to have to give up control of his business interests to comply with official rules.
GTA 6 leaks - a nightmare or a blip for the biggest video game of the year?
It's been more than 18 months since the last trailer for Grand Theft Auto 6 was released. A few weeks ago, developer Rockstar announced it would break its long silence with a special extended look at the highly anticipated video game in a 30-minute special on Netflix. But the run-up to the splashy preview has been potentially overshadowed by a string of apparent leaks which appear to show footage of GTA 6 in action. Rockstar has not publicly acknowledged the clips, nor replied to any requests for comment, since the first leaks appeared on Wednesday. But there's plenty to suggest the material that's been posted online is genuine.
These bookshops let Chinese readers question their country - now the doors are closing
When Chen Zhu heads to Hong Kong from mainland China every month, there's one place she always goes: Hunter Bookstore. Founded four years ago by a former councillor, the independent bookshop has earned a reputation for stocking what authorities would consider sensitive books - accounts of Hong Kong's pro-democracy campaigners to famous allegories on authoritarianism, such as George Orwell's Animal Farm or Hajime Isayama's Manga series Attack on Titan. It's a short journey from Zhu's home in Guangzhou on China's southern coast to the crowded street in Hong Kong's Sham Shui Po district, where Hunter is sandwiched between fabric sellers, garages and trendy cafes. But, for the 23-year-old, it is also a passage into a different, freer world - where she can find answers to forbidden questions. When she learned the bookshop had been raided by police in late June, Zhu broke into tears: I was devastated.