Paddy Power-owner Flutter has announced plans to cut up to 1,400 jobs as its boss claimed the company cannot fully absorb tax rises imposed on the gambling industry. Staff based in the UK and Ireland, as well as British and Irish workers at Flutter's sites in Portugal and Romania will be affected, but what roles are at risk has not been disclosed. The government announced increased taxes on online casino and sports betting, with an exemption for horse racing, in the Budget last November. Flutter boss Kevin Harrington said the tax hikes had fundamentally changed the economic model of the UK betting and gaming industry, arguing it had helped fuel the unlicensed, unregulated market. We continue to expect these tax increases to have a very significant impact on the overall market, Flutter said on Tuesday.

The UK will deploy RAF Typhoon jets to defend Saudi Arabia in response to escalating Houthi missile and drone attacks, the government has said. The defensive mission will help defend Saudi cities and infrastructure - a move authorised by Prime Minister Andy Burnham - against aerial attacks by the Iran-backed group. It follows Houthi attacks on the Saudi capital Riyadh, as well as on energy sites on the country's coast. These aircraft will operate in a defensive role and will not conduct offensive strikes against the Houthis, Defence Secretary Wes Streeting said in a written statement on Tuesday. The Houthis are locked in a civil war with Yemen's internationally recognised government, which is backed by Saudi Arabia.

Can a simple photo of your face reveal how ill you are? An AI tool may be able to help doctors judge how ill a patient is using a single photograph of their face, say US researchers. Trained on millions of healthy faces, and 35,000 photos of cancer patients, the tool can make estimates on survival by looking closely at features near the eyes, the scientists say. While it's a long way from being suitable for use in hospitals, the researchers say their goal is to help doctors recommend the right treatments for their patients. The preliminary findings are published in the Lancet Digital Health, external journal.

Job vacancies in the UK have seen their largest fall since the start of the year as smaller businesses cut back on recruitment, official figures indicate. Vacancies fell by 21,000 in the three months to September to 691,000, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS), which said small firms were citing labour costs as a key factor in scaling back hiring. Energy costs have risen since the Iran war began, and companies have also said that increases in National Insurance and the minimum wage have made it more expensive to employ staff. The ONS figures also showed the unemployment rate fell to 4.7% in the three months to August, down from the previous figure of 4.9%. Job vacancies fell to their lowest level in more than five years, the figures indicated, with the largest decrease in construction jobs.

'I'm fed up of swiping': Why singles now want to meet IRL Checking in at a dating event in a bar in Guildford, Olivia Miller-Davis is understandably apprehensive. Even bringing a friend with her doesn't remove the awkwardness at the start of the night. It's always nerve-wracking when you're meeting new people, the 28-year-old admits before downloading an app that will match her to other daters based on their star signs. This is speed dating 2026-style and Olivia, like many people we speak to, is here because she's fed up of endlessly swiping or as some describe it app fatigue. She says she hates judging people with really limited information and just a couple of pictures because she doesn't feel she can really fully commit with so little to go on. According to a recent study from online regulator Ofcom 11% of adults use dating sites but it suggests the time we spend on them is dropping, from a peak of almost four hours a month in 2023, down to three hours last year.

Burnham vows end to'rip-off parking charges' under new rules Drivers will be given the right to challenge rip off private parking charges and more grace when using private providers under new rules set out by Andy Burnham. The Prime Minister announced the changes after drivers repeatedly raised concerns penalties issued by private providers were too harsh and left motorists unfairly penalised. In one case, a woman was taken to court in a £1,906 claim after taking longer than five minutes to pay at a car park in Derby . The charge was eventually dropped . Private car parks already have an industry code of practice, but the RAC motoring group said the government's changes would protect drivers from the poor practices of some private parking companies.

The US has ordered all artificial intelligence (AI) technology from the Chinese firm DeepSeek to be removed from most government systems. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has banned all use of DeepSeek within civilian government agencies, and any technology built with the aid of its AI models. As a powerful AI model that is open source - meaning it is free to access and less expensive to use - DeepSeek has been seen as a disruptive force in the ongoing AI technology race. While the DHS notice did not detail the exact security concerns surrounding DeepSeek, the White House has this year criticised AI firms from China. The DHS, DeepSeek, and the Chinese embassy in Washington DC have been contacted for comment.

CNN's chief international anchor, Christiane Amanpour, has announced she will leave the organisation next year after more than four decades. After many months of thought and a few sleepless nights, I have decided to separate from CNN, my partner of 43 fantastic years! Amanpour said in a statement. The 68-year-old said she looks forward to interesting new projects down the line, and will always be rooting for CNN and maintaining its history of independent journalism. Remember: always be truthful, not neutral. CNN chairman Mark Thompson described her as one of the most trusted and beloved journalists anywhere and said the network will take time to celebrate her before she departs next year.

A Saudi national charged with secretly planting a recording device in one of OpenAI's meeting rooms has been accused of having considerable support from the Saudi government, according to a court filing, external in California. US prosecutors claimed Abdulrahman Alfozan, who worked for the AI firm, was in frequent communication... with a member of the Saudi royal family, and say a member of the country's military paid for a one-way flight to Saudi Arabia for his wife and son after his arrest. It was argued the 35-year-old engineer therefore posed a flight risk and should be detained, pending trial. The Saudi government did not immediately respond to BBC requests for comment. Alfozan had worked at OpenAI for around a year before he allegedly made his attempt to plant an audio recorder.

A three-hour documentary on the tech fraudster Elizabeth Holmes has raked in a whopping $15 million (£11.25m) on its box office debut, despite a limited run at 855 screens across the US and Canada. The eagerly anticipated A24 film, titled You Can See Everything, was co-directed by comedian Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim. It finds Holmes at her home in 2023 during the month before she began an 11-year prison sentence. US publication Deadline has described it as easily the second best opening ever for a documentary at the box office after 2004s Fahrenheit 9/11, Michael Moore's movie about the US's 2003 invasion of Iraq. Ticket sales at the box office were enough for second place behind Paramount's new video game adaptation, Street Fighter, which opened to $31 million in North America and $51.1 million globally.