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Lee Durant/BBCIn the Ecuadoran city of Durán, riddled with drugs and rival gangs, Police Captain Jean Carlos Bustamante knows exactly what he is up against – not just the criminals who kill and sometimes dismember their rivals, but also the enemy within.”We have many, many bad people inside our unit, inside the state, inside politics,” he says. “We have many, many guys that are corrupt. They are in the pay of the gangs.”The only police officers he can trust, he says, are the ones right beside him – members of his hand-picked team. At 34, Captain Bustamante is the oldest…
AFP via Getty ImagesShares in major chip firms have fallen sharply in the US and Asia as a sell-off in artificial intelligence-related stocks deepened.Trading on South Korea’s benchmark Kospi index was paused temporarily on Tuesday morning after sliding by 8%. It fell further after the 20-minute halt was lifted to trade around 10% lower.The slump was led by technology firms, with Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix both falling by about 12%.It comes after AI chip giant Nvidia fell by 5% in New York on Monday, meaning it lost its position as the world’s most valuable listed company to Apple.The index…
ITV/ShutterstockFor the first time in the history of the UK series, only three couples were in the finalThis article contains spoilers for the Love Island final.Julia Majchrzak and Lorenzo Alessi have been crowned the winners of Love Island UK 2026.The pair beat runners-up Jasmine Muller and Kavan Murphy, and Angelista Gunda and Simba Kudyiwa, who came in third, to take home the £50,000 prize.A shocked Julia thanked all those who had voted for them, saying: “I just didn’t think coming into Casa [Amor] I’d be stood here.” Talking to Maya ahead of the reveal during the live final, 28-year-old Lorenzo…
BBC reports from outside court after judge rules singer D4vd will stand trial for murderA judge has ruled that US musician D4vd will go on trial for murder over the death of a teenage girl.The decision came after a five-day preliminary hearing, in which Los Angeles prosecutors questioned a dozen witnesses and displayed photographic evidence as 14-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez’s family watched on.The star, whose legal name is David Anthony Burke, is accused of killing the girl, whose remains were found last September in a Tesla registered to his address.Burke, 21, has pleaded not guilty to charges of murdering and…
Getty ImagesJohnson & Johnson (J&J) has offered to pay as much as $5.5bn (£4.14bn) to resolve tens of thousands of lawsuits alleging that its baby powder and other products containing talcum cause ovarian cancer.The proposed landmark settlement aims to close a long-running legal battle that has weighed on the US healthcare giant for years.J&J has denied that its talc-based products caused cancer and has changed the formula of its widely-used baby powder.Erik Haas, the firm’s vice president of litigation said on Monday that the allegations are “meritless” and that J&J was willing to settle in order to finally resolve the…
ReutersPresident Trump said “good talks” were taking place US President Donald Trump has said “there are very friendly negotiations going on” about the conflict with Iran, after the warring sides did not exchange strikes for a third straight day.He expressed optimism for an end to the war on Monday, telling reporters aboard Air Force One: “I think there’s a good chance that something could happen.”However, he warned that Washington would “go back to doing what we were doing” before the pause in fighting if the latest negotiations failed.Tehran has denied that any direct negotiations are taking place.Iran has also halted…
BBCPlans for a new mosque in Fujisawa have sparked a wide range of emotionsToday, it’s a field of grass. But soon, it’ll be the site of the first mosque in this Japanese town.”It makes me worry about how our community might change,” says long-time resident Noriko Izumizawa.Plans to build an Islamic religious site in Fujisawa, a laid-back seaside town about an hour’s drive south of Tokyo, have sparked a wide range of emotions.There is anger and fear, as well as hope and acceptance, exposing the growing anxieties over immigration and social change as Japan grapples with a labour shortage from…
Chinese state mediaScreenshot shows Chinese state media debunking AI contentAs China deals with the fallout of Typhoon Noul that made landfall over the weekend, officials will be painfully aware that they will likely have an additional challenge to deal with: dangerously misleading videos created with Artificial Intelligence (AI).Powerful storms and flooding incidents over the last few months have seen fake videos inundating social media platforms – these include images of dead bodies floating in floodwaters, the false depiction of severe flooding in areas actually not affected and others with blatantly fake details of emergency response efforts.In some areas, videos containing…
A key U.S. government report on mental health, substance use and addiction showed continued improvements in several metrics, especially among young people.There was some uncertainty about the future of the National Survey on Drug Use and Health last year, when the entire 17-member team responsible for it was laid off by the Trump administration. But the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration released the latest report Monday, with data that lets researchers look at trends from 2021 to 2025.Fewer adolescents aged 12 to 17 reported using tobacco, alcohol, marijuana and binge drinking in the previous month, the survey found.…
Watch: Savannah Guthrie posts new video pleading to mother’s kidnappersUS television presenter Savannah Guthrie has made another emotional plea to her mother Nancy’s abductors in a video she posted on social media, asking them to share her mother’s location. “I’m asking you, begging you, to do the right thing now,” she said. “Help us find her – tell us where to look for her.”Investigators believe that Nancy Guthrie, who was last seen on 31 January, was taken against her will from her home near Tucson, Arizona, but they have not shared a possible motive or arrested a suspect.A ransom note…