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EPA/ShutterstockProtesters in Ukrainian cities have welcomed the change of commander-in-chief but continue to call for the return of Mykhailo FedorovWith an acting defence minister in place and a new commander-in-chief in charge of the military, Ukraine’s recent political crisis is over, right?Not so fast.The political fallout from President Volodymyr Zelensky’s 15 July decision not to re-appoint Mykhailo Fedorov as defence minister, as part of a cabinet reshuffle, continues to reverberate about Kyiv and beyond, even as air raid sirens wail and Russian drones and missiles are intercepted overhead.Fedorov’s mostly young supporters are still mounting daily street protests, demanding that Zelensky…
Getty ImagesThis week the tech world was gripped by a story that has it all – and which started like a sci-fi thriller.Hugging Face – a kind of app store for artificial intelligence tools – announced on 16 July it had been hacked by a cyber criminal wielding enormously powerful AI.The bombshell announcement was full of scary, highly technical terms: “a swarm of sandboxes”, “agentic attacker”, and “self-migrating command and control”.Hugging Face said the hack was different from anything it had handled before because it was done at superhuman speed by an AI with little or no human guidance.It left…
Getty ImagesSouth Korea’s huge delivery industry, powered by thousands of warehouse workers and riders, is under scrutinyA week before her son died Park Mi-suk asked him to quit his job.For more than a year, the 27-year-old had been working overnight shifts at a warehouse for the country’s largest online retailer, Coupang. He steered pallet movers with stacks of plastic bins and cardboard boxes across the sprawling space.In that time, Park says, her son lost 15kg and often complained of how tired he was.But Jang Deok-jun refused to quit. He compared his job to being on a seesaw: if he stepped…
SpaceX’s mammoth Starship rocket blasted off Friday on another test flight stretching halfway around the world, this time carrying 20 of the most advanced Starlinks.Towering 407 feet (124 meters), Starship soared from the company’s base at the southern tip of Texas. NASA monitored the flight, a critical step toward using the Starship as a lunar lander for moon crews.Elon Musk’s SpaceX replaced six of the 33 engines on the first-stage booster after they failed to ignite last week, resulting in a last-second launch abort. The previous Starship flight in May also experienced engine trouble, which prevented the booster from making…
ReutersKarim Khan denies all the allegations against himMembers of the International Criminal Court (ICC) have voted to dismiss Karim Khan as chief prosecutor for alleged sexual misconduct.Elected the ICC’s third prosecutor in 2021, Khan was suspended last month. The decision to remove him was passed with 82 votes in favour.The court’s oversight body found in June he had committed a “serious breach of duty and serious misconduct” by engaging in an improper sexual relationship with a junior ICC staff member and seeking to stop her pursuing her complaint.Khan has repeatedly denied all the allegations against him. His lawyer said he…
The number of measles cases in the U.S. has surpassed the record-breaking tally for all of 2025, with five more months of 2026 still to come.The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention logged 2,318 cases of measles as of Thursday, according to an agency update on Friday.The nation had 2,289 cases in 2025, the worst year for measles in more than three decades. Now, 2026 has easily become the U.S.’s worst year for measles since 1991, as major outbreaks in South Carolina, Utah and Arizona have sickened hundreds and smaller clusters of cases sparked in other states.In November, international…
Getty ImagesThe US has hit a 35-year high in measles cases, according to new figures from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The US has seen 2,318 confirmed cases of measles in 2026, just seven months into the year, up from last year’s high of 2,289, when two unvaccinated children died of the disease. The rising number of cases have come as vaccine hesitancy in the US has increased in recent years, leading to lower immunisation rates. In November, a panel is set to decide whether the US will lose its status of having eliminated measles, which…
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Getty ImagesThe children say joining Shakira and Burna Boy on stage was a dream come trueUgandan dance group the Ghetto Kids are celebrating another milestone after appearing at the football World Cup final half-time show on Sunday – a life-changing experience summed up by 10-year-old Sierra as “very, very, very, very, very good”.Despite critics bemoaning the addition of a Superbowl-style show to the beautiful game’s biggest event, the children’s performance alongside global stars Burna Boy and Shakira was viewed by many millions around the world.Speaking to the BBC’s Newsday programme, members of the dance troupe and their manager say that…
Watch: Police boat towed away after Westminster Bridge crashFive Metropolitan Police officers have been injured after a police boat struck Westminster Bridge in central London.The Met said the incident occurred at about 15:40 BST and involved a boat from the Marine Policing Unit which was carrying armed officers. In a statement, it said “a number of officers entered the water, but were recovered” adding it was waiting for an “update on the extent of their injuries”.No members of the public are thought to have been involved or injured in the crash.Officers who had been recovered from the river were seen…