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When leading AI company Anthropic launched its latest AI model, Claude Opus 4.6, at the end of last week, it broke many measures of intelligence and effectiveness - including one crucial benchmark: the vending machine test.

A teenage boy who murdered 12-year-old Birmingham schoolboy Leo Ross by stabbing him in the stomach in a random attack has been detained for a minimum of 13 years.

Instagram and YouTube have been accused of "engineer[ing] addiction in children's brains", in the opening statements of a landmark social media trial taking place in LA.

US singer Chappell Roan has announced she is leaving her talent agency, after emails between its founder and Ghislaine Maxwell were featured in the Epstein files.

Police have caught a man juggling fire while riding a unicycle on a pedestrian crossing.

Wes Streeting says he has "nothing to hide" over his relationship with Lord Mandelson and has shared his private texts with the disgraced Labour peer to back up his case.

Sir Keir Starmer will chair a cabinet session today after earning a lifeline from Labour MPs during a crunch meeting in which he declared: "I'm not prepared to walk away."

Health Secretary Wes Streeting has shared WhatsApp and text messages he exchanged with Lord Mandelson between August 2024 and October 2025.

Bad Bunny has made history by becoming the first Super Bowl half-time show headliner to perform entirely in Spanish - and to host a wedding during the performance.

US skier Lindsey Vonn says she has "no regrets" despite confirming she needs "multiple surgeries" after suffering a leg fracture in a crash at the Winter Olympics. 

Crotch enhancements. Banned helmets. Qualifying manipulation claims. And Russian hacking.

Sir Keir Starmer is fighting for his political survival as calls for him to step down grow, after the resignation of his top aide over the Peter Mandelson scandal.

With a prime minister under extreme fire and unable to command a majority in the Commons on matters of personal authority, is politics too self-absorbed to fix a problem as broken as the system for special educational needs provision?

The face of a "vampire" whose remains were posthumously mutilated to prevent them rising from the dead can be seen for the first time in more than 400 years.

All 29-year-old French citizens are to be encouraged by their government to have babies while they still can.

Half of parents say their children have never spoken to them about harmful online content, polling suggests - with around a quarter unaware of what they are seeing on their smartphones.

Police have reportedly used pepper spray and tear gas as thousands of people held protests in Australia over the visit of Israeli president Isaac Herzog.

The Prince of Wales has been asked to raise the case of a Manchester man detained in Saudi Arabia during his first official trip to the country.

American climber Alex Honnold ascended one of the world's tallest buildings on Sunday without a rope or protective equipment. 

An overwhelming majority of people think the King should encourage Andrew to give evidence, according to a YouGov poll for Sky News.

Ukraine is gathering support from European governments to oppose FIFA's moves to end Russia's ban from international football.

Home Alone actress Catherine O'Hara died of a pulmonary embolism, with cancer the underlying cause, according to a death certificate.

Hundreds of homes have been flooded and more are at risk as record levels of rain continues across UK.

Eighteen-year-olds will soon be permitted to drive trains, the government has said, following concerns about the number of drivers approaching retirement.

An armed gang in southern Italy posed as police and blew up an armoured van in a bid to carry out a raid, in what local media referred to as a scene out of the "wild west".

Social media is on trial in Los Angeles. What happens next could change the way they operate.

The leader of Hong Kong has celebrated the 20-year jail sentence given to British pro-democracy campaigner Jimmy Lai, saying the media tycoon had "poisoned" the city.