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EU rules on Artificial Intelligence devices will apply in NI

Getty ImagesJohn CampbellEconomics and business editor, BBC News NI1 hour agoSome EU rules on Artificial Intelligence (AI) will apply in Northern Ireland, the UK government has said.However the...

How the downfall of Serbia's Vučiċ mirrored that of Hungary's Orbán

ReutersNick ThorpeBelgrade34 minutes agoWhen they met in northern Serbia last November, Serbian President Aleksandar Vučiċ and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán could hardly have guessed they...

Google value plunges by $500bn as AI fears rattle Wall Street

EPAKali HaysTechnology reporter29 October 2026Google parent Alphabet lost just over $500bn (£374bn) in value on Thursday after it rattled Wall Street with its last update of the year on its business...

Websites taken down worldwide as critical cyber-security update issued

Getty ImagesTom Gerken and Laura Cress, Technology reporters and Joe Tidy, Cyber correspondent, BBC World Service21 October 2026International governments and agencies have urged...

What is PHP and why did it spark an international cyber-security alert?

Getty ImagesOsmond ChiaBusiness reporter22 October 2026, 04:48 BSTUpdated 35 minutes agoFor more than a decade, serious flaws had gone undetected in the technology underpinning much of the internet....

Are student protests being manipulated ahead of France's presidential election?

ReutersKatya AdlerEurope Editor16 October 2026, 00:25 BSTThe French passion for protest is legendary in Europe.Over the last few years, we have regularly witnessed farmers angry about costly...

Are student protests being manipulated ahead of France's presidential election?

ReutersKatya AdlerEurope Editor7 hours agoThe French passion for protest is legendary in Europe.Over the last few years, we have regularly witnessed farmers angry about costly regulations lobbing...

Hundreds more prisoners to be freed in second phase of early release scheme

Carl Court/Getty ImagesDominic CascianiHome and Legal Correspondent16 minutes agoAbout 650 more offenders will leave jails in England and Wales early on Tuesday in the second phase of the...

What is pneumonic plague and how does it spread?

Getty ImagesDominic HughesHealth correspondent6 October 2026The World Health Organization has asked Russia for more information on the death of a worker at a Siberian plague research laboratory. It...

Fear and disruption for Ukraine's rail passengers as Russia escalates drone attacks

EPA/ShutterstockPaul Adamsdiplomatic correspondent, in Kyiv11 minutes agoUkraine's railways have kept the country running since Russia's full-scale invasion in 2022. But attacks are...

OpenAI scraps rollout of new model over safety concerns

ReutersOsmond Chia, Business reporter and Liv McMahon, Technology reporter29 September 2026, 02:18 BSTUpdated 19 minutes agoOpenAI has announced it will not release its latest AI...

Italy ministers agree to ban burqa and niqab in school and cap foreigners in class

Getty ImagesDavide Ghiglionein Rome24 September 2026The Italian government has approved a ban on the burqa and niqab in schools, along with a limit on the share of pupils who speak little Italian in...

Uproar in France over award-winning author accused of using AI

Joel Saget / AFP via Getty ImagesHugh Schofield, Paris and BBC Verify23 September 2026The French book scene is in uproar after a Canadian-Haitian author billed as a sensation was...

Families failed by decision to bail sex offender to flat near playground, victims commissioner says

Met PoliceWinnie AgbonlahorLondon25 September 2026, 08:40 BSTUpdated 29 minutes agoVictims and their families were "grossly failed" by the court system that bailed a sex offender and repeatedly...

Italy ministers agree to ban burqa and niqab in school and cap foreigners in class

Vincenzo Nuzzolese/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty ImagesDavide Ghiglionein Rome1 hour agoThe Italian government has approved a ban on the burqa and niqab in schools, along with a limit on the...