Hit shows from Edinburgh's Fringe festival are coming to America. Here are our top picks
The annual "anything goes" performing arts festival featured more than 4,200 performances this year. These are the ones we're still talking about.
The U.S. Venezuela oil deal won't lower your gas prices. Here's what you need to know
The Trump administration announced a deal Friday to develop a vast amount of Venezuela's oil reserves, with the U.S. taking a majority stake. Energy experts say there are many reasons to be skeptical.
Why too many women are prescribed antibiotics for UTIs they don't have
A recent study found that many women treated for recurrent UTIs didn't have UTIs at all. Instead, their symptoms were caused by hormonally driven inflammation and pelvic floor dysfunction.
NPR spent 2 years tracking deaths from heat. We found a staggering hidden toll
An NPR investigation found that people in the U.S. are dying from heat much more often than official counts show. We explore the reasons why — and how lives can be saved.
Singapore is scrambling to stabilize birthrates. Experts say there are lessons for the U.S.
Singapore has unveiled a national initiative built entirely around its collapsing birthrate. Some demographers say the plan includes policy ideas that could help American parents.
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Trump says U.S. struck a deal to take control of 65 billion barrels of Venezuelan oil, U.S. and Iran resume exchanging strikes, funding at the top of the agenda as House reconvenes.
Arizona's taps won't run dry, but water bills will go up under federal plan for Colorado River
New federal rules mean Arizona will be getting a lot less water from the Colorado river. City leaders say they've been planning for years and no one will run out, but keeping taps flowing is expensive.
What Argentina gets right about youth soccer — and what the U.S. gets wrong
Argentina has produced some of the world's greatest soccer players. Could its youth system offer lessons for the United States?
Families of pilgrims likely caught in floods are desperate for news from Nepal
Four days after catastrophic floods wiped out villages along the Nepal-China border, thousands are still missing. Families look for answers but hear nothing.
Canada claps back at Trump's efforts to rename Lake Ontario as 'Lake America'
Ontario Premier Doug Ford has unveiled a giant billboard reading: "Lake Ontario — Now and Always." But tech giant Google has said it is renaming the lake for U.S. users, as President Trump demanded.
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Early release scheme could see dangerous criminals released, Conservatives warn
Nick Timothy's comments follow an announcement from the prime minister that some prisoners serving indefinite sentences could be freed to increase prison capacity.
US and Iran trade strikes for first time in weeks
The attack on Larak Island in the Strait of Hormuz - the first known US strike since late July - has killed two people and injured two others.
Dolly Parton laid to rest alongside husband in Nashville
A private family funeral is held for the singer who died on Tuesday at the age of 80.
Djokovic in tears during US Open first-round exit
An emotional Novak Djokovic suffers a US Open first-round defeat which provides further evidence that age is catching up with the 39-year-old great.
The mystery of why so many black Britons still can't swim
For decades, swimming ability has been lower in the black community. Our writer asks why.
Patel to be replaced by Tugendhat as shadow foreign secretary
Kemi Badenoch is expected to carry out a wider reshuffle of her front bench team following high-profile departures.
Parents of seriously ill children should get paid leave, says commissioner
Children's commissioner Dame Rachel de Souza has backed called for more support for parents and carers.
Jewish community in harder position than immediately after synagogue attack, says rabbi
Rabbi Daniel Walker says members of the Jewish community are feeling increasingly vulnerable.
Russian strikes destroy 12 million books ahead of Ukraine's first week back at school
Ukraine says Russia is deliberately attacking its culture, after strikes on publishers and churches.
'Moonies' church leader jailed for two years over bribery offences
Han Hak-ja, 83, gave South Korea's former first lady two Chanel bags and a diamond necklace, a court found.
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Energy biz SSE smacked around in court by a guy and AI
Company's three year pursuit of debt from non-existent address ended by Oxford judge
The balkanization of virtualization will de-throne VMware, which doesn't mind a bit
The real fight is who wins the most AI and K8s workloads
Who, me? Techie with three months' experience was sent in as the Cisco expert and proceeded to blow everything up
The real mistake here was probably sending someone so young to do the job
Debian votes to let contributors code with AI
Disclosure optional, quality mandatory
Turns out Brits would quite like their private messages to stay private
Polling finds two-thirds don't trust this government, or any future one, with access to their encrypted chats
AWS mumbles about its cost-busting networking tech when it should be shouting
A lot of datacenter networks are run by absolute clowns. Not Amazon's
Startup bags $7M to build drone-interceptor-in-a-backpack systems
Spike drone defense system is designed to be carried in a rucksack or mounted on top of a vehicle
Xbox respawns IKEA furniture with gaming range
At last, somewhere comfy to sit while your PlayStation 5 game loads
Researcher shows how Claude Code can be tricked simply by asking it to summarize a website
More prompt-injection hijinks from wunderwuzzi
German-Japanese researchers invent electricity-free tech that could cool datacenters
How come that super-smart AI of yours didn't figure this out, frontier labs?
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A 12TB Steam “teraleak” spills more than a decade of lost PC gaming history
Cut content from Portal 2, hints of Half Life 2: Episode 3, and so much more.
Why it matters that President Trump just dialed into a NASA news conference
With just one more major mission upcoming, NASA's science programs need a boost.
Inside Meta’s push to put robots to work in data centers
The company is testing robots on tasks that can performed by technicians.
I asked 100 companies for my data. Some deleted it instead.
Testing 100 companies found privacy requests often led to confusion and dead ends.
Court rules Kalshi sports bets aren't "swaps," just gambling with a different name