Our most popular global health and development stories in 2025 covered the human impact of the upheaval in U.S. foreign aid, surprising news about familiar diseases and the beauty of earth captured by drone cameras.

About 5.5 million borrowers are currently in default. They haven't risked wage garnishment since the beginning of the pandemic, when policymakers paused the practice.

The Department of Justice has been publicly posting files related to the Jeffrey Epstein investigation since Friday.

One of Vince Zampella's crowning achievements was the creation of the Call of Duty franchise, which has sold more than half a billion games worldwide.

Scientists have developed an experimental way to study how human embryos implant in a uterus, which may provide new insights into why miscarriages occur and how they can be prevented.

Photographs help us look back on the moments that defined the year. Taken by NPR photojournalists nationwide, this collection goes beyond the headlines to reveal quietly powerful human stories.

The data, which was delayed from October by the government shutdown, comes as the economy takes center stage for voters and the Trump administration.

President Trump has announced the Navy will begin building a new fleet of warships. And, a federal judge has ruled the deportations of more than 100 Venezuelan men to El Salvador were illegal.

Budget shortfalls and nearly $1 trillion in looming federal Medicaid cuts have prompted states to rein in spending on a widely embraced autism therapy, pinching families who depend on the services.

U.S. regulators on Monday gave the green light to a pill version of the blockbuster weight-loss drug Wegovy, the first daily oral medication to treat obesity.

The US president has long denied any wrongdoing in relation to late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Greater Manchester Police say the plot could have been "the deadliest terrorist attack in UK history".

Russell Brand will appear in court on 20 January 2026 over the new charges.

The government has now said it will lift the intended threshold from £1m to £2.5m.

One couple say they had decorated the boat for Christmas but would now spend it in a hotel.

Signal was earlier lost with a jet that took off from Ankara with Gen Mohammed Ali Ahmed al-Haddad and four others on board.

The capture of Siversk brings Russia closer to the last remaining "fortress belt" cities still in Ukrainian hands in the Donetsk region.

The Most Rev Cherry Vann says she has received a backlash and some parishioners have left in protest.

Ex-councillor Philip Young is one of six men accused of more than 60 offences against Joanne Young.

Greta Thunberg is arrested in central London on suspicion of supporting a proscribed organisation.

Automaker's third security snafu in three years

Thousands of Nissan customers are learning that some of their personal data was leaked after unauthorized access to a Red Hat-managed server, according to the Japanese automaker.…

Spacecraft set to burn up in a few weeks, but it could have been worse

As if to underscore the need to avoid the Kessler Syndrome, a scenario in which cascading debris can make some orbits difficult to use, a Starlink satellite vented propellant and released debris following an onboard "anomaly" late last week.…

Redmond gets in early for the twelve whoopsies of Christmas

Microsoft has hustled out an out-of-band update to address a Message Queuing issue introduced by the December 2025 update.…

You’ll need to be using a Windows Insider build to see it

The Windows 11 Run dialog box is one of the oldest pieces of user interface still in use. It works just fine, but it has an aesthetic that harkens back to earlier versions of Microsoft’s operating system. Now, that’s set to change.…

Maybe the answer to soaring RAM prices is to use less of it

Opinion Register readers of a certain age will recall the events of the 1970s, where a shortage of fuel due to various international disagreements resulted in queues, conflicts, and rising costs. One result was a drive toward greater efficiencies. Perhaps it's time to apply those lessons to the current memory shortage.…

Airline deploys AI travel agent and it hasn't been a disaster

Non-human travel agents are here. Virgin Atlantic earlier this month installed an AI travel agent on its website, calling the web-bound chatbot "the future of travel planning." …

Crucial early evolutionary step found, imaged, and ... amazingly ... works

Computer History Museum software curator Al Kossow has successfully retrieved the contents of the over-half-a-century old tape found at the University of Utah last month.…

The company that bet the farm on AI said to have made things worse with AI

Oracle's new AI-powered support portal is frustrating customers and support engineers who are struggling to find the basics, such as old tickets, links to database patch programs and release schedules for current databases.…

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Bork!Bork!Bork! The bork desk has temporarily reopened during the festive period. The tech world might be having a nap on the sofa after one mince pie too many, but bork never sleeps.…

Cab drivers protested Uber’s arrival, but Westminster has rolled out the welcome mat for clanker chauffeurs

Robot taxis are coming to The Register’s London home in 2026.…

It's purportedly the first of four planned teasers, one per week, showing before Avatar: Fire and Ash.

US drone makers are happy—US drone hobbyists, not so much.

Incident reports spiked during the first six months of 2025.

Redditor jokes LimeWire is now a "champion against the darkness."

A loophole in the rules might have given Mercedes and Red Bull a big advantage.

Splay can be a monitor and takes a lot of the stress out of projectors, too.

"It has been a great privilege to lead ULA through its transformation and to bring Vulcan into service."

He had worked on Medal of Honor, Call of Duty, Titanfall, and Battlefield.

"This particular anomaly deserves to be right up front and center for quite some time."

Spotify is reportedly investigating how much music Anna’s Archive scraped.