An ACL tear would keep almost any other athlete from competing -- but not Lindsey Vonn, the 41-year-old superstar skier who is determined to cap off an incredible comeback from retirement with one last shot at an Olympic medal.

The Factbook survived the Cold War and became a hit online. It mixed quirky cultural notes and trivia with maps, data, and photos taken by CIA officers. But it was discontinued this week.

The policy change orders the removal of any post made by official State Department accounts on X before President Trump returned to office in 2025.

A sweeping boycott has begun — targeting tech giants who participants believe are enabling President Trump and his immigration crackdown.

Trump got elected promising to usher in a crypto revolution. More than a year later, bitcoin's price has come tumbling down. What happened?

NPR reporters at the Milan opening ceremony layered up and took notes.

Two hospitals in California are discontinuing hormone treatments for transgender youth, citing Trump administration pressures. In the past year, many hospitals and clinics have scaled back that care.

Japan's first female premier has called snap elections for Sunday. She seeks a mandate for what could be sweeping changes and possibly a lurch to the political right.

President Trump's popularity on one of his political strengths is in jeopardy.

Doctors and public health officials are concerned about the drop in health alerts from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention since President Trump returned for a second term.

Brown said Sir Keir might have been "too slow to do the right things" but backed him to "clean up the system".

Many Labour insiders say Sir Keir may not be the man to take them to the next election, writes Laura Kuenssberg.

The US president says he "didn't make a mistake", adding he had only seen the beginning of the video before it was posted.

BBC health correspondent James Gallagher gets his blood analysed to understand how air pollution is killing us.

Police say the teacher sustained stab wounds but has now been discharged from hospital.

Cabinet office minister Josh Simons commissioned APCO Worldwide for the investigation in 2023.

The princesses will need to step out from their parents' shadow if they are to be an active part of the Royal Family.

Former Labour Party peer tells sex offender he found "a great place to stay" with "privacy", a document suggests.

Emails suggest a trusted royal insider invited Epstein to a dinner at Windsor Castle in 2017.

Mette-Marit says she is sorry to Norwegians for not realising what kind of person the late sex offender was.

Half a million businesses face successive price hikes ahead of PTSN shutdown

Openreach is warning British businesses that the old phone network shuts down in less than a year - with half a million commercial lines still unmigrated.…

Marketing stunt backfires with creators

The first rule of AI-generated job loss is you don't talk about AI-generated job loss ... if you're the company that caused it. Higgsfield.ai, a startup offering AI video creation tools, recently generated outrage when it claimed it had caused artists to hit the unemployment line.…

There’s about $35M up for grabs if your circuits can beat today’s limits

It's no lightweight matter. DARPA is putting about $35 million in total funding on the table in the hope that it will spur researchers to work around fundamental physical constraints and build much larger-scale photonic circuits that do more of the computing with light, not electronics.…

Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft eye $635B in infrastructure spend

Four tech megacorps intend to collectively fork out roughly $635 billion this year on capex, much of it for datacenters and AI infrastructure – more than the entire output of Israel's economy and well beyond all global cloud infrastructure services revenue generated last year.…

Attackers may have snapped user locations and activity information, message warns

Legacy image-sharing website Flickr suffered a data breach, according to customers emails seen by The Register.…

UK leaps to sixth in global flood charts as mega-swarm unleashes 31.4 Tbps Yuletide pummeling

Cloudflare says DDoS crews ended 2025 by pushing traffic floods to new extremes, while Britain made an unwelcome leap of 36 places to become the world's sixth-most targeted location.…

Rhapsody in beige

An enterprising engineer has evoked the spirit of Acorn's BBC Micro with a custom paintjob for a Raspberry Pi 500+ computer-in-a-keyboard and a natty set of replacement keycaps.…

System worked as intended, but staff then kicked out innocent bystander

A British supermarket says staff will undergo further training after a store manager ejected the wrong man when facial recognition technology triggered an alert.…

Windows giant might try turning it off and on again to see who notices

Microsoft has laid out a timeline for the disablement and shutdown of Exchange Web Services (EWS) in Microsoft 365 and Exchange Online.…

A year to replace end-of-support firewalls, routers, and VPN gateways

America's federal agencies have been told to hunt down and rip out aging firewalls, routers, and other network gatekeepers before attackers use them as skeleton keys into government systems.…

The $20,000 experiment compiled a Linux kernel but needed deep human management.

Claims of penis injections in ski jumpers has fillers spewing into the news.

Behold the most overwrought AI legal filings you will ever gaze upon.

Incident is at least the third time the exchange has been targeted by thieves.

Analysts expect Valve might be hit particularly hard by soaring RAM, storage prices.

Less pollution meant lower amounts of a methane-destroying chemical.

With Genie 3, Waymo wants to explore rare and even impossible driving conditions.

A new job posting suggests the debate may be swinging back toward reusing GS2.

This V8 hybrid with more than 900 hp replaces the V10 Huracán.

Controversial 2025 study "represents the encroachment of pseudoscience into the heart of biological research."