The FIFA President addressed outrage over ticket prices for the World Cup by pointing to record demand and reiterating that most of the proceeds will help support soccer around the world.

We published hundreds of stories on global health and development each year. Some are ... alas ... a bit underappreciated by readers. We've asked our staff for their favorite overlooked posts of 2025.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the United States is offering his country security guarantees for 15 years as part of a proposed peace plan.

Trump and Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelenskyy signaled momentum on peace talks after a meeting yesterday. And, anti-poverty groups address challenges they are facing that impact Americans who need help.

Now is not the time for subtlety, nostalgia or neutrality on screen.

Much of the world follows the Gregorian calendar, named after Pope Gregory XIII, who put the finishing touches on a Roman system that integrated ideas from other cultures.

Teen use of AI chatbots is growing, and psychologists worry it's affecting their social development and mental health. Here's what parents should know to help kids use the technology safely.

A suite of pro-EV federal policies have been reversed. Well-known vehicles have been discontinued. Sales plummeted. But interest is holding steady.

President Trump was a builder before he took office, but he has continued it as a hobby in the White House.

President Trump says 2026 will be better for American farmers, thanks in part to $12 billion in new federal "bridge payments." But optimism remains hard to come by in farm country.

Ice skaters Torvill and Dean, and members of the winning Lionesses and Red Roses receive gongs.

Ice skaters Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean become a dame and knight in the New Year Honours list, while England women's manager Sarina Wiegman is made an honorary dame.

The British heavyweight boxer suffered minor injuries in the crash, which killed two team members and close friends.

Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper says she and Sir Keir Starmer were unaware of Alaa Abd El Fattah's "abhorrent" historical tweets.

Russia has accused Ukraine of targeting a presidential residence, which President Zelensky called "typical Russian lies".

Music correspondent Mark Savage previews the biggest albums, tours and festivals of the coming year.

Documents mentioning Andrew were briefly released before being withdrawn from the National Archives.

It will be produced by So Television, which is also behind Graham Norton's award-winning chat show.

The US president also warns Hamas will have "hell to pay" if it does not disarm, after talks with Netanyahu.

One man, a serving police officer, escaped the fire but his wife and their two children died in the blaze.

‘General agents’ to infuse Meta’s products real soon now

Meta will acquire made-in-China AI outfit Manus and harness its “general agent” technology across its products.…

The deal negotiated in September locked Nvidia into a purchase price of $23 per share. Intel shares traded at $36 on Monday

Nvidia’s $5 billion Intel stock purchase is already worth $7.58 billion, turning the recently approved bailout of its rival into a shrewd financial play.…

There's more where that came from, CEO says

Rogue insiders suspected of taking bribes to hand over Coinbase customer records to criminals are beginning to face justice, according to CEO Brian Armstrong.…

Extortion group Lovely claims to have stolen 40 million pieces of info from publisher Conde Nast

A criminal group is beating Conde Nast over the head for not responding sooner to its extortion attempt by posting stolen subscribers' email and home addresses and warning the publisher of Wired, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, and Teen Vogue that it has 40 million more entries.…

There’s a big salary up for grabs if you can handle a high-stress role with a track record of turnover

How’d you like to earn more than half a million dollars working for one of the world’s fastest-growing tech companies? The catch: the job is stressful, and the last few people tasked with it didn’t stick around. Over the weekend, OpenAI boss Sam Altman went public with a search for a new Head of Preparedness, saying rapidly improving AI models are creating new risks that need closer oversight.…

Imagine there's no AI. It's easy if you try

Opinion The oxygen of publicity this year has mostly been consumed by our two-lettered friend, AI. There's no reason to think this will change in 2026. However, through the magic of journalism, here's a world where that's not true, a world where other things are happening that will shape the future. We like to call it the real world, and here's what's happening there and why it matters.…

20 years, multiple delays, and millions of dollars later, FI$Cal is live – mostly

Since 2005, YouTube has gone from launching its first website to serving up more than 100,000 years' worth of video content every day. During the same period, the State of California has gone from the idea of adopting a single ERP, HCM, and procurement platform to getting nearly all of its departments on board – although there are still a few stragglers.…

Countries that banded together to challenge Boeing in the air try to do the same to AWS, Microsoft, and Google on the ground

Feature More than half a century ago, a consortium of European aerospace businesses from the UK, France, Germany and Spain joined forces to take on America's Boeing. Fast forward to the 21st century and the countries are applying the same model needs to the world of cloud computing, giving the continent a fighting chance to reduce the digital domination of Big Tech.…

More millennial tech support tales from your fellow readers

On Call Y2K Welcome to a special festive season edition of On Call, in which we share readers' stories of working on the 31st of December 1999 – the moment the tech world held its breath and hoped years of Year 2000 bug remediation efforts would work.…

Oversaw a significant resurgence in Big Blue’s fortunes during the dotcom era

IBM has announced the death of its former CEO Lou Gerstner, who passed away on Saturday, aged 83.…

On Monday, US officials must explain what steps they took to enforce shocking visa bans.

Yakisugi, a Japanese technique of burning wood surfaces, creates a protective carbonized layer

Information from sensors is transmitted using neural-style activity spikes.

China wants a human to intervene and notify guardians if suicide is ever mentioned.

Folklorist/historian Adrienne Mayor on her new book Mythopedia: A Brief Compendium of Natural History Lore

GPS jamming has gotten cheap and easy, but there are potential solutions.

Remembering Windows 10's rollout can help diagnose what ails Windows 11.

Swapping SIM cards used to be easy, and then came eSIM.

From Apple gifting a gold statue to the US taking a stake in Intel.

Art and science converge in Lynn Gamwell's book, Conjuring the Void: The Art of Black Holes