Authorities said search and rescue at a fireworks plant in a central Chinese province has largely been completed, but verification of the casualties and identification of the victims are still underway.

A cruise ship with nearly 150 people aboard was waiting for help off the coast of Cape Verde in the Atlantic Ocean after three passengers died in a suspected outbreak of the rare hantavirus.

Russia declared a unilateral ceasefire in Ukraine for Friday and Saturday to mark the defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II, but threatened to strike back at Kyiv if it tries to disrupt festivities.

Wyoming lawmakers say tight new restrictions on abortion are needed to grow the state's population. Demographers and others say economic conditions are more to blame for an exodus of young people.

Extravagantly dressed celebrities and designers made their way up the famous Met staircase Monday evening. The fundraiser is one of the fashion industry's biggest nights.

Nearly 80% of hotels surveyed by a body representing the industry reported bookings were running below projections — a worrisome sign with only weeks to go before the World Cup.

The outcome is expected to strengthen Modi's political position midway through his third term.

Award winners include authors Daniel Kraus, Jill Lepore and Yiyun Li, opinion writer M. Gessen and staffers and contributors at The Washington Post, Reuters and AP.

New Jersey State Police say a United Airlines passenger jet struck a light pole and damaged a truck as it was coming in for a landing at Newark Liberty International Airport on Sunday.

The Supreme Court says rules that allow patients to get the abortion pill mifepristone through the mail can stay the same for at least a week.

The advice puts babies at risk of serious harm, even death, medical professionals have told the BBC.

The prime minister will meet leaders from a number of sectors at Downing Street on Tuesday.

The theme for 2026 Met Gala fundraiser is "Costume Art", exploring fashion as an embodied art form.

An independent report warns cost of living pressures are driving up exploitation levels in Britain.

The operator of the MV Hondius ship says a Dutch couple and a German national have died.

The settlement comes just ahead of a trial slated to begin in May, where both stars were expected to testify.

A blast at a fireworks factory in Hunan province has killed 26 people and injured 61, state media report.

A 33-year-old German citizen was detained following the incident, the authorities say.

The state of the roads will be at the top of many voters' agenda at this week's local elections in England.

A memorial wall was damaged by fire on 27 April in north London, with counter-terror police involved in the investigation.

New monsters! New magic items! An Arm port! And compliance with a dead C standard

Antiques Code Show Admirers of Roguelike games have a new distraction: Version 5.0 of NetHack dropped last weekend.…

Haswell’s had its day and Skylake and Cascade Lake are draining away

Microsoft will stop offering long-term rentals for 17 Azure instance types – most of them powered by CPUs Intel released in the 2010s – again showing that cloud computing isn’t always a seamless and easy choice.…

Vendors all use different formats. This tech translates them all so you can smooth your SOC

Academics from Singapore and China have found a way to make AI useful for cyber-defenders, by creating a technique that translates rules from diverse Security Information and Event Managements (SIEMs) so they’re easier to consume across multiple systems.…

The Iran war has been great for business

The Iran War has been great for business at Palantir, as the Department of Defense has doubled usage of the company’s Maven targeting system in four months.…

The tiny desktop is no longer Apple's most affordable computer

The Mac Mini is the latest victim of the AI-fueled RAM-pocalypse. Last week, Apple discontinued the 256 GB version of the system, which cost $599. To get in now, you'll need to drop at least $799 on a 512 GB version.…

Devs not thrilled that Git extension added the bot as co-author by default

Imagine working your butt off on a project, only to have VS Code put an attribution into your commit that says Copilot helped you, even if it did not. Microsoft has reversed a change that added a default AI attribution notice after user complaints that the bot was claiming credit for human-authored code.…

46% say age checks are easy to bypass, and nearly a third admit getting around them

It’s been months since the UK government began requiring stronger age checks under the Online Safety Act, and recent research suggests those measures are falling short of keeping kids away from harmful content. In some cases, even drawing on a mustache has been reported as enough to fool age detection software.…

Everything you need to build the PS-85 is available from its designer's website, even if you can't get to space

We've all been there: You're doing maintenance on a Weyland-Yutani hauler dragging mineral ore back toward Earth, and there’s no terminal handy to tap into the MU/TH/UR AI to check ship systems. Lucky for you, one enterprising maker has created just the machine for the job.…

It's not the fork that's the problem, it's the attempt to make it look official, says original Notepad++ dev Don Ho

Notepad++ remains a Windows-only app, at least under that name. The beloved developer-focused, open-source text editor recently was ported to macOS by a third party. However, developer Don Ho wants to be perfectly clear that, no matter how convincing the new project might look, it's not official. …

The Register gets a look inside AWS' networking lab in Cupertino

FEATURE In an unassuming three-story office building in Cupertino, California, engineers from Amazon Web Services are busy trying to make networking inconspicuous.…

"To be clear: Notepad++ has never released a macOS version."

Intentional errors can be useful.

The retracted study on ChatGPT in education was already cited hundreds of times.

Amid falling revenue and store closures, GameStop wants to buy the much larger eBay.

2026's Formula 1 championship now looks far from a foregone thing.

Fixed Rate Link being added now; Display Stream Compression coming soon.

OpenAI accuses Musk of trying to "coerce" a settlement days before trial started.

Chip shortages and demand from AI enthusiasts are both playing a part.

Onshore wind development in the United States is being brought to a standstill.

Computational model lets users tweak parameters to hear effect on the sound in early design process.