Olympic figure skating is often seems to take athletes to the very edge of perfection, but even the greatest stumble and fall. How do they pull themselves together again on the biggest world stage? Toughness, poise and practice.

Some film professors are bemoaning the shortcuts students take to avoid watching assigned movies: some don't know what happens at the end. NPR's Scott Simon offers his own synopses.

Leprosy is one of the least contagious diseases around — and perhaps one of the most misunderstood. The colonies are relics of a not-too-distant past when those diagnosed with leprosy were exiled.

The first season of The Pitt was about acute problems. The second is about chronic ones.

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.

Gordon Brown says Sir Keir may 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.

Police say they are investigating three incidents targeting rail infrastructure that caused travel delays.

Some parts of the UK have already seen more rain than they'd normally expect in the whole of February - so when will the wet weather end?

The Ukrainian leader says difficult issues remain, as Russia carries out further strikes on energy facilities.

Team GB's mixed doubles curlers clinched their place in the Winter Olympics semi-finals with two matches to spare, after statement victories over heavyweights Canada and United States maintained their 100% record.

Switzerland's Franjo von Allmen wins the first gold medal of the 2026 Winter Olympics in the men's downhill skiing.

Veteran skier Lindsey Vonn is a "iconic superhuman athlete" and is "risking everything" by racing with an anterior cruciate ligament injury on Sunday, says former Olympic skier Chemmy Alcott.

What's happening and who to look out for at the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milan-Cortina.

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

AI pioneer Vishal Sikka warns to never trust an LLM that runs alone

interview Don't trust; verify. According to AI researcher Vishal Sikka, LLMs alone are limited by computational boundaries and will start to hallucinate when they push those boundaries. One solution? Companion bots that check their work.…

Research shows productivity and judgment peak decades after graduation

A growing body of research continues to show that older workers are generally more productive than younger employees.…

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.…

The Environmental Protection Agency has drastically pulled back on holding polluters accountable.

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.