Iran has named Mojtaba Khamenei as its new supreme leader. And, President Trump says he will not sign any more bills until Congress overhauls voting.

Scientists analyzed the urine of wild chimpanzees who'd feasted on fallen fruit to see how much alcohol they consumed from the fermented sugars.

The price of crude oil briefly neared $120 a barrel Monday as Iran named Mojtaba Khamenei the supreme leader and then launched new attacks at Israel and Gulf states.

World shares tumbled on Monday, with Japan's benchmark Nikkei 225 index plunging more than 5%, after oil prices spiked at nearly $120 a barrel.

Geese's iconic "V" formations and trademark squawks can be seen and heard overhead as they go back and forth to the south through the year. But what does it take for such a long trip?

A Republican push to alter the census may lead to a radical shift in redistricting for state legislatures — drawing districts that don't take into account children and non-U.S. citizen adults.

Oceans are rising as the climate changes, threatening coastal cities. A new study shows that much more of the world's population is vulnerable than earlier predictions had estimated.

For decades, parents were told to help children build willpower like a muscle, to resist things like junk food and too much time on their screens. But new research suggests a better strategy.

A senior Israeli defense official tells NPR that Israel needs three more weeks to accomplish its goal of decimating Iran's military forces.

Twelve years after Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 vanished with 239 people aboard, a deep-sea search has so far failed to locate the missing aircraft, as families pressed for the effort to continue.

As turmoil continues in the Middle East, the price of crude oil rose to more than $100 a barrel on Monday.

Israel has continued strikes across Iran and Lebanon and the Iranian regime has carried out more attacks, as the war continues for a tenth day.

Many expect the 56-year-old, who has largely kept a low profile, to continue his father's hardline policies.

The BBC's Diplomatic Correspondent, James Landale, is in Ukraine to see the latest anti-drone technology the country has to offer.

Concern has grown for team after one critic called them 'wartime traitors' for failing to salute during the Iranian anthem.

Chancellor Rachel Reeves will join talks amid reports that oil reserves could be released to lower prices.

Fuel depots were hit in Tehran and Karaj overnight, with videos showing huge fires and plumes of smoke in multiple locations.

Lamin Kongira told BBC Scotland News he had been walking past when a shopkeeper ran out saying "fire, fire".

The party says the planned trip should be scrapped after Donald Trump's criticism of the UK's response to the war.

The health service said young people who already receive the drugs will continue to do so.

Dutch spies flag large-scale campaign to hijack secure messaging accounts

Russian-linked hackers are trying to break into the Signal and WhatsApp accounts of government officials, journalists, and military personnel globally – not by cracking encryption, but by simply tricking people into handing over the keys.…

Vulcan rocket hardware drafted in amid Artemis reshuffle but still no word on lander

NASA has selected United Launch Alliance's Centaur V upper stage for the Artemis missions that aim to return astronauts to the lunar surface for the first time since 1972.…

This isn't just a nostalgia trip – billions of legacy microcontrollers may be at risk

AI can reverse engineer machine code and find vulnerabilities in ancient legacy architectures, says Microsoft Azure CTO Mark Russinovich, who used his own Apple II code from 40 years ago as an example.…

UK government slams comments as 'sickening and irresponsible'

Elon Musk's AI chatbot Grok is once again under investigation after it began posting explicit and derogatory remarks about historic football disasters when prompted by users on X.…

Atomic clocks will tell you when your Waymo is late

The British government is to pour £180 million into ensuring the UK keeps up with the times.…

Gargantuan ERP and HR overhaul has committed around £1.7B and affects nearly half a million public workers

Opinion On the eve of its fifth birthday, the UK's Shared Services Strategy for Government got a couple of presents. With around £1.7 billion already committed to tech suppliers and a 2028 deadline looming, the 450,000 civil servants and military personnel set to depend on these systems might wonder what was in store.…

Britain's Ministry of Defence wants a counter-drone system designed, contracted, and delivered within weeks

Britain's Royal Navy is urgently seeking a ship-based counter-drone system and recent world events likely explain why.…

Ignorance really was the way to achieve bliss

Who, Me? Welcome to another working week, and another installment of "Who, Me?" – a weekly reader-contributed column that unearths your errors and reveals how you rebounded afterwards.…

Tech-adjacent Dyson, Epson, and Whoop also have a crack

World War Fee Tech companies have started suing the US government to seek repayment of tariffs that the Supreme Court recently declared unconstitutional.…

You gotta start somewhere, and in this case astroboffins would have been nowhere without help from intrepid volunteers

NASA has published new analysis of its 2022 planetary defense test that suggests the mission slowed down the target asteroids, albeit infinitesimally.…

Stories of border issues lead to pervasive travel fears across the worldwide industry.

"I'm gonna take this city back."

Small size seems to have come before a change in diet for a tiny dinosaur lineage.

Werner Herzog directed this evocative NatGeo documentary of an ornithologist's quest to find a new species.

A unique head spike and fish-eating jaws help make sense of these dinosaurs.

Research shows apparent Iranian state hackers trying to hijack consumer-grade cameras.

The Exploration Upper Stage did not in any way get NASA closer to landing on the Moon.

Planet wants to prevent "adversarial actors" from using images for "Battle Damage Assessment" purposes.

Fishing crews face horrifying burns from dredging the dumped chemical weapons.

This could make it easier to use multiple Workspace APIs, but it's not yet an official Google product.