Maia Davies, Rachel Muller Heyndyk and Joe Tidycyber correspondent Watch: Sea of people seen at Brussels airport Heathrow was among several European airports hit by delays on Saturday after a cyber-attack affecting an electronic check-in and baggage system. The airport said a number of flights were delayed as a “technical issue” impacted software provided to...
When Ding Xiaohan, a software engineer from Shanghai, took her 18-year-old son to Japan for a weeklong holiday this summer, she did not hold back. The 47-year-old spent freely as they explored the affluent neighbourhood near the Tokyo Tower and the tea-producing city of Shizuoka, splashing out on sushi lunches, barbecue dinners and dolls modelled...
The South Korean government will continue to pursue engagement with North Korea even if it does not respond, President Lee Jae-myung said on Thursday, stating that establishing peace is the fastest path to safeguarding national prosperity. Speaking by proxy at the Global Korea Forum in Seoul, Lee said that the unresolved division of the peninsula...
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. The Chinese AI company DeepSeek released a chatbot earlier this year called R1, which drew a huge amount of attention. Most of it focused on the fact that a relatively small and unknown company said it had built a chatbot that rivaled the performance of...
Christian Pulisic is in fine form nine months before a World Cup in his home country. The United States forward scored twice and was involved in another goal as AC Milan won at previously unbeaten Udinese 3-0 in Serie A on Saturday. It was the type of performance that American fans hope to see at the...
There is no way we can reduce Britain’s sense of malaise and its febrile public mood down to a simple set of problems – nor should progressives fall into the trap of assuming rightwing sentiment about asylum and immigration can be reduced to supposed bread-and-butter economic issues. But in my experience, one particular issue really...
Police car set on fire amid Dutch anti-immigration protests Dutch police used tear gas and water cannon to disperse violent anti-immigration protesters in The Hague on Saturday. Thirty people were arrested and two officers injured as large groups of people clashed with police, with some throwing rocks and bottles. Around 1,500 people blocked a highway...
Kyiv in sanctions push as NATO states on Europe’s eastern flank take preventive action after Moscow’s air incursions. Published On 20 Sep 202520 Sep 2025 Click here to share on social media share2 Share Ukrainian Volodymyr Zelenskyy is preparing to meet US President Donald Trump on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in...
US President Donald Trump on Saturday threatened Afghanistan with unspecified punishment if the Taleban-controlled country did not “give Bagram Airbase back”. “If Afghanistan doesn’t give Bagram Airbase back to those that built it, the United States of America, BAD THINGS ARE GOING TO HAPPEN!!!” the 79-year-old leader wrote on his Truth Social platform. The vague...
EPA India’s Minister of External Affairs Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, whose office warned the change would disrupt families The Indian government has said a new $100,000 (£74,000) fee for applicants seeking US skilled worker visas will have “humanitarian consequences”. President Donald Trump on Friday ordered the new fee for H-1B visa applications, which is more than 60...