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  • Samsung strike on hold as workers push for AI bonus

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/639b/live/8df67be0-54b9-11f1-aebe-91fb4001196b.jpg”] Bloomberg via Getty Images The largest union at Samsung Electronics has suspended a planned strike after reaching a last-minute tentative pay agreement with the South Korean technology giant. It has temporarily eased fears of disruption at the world’s largest memory chipmaker during a boom in the building of artificial intelligence (AI) data…

  • TikTok and YouTube ‘not safe enough’ for kids, says Ofcom report

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/583c/live/d8c121a0-5501-11f1-89a3-d1f559421220.jpg”] Getty Images Ofcom has criticised TikTok and YouTube, saying in a new report their content feeds are “not safe enough” for children. The findings follow the regulator’s call for stronger action on children’s online safety, and said Meta, Snap and Roblox had each agreed to stronger anti-grooming measures. Ofcom added it would…

  • Race Across The World: Jo and Kush say finale is ‘very tense’

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/d3c8/live/e9417b30-3eed-11f1-a821-9161fbfb806d.jpg”] BBC/Studio Lambert Jo Diop (left) and Kush Burmanare the youngest duo in this series of Race Across the World If you’ve been hooked on the latest series of Race Across the World, you’ve probably got a favourite pair of contestants. Best friends Kush Burman and Jo Diop have certainly won the hearts…

  • The fight against foreign developers buying Caribbean beaches

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/4eb2/live/9b52e4c0-4a0c-11f1-b84b-1fec0953dd1e.jpg”] BLRRC Local campaigners in Barbuda say they are losing access to the island’s beaches On the small Caribbean island of Barbuda, the Pink Sands Beach Bar played host to locals – and the occasional tourist – for more than 20 years. “It was a very warm place,” says Miranda Beazer, its former…

  • Retired police officer Larry Bushart jailed over Charlie Kirk post settles lawsuit

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/a767/live/38357500-548f-11f1-8c10-850f8a6f43c3.jpg”] Courtesy LadyJay Creations LLC/FIRE Larry Bushart spent 37 days behind bars A Tennessee man who was jailed for more than month following his arrest over a Facebook post related to the killing of Charlie Kirk has settled a “unlawful incarceration” lawsuit for $835,000 (£621,000). Larry Bushart, a retired police officer, spent 37…

  • SpaceX files for IPO that could make Elon Musk a trillionaire

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/a257/live/e755c9b0-5497-11f1-b691-3398bf815b45.jpg”] Getty Images Elon Musk’s SpaceX has revealed its plans to go public in the US, allowing people to trade shares in the firm on the stock market. SpaceX makes rockets, offers a satellite internet service called Starlink, and also owns Musk’s controversial artificial intelligence (AI) firm xAI. The initial public offering (IPO)…

  • My phone’s crash alert saved my life, says woman who plunged down Horseshoe Pass

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/ce4c/live/846fc830-4e04-11f1-ac78-2112837ce2aa.png”] Natalia Sidorska Natalia Sidorska survived the car crash which left her hospitalised for four months A woman who survived a crash that saw her car plunge hundreds of feet down a mountainside said her mobile phone saved her life. Natalia Sidorska, 32, lost control of her car while driving along Horseshoe Pass…

  • Scientists say four-day moorland blaze was UK’s first megafire

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/967d/live/fce46660-545b-11f1-a996-23a66636b2cc.png”] Peter Jolly/Northpix The Dava Moor fire started in late June A wildfire that burned for four days across parts of the Highlands and Moray last year was the UK’s first megafire, researchers say. They said the fire on Dava Moor almost torched as much land as typically burns across the UK in…

  • Aston Villa: Unai Emery delivers again as he wins fifth Europa League title

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/ace/branded_sport/1200/cpsprodpb/1e14/live/96f8f4e0-549e-11f1-89a3-d1f559421220.jpg”] ‘We’ll go down in history’ – Villa’s new heroes triumph to end 30-year wait Image source, Getty ImagesImage caption, Unai Emery won three Europa League titles with Sevilla and one with Villarreal By Nick Mashiter Football reporter at Besiktas Park Published 20 May 2026 Unai Emery delivered on his promise. Three and…

  • US charges former Cuban president Raúl Castro over 1996 downing of planes

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/303e/live/c129b180-54cd-11f1-89a3-d1f559421220.jpg”] Watch: BBC in Cuba after US announces criminal charges against Raúl Castro The US has charged former Cuban leader Raúl Castro with conspiracy to kill US nationals and other crimes over the 1996 downing of two planes between Cuba and Florida. The case unveiled on Wednesday accuses Castro and five others in…