Watch: What caused the Nepal-Tibet flash floods?
When torrents of meltwater tore through valleys along the Nepal-Tibet border, the immediate question was what had unleashed such force from the…
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‘High risk’ of lake breaching and causing second flood, warns China
Chinese authorities have issued an urgent warning that a newly formed barrier lake, sitting just upstream of the zone devastated by Wednesday's…
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Families fly to Nepal in search for 33 missing British nationals
Poudel says he has not heard from his wife in days Families of missing UK nationals have flown out to Nepal to…
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Trump administration illegally retaliated against Anthropic, judge rules
A federal district court has delivered a sweeping rebuke to the Trump administration's decision to label AI startup Anthropic a national supply-chain…
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Greens call for temporary ban on new data centres
Zack Polanski visits the site of a proposed data centre in East London Zack Polanski has called for a freeze on the…
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What we know after the big Grand Theft Auto 6 preview
For over eighteen months, the internet has been starved of official information about Grand Theft Auto 6. That drought ended when Rockstar…
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18 deaths from battery fires show hidden danger of UK’s e-bike boom
A quiet electric motor humming in a garage or by a front door can, within seconds, become a roaring inferno that engulfs…
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Trump signs order to rename Lake Ontario as Lake America
The already frosty relationship between Washington and Ottawa took a sharp turn on Thursday when President Donald Trump signed an executive order…
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Clean-up of illegal waste supersite costs taxpayers £6m
Drone footage from November 2025 captured the scale of the Kidlington tip The clear-up of one of England's largest illegal waste tips…
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Serial rapist police officer passed vetting despite warnings, BBC reveals
A Scottish police officer later identified as a violent serial rapist was cleared to join the force in 2009 even though vetting…
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