Month: February 2026

Javier Milei’s boosters say law will revive employment, but critics decry cuts to severance and longer working hours

This decision, conditioned on security measures, may challenge local services like Naver and Kakao while addressing US concerns over market access. | World News

Iranian doctors say that during last month’s deadly crackdown on nationwide protests, security agents swarmed hospitals in multiple cities, hunting for wounded protesters. The agents intimidated medical staff, prevented treatment

Shares are mostly higher in Europe and Asia after the worst day for Nvidia’s stock since last spring dragged the U.S. market lower. U.S. futures fell as investors focused on

Progressive Greens win closely-watched election in one-time Labour stronghold, while right-wing Reform comes second.

Anthropic has not been an unwilling partner to US military so far; but it has some red lines over how much of its AI should be used for war, national security | World News

US president accuses Tehran of failing to ‘negotiate in good faith’ over its nuclear programme

The special election in northern England was supposed to be neck-and-neck-and-neck: a three-way scrap between the governing Labour Party, fighting to keep control of a seat in its historic heartland, and two outsiders – the hard-right populist Reform UK party, and the new-look progressive Green Party. In the end, it wasn’t even close.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says Scouting America will alter several policies to maintain its support from the U.S. military.

India’s economy grew at a faster pace than expected in the last quarter of 2025 driven by solid consumer spending, data showed Friday, using a new framework that calculates economic

On 24 February, the European Parliament announced that it had signed off on a €90 billion loan to support Ukraine. On social media, some users claimed this showed Brussels had overridden Hungary’s opposition to the loan. However, this is only one part of the legislative process.

Countries around the world are urging the warring parties to show restraint.

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The court heard one defendant, Ryan Carvil, spent thousands on a flat in Dubai and bought a £160,000 car while claiming £409.89 a month on benefits.

Former President Bill Clinton is testifying before the House Oversight Committee today in their Epstein probe. Clinton says he “saw nothing” and “did nothing…

Gary Waddock is the new manager of Wealdstone. Waddock, 63, was a hugely popular player for QPR in the 1980s and later coached at the club and had a spell as manager. He has also managed Wycombe, Oxford United and Aldershot Town, and had coaching positions at a number of other clubs. Waddock has left […]

A number of amendments, including cutting staff at City Hall and TfL, were blocked

On tonight’s W News with Leigh-Ann Gerrans, we ask whether a strike on Iran is imminent after the UK and US withdrew embassy staff from Iran and Israel.We he…

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The strikes, under Op ‘Ghazab lil-Haq’, were carried out in the early hours of Friday, Pakistan said, in response to the “unprovoked firing” by Afghanistan. | World News

U.S. stocks sank as Wall Street kept punishing companies that could become losers in the AI revolution.

Tech titan Amazon is working to step out of Nvidia’s shadow with custom “Trainium” chips designed specially for machine learning as billions of dollars are poured into artificial intelligence (AI).

Escalation of violence between the volatile neighbours makes a Qatar-mediated ceasefire appear increasingly shaky

Around £763,000 has been allocated to the programme at a time when the increasing use of Live Facial Recognition (LFR) technology has been controversial

The Labour former minister said peers have spent more than 80 hours scrutinising the contentious legislation since it was passed by MPs in June.

EXCLUSIVE: Some 88,000 Londoners aged 16 to 24 on average were unemployed in the 12 months to September – a rise of 11,000 in a year

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Scottish Labour campaign co-chairman Douglas Alexander accepted however his party are underdogs for the May election.

The Scottish Labour leader was speaking as he addressed his party’s conference in Paisley.

ITV News has seen a classified government intelligence report which appears to show some of the most worrying potential impacts of our loss of nature weren’t…

A killer’s GPS ankle tag helped convict three men who ambushed and fatally stabbed a 19-year-old in a West London park

Arriving in Houston and being told we are working in the 6th most dangerous neighbourhood in America was a shock! We joined Clean the block for 3 days, worki…

Over 50 dead birds have been recovered by wildlife experts over the past week

Metro’s food writer Courtney Pochin, claims to have found the ‘coolest’ toilet in London with epic views – of St Pancras, The Shard and more

Tree-lined parks, top-performing schools and fast trains into central London have helped one borough secure the title – MyLondon headed down there to speak to locals

Footage shows four figures dressed head-to-toe in black storming the jeweller’s in Haringey, close to Finsbury Park

That shift accelerated during the war in Gaza. Three years ago, 54% of Americans sympathized more with the Israelis, compared with 31% for the Palestinians.

Carr welcomed a son in 2011 and went on to marry in 2014, according to reports

Teachers in Croydon and Bromley are the latest to warn children as young as 11 about arming themselves with weapons for mass brawls

Huntley, 52, was left lying in a pool of blood on a wing at HMP Frankland, County Durham

A dispersal order is in place in Greenwich on Friday to give officers the power to break up any gathering of youths to prevent crime or disorder

Social media sites say they are proactively removing content which promotes violence

Darren Connor is said to have gone to Manchester Central Mosque during Ramadan prayers on Tuesday evening.

Hannah Spencer, a 34-year-old plumber, wins the Gorton and Denton by-election, with Reform coming in second and Labour in third.

The tech-rich Nasdaq was back in retreat Thursday as lingering worries over the artificial intelligence boom overshadowed strong Nvidia results while leading bourses in Asia and Europe hit fresh records.

Multiple US Olympic men’s ice hockey players have apologized for their team’s response after President Donald Trump said he would “have to” invite the women’s team to the White House

The UN on Thursday condemned the latest attacks against civilians in Ukraine by Russian forces, reiterating that they always constitute a violation of international law “and must stop immediately.”

The Taliban claimed to have captured several Pakistani checkpoints in border areas, killing and capturing soldiers. Pakistan meanwhile said it launched “strong and effective response” with explosions reported in Kabul.

The new announcement from Quito follows an initial 30 percent tariff imposed by the Andean nation in early February.

Ukraine struck the Russian city of Belgorod and a neighboring district with “a massive missile attack” overnight, causing power outages, Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov claimed on Feb. 27.