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Kim Jong Un has chosen Miss Kim as his heir, South Korea's spy agency says - but what exactly do we know about her?

Unofficial results in the Bangladesh election suggest that the Bangladesh Nationalist Party is leading.

The Cabinet Office says the move is "by mutual agreement" but it follows months of negative media reports about his performance.

Zoë Hitzig resigned on the same day OpenAI began testing ads in its chatbot.

A Ukrainian skeleton racer has been banned from competing at the Winter Olympics after he insisted on wearing a helmet depicting athletes killed since Russia's invasion.

This is Lowpass by Janko Roettgers, a newsletter on the ever-evolving intersection of tech and entertainment, syndicated just for The Verge subscribers once a week. The VR industry has been on edge since Meta's massive job cuts earlier this year: One exec called the layoff announcements "one of VR's darkest weeks." There's talk of a […]

Pakistan Supreme Court orders medical review after report reveals severe vision loss of jailed former premier.

On October 24th, 2011, Jeffrey Epstein was emailing back and forth with Boris Nikolic, a biotech venture capitalist who would later be named as a backup executor of Epstein's will. The two appeared to be discussing a meeting Nikolic had helped arrange between Epstein and "moot," the screen name for Christopher Poole, who created the […]

France is this week set to pass by decree a new energy law slashing the country’s renewable energy targets and massively expanding nuclear power production. The law change comes as a relief for state-run electricity provider EDF, which had been mandated to close some of its nuclear plants and is struggling to compete with price pressure from European solar and wind power producers.

App arrives months after Google requested takedowns of third-party options.

The parents of two children who say they warned nursery staff about Chan tell the BBC they felt ignored.

Rights campaigners say restrictions on messaging apps are a transparent attempt to ramp up control and surveillance.

US border security chief Tom Homan says the Minnesota immigration crackdown is coming to an end.

What are the main symptoms and causes of bowel cancer, and how can you reduce your risk of getting it?

Palestinian homes have been bulldozed by Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank.

French President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday nominated his budget minister Amélie de Montchalin to lead the country’s top audit body – a position she could hold for decades to come. Critics say this part of a growing bid by Macron to lock down national institutions and leave a mark beyond the presidency.

Jessica and Jacques Moretti are under criminal investigation for involuntary manslaughter, as well as bodily harm and arson through negligence.

India vs Pakistan will finally go ahead at the T20 World Cup. Samantha Johnson looks at the U-turn.

We are all guilty of pulling out our phones and doomscrolling through stressful headlines or mindnumbing videos when we should be doing anything else. We know it's bad, but we still do it because it's hard to resist when much of our time is spent living and working on our devices. And even though we […]

Shocking crime rates are rising in Israel’s Arab communities, with one Arab citizen killed every 36 hours on average in 2025. This week alone, five people were shot dead in less than 24 hours. In Middle East Matters this week, our reporter Claire Duhamel travelled to Nazareth to investigate organized crime and gang violence, and we spoke with Ibrahim Abu Ahmad, a Palestinian citizen of Israel and peace activist, about the causes and possible solutions of this violence.

Auto Browse is capable of some impressive things, but it can also crash and burn spectacularly.

Distillation technique lets copycats mimic Gemini at a fraction of the development cost.

Follow the game's build-up, analysis, and live text commentary as Atletico host Barca in Spain's main cup competition.

After years of authoritarian rule, there is hope that this election in Bangladesh will put the country on a path to democracy.

Bangladesh will go to the polls for the first time since its government collapsed in 2024 during a bloody crackdown on protesters.