A grey Toyota struck two pedestrians on Langs Road in the Ascot Vale suburb just before 17:00 local time (07:00 GMT) on Saturday, Victoria Police stated. One pedestrian died at the scene and the second was taken to hospital with life-threatening injuries. Police noted the circumstances surrounding the collision had not yet been established and […]

The White House has commented it has had a “productive and constructive” meeting with the head of artificial intelligence firm Anthropic, which is suing the US Department of Defense. The meeting comes a week after the firm released its Claude Mythos preview, an AI tool that the corporation claims can outperform humans at some hacking […]

Three men have been sentenced in California for an insurance scam using someone in a bear costume to stage fake attacks on luxury cars. This also touches on aspects of global summit. Viral video handed to insurers as evidence seemed to show a bear in a 2010 Rolls-Royce Ghost in Lake Arrowhead on 28 January […]

To survive in one of the harshest environments on Earth, the humans who live and patrol Canada’s Arctic rely on lessons passed down through generations. The BBC joined the military’s Canadian Rangers on the final leg of a 5,200km (3,200 miles) Arctic patrol, where they shared the survival skills needed to endure freezing temperatures, navigate […]

In 1940s Calcutta (now Kolkata), as Japanese air raids rattled the city, a group of musicians travelled by horse carriage to a recording studio, dodging sirens. The building was exposed, its only defence hand-dug trenches. At each siren wail, the musicians were trained to dive for cover – sometimes mid-session. At the centre of it […]

Pope Leo says he was not seeking to debate Donald Trump when he criticised “tyrants” for spending billions on wars in a speech earlier this week. The pontiff mentioned the remarks, delivered days after a high-profile spat with the US president, had been written a fortnight earlier – “well before the president ever commented on […]