Peter Hoskins Business reporter, BBC News AFP via Getty Images Evergrande was once China’s biggest property developer Chinese property giant Evergrande’s shares were taken off the Hong Kong stock market on Monday after more than a decade and a half of trading. It marks a grim milestone for what was once China’s biggest real estate…

Cancer drugs that have been used for two decades were retooled until they were able to eliminate aggressive tumors in a “remarkable” clinical trial. Two of the patients—one with the deadliest form of skin cancer called melanoma and another with breast cancer—were told their tumors disappeared completely. Scientists at Rockefeller University in New York engineered…

PA Media Two people remain in a life-threatening condition in hospital following the blaze A teenage boy and a man have been arrested after a suspected arson attack at an east London restaurant left at least five people injured. Three women and two men were taken to hospital when a blaze ripped through the venue…

9 years ago today, the European Southern Observatory confirmed the existence of Proxima Centauri b, the closest exoplanet to Earth orbiting within the habitable zone of the red dwarf star Proxima Centauri. It’s just over the hedge at 4.2 light years from Earth, and its discovery has led to numerous research activities attempting to establish…

Phil Mackie Midlands correspondent Reuters The flag-flying is spreading across different parts of England, including here in Harlow, Essex Driving through the south west of Birmingham, it’s hard not to notice something about the lampposts. For more than a mile, almost every one has a St George’s or union jack flag attached – thousands of…

Keya Jha is the second-youngest girl to defeat a grandmaster in classic chess – Courtesy of Ayoosh Jha Two ten-year-old girls have recently conquered one of the world’s oldest board games, taking down two grandmasters in chess, men considered to be the kings of the sport. It all started at the 2025 British Chess Championships…

Google Police, paramedics and firefighters were called to the fire at a restaurant on Woodford Avenue Five people have been hospitalised, with three in a life-threatening condition, after a suspected arson attack at a restaurant in east London. Police, paramedics and firefighters were called to the fire on Woodford Avenue in Gants Hill, Ilford, at…

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Jacqui Wakefield Global Disinformation Unit, BBC World Service Getty Images/ Carlos Barquero Women who used the Tea app in the US are facing backlash after their data was leaked Sally was stalked by her ex-boyfriend. After ending their relationship, he would turn up at work – and even her friends’ houses. She eventually had to…

Pulsar B1509-58 and a hand-shaped nebula known as MSH 15-52 – credit, NASA / CXC / Un Hong Kong Zhang et al. via SWNS A coalition of telescopes have allowed astronomers to produce an image of the nebula MSH 15-52 in unprecedented color and detail. Centered in the middle of the nebula is a pulsar,…