The Doomsday Clock symbolising how near humanity is to destruction has been moved one second forward to 89 seconds to midnight – the closest it has ever been. The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (BAS) – which sets the clock annually – said nuclear threats, potential misuses of advances in biology and artificial intelligence, as…

David Deans Political reporter, BBC Wales News Getty Images The Welsh government has introduced regulations restricting the prescription of puberty blockers by Welsh NHS GPs The Welsh government broke its own law in how it banned puberty blockers for under-18s questioning their gender identity, a Plaid Cymru politician has claimed. After a review found a…

Fourteen members of an Australian religious group have been convicted of the manslaughter of an eight-year-old diabetic girl who was denied insulin for almost a week. Elizabeth Struhs died at home in 2022, having suffered from diabetic ketoacidosis, which causes fatally high blood sugar. The court heard that Elizabeth’s treatment was withheld because the group,…

The mysterious drones that lit up skies across the US late last year were authorised by federal regulators and “not the enemy,” the White House has announced. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) had approved the drones for research and many also belonged to people in the area, President Donald Trump’s press secretary Karoline Leavitt said…

Watch: Pause on federal funding targeted at DEI and ‘wokeness’, says White House A US judge temporarily halted President Donald Trump’s order to freeze hundreds of billions of dollars in federal grants and loans, minutes before it was set to come into effect on Tuesday. Judge Loren AliKhan’s order to pause the plan until next…

Kate McGough Education producer BBC As the bell rings at St Nicholas Church of England Primary Academy in Boston, Lincolnshire, head teacher Mrs Booth spots a little boy coming through the gates with his hood pulled up, crying. “Are you OK?” she asks in a soft voice, taking him to one side. He tells her…

Mark Savage Music Correspondent Steve Gullick Mogwai (left-right): Stuart Braithwaite, Dominic Aitchison, Barry Burns and Martin Bulloch One word keeps cropping up during our interview with Glasgow four-piece Mogwai – and that word is “weird”. It was “psychedelically weird” when their last album, As The Love Continues, unexpectedly went to number one in 2021. The…

Shona MacDonald & Steven McKenzie BBC Naidheachdan & BBC Scotland MacPherson family Hannah and Andrew MacPherson died along with their parents and grandfather On the night of 11 January 2005, a family of five attempted to escape a violent storm battering their home on the island of South Uist. Winds gusting to 124mph had coincided…

Niall McCracken BBC News NI Mid Ulster Reporter BBC Peter Alexander was diagnosed with dementia at the age of 49 Dementia was not something Peter Alexander expected to be diagnosed with in his late 40s. It meant leaving his job and adapting to a new way of life. Now, aged 56, Peter is passionate about…

“Reeves pledges to create ‘Europe’s Silicon Valley’”, reads the Guardian headline, referring to Chancellor Rachel Reeves “push for growth”, which features on many of Wednesday’s front pages. The paper says she will reveal plans to create a tech hub between Oxford and Cambridge, in a bid to “kickstarting economic growth and putting more money in…