US aviation giant Boeing and Korean Air announced a deal worth about $36bn (£24bn) on Monday for 103 planes as President Donald Trump presses trading partners to do more business with American firms. The deal includes 787, 777 and 737 passenger jets, according to a joint statement from the two companies. The new jets will…
An islet cell (pink) in the midst of pancreas tissue (magenta) – credit CC 3.0. Polarlys A patient with type 1 diabetes has become the first in the world to produce his own insulin via transplanted cells edited with CRISPR. The edits halted his own immune system from attacking the cells, leading to production of…
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…