British author M. John Harrison has won the 2026 Booker Prize for his dystopian satire The End of Everything, becoming the oldest winner in the prize’s history at 81.
A Caltech robot funded by DARPA has assembled a section of a truss in orbit without astronaut help, a first that could open the way to building giant telescopes and solar arrays in space.
Carlos Victor Mestanza Cercado, 32, has agreed to plead guilty to a federal robbery charge over the 2022 theft of about $100 million of gems and jewellery from an armoured truck in California — the largest jewellery heist on record in the United States.
In a unanimous ruling, London’s highest court for the Caribbean nation held that sections 13 and 16 of the 1986 Sexual Offences Act breach the constitution, ending a legal battle that began in 2017.
Researchers at Hoag have found a molecular signal in the blood that identifies the precancerous lesions behind most ovarian cancers, raising hopes of a test that could catch the disease years before a tumour forms.
Washington will stay away from the Geneva review of its own human rights record for a second year in a row, drawing criticism from rights groups who say violations have surged under President Donald Trump.
Guinea-Bissau’s public prosecutor has set up a commission to investigate the murder of rapper and activist Vigario Luis Balanta, eight months after he was beaten to death — a move his movement welcomed but said it would watch closely.
The Guardian and ITV News have named bestselling children’s author David Walliams as the high-profile figure who sought to block publication of sexual misconduct allegations, after the High Court refused his injunction bid.
Eli Lilly’s once-daily weight-loss pill Foundayo significantly reduced breathing interruptions in adults with obesity and moderate-to-severe sleep apnoea, meeting the main goal of a late-stage trial programme. The company plans to seek US approval for the new use by the end of the year.
France has accused Iran’s Revolutionary Guards of a cyberattack that disabled refrigerators in hundreds of supermarkets, summoned Tehran’s ambassador, and warned it could respond with cyber measures of its own.
British author M. John Harrison has won the 2026 Booker Prize for his dystopian satire The End of Everything, becoming the oldest winner in the prize’s history at 81.
A Caltech robot funded by DARPA has assembled a section of a truss in orbit without astronaut help, a first that could open the way to building giant telescopes and solar arrays in space.
Carlos Victor Mestanza Cercado, 32, has agreed to plead guilty to a federal robbery charge over the 2022 theft of about $100 million of gems and jewellery from an armoured truck in California — the largest jewellery heist on record in the United States.
In a unanimous ruling, London’s highest court for the Caribbean nation held that sections 13 and 16 of the 1986 Sexual Offences Act breach the constitution, ending a legal battle that began in 2017.
Researchers at Hoag have found a molecular signal in the blood that identifies the precancerous lesions behind most ovarian cancers, raising hopes of a test that could catch the disease years before a tumour forms.
Washington will stay away from the Geneva review of its own human rights record for a second year in a row, drawing criticism from rights groups who say violations have surged under President Donald Trump.
Guinea-Bissau’s public prosecutor has set up a commission to investigate the murder of rapper and activist Vigario Luis Balanta, eight months after he was beaten to death — a move his movement welcomed but said it would watch closely.
The Guardian and ITV News have named bestselling children’s author David Walliams as the high-profile figure who sought to block publication of sexual misconduct allegations, after the High Court refused his injunction bid.
Eli Lilly’s once-daily weight-loss pill Foundayo significantly reduced breathing interruptions in adults with obesity and moderate-to-severe sleep apnoea, meeting the main goal of a late-stage trial programme. The company plans to seek US approval for the new use by the end of the year.
France has accused Iran’s Revolutionary Guards of a cyberattack that disabled refrigerators in hundreds of supermarkets, summoned Tehran’s ambassador, and warned it could respond with cyber measures of its own.
