US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has blamed Howard Lutnick's Commerce Department for failing to properly oversee the export of high-spec AI chips, as the fallout from the Nvidia scandal widens to President Donald Trump's cabinet. Pressure is building on Lutnick from across the political...
The former Catholic Bishop of Aberdeen, the Right Reverend Peter Moran, has died at the age of 91. The Diocese of Aberdeen announced that Bishop Emeritus Moran died on Friday morning at Northcote Lodge Care Home in Aberdeen, where he had lived in recent years. He led the diocese for nearly...
Dundee University has reached an agreement with the University and College Union (UCU) in a long-running dispute over compulsory redundancies at the cash-strapped institution. The union has staged a series of strikes, the most recent for five weeks in September, against compulsory redundan...
Poultry and captive bird keepers across Wales will have to follow stricter biosecurity rules to reduce the risk of bird flu spreading from wild birds. It follows changes in England and Scotland, where housing orders were issued earlier this week. Wales is yet to record an outbreak of the h...
On Saturday, the biggest and longest-running international song contest will make a leap into unknown territory. Eurovision, the pan-European competition famed for zany gimmicks, slick, sometimes over-the-top staging, the drama of its complex voting system and, occasionally, for outstandin...
Labour lost its connection with previously loyal voters at May's Senedd election, the party's leader has said. Officials will publish on Saturday a review of Labour's historic election defeat in the May Senedd election. Speaking to BBC Wales, Ken Skates said it was "absolutely obvious" tha...
The Conservatives have agreed to pay an artist who threatened to sue the party after it used his illustration of Andy Burnham to mock the prime minister. Stanley Chow posted on Facebook that the party had used the picture - which Burnham has used on social media - without permission. He ha...
Cafodd corff Connor Parfitt ei ganfod ar y traeth ger Llanfarian, Ceredigion, y dydd Sul canlynol ar 26 Gorffennaf. Mi gafodd corff Simon Wilson ei ganfod yn arnofio ar ddŵr agos i'r lan yn Llwyngwril, Gwynedd, ddydd Mawrth 28 Gorffennaf - wythnos ers i'r ddau ddiflannu. Dangosodd archwili...
Grimes made his way towards Irvine while shouting and swearing at her, before striking her on the body with his arm, the judge said. Lord Mulholland added: "Your conduct towards her caused a latent aneurysm to rupture, with the bleed causing her death two days later. "You have left her son...
A man who ignored a 12-year-old girl's pleas to stop as he raped her has been jailed for nine years. Cameron Kelsey was 19 when he attacked the girl, who he had met online, at his then home in Wallsend, Newcastle Crown Court heard. The girl said she felt "disgusted" and it was only as...
A former Royal Marine found dead days after he was charged with national security offences feared the "humiliation" of a potential conviction, a friend has told an inquest. Matthew Trickett, 37, had appeared in court charged under the National Security Act and was found in a park in Maiden...
The scene was 145 years in the making. Dozens of people filled a tiny room inside the historic Masonic Lodge Hall in Jackson, Mississippi, on Wednesday, waiting to hear whether Scott Colom would become the state's next US Senator. The 70-year-old building is the permanent residence of the ...