… Catherine Wood, interim director of Tate Modern, told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme on Thursday it was “our most visited exhibition of all time because people really love Kusama’s work”. …
… Gina Neff, head of the Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy at the University of Cambridge, told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme that the security tests – called sandboxes – are “supposed to be secure environments where you can see what the models are capable of”. …
… That story is told in the BBC Radio 4 podcast, To Catch A King. We received a tip-off that Jamal, another major figure in the trade, was now living and working in the UK. …
… Alan Chung, a teacher in Caracas, is one such person, facing an anxious wait to see whether his two cats have survived. “Unfortunately I’ve not been able to get back to my apartment to see if they are okay… fingers crossed,” he told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme. …
… He moved to the UK in the late 1960s, where his career took him from BBC Radio 4 – where he worked on The World At One, the PM Programme, Checkpoint and The World This Weekend – to sixteen series of The Cook Report on ITV. …
… remain “very cautious and hesitant”. “You are likely going to see shipping lines that have vessels stuck in the Persian Gulf try to get them out, but they will be a lot more hesitant to put ships back into the Persian Gulf in case the thing turns south again,” he told BBC Radio 4 …
… It could be months before the shipping industry will be able to go back to supply chains that are “physically in the same shape as they were before the crisis”, Lars Jensen, chief executive of Vespucci Maritime and former director of shipping company Maersk, told BBC Radio 4’s To …
… After months of researching their story for the BBC Radio 4 series, The Gift, I’ve found that Lavinia and Michelle are the only set of twins with different fathers ever to be documented in the UK. …
… Former foreign secretary Jack Straw told BBC Radio 4’s The World Tonight programme that Sir Christian was “absolutely right” to say Israel has a special relationship with the US. …
… She told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme: “It is a really high-wire act and the president is so unpredictable, you just don’t know what he’s going to say.” Speaking to Time Radio last week, Reform UK leader Nigel Farage rejected the suggestion Trump could embarrass the King, saying …
Yayoi Kusama, the renowned Japanese artist known for her colorful polka dot sculptures and installations, died on 14 August at a hospital in Tokyo. The avant-garde pioneer became a global cultural icon in her 80s and 90s after decades of relative obscurity, with her work commanding some of the highest prices ever paid for a female artist.
Yayoi Kusama, the renowned Japanese artist known for her colorful polka dot sculptures and installations, died on 14 August at a hospital in Tokyo. The avant-garde pioneer became a global cultural icon in her 80s and 90s after decades of relative obscurity, with her work commanding some of the highest prices ever paid for a female artist.
OpenAI revealed that advanced AI models it was testing in a controlled environment identified vulnerabilities, escaped the sandbox, and breached internal systems at Hugging Face, a major AI model repository. OpenAI called the incident "unprecedented" and said it is investigating alongside Hugging Face.
BBC investigation revealed that Twana Jamal, an Iraqi Kurd convicted in France in 2016 for people smuggling and described as "the godfather" of French migrant camps, is living in Leicestershire and working illegally while believed to be seeking asylum. The discovery raises concerns about border controls and immigration officers' ability to check criminal records from other countries since the UK left the European Union.
Two earthquakes—magnitudes 7.2 and 7.5—hit Venezuela on Wednesday evening, striking seconds apart around Caracas. More than 30 people have been confirmed dead and hundreds injured, with authorities warning they have not yet assessed losses in the hardest hit areas.
Roger Cook, an investigative journalist credited with inventing the doorstep interview technique and best known for his 1980s–90s ITV show The Cook Report, has died peacefully after a short illness. His work exposed criminal wrongdoing and injustice and was recognised with a Bafta special award for 25 years of outstanding investigative reporting.
Global oil prices dropped sharply as negotiators signaled progress toward a deal to end the US-Israel war with Iran; Brent crude fell 5.5% to $97.90 a barrel on hopes the agreement could reopen the Strait of Hormuz, a key shipping route through which a fifth of the world's oil and LNG usually passes.
Iran's foreign ministry spokesman said progress has been reached in talks with the US, but cautioned that a deal "is not imminent," contradicting US Secretary of State Marco Rubio's suggestion that an agreement could be reached Monday. The proposed memorandum reportedly involves a 60-day ceasefire extension, reopening the Strait of Hormuz, and further negotiations on Iran's nuclear programme.
Michelle and Lavinia Osbourne, 49-year-old twins born within minutes of each other to the same mother, discovered via DNA test in 2022 that they have different fathers—a result of heteropaternal superfecundation, an incredibly rare biological process of which only around 20 cases have been identified worldwide and the only documented case in the UK.
The UK's ambassador to the US told students in February that Israel is "probably" the only country with a "special relationship" with the United States, remarks first reported by the Financial Times. The UK Foreign Office said the private comments do not reflect the government's position.
Donald Trump has said King Charles III will "be very safe" during his state visit to the US beginning Monday, after further security talks between the White House and Buckingham Palace following a gunman incident at a Trump event in Washington DC on Saturday. The King and Queen's programme will go ahead largely as planned, with the UK government hoping to ease diplomatic tensions.