"New facts meant the need for a new response" - that is how one palace source described this latest statement and why it was issued now.

When leading AI company Anthropic launched its latest AI model, Claude Opus 4.6, at the end of last week, it broke many measures of intelligence and effectiveness - including one crucial benchmark: the vending machine test.

Wes Streeting says he has "nothing to hide" over his relationship with Lord Mandelson and has shared his private texts with the disgraced Labour peer to back up his case.

US skier Lindsey Vonn says she has "no regrets" despite confirming she needs "multiple surgeries" after suffering a leg fracture in a crash at the Winter Olympics. 

Hundreds of homes have been flooded and more are at risk as record levels of rain continues across UK.

A member of a US congressional committee investigating the Epstein affair has said: "Maybe this will be the end of the monarchy."

With a prime minister under extreme fire and unable to command a majority in the Commons on matters of personal authority, is politics too self-absorbed to fix a problem as broken as the system for special educational needs provision?

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A gold pendant linked to Henry VIII and his first wife, Catherine of Aragon, has been acquired by the British Museum following a successful fundraising campaign.

Home Alone actress Catherine O'Hara died of a pulmonary embolism, with cancer the underlying cause, according to a death certificate.