County Championship: Somerset title hopes dented with defeat at Yorkshire

Rothesay County Championship, Division One, Headingley (day four)

Yorkshire 212 & 275: Hill 89, Bess 77; Overton 3-44

Somerset 201: Cliff 8-76 & 101: Lammonby 32; Coad 4-33

Yorkshire (19 pts) beat Somerset (3 pts) by 185 runs

Sway: Award-winning British rapper dies aged 44

Sway was born Derek Andrew Safo in London, albeit accidentally, while his mother was on a stop-over between Amsterdam and her native Ghana.

After a brief period in her homeland, he was raised in north London and honed his craft on pirate radio. He credited the BBC's radio station 1Xtra with providing him with his first break in 2002.

Philippines: Three dead and eight injured in shooting at Banga high school

A 16-year-old gunman has shot two students dead and injured eight others at a Philippine high school, before killing himself.

The two deceased victims were 14-year-old pupils at a school in Banga in the southern province of Mindanao, the local mayor told the BBC.

‘Clear retribution’: dismay as key Alzheimer’s study cancelled amid Trump attacks on science

Roderick Blair was surprised when scientific researchers appeared on his doorstep in the Homewood neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Here, on a recent summer day, police cars, an ambulance and a TV reporter crowded into a driveway on the edge of the neighborhood. A helicopter swung overhead. Saplings peeked over rooflines from gutters, windows were broken, screens tattered, doors boarded up and rippling sidewalks crumbled. Bedraggled chain link fences held back the season’s tall grass.

Disabled people in UK need right to travel abroad, say MPs, after ‘ridiculous’ restrictions

Disabled people must have a guaranteed right to travel abroad, MPs and peers have said, as further cases emerged of individuals barred from taking holidays as a result of “ridiculous” rules imposed by local NHS care boards and local councils.

US wheat farmers navigate uncertainty amid drought and geopolitical chaos

Wheat prices are at their highest level in three years, which means farmer Merrill Nielsen should be getting more for his crops out of his 2,500-acre (1,010-hectare) Kansas farm.

Yet even as future prices for bread-type wheat are up 39%, Nielsen is unsure whether increased prices will raise his bottom line. The price of diesel fuel, which he needs to run his tractor, has hit record highs. Then there’s the erratic weather that made him lose his entire wheat crop in the spring, and drought has overtaken the southern Great Plains.

Drivers ignoring roadwork closures to skip queues ‘wilfully putting lives at risk’

Drivers ignoring roadwork closures to skip queues are putting lives at risk, National Highways has warned, after recording hundreds of incidents this year where cars were deliberately driven through cones or barriers.

AI safety debate meets reality at Dreamforce as business leaders say last year's models are enough

Dario Amodei, Anthropic Co-Founder and CEO, and Marc Benioff, Salesforce CEO and Co-Founder, attend Dreamforce 2026 summit in San Francisco, California, U.S., Sept.15, 2026.

Carlos Barria | Reuters

At Salesforce's annual Dreamforce mega-conference in San Francisco this week, the keynote conversations between CEO Marc Benioff and the heads of Anthropic, OpenAI and Nvidia delved into the raging AI safety debate, with the execs opining on whether model development is moving too fast.

How Fatih Akin Breathed Life Into San Sebastian’s Haunting Opener ‘Ghost Song’

Fatih Akin is no stranger to the festival circuit, having wowed Berlin with his Golden Bear-winning Head-On in 2004 and nabbing best screenplay in Cannes for The Edge of Heaven in 2007.

GTA 6 Will Get Multiplayer Soon After Release, According to Twitch CEO

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A perhaps unintended revelation teases that GTA 6 will get multiplayer soon after release

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