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BBC overhauls editorial committee after Trump speech row
The committee will take a "robust and transparent approach" to tackling editorial concerns, a report says.

The Full Nerd awards: Our favorite PC hardware of 2025
Arguing over the best hardware of the year is usually fun. That’s as true as ever in 2025, when Brad Chacos, Adam Patrick Murray, Will Smith, and Alaina Yee (hi, it’s me) rolled up our sleeves and got down to the messy business of naming our top hardware picks. This annual...

Auckland FC hand Western Sydney Wanderers their first home loss this season
Goals from Jesse Randall and Lachlan Brook fired Auckland to their sixth win in nine matches to start the 2025-26 A-League Men season.

Recap: Auckland FC 2-0 Western Sydney Wanderers
Look back at live coverage of the A-League Men round nine match.

Did Microsoft do anything right in 2025? Wins, fails, and WTF moments
Can you name one single, solitary, success Microsoft had in 2025? Think hard. It sure ain’t easy. In the years that PCWorld has catalogued Microsoft’s wins, failures, and head-scratching “WTF” moments, there’s always been a mix of high points and lows. I went through our list or stories, polled colleagues, even...

Beau Greaves - how far can darts' rising star go?
Rising darts star Beau Greaves begins her World Championship campaign against 22nd seed Daryl Gurney on Friday.

Man City links '100% speculation', says Maresca
Reports suggesting Enzo Maresca is the potential successor to Pep Guardiola at Manchester City are "100% speculation", the Chelsea boss says.

AI likely to displace jobs, says Bank of England governor
Andrew Bailey says workers need to be trained to move into jobs that use AI, but adds it might not lead to mass unemployment.

WH Smith probed by regulator over accounting error
The retailer says it plans to claw back bonuses awarded to executives at its North America business as a result of the mistakes.

The masterstroke that defined the Ashes series
The masterstroke in promoting Travis Head to open has defined the Ashes series for Australia with England unable to find a solution.

OpenAI turns ChatGPT into platform with app directory
OpenAI is turning ChatGPT into a software platform, opening a built-in app directory where users can discover and install third-party tools.

This Windows utility fixes errors on my hard drive
If your hard drive on your PC is experiencing a lot of errors, one of the solutions is to do a search for bad sectors and try to fix them. To do that you can use a built-in Windows utility called Windows Check Disk or chkdsk. Here’s how to use...

Your USB-C cables aren’t broken. This $14 tester shows what’s really going on
I have a drawer full of USB cables and every time I want to connect a device, I have to try them out. USB-C was supposed to simplify things: One cable for everything, that was the promise. In practice, it’s a different story: There are cables that can only charge....

Lots more to achieve after incredible year - McIlroy
Newly crowned Sports Personality of the Year winner Rory McIlroy says he has "a lot more I want to achieve" after an "incredible" 2025.

Head century drives England closer to Ashes defeat
England are pushed towards the precipice of the fastest Ashes series defeat in more than 100 years as a Travis Head century maintains Australia's grip on the third Test in Adelaide.

Buttons bought in £40 job lot sell for £61,000
They were made by sculptor Alberto Giacometti for fashion designer Elsa Schiaparelli in the 1930s.

Mum 'baffled' smacking was legal as data shows no convictions since Welsh ban
A Welsh government review shows out-of-court education is preferred to prosecuting parents.

US suspends green card lottery scheme after Brown shooting
The suspect in the university shooting and the murder of an MIT professor entered the US via the scheme.