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NewsFeedUS President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin greeted each other today at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage, Alaska — their first in-person encounter since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.Published On 15 Aug 202515 Aug 2025

Grand Slam Track will not take place in 2026 unless athletes receive their prize money for this year, says founder Michael Johnson.Johnson said they had been “unable to meet” their timelines for payments after failing to receive funding “committed” to them, but remains “confident” about the “long-term sustainability” of the competition.”We promised that athletes would be fairly and quickly compensated. Yet, here we are struggling with our ability to compensate them,” Johnson said in a statement on Friday.The final event in the inaugural GST season was cancelled in June because of economic concerns.Four-time Olympic champion Johnson said they are “putting…

The heads of the UK’s national institute for artificial intelligence (AI) have acknowledged recent months have been “challenging” for staff as the charity undergoes “substantial” change.It comes after staff raised “serious and escalating concerns” in a whistleblowing complaint this week submitted to the Charity Commission.They warned that the body – which receives £100m from the government – is at risk of collapse after Technology Secretary Peter Kyle instructed it to prioritise defence, and threatened to pull its funding if it did not.In a letter seen by the BBC, Chair Dr Doug Gurr said the Turing Institute would “step up at…

A judge has dismissed domestic terrorism charges against a defendant in connection with vandalism against construction equipment at the future site of the police training center near Atlanta, Georgia, colloquially known as Cop City, in what is seen as a win for protesters.DeKalb superior court judge Gregory Adams ruled on Thursday that defendant Jamie Marsicano’s due process and constitutional rights to a speedy trial were violated by the state’s ongoing delays and failing to issue an indictment two and a half years after arresting them at a nearby music festival.“The judge acknowledged that the state was delaying on purpose, which…

My friend Anne Merriman, who has died aged 90, was a pioneering doctor and founder of the Hospice Africa charity, which aims to offer “palliative care for all those in need” across the continent.While working in Singapore in the 1980s, Anne devised an affordable morphine-based painkiller, and took it to Africa in the 90s. In 1993 in Kampala, Uganda, she founded Hospice Africa, establishing a hospice model that could be adapted for other countries. By 2023, Hospice Africa had cared for more than 37,000 patients in Uganda, and today it helps provide home-based palliative care in more than 35 countries…

Olympic gold medalist Sophie Capewell talks about how periods impact female cyclists and athletes.

Back in 2005, nothing felt more high-powered and sophisticated than ending a call by snapping shut a clamshell flip phone.Now, two decades since they hit peak popularity, they’re back – with Apple rumoured to be working on its first ever flip phone.Little is known about how it will look. It could resemble Samsung’s Flip design – closer to a 2000s-style clamshell phone – or its Fold, more like a foldable iPad.A JPMorgan report has suggested that the first foldable iPhone will be revealed in September 2026, priced at $1,999 (£1,474), and will likely expand a foldable phone market expected to…

Joel GunterReporting from KyivEPAFive thousand miles from Alaska, and feeling left out, Ukrainians were bracing themselves on Friday for the outcome of negotiations to which they were not invited.The talks, between US President Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, will begin later in the day with no seat for the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky.Trump signalled earlier this week that “land swaps” could be on the table – largely interpreted to mean the surrender of Ukrainian land to Russia.In Ukraine, where polls consistently show that about 95% of the population distrusts Putin, there is a uneasy mix of deep…

Getting Tom Cruise on stage with Donald Trump is a real mission impossible. The Hollywood action icon reportedly shot down an invitation from the president to be among the 2025 Kennedy Center honorees. According to The Washington Post, the Top Gun: Maverick star declined the opportunity due to “scheduling conflicts.” Instead, Trump unveiled a list of 48th Kennedy Center Honors recipients on Wednesday that included the glam metal band Kiss, Broadway star Michael Crawford, country music legend George Strait, singer Gloria Gaynor and, in the film actor category, Sylvester Stallone (who was also on Trump’s list of “special ambassadors” to…

Footage shows Israeli police in Haifa arresting protesters who were condemning the killings of journalists in Gaza.