As China drafts its 15th five-year plan – the next entry in a line of expansive blueprints that have set the tone for the country’s development over more than seven decades – we examine how these documents inform and reflect high-level policy priorities, and what to expect in the coming iteration, such as how it…
World Bank Group President Ajay Banga met Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif in New York, where the premier hailed the Bank’s long-standing support to Pakistan, particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic and the devastating 2022 floods. PM Shehbaz briefed Banga on the government’s comprehensive reform agenda covering resource mobilisation, energy-sector reforms, privatisation and measures to build resilience…
James GallagherHealth and science correspondent BBC/Fergus Walsh Professors Ed Wild and Sarah Tabrizi led the UK part of the trial One of the cruellest and most devastating diseases – Huntington’s – has been successfully treated for the first time, say doctors. The disease runs through families, relentlessly kills brain cells and resembles a combination of…
Kevin PeltonSep 23, 2025, 07:15 AM ET Close Co-author, Pro Basketball Prospectus series Formerly a consultant with the Indiana Pacers Developed WARP rating and SCHOENE system This year’s NBA Rank features massive turnover from 12 months ago. A full 25 of our top 100 players weren’t ranked a year ago, the biggest turnover from one…
Eve Myles (Hijack, Cold Water, Keeping Faith) will return for season 2 of the original drama series The Crow Girl, based on the bestselling novels by Erik Axl Sund, the pen name of Swedish author duo Jerker Eriksson and Håkan Axlander Sundquist, Paramount+ U.K. & Ireland said on Wednesday. Produced by Buccaneer Media (In Flight,…
US President Donald Trump held meetings with leaders of Muslim-majority nations, including Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York on Tuesday to discuss the escalating Gaza crisis. Key issues raised included the release of hostages, ending hostilities, and plans for Israel’s eventual withdrawal from Gaza. Trump…
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva used the UN rostrum on Tuesday to excoriate Washington over tariffs and military actions, promote closer ties with China, and call for reform of global institutions – only to be met moments later by an unexpected olive branch from US President Donald Trump, who proposed meeting him next…
Watch: I didn’t intend to ‘make light’ of Charlie Kirk’s murder, says Jimmy Kimmel Jimmy Kimmel has criticised “anti-American” threats to free speech during an emotional return to late-night US television – following a brief suspension after his comments about the killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. Through tears, the comedian said during Tuesday’s comeback…
Zoe KleinmanTechnology editor and Tom GerkenTechnology reporter Emma Lynch/BBC Lilly Sabri has nearly six and half million followers on YouTube, where she posts fitness videos YouTube content creators contributed £2.2bn to the UK economy in 2024 and supported 45,000 jobs, according to an impact report carried out by Oxford Economics. It comes as an all-party…
Kerry Wan/ZDNET Follow ZDNET:Add us as a preferred sourceon Google. Apple announced big changes to the iPhone’s operating system as part of iOS 26 during WWDC 2025in June — and it’s now widely available for iPhone users. After debuting a highly anticipated iPhone 17 lineup earlier this month, including the thinnest iPhone ever with the…
