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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.

A turkey butcher who killed her girlfriend and cut her in half before burying her in a garden has been found guilty of murder.

A drug dealer who rigged his house with booby-traps after being inspired by the Christmas classic Home Alone has been jailed for seven years.

US singer Chappell Roan has announced she is leaving her talent agency, after emails between its founder and Ghislaine Maxwell were featured in the Epstein files.

Donald Trump has threatened to block the long-awaited opening of a new $4.7bn (£3.4bn) bridge connecting the US and Canada.

Instagram and YouTube have been accused of "engineer[ing] addiction in children's brains", in the opening statements of a landmark social media trial taking place in LA.

An Irishman who has been detained by ICE for five months has described the facilities as "like a modern-day concentration camp".

Scotland's nature agency has suspended licences to control wild birds from a sporting estate and woodland amid allegations of wildlife crime - which includes the disappearance of a golden eagle feared shot and killed.

A man is being sought by police after a rape was reported on a university campus.

The Prince of Wales has been asked to raise the case of a Manchester man detained in Saudi Arabia during his first official trip to the country.