Culture

Nigella Lawson to replace Prue Leith as head judge on The Great British Baking Show

Channel 4 has named Nigella Lawson as the new head judge of The Great British Baking Show, taking over from Dame Prue Leith and joining Paul Hollywood for the series’ upcoming 17th season. Lawson, 66, said she was “bubbling with excitement,” while Leith, 86, praised her as “sassy, fun and

Sports

Sonia Bompastor extends Chelsea contract until 2030

Chelsea Women have confirmed manager Sonia Bompastor has signed a new contract that runs until 2030. The 45-year-old led the Blues to a domestic treble in her first season, but the new deal comes with the club 12 points behind Women's Super League leaders Manchester City after Sunday&

Science

Boreal forests shifted north and expanded over four decades

The boreal forest, the world’s largest terrestrial biome, is warming faster than any other forest type. Feng et al., 2026 analyzed the biome from 1985 to 2020 using the longest, highest-resolution satellite record of calibrated tree cover and confirmed a northward shift in forest cover over the past four

Politics

DOJ says it removed over 9,500 Epstein files

The Justice Department told judges in the Southern District of New York that it has temporarily removed roughly 9,500 documents from its public Epstein file release because the records included information that identified victims. The letter, filed in the criminal cases against Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, was signed

AI

Ai.Com, Founded by Kris Marszalek, Announces Upcoming AI Agents

AI platform ai.com, founded by Crypto.com co-founder and CEO Kris Marszalek, said it will launch an autonomous AI agent for retail consumers. The agentic AI can execute functions including trading stocks, workflow automation and simple tasks like calendar updates and managing changes to online social profiles. User data

Culture

Matilda De Angelis at the Milan Cortina Opening Ceremony

Matilda De Angelis presided as the composer for "Armonia" — Italian for harmony — a piece inspired by the work of the famed architect and Neoclassical sculptor Antonio Canova. Seventy performers from the Accademia del Teatro alla Scala turned San Siro Stadium into a living museum, transforming from statues to

Culture

Timothy Busfield Indicted on Child Sexual Abuse Charges

Court records released Friday show prosecutors in New Mexico secured an indictment of Timothy Busfield on four counts of criminal sexual contact of a minor. The charges arise from allegations that the 68-year-old actor and director made sexual contact with a child actor he directed on the Fox series The

Culture

Mariah Carey wears $15M of diamonds at Winter Olympics opening ceremony

Mariah Carey performed at the Winter Olympics 2026 opening ceremony at Milan’s San Siro Stadium, singing the Italian classic “Volare” and her song “Nothing Is Impossible.” She wore a custom winter white gown and feather cape by Roberto Cavalli’s Fausto Puglisi. She appeared in 306 carats of Levuma

Tech

Ransomware with coding mistake irreversibly corrupts ESXi files

Ransomware typically locks down a device and the only possible way to regain access is by paying hackers. Nitrogen's ESXi ransomware, spotted by Coveware, contains a coding mistake that causes it to encrypt all files with the wrong public key, irrevocably corrupting them — so the files cannot be

Science

Studying Antarctica’s Ice From the Side of a Helicopter

Scientists aboard the icebreaker Araon could not drop instruments through a half-mile-deep hole in the Thwaites Glacier to inspect the warming waters beneath. Instead, researchers lowered equipment from helicopters into the narrow rifts between giant blocks of floating ice. Warm ocean water pours into a deep undersea trough under Thwaites,

Culture

Best new Xbox Game Pass games to play this weekend (Feb. 6-8)

Big sports weekend ahead: the 2026 Winter Olympics kicks off Friday in Italy, and hundreds of millions will tune in Sunday for Seahawks versus Patriots in Super Bowl LX. Plenty of gamers, though, will skip the broadcasts and spend the weekend playing instead — especially while it’s still too frigid

Health

TrumpRx: What to Know About Insurance Benefits, Pricing and Savings

The new government website TrumpRx.gov offers Americans another way to find prescription prices, but it does not sell drugs directly. The site lists 43 medications with prices ranging from $3 to more than $5,500 and links users to drugmakers or pharmacies to complete purchases. Each product page notes

Culture

Lil Jon's son Nathan Smith believed dead after body found in Georgia pond

Lil Jon's missing son, Nathan Smith, is believed to be dead after a body was found in a Georgia pond. The Milton Police Department said divers with the Cherokee County Fire Department located and recovered a body from a pond in Mayfield Park near Smith’s Milton residence.

World

Calls to postpone presidential election as Storm Leonardo lashes Portugal and Spain

Heavy rains and strong winds from Storm Leonardo have battered parts of Spain and Portugal, killing at least two people, forcing the evacuation of more than 7,000 residents and prompting calls to postpone the second round of Portugal’s presidential election. The Portuguese government extended a state of calamity

Tech

EU finds TikTok has 'addictive design' and could face hefty fines

The European Commission has set out preliminary findings from its investigation into TikTok, concluding the app breaches the Digital Services Act (DCA) through an 'addictive design.' The report singles out features such as infinite scroll, autoplay, push notifications and a highly personalised recommender system. The Commission says TikTok

Culture

Jetpack Cat's kit in Overwatch is already causing mayhem

Jetpack Cat debuts when Overwatch’s revamped season launches on Feb. 10, but she’s already proving a menace. A handful of streamers who played the upcoming characters at Blizzard’s Irvine campus said she turned matches on their heads and pushed teams to rethink compositions. Most of the chaos

Tech

Blizzard says Overwatch rebrand isn't an admission of failure

Blizzard has dropped the "2" from Overwatch, reverting Overwatch 2 back to Overwatch, but says the change is not an admission that the sequel attempt failed. The rebrand ushers in a "new story-driven era" and begins with a year-long narrative called The Reign of Talon, made

Tech

SHOKZ OpenRun Bone Conduction Headphones on Clearance for $90

The SHOKZ OpenRun delivers open‑ear wireless sound so you can listen to music, podcasts, and take calls while staying aware of your surroundings. Rather than sealing the ear canal, the transducers sit just in front of the ears on a flexible wraparound frame. Vibrations travel through the cheekbone to

Sports

Leeds v Nottingham Forest: Premier League – live

Twenty minutes until kick-off. It could well be a tale of two goalkeepers tonight: Dyche has never seemed a great fan of Matz Sels so he’s drafted in Stefan Ortega instead (although Sels is injured for tonight anyway). Leeds too have gone back to experience, in Karl Darlow – a

AI

AI job listings hit record as broader hiring slows

Even as the broader US job market cools, AI keeps punching above its weight. Indeed data shows overall job postings ended 2025 just 6% above pre-pandemic levels, while postings that mention AI have climbed more than 130% since early 2020. More than one in 25 job listings now reference AI,

Sports

Opening Ceremony Kicks Off Milan-Cortina Winter Games

The Winter Games of Milan-Cortina d’Ampezzo formally kicked off with opening ceremonies at San Siro stadium in Milan, where Mariah Carey opened with “Nel Blu Dipinto di Blu” (“Volare”) and also sang her 2025 track “Nothing is Impossible,” dressed in a white-and-silver gown by Fausto Puglisi. Athletes entered behind

Culture

Bad Bunny to Headline 2026 Super Bowl Halftime Show

Bad Bunny will take the stage on Super Bowl Sunday for the Super Bowl LX Halftime Show, performing before what is expected to be the largest live TV audience of his career. The game between the Seattle Seahawks and the New England Patriots will pause at the end of the

Business

Nordstrom End of Season Sale: Save up to 60% on designer brands

Nordstrom's End of Season Sale is live now, with designer labels and bestselling brands marked up to 60% off. Some discounts only appear once you add items to your cart. Clothing markdowns span Dôen frocks, Free People sweaters, Good American bootcut jeans, Nordstrom classic cotton pajamas, Spanx sweatshirts,

Business

Levi’s sales grow in UK as celebrities drive denim revival

The UK was one of Levi’s fastest-growing markets last year, helped by high-profile sightings of the brand on figures from Harry Styles to Noel Gallagher and Grime Gran. Lucia Marcuzzo, managing director of Levi’s European operations, said a revival of 1990s trends had boosted demand for the classic

Science

Sodium-ion battery breakthrough could make external chargers safe on flights

Lithium-ion batteries are so ubiquitous that you're probably reading these words on a device that has one installed right now. They charge fast and can hold a lot of juice for your laptop or phone, but they rely on lithium, which must be mined, and they can explode—