People flee as building collapses on Caracas outskirts

Back-to-back earthquakes have hit Venezuela, leaving at least 160 people dead, the country's acting President Delcy Rodríguez has said.

The capital Caracas and its surrounding areas have seen some of the worst damage.

In the area of El Junquito, on the outskirts of Caracas, a content creator has captured the aftermath of a building collapsing.

Read more here.


Ryanair 'reluctantly' agrees to let parents sit with children for free

Under the old policy, Ryanair said adults travelling with children paid one reserved seat fee, and could select seats beside them for up to four children for free.

This typically led to a fee of £8 each way, the CMA said when it launched its investigation earlier this month.

It said at the time it was looking at whether the airline's "approach to seat reservations may mean parents are being charged for the airline to meet its child safety and disability‑related obligations as set out under aviation rules –


IBM hails new 'block of flats' design breakthrough for ultra tiny chips

IBM has unveiled a new chip design which it says could enable manufacturers to cram 100 billion transistors on a silicon chip the size of a fingernail.

The current industry-standard size for chips, measured in a the unit of nanometres - a billionth of a metre and the size of a few atoms - is around two nanometres (nm).

But IBM claims its new chip tech is the equivalent of around 0.7nm, which may make it the world's first known chip technology below 1nm


Find out which university degrees could earn you most across your lifetime

Minister for Skills Jacqui Smith said it was important that prospective undergrads "choose carefully".

"Don't walk into a degree by default," she says.

"Going to university and getting a degree is one of the most transformational things a young person can do. But it is not a universal guarantee of success and not all degrees are equal.

"As well as the variation by subject, too many franchised and poor-quality courses do not offer a good deal to young people, selling the dream then


Police seal off key roads in Nairobi as Kenya braces for Gen Z protests

The planned protests, largely mobilised through social media platforms, are expected to take place in major towns including Nairobi, Mombasa and parts of central Kenya.

Security agencies have heightened surveillance in major urban centres ahead of the protests, with police expected to maintain a heavy presence in Nairobi and strategic installations.

Footage from a local TV station shows flames and smoke rising in the Githurai area near Nairobi, as protesters lit fires during clashes with police.

Police officers were also seen firing tear gas to disperse crowds gathered in the area.


Oil price falls to levels not seen since before Iran war

The price of oil has fallen to levels not seen since before the Iran war as traffic through the key Strait of Hormuz shipping route gradually resumes.

Global benchmark Brent crude briefly fell below $72.48 (£55) a barrel, the price it was at the day before the US and Israel launched attacks on Iran on 28 February, before edging up to $72.63.

Energy prices have been on a wild ride since Iran responded to the strikes by effectively closing the strait


Anthropic accuses Chinese rival Alibaba of illicitly extracting AI capabilities

US artificial intelligence (AI) giant Anthropic has accused Chinese e-commerce and technology firm Alibaba of "brazenly" and "illicitly" extracting its Claude AI model's capabilities.

In a letter sent to two members of the US Congress, the San Francisco-based company said operators linked to Alibaba carried out almost 29 million exchanges with Claude using thousands of fraudulent accounts in what it called the largest extraction campaign of its kind.

Anthropic urged Congress to penalise the companies behind attacks like this and to ramp up measures


Independent MPs launch new Australian centrist party

Two independent Australian MPs have banded together to launch a new centrist political party which they say is a response to an increasingly divisive landscape.

The Community Strong Australia party - launched in Canberra on Thursday - will offer "unity over division and reason over rage", will have no leader and will allow members to vote freely, rather than along party lines.

Its two members - Sydney MPs Zali Steggall and Allegra Spender - are from a group of independent MPs known as "teals" who share socially liberal values and want greater


The ICE raids are over, but some Minnesotans say they still live in fear

The Trump administration has said Metro Surge was a success and was necessary to get "vicious criminals, including murderers, rapists, gang members, and terrorists" out of the country.

By mid-February, a thousand federal agents had left the state and hundreds more followed, with only a "small force" remaining "for a short period".

While ICE's presence in the city has diminished, agents are still around. In a March lawsuit, the federal government said there were still 482 agents


This Indian state is trying to ensure no one grows old alone

"My patients ask me - if they become dependent, who will take care of them?" says Dr Prasun Chatterjee, who leads the geriatrics unit at Apollo Hospital in Delhi.

Others worry about something more immediate - who would take them to hospital if they fell ill in the middle of the night.

Many of his patients live alone after losing a spouse or seeing their children move away.

Dr Chatterjee also points to a wider gap in India's healthcare system: too few geriatric specialists, with many older people