Jay Clayton has been confirmed as the next US director of national intelligence (DNI), after President Donald Trump's original choice was rejected by lawmakers.

On Tuesday, the US Senate voted 51 to 47 to install Clayton, replacing the acting DNI Bill Pulte. Pulte was Trump's original pick but faced backlash for being a housing official with no national intelligence experience.

Clayton had been serving as US attorney for the Southern District of New York, overseeing several prominent cases including the drug trafficking case against former

But internet slang is different. Unlike a Bollywood catchphrase or a cricketing cliché, it isn't coined by scriptwriters or sporting heroes. It emerges from millions of online users, evolving collectively, mutating at breakneck speed and often disappearing as quickly as it appears.

That, says digital anthropologist Payal Arora, is what makes its journey into parliament significant.

"Language is often the first thing politics borrows when it is trying to connect with a new constituency," she says.

But borrowing a generation's vocabulary,

Korean pop group BTS have announced they will not submit their music for consideration at the 2027 Grammy Awards.

The news came in a co-ordinated Instagram post, with all seven members of the band uploading an identical statement.

"We have decided not to enter the Grammys this year," a translation of the message read. "I hope that music can be heard and loved for what it is, rather than being divided by region or language."

The band were widely expected to be in competition

Business was winding down for the day at Sendan Shokudo, a diner in Japan's southwestern city of Yatsushiro, when the whole building suddenly lurched.

Everything on the kitchen shelves cascaded to the floor; bowls and glasses shattered.

The restaurant's co-owner, 75-year-old Hiroko Ogata, had just walked in.

"I was surprised, and scared," she told BBC News. "I went under one of the tables right away, but the table moved sharply towards the right,

Thousands of people who have poured into the city of el-Obeid hoping to find shelter from Sudan's raging civil war have found themselves under threat again, amid warnings that paramilitary fighters are preparing to descend on the army-controlled city.

Clashes between the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and the military has escalated in the North Kordofan region - a critical target for both sides in the conflict which could open a gateway into contested territory.

Displaced people have flocked to el-Obeid, which remains heavily defended by

In Khirbet Abu Falah, right next door to al-Mughayyir, Brahim Hamayel, an olive farmer I met during a previous settler attack a year ago , told me four new outposts had appeared nearby since then - two of them just in the previous month.

He pointed out one of them on a nearby hill - built, he said, on private Palestinian land, in an area that is supposed to be run by the Palestinian Authority.

And the attacks had increased too, he said, sometimes targeting the village itself

Warning: Contains graphic details of alleged sexual offences and misconduct, as well as strong language

Four women have accused Oscar-winning actor and Thirty Seconds to Mars frontman Jared Leto of criminal sexual conduct, with the alleged offences having taken place when they were teenagers.

One of the women says she was sexually assaulted in a motel bathroom when she was 17. Another says the Hollywood star threatened her with sexual assault when she was 19, and had been unexpectedly left alone with him in a hotel room.

A third