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Schoolteacher Mary Ludwig gets goose bumps when she remembers the first time she met bus driver Kevin McKay. “I said, ‘Who the heck are you?’” she says via Zoom. “’Cause I knew all the bus drivers from field trips. He’s like, ‘I’m Kevin McKay.’ I said, ‘You’d better be good!’”The pair were setting off on a terrifying, five-hour journey with nearly two dozen elementary school students as the Camp fire engulfed Paradise, California, in 2018. It was the start of a beautiful friendship. “That day I met a stranger and put my complete trust in that stranger and today we’re…

Michelle RobertsDigital health editorGetty ImagesMore than 100 million people, including at least 15 million children, use e-cigarettes, fuelling a new wave of nicotine addiction, the World Health Organization (WHO) is warning. Children are, on average, nine times more likely than adults to vape, it says, based on available global figures. The WHO’s Dr Etienne Krug said e-cigarettes were fuelling a “new wave” of nicotine addiction. “They are marketed as harm reduction but, in reality, are hooking kids on nicotine earlier and risk undermining decades of progress.”WHO Director General, Dr Tedros, accused the tobacco industry of “aggressively targeting” young people. Teens…

Zoe KleinmanTechnology editorBBCThe building blocks for a biocomputer growing in a labIt may have its roots in science fiction, but a small number of researchers are making real progress trying to create computers out of living cells.Welcome to the weird world of biocomputing.Among those leading the way are a group of scientists in Switzerland, who I went to meet. One day, they hope we could see data centres full of “living” servers which replicate aspects of how artificial intelligence (AI) learns – and could use a fraction of the energy of current methods.That is the vision of Dr Fred Jordan,…

Senate estimates week in federal parliament is a rare chance for an opposition to subject a government to sustained scrutiny.Indeed there is much for the opposition to scrutinise over the upcoming three days of hearings, including the government’s oversight of the triple-zero system, handling of aged care reforms and the circumstances surrounding the return of six Australians from a Syrian detention camp.But as Coalition MPs and senators returned to Canberra ahead of parliament’s resumption on Tuesday, there was widespread resignation and frustration that the spotlight and scrutiny would instead be firmly on them.Again.The spotlight, and the lenses of the press…

Welcome to Great Adaptations, the Book Review’s regular multiple-choice quiz about printed works that have gone on to find new life as movies, television shows, theatrical productions and more. With Halloween on the horizon, this week’s challenge highlights popular horror novels that were adapted for the screen. Just tap or click your answers to the five questions below. And scroll down after you finish the last question for links to the books and some of their filmed versions.

Ten people deported by the US have arrived in Eswatini, its government said, the second group of third-country deportees to be sent to the southern African kingdom by the Trump administration in what lawyers and NGOs have described as violations of their human rights.A statement by the Eswatini government posted on social media before their arrival on Monday said: “The individuals will be kept in a secured area separate from the public, while arrangements are made for their return to their countries of origin.”It added that it would work with the International Organization for Migration on the returns. The statement…

Bill BarnwellOct 6, 2025, 08:45 AM ETCloseBill Barnwell is a senior NFL writer for ESPN.com. He analyzes football on and off the field like no one else on the planet, writing about in-season X’s and O’s, offseason transactions and so much more.He is the host of the Bill Barnwell Show podcast, with episodes released weekly. Barnwell joined ESPN in 2011 as a staff writer at Grantland.I don’t know how they lost that game. Watching the 49ers celebrate after stopping the Rams on a game-deciding fourth-and-1 run Thursday night, I simply couldn’t form an explanation for how the Rams had managed…

If you accept the received wisdom that the Game awards are the Oscars of the interactive industry, then you could say the Independent Games Festival is its Cannes, and the Seumas McNally Grand prize its Palme d’Or. So you’d assume the release of this year’s winner would be widely and loudly trumpeted. Not so. Consume Me’s apparently underwhelming early sales and surprising lack of reviews speak more to ongoing issues of discoverability (and busy critics struggling with an autumn glut) than the game itself, which is an absolute delight.Admittedly, it’s easy to make it sound like something you should play…

Asahi has partially restarted production at all six of its breweries in Japan after it was forced to close them due to a cyber-attack.Several major shops in Japan including 7-Eleven and FamilyMart had warned last week that they were running low on stocks of the beer after the hack affected Asahi Group’s ordering and delivery systems in the country.Asahi is the biggest brewer in Japan, but it also makes soft drinks and food products, as well as supplying own-brand goods to other retailers.The partially restarted breweries produce best-seller Asahi Super Dry, but the firm is also restarting plants that produce…

As film, TV and creator-led content continues to ramp up in the New York metro area, the Manhattan-based MCM Studios is merging with Looking4Larry, the creative studio founded by Mitchell Stuart and WWE hall of fame manager and creative Paul Heyman. In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Heyman says the deal creates a production and creative firm that will be “end-to-end one-stop shopping” for film and TV studios, advertisers or independent content creators. Their first order of business post-merger? Building “the biggest LED volume wall in all of New York,” Heyman says. “That’s the type of step that is…