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Summary: Trump and Xi’s remarks before bilateral talksHere is brief recap of the remarks made by Donald Trump and Xi Jinping just now on the Chinese president’s landmark state visit to Washington.Trump touted their “truly great friendship” and that they had made “tremendous strides on the issues facing our countries” as he welcomed Xi to the White House. He kept his remarks vague and focused on their personal relationship, of which he said he is “very proud”. Trump said the two leaders would focus on security, technology and artificial intelligence at their summit today, and are working towards “a more…

Ukrainian refugees fear they could be left homeless after the government quietly axed 70% of funding for hosts of the Homes for Ukraine scheme, reducing monthly “thank you” payments to them from £350 to £100.The scheme was launched after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 and has provided support for 181,000 of the 234,000 Ukrainians who have since sought sanctuary in the UK.Now the government has said it will cut the hosting payments and reduce contributions to local authorities which are paid a sum for each arrival to meet costs associated with the delivery of the programme.A written statement…

Available for 35 daysIn October members of the General Conference on Weights and Measurements are voting to change how we keep time on Earth accurate. Currently an additional second, known as a Leap Second, can be added to make sure modern atomic clocks stay in sync with solar time. However, all of this might be about to change as the rotation of the Earth speeds up and interferes with our measurements. Tom takes a trip to meet Principal Scientist Setnam Shemar at the National Physics Laboratory to learn how our time lords keep us all on schedule. Plus, Associate Professor…

Australia has said this incident is the first of its kind, and experts agree it might be.As far as we know, hacks carried out by AI agents are still quite rare occurrences – but then again, it is largely up to companies themselves to disclose them.Hacks like this have happened before. In July, OpenAI agents went rogue during a test and infiltrated tech start-up Hugging Face’s internal systems.The AI agents decided that ignoring the limits on what should be done to achieve their goal was the best course of action. This is what the industry calls “misalignment” – broadly defined…

The Football Supporters’ Association has for some time backed changing the law.Like the prime minister, it considers it to be unfair on football fans.”I think it is outdated,” FSA chairman Tom Greatrex told the BBC Radio 4 Today programme.”If you go to watch football in Germany or in other places around the world, then it’s perfectly acceptable.”It is civilised and appropriate. There’s no reason why that shouldn’t be the case for football fans, as it is for fans of rugby league, watching Oasis, or anything else that happens often in the same stadiums in the same seats.”The FSA’s position is…

New research suggests that the characteristics of children and teenagers receiving attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) or autism spectrum disorder (ASD) diagnoses have shifted over the past decade. The study, led by the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), a centre supported by the “la Caixa” Foundation, and Aarhus University, found that young people diagnosed with ADHD or ASD in Denmark now more closely resemble the broader population than those who received the same diagnoses 10 years earlier. The findings suggest that the increase in ADHD and ASD diagnoses may partly reflect changes in who is being identified and diagnosed, alongside…

Whether Zuckerberg will emerge vindicated in the long term in his AI strategy—for both his Muse assistant and AI wearables—will depend on whether the new features can withstand potential privacy and security issues as its user base grows. The Meta chief has bet that smart glasses and other portable devices will become one of the main ways consumers interact with AI, despite critics dubbing its camera-toting Ray-Bans “pervert glasses” after intrusive videos hit Instagram and TikTok. Sold in partnership with eyewear group EssilorLuxottica, the glasses have inbuilt speakers, microphones and cameras that can be used to take photos, listen to…

There is no “switch” to stop small boat crossings, and not every migrant boat can be intercepted, Labour’s deputy leader has told the BBC.Lucy Powell’s comments came after two uncontrolled landings from the Channel in two days, at Folkestone and Samphire Hoe in Kent.The Home Secretary, Shabana Mahmood, has ordered an urgent review by Border Security Command, calling the failure to intercept the two boats “not acceptable”.But the Conservatives say Labour has lost control of Britain’s borders, and a “radically different” approach is needed.A total of 781 people were recorded as arriving in 10 boats on Wednesday, the highest in…

The Nigeria Police Force has adopted a comprehensive election security roadmap covering the entire electoral cycle as part of measures to strengthen preparations for the 2027 general elections. This is contained in the communique at the end of the sixth Conference and Retreat for Senior Police Officers (CARSPO 2026), which ended on Wednesday in Owerri, Imo State. The three-day conference, themed “Developing a Nigeria Police Roadmap for Effective Management of Security During Elections,” brought together senior police officers, experts, government officials and representatives of key institutions to examine emerging security challenges ahead of the 2027 elections. The closing ceremony was…

Kenneth Okonkwo, spokesperson for the Atiku Abubakar Presidential Campaign, has alleged that President Bola Tinubu is avoiding the United States because he fears possible arrest by US President Donald Trump. Okonkwo made the claim while reacting to Tinubu’s absence from the 81st United Nations General Assembly in New York on an appearance on Arise New’s Prime Time programme, where Vice President Kashim Shettima is representing Nigeria. Okonkwo questioned why Tinubu had again stayed away from the annual gathering, alleging that the president was deliberately avoiding the United States because of renewed attention to past drug-related allegations and legal records involving…