First Minister's Questions from the Senedd: 17 March 2026

Eluned Morgan is quizzed by opposition party leaders and other MSs during First Minister's Questions. By Alun Jones Eluned Morgan’s fifty-sixth session as first minister - the penultimate FMQs before ...

'A warrior with a heart full of love': Tributes paid to movie star Chuck Norris, who dies aged 86

Norris, best known for his role in TV series Walker, Texas Ranger, died "at peace" on Thursday, his family says.

Colt Canada to deliver more than 65,000 rifles to Canadian troops in sped-up procurement process

Contract of around $307-million part of first wave of procurements delegated to Canada’s new Defence Investment Agency ...

Even in ‘the world as it is,’ international law could have saved the U.S. from itself

Without clear goals shaped by what is lawful, force almost always escalates, raising the costs of war, as we are now seeing ...
Nature

Mathematician who reshaped number theory wins prestigious Abel prize

Gerd Faltings, a number theorist at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in Bonn, Germany, has won the 2026 Abel Prize, ...

OpenAI to acquire developer tooling startup Astral in boost for Codex team

OpenAI has made several recent acquisitions, including cybersecurity startup Promptfoo and health-care technology startup Torch.

Students in Kent university halls to be offered meningitis vaccine as Streeting calls outbreak 'unprecedented'

Students at the University of Kent have been queuing all day for antibiotics after two people aged 18 and 21 died in the outbreak.
NPR Illinois

Stratton defeats Krishnamoorthi with help from Chicago, downstate voters

Stratton received about 44% of the vote in Chicago to Kelly’s 25% and Krishnamoorthi’s 23%. She essentially fought suburban Cook County to a draw with Krishnamoorthi while he came out ahead in the ...