A painting by Lancashire-born artist Leonora Carrington has sold for more than £22 million.
Read more: Painting by British artist Leonora Carrington sells for record ₤ 22.8 m
Write comment (92 Comments)Google boss Sundar Pichai has said he believes the tech giant, and wider industry, is well placed to combat AI-generated misinformation around elections.
Read more: Google boss ‘cautiously optimistic’ about protecting elections from deepfakes
Write comment (99 Comments)A mystery ancient Irish stone has baffled archaeologists after it was discovered in an English garden.
Read more: Secret as 1,600-year-old ancient Irish stone uncovered in English garden
Write comment (95 Comments)The ability to regulate body temperature, a trait all mammals and birds have today, may have evolved among some dinosaurs around 180 million years ago, a study suggests.
Robert Fico, the Slovak prime minister who was shot yesterday, has presided over a shift from pro-Western values to growing sympathies with Russia since his election victory last September.
Read more: How populist Robert Fico turned Slovakia into one of Vladimir Putin’s only EU allies
Write comment (98 Comments)A massive manhunt is under way for a prisoner nicknamed &The Fly& freed in an ambush by gunmen who shot dead two prison officers escorting him in northern France.