Stephanie Prentice

I would say yes, it has. There's an American expression, show me the money. This summit, unlike the first one that happened in the United Kingdom at Bletchley Park back in November 23, is all about AI opportunities, whereas the first summit was all about AI risks and how to make us safer. This one is actually backing up this talk about AI action and opportunities with money.

And we're talking a lot of money. So let's break it down. We've got a 200 billion euro investment Dr. Stephanie Hare.

If you're buying a house for a staggering $40 million, you're probably expecting to move into your dream home. After all, Horbury Villa had a range of luxury additions like a spa, a gym, a pool and a cinema room.

But after the couple, the daughter of a Georgian billionaire and her husband, moved into the mansion in London's desirable Notting Hill area, they soon realised their new home also came with some unwanted residents. Lots and lots of moths. Millions of them.

The family say they were swatting around 100 moths a day and they were landing on their children's toothbrushes and on food, floating around in wine glasses and nibbling away at clothes and furniture. After getting exterminators in, unable to resolve the infestation, the pair went on to sue the man they bought the property from.

The couple argued the seller had made fraudulent misrepresentations when he, on a form before the sale went through, had claimed no knowledge of any vermin problems in the house. But the lawyers found there had been issues. At least two reports from pest control companies pointed out a serious moth infestation in the insulation of the walls.

So the judge has ruled that the couple will be able to hand the keys back to the seller and get most of their money back, plus damages for ruined clothes and furniture. Stephanie Zachrisson. Still to come.

Right now, we've got really a competition between the two global superpowers, the United States and China, for what is being arguably considered pitched as the battle for the technology of the 21st century. So it will matter for companies. It will matter for productivity. It will matter for growth.

So even if you're in the United Kingdom or I'm talking to you from Germany tonight, you might be thinking, what does that have to do with me? Well, these are low growth countries. So everybody is looking for the next big thing that's going to get them some economic growth so that we can pay for everything that we need, education, healthcare, et cetera. Whoever wins the race for AI will define that.

All I could see was shattered pieces from cars, children's shoes, a shattered stroller. There was a lot of blood at one food truck. It was really hectic. A lot of people were just coming out from the city center. They were a little bit panicked. They were calling their families and friends, telling them what they saw, telling them what they heard and asking them if it's true.

All the shopping centers and restaurants were closing. No one wanted to talk. It was just like, I want to get out of here. I don't feel safe. I'm afraid.

The identities of the Canadians haven't been released and the reasons behind the killings haven't been confirmed. But officials in Canada say the executions went ahead despite their pleas for leniency. Canada's foreign minister, Melanie Jolie, told reporters in Ottawa that alongside former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, she tried for months to make a deal with Chinese authorities.

Now she's turning her focus to other Canadians in detention and facing the same fate.

China has released a statement claiming the executions were due to drug charges. It's believed to execute more prisoners each year than the rest of the world combined, traditionally through gunshots or lethal injection. The relationship between China and Canada has been tense in recent years.

They're currently locked in a retaliatory battle on tariffs, and relations have been icy since Canada arrested a prominent Huawei executive in 2018 at Vancouver Airport on a US warrant. Beijing then detained two Canadians on espionage charges and moved many countries at the time called hostage politics.

They've been trading barbs ever since, and it had been hoped the recent Canadian leadership changes would be an opportunity to reset relations.

It began with a vision to develop sustainable Europe-based battery production and help cut the continent's dependence on oil and reliance on imported batteries. That big dream and promises to revolutionise the automotive and energy industries inspired investors to line up, offering billions of dollars to get the project off the ground.

The construction of a large-scale factory began in northern Sweden's Skellefteå, where the rivers flowing to the Baltic Sea provided an abundance of hydropower electricity to run the plants. The flagship production site opened its doors in 2022. At the same time, the company was already scaling up fast. It began planning and construction of more mega factories in Sweden, Germany and Canada.

But it wasn't keeping up with demand, struggling to produce the vast amounts of battery cells it had promised its customers and investors. And while China, the market leader in electric batteries, was able to undercut Northvolt's prices, the company kept racking up debt.

After starting a restructuring process in the US last year and laying off staff in Sweden, Northvolt's interim chairman Tom Johnstone today announced it had filed for bankruptcy.

Just 3% of global battery cell production currently takes place in Europe, according to the consultancy firm McKinsey, with Asian firms leading the market. So what does Northworld's downfall mean for those dreams of homegrown and sustainable alternatives? Here's Sweden's Prime Minister, Ulf Kristersson.

The whole train was filled with smoke.

One week in office, 10 executive orders. Donald Trump stuck to his pledge to make changes the minute he got into power. And immigration and removing undocumented migrants was in his crosshairs throughout his election campaign and has continued into current policy shifts.

There's been a spike in arrests in states along the U.S.-Mexico border like California and Texas and those with large Hispanic populations like Florida. But businesses throughout the U.S. have expressed concern that a mass deportation of undocumented migrants could severely harm their industries, particularly the farming industry and especially dairy farming, often described as a 24-hour job.

Corey Hoffman is a dairy farmer in the state of Minnesota. He employs Hispanic migrant workers to milk his cows and says he relies on them.

President Trump's administration has suggested his focus is on criminal migrants, though many fear this scope will be broadened. And on the ground, rumours abound, including one that homosexual migrants will be rounded up. Mercedes Fork is president of Puentes Bridges organisation. It's a non-profit which aims to bridge cultural and language gaps on farms.

If employees were rounded up, she says the dairy industry would crumble. Estimates of the number of migrant workers currently on farms start at just over a million, with others much higher. One dairy farmer in the state of Wisconsin has said that if immigrants were prevented from working in his sector, all Americans might have to become vegan.

This is a team from Italy, the US and the UK. And they were using data from the World Health Organization, from overseas authorities and UK records. And in fact, they looked at 69 countries. They then cross-referenced all of that with something called the Human Development Index. Now, that's a score based on things like life expectancy, per capita income.

With all of that, the team say they were able to conclude that regardless of where one may have started in terms of height, this upward trajectory would occur. So Lewis Holsey, he's a professor at the University of Roehampton here in the UK and one of the authors of the study.

So, big question, what is driving this? Is it just about, what, sanitation, food? Well, perhaps unsurprisingly, there's a web of factors, and the team were really keen to point out, by its very nature, the study can only really show correlation, not causation. But they did suggest we can pin this primarily on environmental factors and sexual selection. So, on the latter...

The study actually builds on some previous work, and that suggested that women seek out taller men in terms of reproduction. On that environment factor, the team suggests that when living conditions improve in a country, so think about things like greater access to energy-dense foods or a lack of disease, men's bodies actually respond more dramatically than women's do.

That sort of indicates that men's physical development is more complex and more sensitive than previously thought. And it also found that the inverse of that is true.

So, for instance, when they looked at parts of Nigeria, men that grew up in nutritionally stressed areas, they were around 7.5 centimetres shorter than their better nourished counterparts, whereas women only showed a 3.2 centimetre difference.

It's an endangered plant that blooms for just one day and thousands of fans around the world have been glued to a live stream of it hoping to witness the big moment. Pew Trisha, as she's affectionately known, has spawned jokes and even a unique language in the live stream's chat with thousands commenting WWTF, we watch the flower, WDNRP, we do not rush Pew Trisha and

And BBTB, Blessed Be the Bloom. Brett Summerall is the chief scientist at Sydney's Botanic Gardens.

At one point on Thursday, as she slowly began to unfurl, more than 8,000 people were watching putridia. And when the bloom was finally open, many rushed to see her in person.

So the big question, what does Putricia smell like?

The plant, only found in the wild rainforests of Indonesia, has the world's largest flowering structure, with several hundred in the base of its large red skirt. And although it may smell awful to a human nose, Brett Summerall says other creatures find it attractive.

While Sydney's Botanic Gardens does house several putrescas, it hadn't seen a bloom for 15 years. Horticulturalist Daniela Pasqualani thinks it was well worth the wait.

Staff now hope to pollinate the flower by hand and give the seeds to other gardens. But fans of Patricia will probably have to wait a long time to see her bloom again. Stephanie Prentice reporting.

From jumping in freezing lakes right after a sauna with friends... to going back to basics in nature. We've heard about the benefits of the Finnish culture for promoting mental well-being, but within those happy activities lies something else, difficulty. Alongside the 2025 happiness report, officials in Finland were quick to point out that one of the secrets to happiness is embracing sisu.

It's a word and a concept that doesn't translate, literally, but it's something we're told is important to every Finn. So we asked some of them to explain. Magnus Appelberg is a cold exposure enthusiast and teaches courses in Finland, encouraging foreigners to embrace Sisu.

When you have guests that may come from countries, for example, without so much of a cold climate, how do they react when you initially put them in those situations when they're in the icy water? Yeah.

For Magnus, Sisu is a skill that can be built. And for people living in urban environments, he says start the day with a cold shower.

Petri Kokonen is a wilderness guide in Lapland. He gave up his easy city life to live off the grid in a remote cabin, and he says despite the hardship, he's never been happier.

What would your advice be to someone who might say, I don't think I'm strong enough, I don't think I can do this?

The 90s hit movie Cool Runnings won over audiences all around the world with its unlikely tale of an inexperienced Jamaican bobsled team competing in the Winter Olympics. It was based on a true story. And now a similar tale has unfolded in last week's Asian Winter Games.

Four men from Cambodia headed to frosty northern China to compete with athletes from 34 countries and regions across Asia after recently learning to snowboard and with very little experience of cold weather.

After mastering the art of strapping their bindings into the board, they were seen weaving confidently, if slowly, down the slopes as part of the men's slope-style competition and mixing with the other competitors in the athlete's village.

Just like the team, in cool runnings, they didn't take home any medals. But also just like them, they left with happy memories and a vow to return again and win by putting love into it.

So his friends left him behind to save their lives, but his cat stayed with him?

And so what did happen when you got him to safety? What was his response?

And what is happening with them now? Are they safe? They're together still?

What you just described to me sounds like extremely dangerous rescue work to get to these people. But it's something that you seem to take such great pride in. Why is helping these people so important to you?

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I went running and found my son. While I was holding him, after the intensity of the blow, he didn't tell me anything and then he fainted. I carried him and found that he was injured.

And you mentioned that the judge said that Lola had saved you. Would you mind telling us what Lola did for you?

And you mentioned there that Lola was a little dog that nobody wanted, but it sounds like her character had such a positive effect on you as well.

What's she doing? Oh my gosh. What would you say to anyone that's thinking of getting a rescue dog?

So I watched the initial TikTok with is it 7.6 million?

And I saw an array of dance moves, some pretty impressive ones. Can you tell me what you saw and what your favorites were?

Yeah, the people's expressions in the video, they actually look so joyful and so childlike.

So have you got any future plans to do maybe a different twist on this? Could people do it with their kids, with their pets?

So it seems like you've made your regulars very happy. You've gained a lot of social media followers. What would you say to any... Yes. What would you say to any other businesses thinking about doing this?

Es ist einfach komplett gelagert. Und ich denke, wir beide waren im Grunde in Tränen. Es war ziemlich unreal, auch wenn wir es gesehen haben. Nur um alles zu sehen, was du besitzt, alles, was du gesammelt hast. Ich hatte Sachen, die ich seit meiner Kindheit hatte, die nicht da waren. Es war eine unrealische Erfahrung.

That's what you did. Yeah.

Also bin ich froh, dass es automatisch war. Ja, ich habe ihn zuerst gespürt. Und dann, hey, du weißt, wir sind beide in der Messe unserer Heimat. Und wir hüten sofort und ich sage natürlich ja. My tears under my goggles and glasses. It was a special, really special moment.

Ich erinnere mich daran, dass wir zumindest in diesem Haus engagiert wurden.

Wir waren im Haus.

I would say it's been super nice to see so much kindness in today's, you know, current climate. It's really hard to see good in people and kindness and... und wir haben viel davon gesehen, was wirklich ermutigend ist.

Hi, I'm Stephanie Rayner.

And you're listening to The Happy Pod.

We're both kind of in the mess of our home. My tears under my goggles and glasses. I remember saying at least we got engaged in this house.

Gegen einen Hintergrund von Ande-Island, snow-covered peaks and the Norwegian Sea, Spectrum blasted off into the sky. But after only a few seconds, smoke could be seen from the sides of the 28-metre rocket and it started tilting.

Onlookers gathered on the Arctic Island, watched as the rocket, less than 40 seconds into its journey, fell back down to Earth and crashed into the water, creating a huge cloud of fire and smoke. The German start-up ESA Aerospace had described the launch as an initial test of the operation and its rockets and had downplayed expectations. Aerospace Engineer Juliana Metzler is the mission manager.

This was the first blast-off of an orbital launch vehicle from the European continent, excluding Russia, and Europe's first, financed almost exclusively by the private sector. Orbital Vehicles need a remarkable speed to successfully orbit Earth, making them a complex and expensive challenge.

Several nations, including Sweden and the UK, have said they want a share of a growing market for commercial space missions, as European actors try to catch up with US companies such as Elon Musk's SpaceX and Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin. Here's astrophysicist Dr. Maggie Liu.

Stefanie Zachrisson.

With sub-zero temperatures and heaps of snow as far as the eye can see, this is as close as you can get to the natural habitat of Siberian huskies, Alaskan malamutes and other Arctic dog breeds. More than 1,000 of them have gathered in Östersund, taking on the challenge of pulling their sleds and drivers, or mushes, as quickly as they can on the Swedish trails.

Julia Israelsson entered the race with her two dogs, one of which is a rescue that she's only been training for a year and a half.

The sprint races range from roughly five kilometres in length up to 34 and drivers can enter into heats where the sled is being pulled by two dogs up to the unlimited class that allows for 14 dogs. There's also Nordic style, where the drivers are on skis.

Within sled dog racing, there are also long distance competitions going on for days, like the annual 1600 kilometre Idita Rod Challenge in Alaska, taking the dogs and their drivers on a trail through forests, mountains and even across sea ice, sometimes through snow blizzards.

Inspired by books like Call of the Wild, Matt Hodgson has loved Arctic dogs since childhood and he became the UK's first ever on Snow World champion in 2023, winning again in the year after. So what's the secret to becoming really good at dog sledding?

And for any skiers worried that 1,000 dogs would leave a bit of a mess behind on the snow, the competition managers in Östersund have been cleaning up and gathering any dog waste and it's being turned into biogas, a renewable energy source used to heat up homes and buildings.

It's been really challenging to report from Haiti. It's just not safe there. And the situation is really the worst in the capital, Port-au-Prince. The last estimate we had from the UN was that gangs control around 85% of the city.

That's led naturally to a collapse of basic systems people need to live, like health care, food distribution, as well as widespread reports of violence, sexual violence, kidnappings. and even children being recruited as soldiers. We also know gangs recently stormed a prison in Mirbele, that's a nearby town, and released around 500 prisoners.

And overall, more than 5,600 people were killed in that gang violence last year. So many people have fled, especially those gang-controlled areas. And the UN estimate more than a million people are internally displaced, and a huge amount of them are just living in makeshift camps.

Yes, and the president of the Dominican Republic has just announced a wave of measures to tighten up the border they have with Haiti. He did run on an anti-immigration ticket back in 2020. Of course, the situation has become a lot worse since then. So when he was speaking at a press conference, he did appear to sympathise with the struggles of civilians there, but said action was needed urgently.

So now 15 new measures we'll see in acceleration of the construction of a border wall that was already being built and that's going to separate the two countries. He's also said he'll add 1,500 soldiers to these border surveillance teams he already has in place. And he said there will be harsh penalties and that's for anyone who may help someone.

So taking people in with what he called irregular immigration status. So that counts for renting them properties, taking them into their homes or just helping them get into the country in any way. Stephanie Prentice.

Handwritten medical manuscripts, surgical diagrams and a brass rubbing of a plaque depicting a skeleton riddled with worms. Some of the items on display at the exhibition in Cambridge's University Library. The medical notes, mostly from the 14th or 15th centuries, have all been translated into modern English, part of a passion project for Dr James Freeman, the curator of the exhibition.

One treatment suggests women can cure infertility by burning weasel testicles in a pot with wildflowers and placing the mixture in the cervix for three days.

Another one, a fruity homemade paste to treat lice on the body.

But despite the curious concoctions described, the team at Cambridge say it actually wants to showcase how medieval people were reading, writing and learning and building up a bank of knowledge based on observation, rather than just trial and error.

It also highlights the role of astrology and magic in medieval medicine, as practitioners did things like tracking the moon when deciding when to let blood from their patients.

While drinking words can probably be dismissed medically, Dr Freeman does stand behind one remedy that suggests dipping a man's testicles in a mix of cold water and vinegar to stop nosebleeds, saying he's tested and proved it.

The sound that heralded a major disruption to the telephone industry back in 2003. Skype calls were just as fast, just as clear, and crucially, they were free. At the time, creator Yanis Friis outlined a goal of a complete takeover of the global communications industry, and it worked.

Skype quickly became a household name with millions of users worldwide, even those who needed a bit of help to get started.

Next came the money. The three founders sold it to eBay in 2005 for $2.6 billion. Later, it was sold to Microsoft for $8.5 billion. Now, after two decades, the famous ringtone is being retired. Other platforms have edged it out of the market, including Microsoft's own Team software, which flourished during the pandemic.

Skype fans took to X to express their sorrow, saying it was the end of an era, with one adding Skype's fumble during the pandemic will be studied for centuries. Microsoft says it will make the transition easy for users and that chats and contacts will automatically migrate to Teams. Adding in a statement, Skype has been an integral part of shaping modern communications.

We're honoured to have been part of the journey. Stephanie Prentice.

James Howells went from being one of the luckiest to least fortunate men in the tech space. He wasn't a Silicon Valley tech whiz. He was just a normal computer expert from Wales. And he mined 8,000 Bitcoin back in 2009, a really early adopter. And he was just experimenting with cryptocurrency when it wasn't valuable.

a key that he needed to access those coins was stored on a hard drive in his office. And it was during a big clean-out of that office, four years later, that it was bagged up and it was taken to a local rubbish dump. Now, he spoke to the BBC back then from the site.

So he sounds pretty resigned to his fate then. But in the past decade, he's teamed up with lawyers and he's been back and forth with the local council trying to get permission to dig. Now, in this new twist, a judge has stopped his efforts, saying he had no realistic prospect of ever succeeding if this case continued to trial.

Now, when this first happened, it was called a multi-million dollar mistake. And as the currency has boomed, James Howells now says his wallet could be worth as much as $1 billion. Mr Howells says he's got the right to search for his property. He's also tried to strike deals, saying he'd split the fortune with the council. That's something the judge did shoot down.

And the judge also said he accepted the council's argument that it owned the hard drive from the minute it entered the landfill site. Now, Mr Howells has also tried to argue you can use new tech to hone in on a smaller amount of land to search. And we have seen cases of people using new tech to find lost Bitcoin.

Just at the end of last year, a man who forgot a password and couldn't access it, he was trying to get $3 million worth of Bitcoin. He got a hacker that could get him in. But this is a piece of hardware buried in the ground for a decade. Could be an issue.