Christchurch shooter seeks to overturn guilty pleaKaty Watson,Australia correspondentandSimon AtkinsonBBCMany of the victims had moved to New Zealand to work or study, and some were refugees who thought they had found safetyA white supremacist who killed 51 people at two New Zealand mosques will appear in court this week to try to withdraw his guilty plea.Australian Brenton Tarrant is serving a...

Japan's Takaichi to pursue conservative agenda after election landslide Sanae Takaichi, Japan's prime minister and president of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), puts pins marking the names of candidates who won lower house elections at the LDP headquarters Sunday, Feb. 8, 2026...

Spotify says its best developers haven’t written a line of code since December, thanks to AI Has AI coding reached a tipping point? That seems to be the case for Spotify at least, which shared this week during its fourth-quarter earnings call that the best developers at the company “have not written a single line of code since December.” That statement, from Spotify co-CEO Gustav Söderström,...

Iran war widens, threatens to engulf Lebanon Motorists drive along a street as smoke rises from a reported Iranian strike in the area where the US Embassy is located in Kuwait City on March 2, 2026. AFP via Getty Images/AFP...

Super Bowl 2026: Seattle Seahawks beat New England Patriots to win second NFL championshipMost of the 70,823 crowd seemed to favour Seattle, who came into the game as narrow favourites, and their win also means quarterback Sam Darnold completed his redemption story after being written off as a starting NFL quarterback.The Seahawks are Darnold's fifth team in his eight-year career - and third in...