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How a sex scandal at Nvidia is putting pressure on the White House - Jensen Huang's personal life may have triggered the crisis, but the questions now reach into the White House itself. 11 hrs ago - Business

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LIVE - Flights grounded across US as homeland security secretary says no indication of an attack - "Everybody's safe," the homeland security secretary says, telling journalists that the issue is due to a telecommunications outage.

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LIVE - 'Miracle on the Mississippi' - All passengers accounted for after cargo ship crashes into cruise ship in New Orleans - People were trying to flee the vessel as it started sinking into the Mississippi River, officials say. More than 30 were hospitalised but none with critical injuries.

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Nvidia scandal fallout widens as Trump's treasury secretary blames cabinet colleague -- Scott Bessent suggests Howard Lutnick's commerce department failed to ban exports of Nvidia's chips to a firm thought to have links with China.

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The Peruvian city that has embraced Pope Leo as one of its own -- Pope Leo XIV is in Peru as part of his Latin America tour, just weeks after having surgery for lung cancer.

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Microsoft 'deeply sorry' for global outage after almost 24 hours of disruption -- Experts say the event is a "stark reminder" of how heavily the world relies on a small group of big tech providers.

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Why is Microsoft's outage lasting so long and will emails be lost? -- Microsoft says it is continuing to restore services including Outlook and Teams following a global outage.

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Watch: How a server outage took down Microsoft Teams and Outlook -- A Microsoft outage is affecting services including Teams, Outlook and AI software Copilot.

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Rosenberg: Uncompromising Putin ups demands for peace with Ukraine -- The fact the question of European security now features in discussions is viewed in Moscow as a victory, BBC Russia Editor Steve Rosenberg says.

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German spies handed new powers to tackle 'hybrid threats' from abroad -- German reforms mean foreign and domestic intelligence services will have greater powers to combat espionage, terrorism and sabotage.

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Democratic Senate leader Schumer set to face leadership challenge -- Maryland Senator Van Hollen says "new leadership" is needed for Democrats following the party's recent midterm successes.

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Aide to fugitive Ukrainian ex-PM wounded in latest Moscow car bombing -- Sergei Zavorotny, now a journalist and commentator, was previously an adviser to Ukrainian ex-prime minister Mykola Azarov.

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Rosalía scoops historic third best album award at Latin Grammys -- The Spanish singer is recognised for her fourth album Lux which was released last year to rave reviews.

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African Miss Universe beauty queens in limbo as US visa restrictions bite -- Hall has been seeking a US visa in South Africa as other African beauty queens face similar hurdles.

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Watch: Divers explore US ship sunk off Florida coast to create new reef -- The ship was intentionally sunk off the coast of Florida in order to create the world's largest artificial ocean reef.

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Will the Eurovision Song Contest succeed in Asia? -- The world's biggest and longest-running song contest is coming to Asia, with eleven countries competing in Bangkok, Thailand on Saturday.

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Military cemetery decorum: The tradition behind Hegseth's Veterans Day reprimand -- BBC's Bernd Debusmann breaks down why Defence Secretary Hegseth's group was reprimanded at Arlington National Cemetery and the history behind its strict rules of conduct.

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'We've got to run': Inside ruined Ukraine power plant under constant drone threat -- Dan Johnson visits one of the country's largest power stations, barely left standing after a ballistic missile strike by Russia.

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Hegseth and advisers reprimanded by guard at Tomb of the Unknown Soldier -- Following a ceremony marking Veterans Day, a group that included Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth was shouted at to be quiet.

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Why midterm vote-counting is taking so long in America's largest state -- Alaskans are still waiting for the full results, including in the close Senate race between Republican Dan Sullivan and Democrat Mary Peltola.

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Neither war nor peace in Tigray - is Ethiopia's latest conflict really over? -- The army has taken control of most of Tigray's main towns - it is unclear if the TPLF is capable of fighting back.

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Australian cricket's sandpapergate is back - and it cuts deep in a 'nation of good sports' -- Claims the entire Australian team knew of the 2018 sandpaper cheating plot are dividing the cricket world. -- Australia

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Whatever happened to the $300,000 diamond that went missing in F1 crash? -- Whatever happened to the diamond that went missing after the Formula 1 car it was attached to crashed? -- Formula 1

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Before Scott Colom, these two men were the last black US senators from Mississippi -- The Democratic candidate won in a southern state that had not seated a black senator since 1874. -- US & Canada

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'It's going to take some time' - US Homeland Security secretary on nationwide ground stop -- US Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin also said that there should be 'no fear' and that 'everyone is safe' when discussing a nationwide air traffic outage.

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'Gloves are off' - how Australian papers reacted to Cummins on Khawaja -- The Australian newpapers have their say after Pat Cummins' extraordinary 68-minute news conference.

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Watch: Cruise ship seen sinking after collision with cargo ship in New Orleans -- A cargo ship has collided with a docked cruise ship in New Orleans, with reports suggesting more than 120 people were on board the cruise ship.

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Watch: How the Microsoft outage affected North America -- The BBC's Nadine Yousif's reports that Microsoft services like Outlook are slowly coming back online, but the company noted users "may still experience intermittent access issues".

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Lauren Boebert, once a MAGA star, loses her Colorado seat -- Boebert, who rose to fame as one of Donald Trump's biggest cheerleaders, will not serve a fourth term in Congress.

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Two horses briefly board public bus in Detroit -- The city said it will provide additional training for bus drivers after CCTV footage revealed the moment the horses and their riders walk onto the bus.

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Governments, courts, trains and hospitals hit by Microsoft outage in North America -- Some hospitals urged patients to call rather than email, bail bonds had to paid in person one sheriff's department warned, and some governments had to suspend certain operations.

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Black Mississippians celebrate a victory almost no one saw coming -- Scott Colom is the first black man to sit in the Senate for Mississippi in 145 years.

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