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Hiker Timothy Smith, 53, missing after late-August floods but officials decline to identify remainsHuman remains have been discovered near Arizona’s Crystal Rapids, over two weeks after a flash flood tore through the Grand Canyon, leaving two people dead and one person missing.National Park Service personnel recovered the remains, before transferring them to the Coconino county medical examiner’s office, the agency confirmed over email. Continue reading...

• European stock exchanges need to raise $5 billion from initial public offerings, where companies sell shares to the public for the first time, by the end of the year to beat last year's total. • This target comes as the market faces a trend of deal delays that have slowed the pace of new listings. • Reaching this milestone would signal a recovery in investor confidence and a stronger appetite for risk in the European equity markets.

Councillors say locals have been raising concerns about people secretly filming in change rooms, swimming pools and around schoolsGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastOne of Sydney’s largest councils has joined the City of Brisbane and the City of Yarra to issue a ban on AI smart glasses at public pools as concerns mount over the potential for predators to exploit the new technology.On Tuesday evening, Canterbury-Bankstown voted overwhelmingly in favour of banning the tech at its pools, with its mayor, Bilal El-Hayek, describing them as “pervert glasses”. Continue reading...

Economists urge John Healey to press Bank to change policy that is costing the exchequer billions of poundsEconomists have urged the chancellor, John Healey, to press the Bank of England to slow down its bond-selling programme that has already cost the exchequer billions of pounds.The Bank’s monetary policy committee (MPC) meets this week to not only decide the level of interest rates but also whether they should freeze or slow the sale of government bonds, known as gilts, bought as part of the rescue operation after the 2008 banking crash. Continue reading...

• China rejected urgent calls to slow the development of artificial intelligence on September 14, 2026. • Beijing described the warnings from U.S. tech leaders as part of an American "Cold War playbook" designed to hinder a rival superpower. • This disagreement signals a deepening geopolitical divide over whether AI safety regulations are intended to protect humanity or serve as tools for economic and technological containment.

• Voters in the Philippines' autonomous region began casting ballots in a historic election to establish an elected self-government. • The voting process has been marred by deadly clashes as the region completes its transition to local autonomy. • The outcome determines the leadership and governance structure for the autonomous region's population.

• AI developers Anthropic PBC and OpenAI are proposing measures to slow the development of cutting-edge artificial intelligence models to better understand safety risks. • The companies are pursuing these restrictions following a series of security breaches involving their powerful AI systems. • These safety calls create a potential conflict with the Trump administration and financial markets that are likely to resist any substantial slowdown in tech progress.