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Before taking on Antarctica's 160 kilometre ultramarathon, Stephanie Case said she wanted to show her daughter what mothers can achieve even in the toughest places on Earth. The Canadian ultra-runner has now made history, becoming the first woman to complete the race. Case says she wanted to prove that ''motherhood isn't the finish line''.

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On Friday, the US made the rare decision to ground flights nationwide, leaving tens of thousands of people stranded. An overloaded air traffic control system triggered communications failures across the country. The White House says there's no evidence of a cyberattack. Flights resumed after four hours, but Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy has warned that getting the aviat...

A global Microsoft outage hits schools, doctors and businesses. The tech giant is scrambling the fix the issue - but with so many of us relying on its products such as Outlook and Teams, it has prompted a conversation about how reliant we are on its services. Microsoft says it's not found any evidence that malicious activity caused the problems, and in its latest update it re...

Ukraine's President Zelensky has welcomed efforts by Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, to secure European involvement at the next round of peace talks with Russia. He was speaking alongside the US envoys in Dublin, where they'd flown to brief Mr Zelensky on their earlier discussions with Vladimir Putin in Moscow. Mr Zelensky said it made sense for Europeans to be involved as U...

Nvidia's chief financial officer, Colette Kress, will take over as interim CEO following Jensen Huang's departure. Shares in the company plummeted as US markets opened. It comes days after Huang admitted to an affair with a suspected Chinese spy, although Beijing denies the allegations. It also follows a New York Times report of a second affair with an executive at his own co...