A New Mexico woman is accused of giving birth in a portable toilet and disposing of her baby girl in the holding tank, resulting in the newborn’s death. 

Sonia Cristal Jimenez, 38, of Las Cruces, is charged with one first-degree felony count of intentional child abuse resulting in death, KFOX14 reported Wednesday. 

Staff at Memorial Medical Center called police on the evening of February 7 to report that Jimenez arrived at the hospital and appeared to have just given birth, but she did not have a baby with her. 

Jimenez’s boyfriend said the pair had previously been at Burn Lake and that she had used a portable toilet, according to police.

Las Cruces police officers went to Burn Lake, where they ultimately found the deceased newborn in the holding tank of the portable toilet, according to the report. Las Cruces firefighters recovered the baby girl’s body from the holding tank.

“Investigators believe Jimenez gave birth to a live baby, cut the umbilical cord and placed the child in the holding tank, where she drowned,” according to the report. 

Two American skiers lost while backcountry riding in Italy near an Olympic venue in Livigno were rescued Tuesday night with the help of thermal imaging cameras and drones. 

The harrowing scene began when the two male skiers, who were not identified, became “stranded at high altitude” after they “lost their bearings” in the dark, Vigili del Fuoco, Italy’s national fire and rescue service, said in a translated statement. 

Two male skiers, who were not identified, became “stranded at high altitude” after they “lost their bearings” in the dark, Vigili del Fuoco, Italy’s national fire and rescue service, said in a translated statement.  (Vigili del Fuoco)

Officials said the men provided their GPS coordinates and with the help of the Alpine Rescue Corps and the use of drones equipped with thermal imaging cameras, the skiers were quickly located and rescued.

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According to local reports, because of the 2026 Milan Cortina Games, rescue protocols already in place for the Olympics allowed for a quicker response and rescue. 

Officials said the skiers returned unscathed. 

Livigno, a ski town in the Italian Alps near the Swiss border, is one of the key host locations for the Winter Olympics. The area, with an altitude of nearly 6,000 feet, plays host to all freestyle skiing and snowboarding competitions and has three hotels that were transformed into an Olympic village.

South Korea’s Jung Dae-yoon competes during the men’s freestyle skiing moguls finals at the 2026 Winter Olympics in Livigno, Italy, on Feb. 12, 2026. (Abbie Parr/AP Photo)

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Tuesday’s rescue comes not long after a record 13 backcountry skiers, climbers and hikers died in the Italian mountains earlier this month. Fresh snowfall and unstable snowpack have contributed to 10 avalanches in the region.

‘’Under such conditions, the passage of a single skier, or natural overloading from the weight of snow, can be sufficient to trigger an avalanche,’’ Italy’s Alpine Rescue Corps spokesman Federico Catania recently told The Associated Press. 

Two male skiers, who were not identified, became “stranded at high altitude” after they “lost their bearings” in the dark, Vigili del Fuoco, Italy’s national fire and rescue service, said in a translated statement.  (Vigili del Fuoco)

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“There is no danger for people skiing within managed ski resorts, and in particular no risks to the Olympic sites,’’ Catania said. “All of these areas are constantly monitored and are generally safe regardless of Olympic events.’’

The Associated Press contributed to this report. 

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A former Arsenal footballer has been charged with two further counts of rape.

Thomas Partey is due to appear at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on 13 March to face the charges, which relate to one alleged victim in 2020.

The alleged offence was reported to police in August 2025.

In September, the 32-year-old appeared at Southwark Crown Court to deny five counts of rape against two other women, and a charge of sexual assault against a third.

Those alleged offences took place between 2021 and 2022, when he played for Arsenal.

The Ghanaian midfielder, who now plays for Spanish club Villarreal, is due to face trial at the same court on 2 November.

His lawyer previously said he “denies all the charges against him”.

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Partey joined Arsenal from Atletico Madrid in 2020 in a transfer worth around £45m, before leaving the club in June last year.

He has made more than 50 appearances for Ghana, including at the World Cup and the Africa Cup of Nations.

When most people leave their jobs, they send out an email to their colleagues, arrange some drinks at a nearby pub, and that’s about it.

The situation in artificial intelligence could not be more different.

The level of scrutiny on the field means that researchers who leave their jobs can, if they choose, do so with great fanfare. Even if they leave quietly, the mere fact of their movement is often taken as some kind of signal.

Several such resignations have drawn attention this week.

On Tuesday, Mrinank Sharma, a researcher at leading AI company Anthropic, posted a resignation statement to social media in which he warned that “the world is in peril”.

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Although Sharma did not exactly say why the world was imperilled, noting instead that the threat came “not just from AI, or bioweapons, but from a whole series of interconnected crises unfolding in this very moment”, many took this to mean that the existential risk from AI was increasing.

On Wednesday, Zoe Hitzig, a researcher with OpenAI, announced her resignation with an essay in the New York Times, citing “deep reservations” about OpenAI’s plans to add advertising to ChatGPT.

“ChatGPT users have generated an archive of human candour that has no precedent,” Hitzig wrote, warning that ChatGPT had the potential to manipulate people if their data was not properly protected.

Meanwhile, two of the co-founders of xAI also quit this week, along with a number of other staff at Elon Musk’s AI company.

xAI makes the Grok chatbot, which provoked a global backlash after it was allowed to generate nonconsensual sexualised images of women and children on X for several weeks before anyone intervened to stop it.

X has since said it has made major changes to its AI chatbot Grok.

Put together, these departures were taken by many to signal that – in the words of an essay about AI which gained traction this week – “something big is happening”.

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Media reports and social media posts described the resignations as a “wave”.

On closer inspection, however, the moves have little in common. Sharma was resigning for vague reasons to do with “values” in order to write poetry.

Hitzig – who is also a poet – has deep concerns about advertisements and user data.

The employees who left xAI did not go into detail about their reasons for leaving, although the recent changes at the company, which is due to merge with Musk’s space firm SpaceX, may have played a role.

The concerns raised by Hitzig and Sharma are widely shared, not least by Nobel Prize-winning scientist Geoffrey Hinton, known as the “Godfather of AI”, who left his role at Google in order to warn that AI poses an existential risk to humanity.

Perhaps the other reason these statements have attracted so much attention now is that they tap into fears about the rapid growth of AI, which has made stunning strides in recent months, especially in software development.

Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman told the Financial Times on Wednesday he believed that most tasks performed by white-collar workers, such as lawyers and accountants, would be fully automated in 12 to 18 months, describing the progress in recent years as “eye-watering.”

Many senior figures in AI have made similar warnings.

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Whatever the motivations, the feverish atmosphere around AI could be contributing to the exits, according to Dr Henry Shevlin, Associate Director at Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence at the University of Cambridge.

“Walkouts from AI companies are nothing new,” Dr Shevlin told Sky News. “But why are we seeing a wave right now? Part of it is illusory – as AI has become a bigger deal, AI walkouts have become more newsworthy, so we observe more clusters.

“However, it’s fair to say that as AI becomes more powerful and more widely used, we’re facing more questions about its appropriate scope, use, and impact.

“That is generating heated debates both in society at large and within companies and may be contributing to a higher rate of concerned employees deciding to head for the exit.”

Anthropic declined to comment, pointing only to a tweet from a member of staff thanking Sharma for his work.

OpenAI did not respond to a request for comment.

Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, is under intense pressure from the US to take his country to the polls as early as this spring. Donald Trump is demanding elections as a condition for American security guarantees for Ukraine against any future Russian invasion.

Zelensky has faced persistent calls from Russian president, Vladimir Putin, and at times from Trump as well, to hold an election. His term expired in 2024, but the country’s constitution forbids elections during wartime. So to schedule a poll will also mean a constitutional change to enable it.

But if the US president gets his way and elections are held later this year, whoever wins and becomes Ukraine’s next president will be faced with the task of managing a country at war and perhaps steering the nation towards an uncertain peace.

It is hard to predict who might stand for the presidency – under the current circumstances, no one is declaring their candidacy. But it’s reasonable to assume that Zelensky would put himself forward for a second term. If so, he cannot be expecting to coast to victory as he did in 2019 when he won more than 74% of the popular vote.

While Zelensky has been celebrated in the west as a hero for his wartime leadership, his popularity has been damaged by a series of corruption scandals. In November 2025, several government officials and business leaders with close connections to Zelensky – including the justice minister and a former prime minister – were accused of stealing US$100 million (£73 million) from Ukraine’s energy sector by Ukraine’s anti-corruption agencies.

Just a few months earlier, in July, widespread protests erupted against a new law that would place those same anti-corruption agencies under the control of an official appointed by Zelensky. This move was widely seen as an attempt to enable the president to stop any inconvenient investigations in their tracks and shield his associates from prosecution.

Zelensky acted quickly to distance himself from both of these scandals. He reversed the controversial legislation in the summer and has called for the resignation of serving officials named in the energy corruption investigation. But these events have tarnished his reputation at home.

According to surveys conducted by the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology, trust in Zelensky dropped from 74% in May 2025 to 59% in December. Although incumbents in other countries might look with envy at these figures, only 26% “completely” trust him and would like to see him continue as president. The rest indicated that they would prefer a change at the top of Ukraine’s political leadership. That said, a recent poll had his support at 30.9%, with only one other potential candidate within touching distance.

That potential candidate is Valerii Zaluzhnyi, whose is often described as a potential leader and whose support was measured at 27.7% in the poll mentioned above. Currently Ukraine’s ambassador to the UK, Zaluzhnyi owes his high profile to his former position as head of Ukraine’s armed forces. He served in that role from 2021 until Zelensky replaced him in February 2024.

The official reason Zelensky gave for the dismissal was the need for new ideas in the military, but there was a suspicion that Zaluzhnyi, widely regarded as a war hero for leading the resistance to Russia’s mass invasion, was becoming too popular. Indeed, a poll conducted in July 2025 found that 73% of Ukrainians said they trusted him, making him the country’s most trusted public figure. Zaluzhnyi has refused to be drawn on whether he might stand for the presidency, but there is widespread speculation that he is simply biding his time.

Another possible candidate whose reputation was built by his wartime leadership is Kyrylo Budanov. Recently appointed by Zelensky as his chief of staff, Budanov led Ukraine’s military intelligence since 2020 and is credited with its effective use of drones to strike targets deep into Russian territory as well as Russian-occupied Ukraine. Like Zaluzhnyi, Budanov has not indicated that he would stand for elected office. Unlike Zaluzhnyi, Budanov has not made a breakthrough in the polls.

Veteran political rivals

A few veterans of past presidential campaigns might throw their hats into the ring again, although neither is likely to be a front runner.

Petro Poroshenko was Ukraine’s president before Zelensky, serving from 2014 until 2019. Since 2021 he has been fighting charges of treason and, more recently, has been placed under sanction by Zelensky.

Charges against him focus on alleged pro-Russian political and economic interests, such as his connection with the now-banned Party of the Regions and his slowness to sell off his assets in Russia and Russian-occupied Ukraine. He denies any wrongdoing and has called the sanctions “politically motivated” and “unconstitutional”.

Yulia Tymoshenko was a leading figure in Ukraine’s 2004 Orange Revolution. She is a former prime minister, leader of the “Fatherhood” political party and a populist politician who has a strong following among rural voters, especially older women.

But she has recently been charged with offering bribes to lawmakers in what has been reported as an attempt to undermine the ruling Servant of the People Party. She denies the charges. She is only polling in the single digits.

Problems with a wartime election

It is important to remember that Moscow demands fresh elections in Ukraine as a condition of any peace deal. It is unlikely that Russia expects a pro-Russian candidate to be successful and take the country in a more Russia-friendly direction. But the entire process of holding fair elections in Ukraine anytime soon is fraught with difficulties that would offer opportunities for Russia to exploit.

For example, the organisational challenge of creating accurate electoral registers that include the millions of displaced Ukrainians – many of them living abroad – would invite challenges to the fairness of the election and the legitimacy of the results.

The political divisions that inevitably come to the surface during election campaigns would provide ideal grounds for stirring up dissension and dissatisfaction – a well-established practice undertaken by the Russian security services – and thereby undermining the solidarity of Ukrainian society.

So regardless of who becomes Ukraine’s next president, if the election goes ahead in the coming months as Donald Trump is demanding, the winner in a broader sense may be Russia.

Grantchester is continuing to air its penultimate season tonight but as fans slowly prepare themselves to say goodbye, there is another “phenomenal” period drama ready to stream for free.

Grantchester season 29 is in full swing but there’s another series that viewers can’t stop re-watching.

DI Geordie Keating (portrayed by Robson Green) and Reverend Alphy Kottaram (Rishi Nair) are back in action for Grantchester’s tenth season, with episode seven airing tonight, Thursday, February 12, on ITV.

This time, Cathy (Kacey Ainsworth) and Mrs Chapman (Tessa Peake-Jones) venture into the world of fashion boutiques. However, their plans hit a snag when their promotional photographer turns up dead.

But if you’re in the mood for something different tonight, there’s an alternative that fans are hailing as an “absolute masterpiece”.

Set in the 1960s rather than the 1950s, this mystery series follows a novice detective and his mentor as they unravel intricate murder cases in and around Oxford.

Endeavour serves as a prequel to the highly popular Inspector Morse, based on Colin Dexter’s novel series, which ran for 13 years before wrapping up in 2000.

The younger version of Inspector Morse, Endeavour Morse, is played by Betrayal and Vigil star Shaun Evans, who joins the force as a rookie detective constable.

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He shares the screen with his mentor DI Fred Thursday, played by actor Roger Allam, and Jim Strange star and Outlander Blood of My Blood actress Sara Vickers, who portrays Joan Thursday.

Whilst Grantchester earns a solid 76% on Rotten Tomatoes, Endeavour has achieved a remarkable 90% rating, with all nine series available to stream free of charge on ITVX.

On Reddit, an enthusiastic fan declared: “Endeavour is an absolute masterpiece.

“The finale messed me up. It’s not happy good feel times, but it’s phenomenal.”

Another devotee on IMDb hailed it as the “best detective show ever”, whilst a third proclaimed it was “without doubt, a triumph”.

One viewer enthused: “This show is proof that you can have an amazing show without the garbage!”

Another commenter described Endeavour as “superb” before elaborating: “It is such a good show that I can hardly express it.

“The writing, acting, production values, and direction are as fine as those in any film I’ve ever seen.”

Several viewers admitted they’d found themselves rewatching the series, with one posting: “As soon as I had finished watching I watched it again taking in all the things I had missed the first time.

“I’ve watched this 3 times and will definitely watch it again. My only complaint is that there aren’t enough episodes”, confessed another user.

Someone else praised: “You can just feel the old atmosphere through the screen. Amazing actors & music. Feels really authentic. A must watch!”

Endeavour is available to watch on ITVX.

By SABRINA PENTY, FOREIGN NEWS REPORTER

Published: 11:47 EST, 12 February 2026 | Updated: 14:36 EST, 12 February 2026

This is the moment a motorcyclist was run over by another biker after a toddler opened a car door on a busy motorway. 

Dramatic footage shows two bikers zooming down a road in Malaysia when a two-year-old girl suddenly flings open the car’s door, sending one of the motorcyclists flying. 

He smashes into the side of another car before he falls off his bike and is struck down by the other motorcyclist, who also ends up crashing. 

Both men were injured in the collision on the Jalan Tun Razak motorway in Kuala Lumpur on February 6. 

‘It is believed that the child safety lock feature was not activated, allowing the door to be opened from inside,’ said Mohd Zamzuri Mohd Isa, chief assistant commissioner of the Kuala Lumpur Traffic Investigation and Enforcement Department.

He added that a 25-year-old male motorcyclist driving at speed was then ‘unable to avoid the door and crashed into it before losing control and colliding with several other vehicles.’

The second rider, aged 30, was unable to avoid the crash with the man, he said. 

The 25-year-old suffered a broken arm, while the 30-year-old sustained minor injuries, officials said. 

Dramatic footage shows two bikers zooming down a road in Malaysia when a two-year-old girl suddenly flings open the car’s door, sending one of the motorcyclists flying

He smashes into the side of another car before he falls off his bike and is struck down by the other motorcyclist, who also ends up crashing

Both men were injured in the collision on the Jalan Tun Razak motorway in Kuala Lumpur on February 6 

Police have launched an investigation into the accident, citing inconsiderate and careless driving under the Road Transport Act. 

Cops said they are now reviewing dashcam footage as part of the ongoing investigation. 

It came after a British man was left fighting for his life after being involved in a horrific collision in Thailand last month. 

Tiger Duggan sustained life-threatening injuries after he was hit by an oncoming vehicle while riding a motorcycle. 

The 23-year-old, who was travelling with a friend after setting out on his trip on January 16, was initially feared dead but was resuscitated at the scene and taken to a small hospital on Koh Samui island.

He was later moved to a hospital in Bangkok, where he remains unconscious and on a life-support machine. 

His family, from Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, eventually hopes Tiger will be stable enough to be flown back to the UK.

The BBC 10 billion dollar lawsuit bought by US president Donald Trump will go to trial in February 2027, a Florida judge has ordered.

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