Prince William has told the BBC that awarding Sir Kevin Sinfield his knighthood was “probably the easiest decision that anyone’s ever had to make”.

The Prince of Wales leads the tributes to the inspirational former Rugby League player who has raised £13 millions of pounds over seven years for motor neurone disease (MND) charities.

In 2020, Sinfield went for a run after his friend and teammate Rob Burrow was diagnosed with motor neurone disease.

He aimed to raise £77,777 for Rob and his family, a sum set to recognise Burrow’s number seven shirt. But just a week later, he had raised more than £2 million. It was the first of seven astonishing challenges over the next six years, which included seven ultramarathons in seven days and 101 miles in 24 hours.

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AI Decoded looks at the surprising alliance between Meta and Apple raises one of the biggest questions facing the AI industry. As technology companies invest hundreds of billions into ever-larger data centres, two former Silicon Valley rivals are backing a different vision: powerful AI models that can run locally on advanced desktop computers rather than relying entirely on the cloud.

For years, bigger AI has meant bigger infrastructure. Vast data centres now consume enormous amounts of energy, water and land, while communities around the world are increasingly pushing back against their expansion. But what if there was another way? What if businesses could run powerful AI systems from their own offices, on machines sitting beneath their desks?

Host Marc Cieslak is joined by Ben Hatton, consumer technology specialist and Nate Soares, AI safety researcher and author, for a fascinating discussion on whether Apple’s hardware and Meta’s open-weight AI strategy could signal a major shift in the future of computing.

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A major day of protests in France on Saturday turned into rioting and looting.

Some 550,000 demonstrators took to the streets for largely peaceful protests, and French President Emmanuel Macron said a distinction must be drawn between the “legitimate demands” of protesters and “those who destroyed, smashed and looted”.

So – what are their demands? And will they be met?

In this video…
0:00 – Montage
0:48 – What happened in France over the weekend
1:39 – Where the protests took place across France
2:26 – Business owner says more than a hundred thousand Euros worth of goods were stolen
3:20 – Why are people protesting?
4:06 – Who are the people taking part?
5:01 – AI videos going viral
6:46 – Powers for partial curfews in some French cities
7:34 – Impact on the next election in France

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Nearly 1,000 arrests were made as hundreds of thousands people took part in another day of protests across France.

After a day of largely peaceful demonstrations, clashes occurred late on Saturday with police firing tear gas and water cannons to disperse protestors in a number of cities including Paris.

The interior ministry said an estimated 410,000 people protested on Saturday, while the unions put the number at about 800,000.

Hundreds of people have been jailed for vandalism, arson and looting after the protests over the cost of living and poor school conditions descended into chaos.

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US President Donald Trump has said Iran will “never have a nuclear weapon” in his preliminary deal to end the war.

Speaking at the G7 summit, Trump also said that without him “there would be no Israel” and criticised Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu.

Fighting between Hezbollah and Israel has continued, and Iran has said Israeli troops must withdraw from Lebanon.

Netanyahu said his troops will not be withdrawing and the framework deal was reached between Iran and the US, not Israel.

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