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The incident comes after a bus driver caused the death of Melissa Burr at the same station in 2021, when he accidentally pressed the accelerator rather than the brake pedal.

Walker's two-year marriage to Kilner is in ruins after the Manchester City and England full back confirmed he had fathered the child with influencer Goodman out of wedlock.

It is remarkable that it has taken 160 attacks and three fatalities for the Biden administration to realize there must now be a robust American response...

Japan is aiming to phase out floppy disks and CD-ROMs, which until now were forms of physical media required for submitting some official documents to the government. Engadget reports: Back in 2022, Minister of Digital Affairs Taro Kono urged various branches of the government to stop requiring businesses to submit information on outdated forms of physical media. The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) is one of the first to make the switch. "Under the current law, there are many provisions stipulating the use of specific recording media such as floppy disks regarding application and notification methods," METI said last week, according to The Register. After this calendar year, METI will no longer require businesses to submit data on floppy disks under 34 ordinances. The same goes for CD-ROMs when it comes to an unspecified number of procedures. There's still quite some way to go before businesses can stop using either format entirely, however. Kono's staff identified some 1,900 protocols across several government departments that still require the likes of floppy disks, CD-ROMs and even MiniDiscs. The physical media requirements even applied to key industries such as utility suppliers, mining operations and aircraft and weapons manufacturers. There are a couple of main reasons why there's a push to stop using floppy disks, as SoraNews24 points out. One major factor is that floppy disks can be hard to come by. Sony, the last major manufacturer, stopped selling them in 2011. Another is that some data types just won't fit on a floppy disk. A single photo can easily be larger than the format's 1.4MB storage capacity.

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The French capital has previously dubbed the hoards of fans of the bingeable Netflix series 'l'invasion des imbéciles', which translates as 'the invasion of the morons'.

Despite his demanding schedule as Prime Minister, Mr Sunak said avoiding eating for 36 hours at the start of each week is good for a 'balanced lifestyle'.

Defence Minister Yoav Gallant told troops near the border with the besieged Gaza Strip that others were being deployed to Israel 's north 'so the forces [there] are reinforced'.

Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps officials Mohammed Ansari and Muhammed Abd al-Razek Kanafani were among seven sanctioned for plotting the murder of two journalists

This is the shocking moment a man walks up to a parked car before setting it on fire and walking calmly away from the scene.

NASA may have made a breakthrough in its hunt for signs of life on Mars. Scientists have confirmed the Jezero Crater was flowing with water, suggesting it could have harbored life.

Marcus Rashford's team-mates are angry with the Manchester United star over the latest lapse of discipline that has landed him in trouble with manager Erik ten Hag .

Jeremy Kyle has ruled out having anymore children after welcoming his sixth child last Friday. 

More than 100 hostages have yet to be released - almost four months after they were kidnapped during raids on Israel. The deal will reportedly see the release of Hamas-held hostages in phases.

Effie Angelova, 27, said Hammer wanted to drink her blood, mutilate her and even thought up a complex scheme to die together while having sex

Nancy Iskander, the mother of the two boys allegedly run over by Rebecca Grossman, testified at the socialite's murder trial Monday.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Mercedes-Benz accidentally exposed a trove of internal data after leaving a private key online that gave "unrestricted access" to the company's source code, according to the security research firm that discovered it. Shubham Mittal, co-founder and chief technology officer of RedHunt Labs, alerted TechCrunch to the exposure and asked for help in disclosing to the car maker. The London-based cybersecurity company said it discovered a Mercedes employee's authentication token in a public GitHub repository during a routine internet scan in January. According to Mittal, this token -- an alternative to using a password for authenticating to GitHub -- could grant anyone full access to Mercedes's GitHub Enterprise Server, thus allowing the download of the company's private source code repositories. "The GitHub token gave 'unrestricted' and 'unmonitored' access to the entire source code hosted at the internal GitHub Enterprise Server," Mittal explained in a report shared by TechCrunch. "The repositories include a large amount of intellectual property connection strings, cloud access keys, blueprints, design documents, [single sign-on] passwords, API Keys, and other critical internal information." Mittal provided TechCrunch with evidence that the exposed repositories contained Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services (AWS) keys, a Postgres database, and Mercedes source code. It's not known if any customer data was contained within the repositories. It's not known if anyone else besides Mittal discovered the exposed key, which was published in late-September 2023. A Mercedes spokesperson confirmed that the company "revoked the respective API token and removed the public repository immediately." "We can confirm that internal source code was published on a public GitHub repository by human error. The security of our organization, products, and services is one of our top priorities. We will continue to analyze this case according to our normal processes. Depending on this, we implement remedial measures."

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The Traitors star Harry Clark reportedly blew £2,000 on a huge pub party for his family and friends after his epic win on the popular BBC show.

The actor and right-wing activist was found guilty of libelling former Stonewall trustee Simon Blake and drag artist Crystal over a row on X in October 2020.

President Biden reiterated that the U.S. would hold those responsible for an attack that killed three U.S. troops 'to account,' as his administration pointed to an Iran-backed proxy group.

Andrew Joseph, writing for STAT News: There was something odd about these Alzheimer's cases. Part of it was the patients' presentations: Some didn't have the classic symptoms of the condition. But it was also that the patients were in their 40s and 50s, even their 30s, far younger than people who normally develop the disease. They didn't even have the known genetic mutations that can set people on the course for such early-onset Alzheimer's. But this small handful of patients did share a particular history. As children, they had received growth hormone taken from the brains of human cadavers, which used to be a treatment for a number of conditions that caused short stature. Now, decades later, they were showing signs of Alzheimer's. In the interim, scientists had discovered that that type of hormone treatment they got could unwittingly transfer bits of protein into recipients' brains. In some cases, it had induced a fatal brain disease called Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, or CJD -- a finding that led to the banning of the procedure 40 years ago. It seemed that it wasn't just the proteins behind CJD that could get transferred. As the scientific team treating the patients reported Monday in the journal Nature Medicine, the hormone transplant seeded the beta-amyloid protein that's a hallmark of Alzheimer's in some recipients' brains, which, decades later, propagated into disease-causing plaques. They are the first known cases of transmitted Alzheimer's disease, likely a scientific anomaly yet a finding that adds another wrinkle to ongoing arguments about what truly causes Alzheimer's. "It looks real that some of these people developed early-onset Alzheimer's because of that [hormone treatment]," said Ben Wolozin, an expert on neurodegenerative diseases at Boston University's medical school, who was not involved in the study.

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