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The super spy is no stranger to a lengthy hiatus - with a six-years between 1989's Licence to Kill, the final Timothy Dalton film, and 1995's GoldenEye, the first to star Pierce Brosnan.

Klaudia Zakrzewska, 32, from Essex, was struck by a car near the Inca venue on Argyll Street in central London in the early hours of Sunday, April 19.

The parents of victim Lila Bonner are outraged at the possibility of Camp Mystic partially reopening to 850 campers at the end of next month, if Texas state health officials renew its license.

Jos Verstappen, father of four-time Formula One world champion Max, survived a horror rally smash in Belgium on Sunday.

An anonymous reader shared this report from Bloomberg: More than three years after acquiring Twitter, Elon Musk says he's nearing his long-stated goal of turning it into an "everything app" with a new financial services tool that he pledged to launch for the public this month... Early users testing the service have touted competitive perks, including 3% cash back on eligible purchases and a 6% interest rate on cash savings — the latter of which is roughly 15 times the national average. Musk's new product is also expected to offer free peer-to-peer transfers, a metal Visa debit card personalised with a user's X handle, and an AI concierge built by Musk's xAI startup that tracks spending and sorts through past transactions, according to reports from users with early access. Musk, who first rose to prominence in Silicon Valley by co-founding PayPal Holdings Inc, sees payments as crucial to creating a so-called super app similar to social products that have flourished in China. WeChat, for example, lets users hail a ride, book a flight and pay off their credit card... If it works, X Money would sit at the intersection of social media and finance in a way no American product has attempted at this scale... Creators who currently receive payments from X for engagement will be switched from Stripe to X Money as their payment platform, according to early users — a move that guarantees an initial base of active accounts. Some have already been testing X Money to send payments to one another through the app's chat feature or directly through their profiles, according to early participants in the rollout... X currently holds licences in 44 states, according to its website, and likely won't be able to operate in states where it hasn't obtained a licence.

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Sean Egan, 46, worked at the Aldridge store, near Walsall, for 29 years but was sacked after intervening during an 'abusive' altercation with a prolific thief who stole good last December.

From April 27 to April 30, the nation's capital will be transformed into a theater of rigid protocol and red-carpet pageantry.

Locals have called it the 'Hinckley Hilton' ever since the last presidential assassination attempt in the US capital.

They say the most iconic looks never truly go out of fashion - and this Gucci blouse may just be the proof.

Kentucky couple Jerome Norman and Mary Hall were sentenced to 20 years in jail after police said they starved and tortured three children in their care.

Following what is expected to be bruising results, MPs are expected to write and call for beleaguered Keir Starmer to stand down by party conference in the autumn.

A guest who stayed at a Disney resort in Florida is suing the company for not preventing a shocking encounter that will leave you shaking your head.

For her appearance, Anna, 48, looked effortlessly chic as she flaunted her abs in a long-sleeved black cropped top.

Adolescence continued its incredible winning streak as the smash hit Netflix drama picked up another two gongs at the BAFTA TV Craft Awards on Sunday.

The beloved John Hughes classic Ferris Bueller's Day Off is preparing to celebrate its 40th anniversary this year, see the cast now.

The rain in Spain may stay mainly in the plain, but Coco Gauff's lunch was all over center court at the Madrid Open on Sunday. Somehow, she overcame her illness to pull out a comeback win.

Retired IT consultant Roman played an epic game of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire on Sunday night.

"I love these machines," writes long-time Slashdot reader Shayde: I was super-active in the Unix-PC Usenet groups back in the 90s... We hacked the hell out of them. They were small, sexy, and... they ran Unix! Unfortunately, they were a commercial failure. There were so many things wrong with them — not just stuff that broke, but the baseline configuration was nigh on worthless. I recently was able to get another machine and got it up and running (with a few hiccups). I whipped up a video showing all the cool things it can do, but also running through what went wrong and why it ultimately failed. The video shows the ancient green-on-black screen of 1984's AT&T Unix PC (with the OS running on a silicon drive emulation). The original machine had 512K of memory and a 10-megabyte hard drive described as slow, failure-prone, and noisy. There's also a drive for inserting floppy disks, and a separate MS-DOS board (with its own CPU) that could be plugged into the expansion slot — but the device was "remarkably heavy," weighing in aqt 40 pounds See the strange 1984 mouse, and its keyboard with both a Return key and a separate Enter key. There's even plug-in ports for phone landlines. "It looked great," Shayde says in the video, showing off its Spirograph demo and '80s-era games like Pong, Conway's Game of Life, GNU Chess, "Trk", and NetHack. But besides slow startup times, it was expensive — in today's dollars, it would've cost roughly $15,000 — and suffered from Unix's lack of spreadsheets, word processing software and other office productivity tools at the time. At that price the Unix PCs couldn't compete with IBM's home computers and their desktop applications. "It just didn't have the resources, the software, the capabilities and the price point that made it attractive."

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But hotel businesses across the UK are cashing in. And the owner of the hotel that inspired two of Agatha Christie's novels has said he is set for his busiest summer since Covid.

Authorities have frozen around £168million of assets linked to the Kinahan drug cartel while its leader awaits extradition to Ireland.