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John Cleese has lashed out at the BBC in a candid new interview, raging: 'British people deserve better' than the channel.

Higher stamp duty costs led to a drop-off in property market activity earlier this year, data shows - as more housing tax changes could be announced in the Budget.

Health chiefs have sounded the alarm over a surge in potentially deadly salmonella linked to tomatoes as another 50 people have been struck by the disease.

Anticipation is already building for next summer's event

Tiger Woods is back on the links for the first time since his surgery in March on a ruptured Achilles tendon, as he was seen taking swings on the range at Liberty National in New Jersey.

The pre-filled injection pens are currently 3ml in size and designed to deliver a fixed amount of the drug once a week, typically over four weeks.

An Associated Press investigation based on tens of thousands of leaked documents revealed Tuesday that American technology companies designed and built core components of China's surveillance apparatus over the past 25 years, selling billions of dollars in equipment to Chinese police and government agencies despite warnings about human rights abuses. IBM partnered with Chinese defense contractor Huadi in 2009 to develop predictive policing systems for the "Golden Shield" project, AP reports, citing classified government blueprints. The technology enabled mass detentions in Xinjiang, where administrators assigned 100-point risk scores to Uyghurs with deductions for growing beards or being aged 15-55. Dell promoted a laptop with "all-race recognition" capabilities on its WeChat account in 2019. Thermo Fisher Scientific marketed DNA kits as "designed" for ethnic minorities including Uyghurs and Tibetans until August 2024. Oracle, Microsoft, HP, Cisco, Intel, NVIDIA, and VMware sold geographic mapping software, facial recognition systems, and cloud infrastructure to Chinese police through the 2010s. The surveillance network tracks "key persons" whose movements are restricted and monitored, with one estimate suggesting 55,000 to 110,000 people were placed under residential surveillance in the past decade. China now has more surveillance cameras than the rest of the world combined.

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Data from Rightmove suggests that 'banana' postcodes may not be the most desirable - at least, if you ask people who are currently looking to buy a home.

On my wife's will and mine my stepdaughter is named as a beneficiary using my family name as is my biological daughter.

Feeling a dull ache in the centre of her left shoulder, Emma Mapp thought she had simply tweaked a muscle while working out at the gym.

BizzFest 2025 is heading to Cressing Temple Barns near Braintree for a day of "ideas, information and impact".

John Cowen, 31, was arrested after allegedly attacking Thomas Carey, a former Cambridge University maths student, with a knife at the Countdown in Blackpool event last September.

It's part of a huge town centre overhaul and transformation with thousands of homes planned

A birthday note sent to Jeffrey Epstein, allegedly bearing Donald Trump's signature, has resurfaced, filled with puzzling lines that reference a children's book and echo Trump's trademark turns of phrase.

Rachel Stevens has broken her silence following the annoucement of her split from her Dancing On Ice boyfriend Brendyn Hatfield after three years of dating.

Pakistan has built surveillance systems that it is actively using to spy on millions of its citizens and to block millions of internet sessions, according to Amnesty International. The Asian nation's Lawful Intercept Management System enables intelligence agencies to tap calls and texts across all four major mobile operators. A Chinese-built firewall, WMS 2.0, currently blocks approximately 650,000 web links and restricts platforms including YouTube, Facebook, and X. The surveillance infrastructure combines technology from Chinese company Geedge Networks, U.S.-based Niagara Networks, France's Thales DIS, Germany's Utimaco, and UAE-based Datafusion. Balochistan province has experienced years-long internet blackouts under the system.

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Catherine Zeta-Jones is under fire for making a 'creepy' and 'really inappropriate' comment about an underage fan.

Andrew Cabot, a businessman who has been married to ousted Astronomer HR executive Kristin Cabot for two years, has broken his silence on the now viral kiss-cam incident.

Pregnant Michelle Dockery posed with her glamorous Downton Abbey co-stars Joanne Froggatt and Laura Carmichael at the NYC premiere afterparty on Monday.

Stacey Solomon and Joe Swash return to screens with their fly-on-the-wall TV show Stacey and Joe tonight, offering fans a look into their life at Pickle Cottage