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TOM UTLEY: One of the strangest presents we've ever been given was a World War I gas mask, in its original cylindrical canister, presented to us in 1990 for our 10th (tin) wedding anniversary.

DANIEL HANNAN: The chief victims of Donald Trump's new tariffs will be Americans. The President's 25 per cent levy on all imported cars will result in price rises.

An estimated 150,000 unpaid carers looking after loved ones will have their weekly allowances taken away under the Chancellor's controversial welfare cuts.

Donald Tusk, the Polish prime minister, announced the right to claim asylum will be suspended for 60 days following an influx at the Belarus border.

WOW! DID! SOMEONE! REALLY! STEAL! DATA! ON! 400K! USERS?!

A cyber-crime ring calling itself Arkana has made a cringe music video to boast of an alleged theft of subscriber account data from Colorado-based cableco WideOpenWest (literally, WOW!)…

Sydney Sweeney brushed off her love woes after she and fiancé, Jonathan Davino, 'called off their wedding' as she shared a video of herself underwater on Thursday.

DoJ suggests it sure looks like collusion when several big players use the same cost-saving software

The US Justice Department on Thursday weighed into an antitrust legal war that alleges algorithmic price fixing by healthcare services by MultiPlan and its health insurance clients.…

Elton John has revealed what he wants engraved on his tombstone after turning 78 years-old on Tuesday. 

Following OpenAI's viral Studio Ghibli moment, CEO Sam Altman says it has temporarily limited image generation in ChatGPT due to the overwhelming demand on its GPU infrastructure. "It's super fun seeing people love images in ChatGPT, but our GPUs are melting," he posted on X today. The Verge reports: The demand crunch already caused the artificial intelligence company to push back availability of the built-in image generator for users on ChatGPT's free tier. But apparently that measure alone wasn't enough to ease the stress on OpenAI's infrastructure. (Altman said free users will "soon" be able to generate up to three images per day.)

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The 15th century 'cure' for infertility advised women to burn and then grind down weasel testicles and a common plant, before putting the mixture into their vagina.

Shabana Mahmood's remarks open up the prospect of offenders handed long jail terms getting less jail time as part of a sentencing review launched by Labour.

Paedophile teacher Jeremy Forrest has split from his wife after a fling with a colleague 15-years his junior at the bakery where he worked .

Isla Fisher has opened up about her divorce from Sacha Baron Cohen and how the end of their marriage has changed her life. 

A mass stabbing in Amsterdam has left at least five people wounded. 

A toddler from Arkansas died of an infection caused by a brain-eating amoeba lurking in a water park.

This week, Mark Field answers our burning questions, what is he reading, what book would he take to a desert island, what gave him the reading bug, what left him cold?

Constance Craig Smith discovers what life is like as a hedgelayer in the West Country in Paul Lamb's new book.

The former editor of Vanity Fair recalls the hedonism of the magazine's glory days in a deliciously gossipy memoir.

Claire Allfree reviews the best literary fiction out now.

Eithne Farry reviews the best Historical books out now.