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Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper chaired a meeting of more than 40 countries - although with no US representation - to discuss how to reopen the vital sea channel.

CHARLOTTE DALY: Chisora, who has said the bout will be his 50th and final professional fight, was joined by Farage as the pair rode into the venue in a black tank featuring yellow branding.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Bloomberg: Amazon will start charging sellers who use its shipping services a 3.5% "fuel and logistics" surcharge later this month, joining the ranks of shipping companies raising prices as the war in Iran pushes oil prices higher. The fees take effect on April 17 for customers of the company's Fulfillment by Amazon service -- which is used by many of the independent sellers who list their products on Amazon's retail sites -- in the US and Canada. Items shipped by Amazon on behalf of merchants who sell on their own sites or at other retailers will carry the surcharge beginning May 2. "Elevated costs in fuel and logistics have increased the cost of operating across the industry," Ashley Vanicek, an Amazon spokesperson, said on Thursday. "We have absorbed these increases so far, but similar to other major carriers, when costs remain elevated we implement temporary surcharges to partially recover these costs." Vanicek notes that the fee will apply to the sum Amazon charges to ship an item, not the product's sale price. Last month, USPS announced that it would impose its first-ever fuel surcharge on packages.

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A new study has turned the picture of male pleasure upside down, revealing that what people thought was the most erogenous zone is completely incorrect.

If you're keen to get ahead with the decluttering or simply be fully prepared for those first sunny afternoons, now's a great time to do it for less. These are this week's best deals.

Jack Whitehall has joked that his mum Hilary is planning on 'going full Victoria Beckham' during his first dance at his upcoming wedding to Roxy Horner. 

Police were called to Nuneaton railway station at 9.24pm on Friday, March 13, following reports of a rape.

Christina Marie Plante, a girl who vanished 32 years ago from a small town near Phoenix, Arizona when she was 13, has been found alive, authorities say.

The Duchess of Edinburgh is a devoted fan of printed dresses, with an enviable collection in regular rotation.

Donald Trump has fired Pam Bondi as his attorney general after a tumultuous tenure at the Department of Justice.

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Microsoft on Thursday unveiled public preview versions of three home-baked machine learning models focused on speech recognition, speech synthesis, and image generation.…

IBM and Arm are teaming up to let Arm-based software run on IBM Z mainframes. Network World reports: The two companies plan to work on three things: building virtualization tools so Arm software can run on IBM platforms; making sure Arm applications meet the security and data residency rules that regulated industries must follow; and creating common technology layers so enterprises have more software options across both platforms, IBM said in a statement. IBM has not said whether the virtualization work will happen at the hypervisor level, through its existing PR/SM partitioning technology, or via containers -- a question enterprise architects will need answered before they can assess the collaboration's practical value. IBM described the effort as serving enterprises that run regulated workloads and cannot simply move them to the cloud, the statement said. IBM mainframe customers have largely missed out on the efficiency and price-performance gains Arm has already delivered in the cloud. "Arm says close to half of all compute shipped to top hyperscalers in 2025 runs on Arm chips, with AWS, Google, and Microsoft deploying their own Arm silicon through Graviton, Axion, and Cobalt, respectively," reports Network World. That gap is precisely what IBM and Arm's collaboration intends to address. "This is a mainframe adjacency play," says Rachita Rao, senior analyst at Everest Group. "The intent is to extend IBM Z and LinuxONE environments by enabling Arm-compatible workloads to run closer to systems of record. While hyperscalers use Arm to lower their own internal power costs and pass savings to cloud-native tenants, IBM is targeting the sovereign and air-gapped market."

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Mickelson, 55, is a three-time winner at Augusta National and had been listed among the participants for the 2026 tournament, but he has now revealed he won't tee it up in Georgia next week.

Insiders say a number of potential mistakes and factors may have contributed to the crash, including the way in which air traffic controllers (ATC) worked on the night of the collision.

Olivia Attwood has said she has got 'nothing 'left' following her split from ex Bradley Dack who she accused of 'cheating on her multiple times over ten years'.

Scott Mills, 53, was investigated then cleared over allegations of historic 'serious sexual offences' against a boy under the age of 16 between 1997 and 2000.

Alan Davies has given fans an update about his bladder cancer in a poignant new interview on The Jonathan Ross Show set to air on Saturday.

The 36-year-old  singer is hard at work assembling her best friends to join her at location event, according to a Thursday report from UsWeekly.

Melissa Gilbert became visibly emotional as she spoke out about the devastating personal fallout following her husband Timothy Busfield's legal troubles.

The 36-year-old nepo baby sparked criticism when she shared a video of her other half, 46, building a dollhouse for their daughters, Lyla, five, and Eloise, three.