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After the Big Society and Levelling-Up, we are now to be lectured about another opaque political idea, writes QUENTIN LETTS.

Margot G. Lewis, 33, was found guilty of second-degree murder on Monday in connection with the stabbing death of Liara Tsai, 35, in Minneapolis.

Two women, named recently as Elizabeth and Jasmin Ramos, who were dumped in a park as toddlers, discovered their mother had been murdered in a decades-old cold case.

The explosive allegations against Errol Musk, 79, are allegedly why the tech billionaire and Tesla founder has kept his distance from his estranged father over the years.

The higher the wage level, the more entries they'll get in the draw

The H-1B lottery in the US is being tipped heavily in favor of high-wage earners under a long-awaited rule proposal unveiled on Tuesday.…

While Donald Trump was making a serious speech about 'the death of western Europe', writes QUENTIN LETTS, Sir Ed Davey was musing about sunshine and rollercoasters.

An insider told the Daily Mail there was 'chaos' backstage before Kimmel's highly anticipated return to late-night TV.

The Nouvelair plane mistakenly tried to land at the wrong runway at Nice Cote d'Azur Airport on Sunday night, which has two parallel runways situated close together.

Michelle and Spielberg took their friendship to the next level as they twinned in matching denim outfits while aboard his $250million superyacht on Tuesday.

Jimmy Kimmel returned to social media for the first time since his late-night show was abruptly pulled from ABC's lineup.

Donald Trump insisted that NATO nations should feel emboldened to shoot down Russian planes if they enter their countries' airspace.

AI attacks on the rise

A survey of cybersecurity bosses has shown that 62 percent reported attacks on their staff using AI over the last year, either by the use of prompt injection attacks or faking out their systems using phony audio or video generated by AI.…

The Independent Pharmacies Association industry body told the Daily Mail that pregnant women have been asking their local chemists for advice about paracetamol Donald Trump's claims.

An analysis of a literature database finds that text-generating AI tools -- including ChatGPT and Gemini -- can be used to rewrite scientific papers and produce 'copycat' versions that are then passed off as new research. Nature: In a preprint posted on medRxiv on 12 September, researchers identified more than 400 such papers published in 112 journals over the past 4.5 years, and demonstrated that AI-generated biomedicine studies could evade publishers' anti-plagiarism checks. The study's authors warn that individuals and paper mills -- companies that produce fake papers to order and sell authorships -- might be exploiting publicly available health data sets and using large language models (LLMs) to mass-produce low-quality papers that lack scientific value. "If left unaddressed, this AI-based approach can be applied to all sorts of open-access databases, generating far more papers than anyone can imagine," says Csaba Szabo, a pharmacologist at the University of Fribourg in Switzerland, who was not involved in the work. "This could open up Pandora's box [and] the literature may be flooded with synthetic papers."

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The more I think about it, the more the parallels become blindingly obvious. Scary, even.

The mission off the coast of Newhaven in East Sussex features in the first episode of a new series of Channel 5 documentary Coastguard: Search & Rescue SOS which begins at 9pm tomorrow night.

The Daily Mail broke the news that Dani, 29, one of the show's favourites, had to bow out on Tuesday, after fracturing her ankle during a training rehearsal on Friday.

James Van Der Beek was forced to miss the anticipated Dawson's Creek reunion on Monday night after falling ill during his treatment for colorectal cancer. 

Security vendor's no good, very bad week year

SonicWall on Monday released a firmware update that the security vendor says will remove rootkit malware deployed in recent attacks targeting Secure Mobile Access (SMA) 100 appliances.…

Brandon Isabelle, 28, is facing first-degree murder charges for the 2022 deaths of his girlfriend Danielle Hoyle, 27, and their two-day-old daughter Kennedy.