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The woman, in her 20s, is understood to have been 'taken against her will' at the entertainment complex in Blackburn, Lancashire.

The self-employed electrician, who had been working on a roof in Shoeburyness when he fell, suffered traumatic injuries to his head and torso and died at the scene.

The 43-year-old singer was previously married to the former talent manager from 2013 until their divorce was finalized in 2022. The pair also welcomed two children.

Hashem Abedi, 28, was ordered to serve a record 55-year minimum term for helping his suicide bomber brother Salman murder 22 people, many of them children, at the Manchester Arena in 2017.

Redmond let dev code loose in production Windows, leading to the bug

Microsoft is having difficulty keeping development code out of the Windows event log after another message that users are advised to ignore turned up in the... event log.…

Adela Magaña, 53, was sitting on a bench at Golf N' Stuff in Ventura County, California when a 40-foot palm tree fell on top of her.

A new fossil discovery is adding a lost species to the picture of human evolution, rewriting the history of a famous skeleton.

The teenage killer of 80-year-old dog walker Bhim Kohli, who was savagely beaten to death, will not have his sentence for manslaughter changed, the Court of Appeal has ruled.

The man's remains were found by horrified workers at Skelton Skips, in Knowsthorpe Way, Leeds in October 2022. Police sources say officers are still probing whether it was a possible gangland hit.

The first festival in 2024 saw a very busy beer garden indeed!

Jean Dye, 77, was at the crucial stage of the procedure when the electricity went down - meaning doctors had to delay the process as they couldn't see vital X rays.

Young listeners are accelerating audio and video consumption, with an Economist/YouGov poll finding 31% of Americans aged 18-29 using faster-than-1x playback versus 8% among those 45 and older, as Apple, Spotify, newspapers' audio, Netflix, and YouTube expand speed controls, including YouTube's 4x for premium users. YouTube reports more than 900 years saved per day from fast playback; a meta-analysis led by University of Waterloo researchers finds minimal test-score change up to 1.5x and declines near or past 2x.

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Figures from admissions body Ucas show almost 5,000 applicants chose each option this year, instead of ticking 'male' or 'female'.

How to pick the news sources you want to see more (and less)

hands on  Even if you have your favorite sites bookmarked or type their URLs in through muscle memory, you probably still spend a lot of time looking for info on Google. Now, you can exert some control over which publishers appear in your results for news stories.…

In her new memoir, Frankly, Nicola Sturgeon laughs off the baseless online rumours that she conducted some kind of lesbian affair with France 's ex-ambassador to the UK, Catherine Colonna.

Images from the port of Dover this morning showed human traffickers have begun to deploy a new, longer type of inflatable.

The motorway is shut with National Highways expecting it to remain shut for much of the day

The rocker sparked health concerns from fans with his stiff solo performance with a backing band at the Bethel Woods Center for the Arts in Bethel, NY on August 3.

Users want their customizations and their old models back

There has been more furious backpedalling from OpenAI following the company's ill-judged launch of GPT-5 and the removal of previous model selection.…

Verity McConnell, 27, from Aberdeen, was just 16 when she found herself going into labour and giving birth to a baby girl one Saturday night.