'Devious' mother-of-two faked having terminal cancer to con her wealthy partner to pay for a boob job and luxury spa treatments - and even let her daughter think she was dying: Judge slams 'calculating and cruel' lies as he spares her jail
Laura McPherson, 35, told company director Jon Leonard that she had cervical, ovarian, colon, bowel and breast cancer and even led her young daughter to believe she was dying.
Police: The text message you must delete and report to us immediately
Law enforcement officers have warned iPhone users of a new tactic scammers are using to try and steal personal information. People have reported nefarious text messages about a fake 'investigation.'
I'm having an affair with a toyboy 40 years my junior and my children think he's after their inheritance - but I don't care
While everyone seems to have an opinion on whether Bridget Jones should be with a man 20 years her junior in the latest film, there's no doubt which side I'm on.
Katherine Ryan's savage takedowns! From slamming Danny Jones' 'drunken BRITs kiss' to sparking a war of words with Bonnie Blue... all the scandal-hit celebrities she has taken aim at
The Canadian comedian's latest target has been Meghan Markle as she has publicly laid into her in the wake of her much-derided Netflix series, With Love, Meghan.
Trump admin given bombshell intelligence from ally that Covid was lab-made... and proof of new China program
The German Federal Intelligence Service carried out a secret investigation into the origins of Covid and evidence supports the lab-leak theory with '80 to 95 percent certainty.'
Man United's £2billion super stadium plans thrown into DOUBT - as industry insiders call into question Sir Jim Ratcliffe's bold statements
JACK GAUGHAN: Man United's grand plans for a £2billion super stadium have raised the eyebrows of industry experts who doubt key aspects of the eye-popping proposal unveiled this week.
Ex-Barclays boss Jes Staley admits having sex with Jeffrey Epstein's employee in New York building where paedophile trafficked underage girls
The married father made the shocking admission while giving evidence at London's Upper Tribunal as he seeks to overturn a finance industry ban and £1.8m fine by the City's regulator.
Train hijack ends in bloodshed and slaughter as 21 hostages are killed before Pakistan military eradicates all of the attackers following day-long standoff
Pakistan militants said on Wednesday they had killed 50 hostages after hijacking the train that was carrying more than 400 passengers. These figures are yet to be verified
Evil scumbag is filmed throwing badly injured cat called Willow into dumpster in California
Surveillance footage captured the man throwing the cat, who has been named Willow, into a dumpster from a white bag in Laguna Hills, California , on Monday night.
Search for man missing from Brentwood suspended after body discovered
Essex Police have suspended their search for a man who was reported missing from Brentwood.
Search for man missing from Brentwood suspended after body discovered
Essex Police have suspended their search for a man who was reported missing from Brentwood.
Donald Trump gives his verdict on Conor McGregor to Irish leader as UFC legend faces sexual assault lawsuit
Rape allegations against Conor McGregor haven't harmed the UFC legend in the eyes of President Donald Trump. 'He's got the best tattoos I've ever seen,' Trump said.
Nvidia won the AI training race, but inference is still anyone's game
When it's all abstracted by an API endpoint, do you even care what's behind the curtain?
Comment With the exception of custom cloud silicon, like Google's TPUs or Amazon's Trainium ASICs, the vast majority of AI training clusters being built today are powered by Nvidia GPUs. But while Nvidia may have won the AI training battle, the inference fight is far from decided.…
Donald Trump fans stunned after hearing president's 'real laugh' for the first time in resurfaced clip
One user on X, formerly Twitter, shared an old snippet from Trump's reality TV competition series The Celebrity Apprentice.
Olivia Wilde enjoys sexy date night with former basketball player after ex Harry Styles reacts to new romance
Olivia Wilde enjoyed a romantic date night with her new boyfriend, Dane DiLiegro, amid reports that her ex Harry Styles feels 'massive relief' she has moved on.
Call 999 if you see missing Essex man, 46
Officers believe David Lee could be in East London
The Curious Surge of Productivity in US Restaurants
The abstract of a paper published on National Bureau of Economic Research: We document that, after remaining almost constant for almost 30 years, real labor productivity at U.S. restaurants surged over 15% during the COVID pandemic. This surge has persisted even as many conditions have returned to pre-pandemic levels. Using mobile phone data tracking visits and spending at more than 100,000 individual limited service restaurants across the country, we explore the potential sources of the surge.
It cannot be explained by economies of scale, expanding market power, or a direct result of COVID-sourced demand fluctuations. The restaurants' productivity growth rates are strongly correlated, however, with reductions in the amount of time their customers spend in the establishments, particularly with a rising share of customers spending 10 minutes or less. The frequency of such 'take-out' customers rose considerably during COVID, even at fast food restaurants, and never went back down. The magnitude of the restaurant-level relationship between productivity and customer dwell time, if applied to the aggregate decrease in dwell time, can explain almost all of the aggregate productivity increase in our sample.
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Queen Camilla shares warm embrace with Charlotte Giles - girlfriend of dead jockey Michael O'Sullivan - at Cheltenham Festival after his tragic passing in February at the age of 24
Having also been present at an emotional day one, which saw the renamed Michael O'Sullivan Supreme Mares Hurdle take place, Giles chatted to Camilla on the second day.
Queen Camilla, Princess Eugenie and Zara Tindall opt for matching outfits as they arrive at Cheltenham for 'Style Wednesday'
Queen Camilla , Princess Eugenie and Zara Tindall gave Cheltenham Festival a very royal welcome as they arrived for 'Style Wednesday'.
iRobot may be iDead in iYear
We're doomba, say Roomba goombas, unless...
Troubled robot vacuum-cleaner maker iRobot, abandoned by Amazon after regulators effectively doomed the web giant's takeover offer, has warned investors it may not survive the next 12 months.…