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A new survey of 2,000 Gen Z and millennials reveals the exact age you're considered 'old' - and it's much younger than you think.

Candy Crush-maker King is cutting approximately 200 employees, with many positions filled by AI tools the departing workers helped develop, according to multiple sources who spoke anonymously to industry publication MobileGamer.biz. The layoffs heavily target level designers, user research staff, and UX and narrative writers across King's London, Barcelona, Stockholm, and Berlin studios. The London-based Farm Heroes Saga team faces cuts of roughly 50 people, including key leadership positions. "Most of level design has been wiped, which is crazy since they've spent months building tools to craft levels quicker," one staffer said. "Now those AI tools are basically replacing the teams."

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This is the moment a van driver ploughed into a cyclist, leaving him with a ruptured spine, broken ribs and internal bleeding, before claiming that he thought 'he hit a sheep'.

Dignity in Dying campaigner Emma Bray spent her final days in a hospice this summer after voluntarily deciding to stop eating and drinking.

Matthew Drapper, 37, was volunteering at St Thomas Philadelphia, Sheffield, in 2014 when he was told he had come under 'demonic possession' due to his 'sexual impurity'.

An Essex mum says her sports bra has saved her life after chafing revealed a bump in her breast

Alicia Kemp, 25, from Worcestershire, allegedly struck 51-year-old engineer Thanh Phan while riding a hired e-scooter through Perth's city centre on the night of May 31.

Louis Tomlinson announced that he was quitting X on Monday due to 'conspiracy chat' about his personal life.

Off-the-charts gravitational waves ripple out from merged dead stars

Researchers have observed the largest ever collision between two massive black holes witnessed by humans, a finding that’s sent astrophysicists back to their calculators to re-think models.…

Psychologists are now warning that Labubu toys, the latest collectible craze among Gen Z, could be a sign of deeper emotional struggles, saying the Labubu toy craze is not 'a shallow trend'

The Ministry of Defence has warned of possible public disorder following the revelations that thousands of Afghans have been quietly slipped into Britain.

A new book has has made disturbing claims about Amelia Earhart's publishing tycoon husband, George Putnam.

Stan Rickman, 91, and Rona Rickman, 88, were found dead in their home after ablaze in their home in Alton, Hampshire, on April 14.

The venomous war of words has been ongoing since the couple split in 2021 and the Welsh actor, 51, began a relationship with his now-wife Bianca Wallace, 32.

Looks like DoD FOMO struck Silicon Valley

Updated  The Pentagon's embrace of the AI industry just put up to $800 million on the table, as the Department of Defense issued a quartet of contracts bringing the biggest names in the biz officially into the fold. …

Microsoft employs engineers in China to help maintain Defense Department computer systems, with U.S. citizens serving as "digital escorts" to oversee the foreign workers, according to a ProPublica investigation. The escorts often lack advanced technical expertise to police engineers with far more sophisticated skills, and some are former military personnel paid barely above minimum wage. "We're trusting that what they're doing isn't malicious, but we really can't tell," one current escort told the publication. The arrangement, critical to Microsoft winning federal cloud computing contracts a decade ago, handles sensitive but unclassified government data including materials that directly support military operations. Former CIA and NSA executive Harry Coker called the system a natural opportunity for spies, saying "If I were an operative, I would look at that as an avenue for extremely valuable access."

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Castle Point Council is looking to bring back overnight street lighting in the district

Malcolm Baker, who helped investigate the fatal poisoning of ex-KGB agent-turned Russian dissident Alexander Litvinenko, died in a house explosion after apparently dousing himself in petrol.

Formula One outcast Mick Schumacher has confirmed he is in talks with newcomers Cadillac regarding a return to the sport for the 2026 season.

In his latest book of the Kennedy family, acclaimed Camelot biographer J. Randy Taraborrelli reveals all.