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Palace officials have been 'dismayed' by the fact that the Lord Mandelson furore has blown up on the eve of Donald Trump's visit.

An employee at a Michigan Office Depot was fired after allegedly refusing to print flyers for a vigil honoring Charlie Kirk, instead calling the posters 'propaganda.'

Penny Gibbons, 71, was left howling in agony after tripping in the pothole-ridden car park of Slough Crematorium when she was helping at a funeral.

Seven Jewish premises in Barnet, north London, were allegedly targeted while four synagogues and a private residence had a 'substance smeared on them' between August 15 and September 11.

A forensic psychologist has raised 'serious questions' about the handwritten notes used to convict Lucy Letby of murder.

The revelations emerged via a Freedom of Information request by former police officer, Oliver Laurence, who is concerned about the public's declining confidence in UK policing.

Mia O'Brien was sentenced to 25 years behind bars after a day-long hearing which was held entirely in Arabic on July 25. She had been caught with 50g of cocaine by police last October.

Alleged killer, Tyler Robinson, was turned over by Lance Twiggs, who lived with him in a three-bedroom apartment in Saint George, Utah, Daily Mail can reveal.

Robert Shrader has been charged after he allegedly put hidden cameras in bathrooms at the hospital he worked at. He has also been sued by individuals claiming they were unknowingly recorded.

Finland's second-largest university has announced new research suggesting that heart attacks could be an infectious disease. [T]he research found that, in coronary artery disease, atherosclerotic plaques containing cholesterol may harbor a gelatinous, asymptomatic biofilm formed by bacteria over years or even decades. Dormant bacteria within the biofilm remain shielded from both the patient's immune system and antibiotics because they cannot penetrate the biofilm matrix. A viral infection or another external trigger may activate the biofilm, leading to the proliferation of bacteria and an inflammatory response. The inflammation can cause a rupture in the fibrous cap of the plaque, resulting in thrombus [blood clot] formation and ultimately myocardial infarction... "Bacterial involvement in coronary artery disease has long been suspected, but direct and convincing evidence has been lacking," explains professor Pekka Karhunen [who led the study with researchers from the UK and Finland]. "Our study demonstrated the presence of genetic material — DNA — from several oral bacteria inside atherosclerotic plaques." The findings were validated by developing an antibody targeted at the discovered bacteria, which unexpectedly revealed biofilm structures in arterial tissue. Bacteria released from the biofilm were observed in cases of myocardial infarction. The body's immune system had responded to these bacteria, triggering inflammation which ruptured the cholesterol-laden plaque. The observations pave the way for the development of novel diagnostic and therapeutic strategies for myocardial infarction. Furthermore, they advance the possibility of preventing coronary artery disease and myocardial infarction by vaccination. "The research is part of an extensive EU-funded cardiovascular research project involving 11 countries..."

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Florida mother Daniella Hines, 40, stunned a maternity ward after delivering her record breaking baby boy, Annan.

Tyler Robinson, 22, was arrested on Thursday evening after a 33-hour manhunt following conservative commentator Charlie Kirk, 31, being assassinated on Wednesday.

Courtney Wright, 13, who was banned from Bilton School in Rugby, after teachers told her she could not wear a Union Jack dress told protesters gathered in London that 'British culture matters too'.

A dispute between neighbours in Victorian England which rocked a sleepy coastal village on the edge of the Lake District has left an enduring legacy.

For Jennifer Aniston , it's all about the sisterhood. She and Reese Witherspoon recognised they were kindred spirits in 2000 when Witherspoon had a guest role in Friends.

A notorious billionaire who started building a colossal mansion and then left it to rot for four decades has finally revealed why he abandoned the project.

In an interview with ex-Tory councillor William Coleshill, one protester said: 'Keir Starmer needs to be assassinated, someone needs to shoot Keir Starmer.'

It was "little more than empty fields" five years ago — but it's now "a vast, heavily guarded complex stretching for 210 hectares (520 acres)," reports the Guardian, "the frontline of a multibillion-dollar criminal fraud industry fuelled by human trafficking and brutal violence." Myanmar, Cambodia and Laos have in recent years become havens for transnational crime syndicates running scam centres such as KK Park, which use enslaved workers to run complex online fraud and scamming schemes that generate huge profits. There have been some attempts to crack down on the centres and rescue the workers, who can be subjected to torture and trapped inside. But drone images and new research shared exclusively with the Guardian reveal that the number of such centres operating along the Thai-Myanmar border has more than doubled since Myanmar's military seized power in 2021, with construction continuing to this day. Data from the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (Aspi), a defence thinktank in Canberra, shows that the number of Myanmar scam centres on the Thai border has increased from 11 to 27, and they have expanded in size by an average of 5.5 hectares a month. Drone images and photographs of KK Park and other Myanmar scam centres, Tai Chang and Shwe Kokko, taken by the Guardian in August show new features and active building work... Myanmar's military junta has allowed the spread of scam centres inside the country as these criminal enterprises have become an essential part of the country's conflict economy since the coup, helping it rise to the top of the global list of countries harbouring organised crime. According to Aspi's analysis, Myanmar's military, which has lost huge swathes of territory since the coup and is struggling to retain its grip on power, cannot take meaningful measures against the scam compounds without endangering its precarious relations with the crucial armed militias who are profiting from them. While 7,000 people were freed from the compounds earlier this year, "Thai police estimated earlier this year that as many as 100,000 people were held inside Myanmar scam centres," the article notes. Elsewhere the Guardian reports that "The centres are run by Chinese criminal gangs," and describes people who unwittingly came to Thailand for customer service jobs, only to be trafficked to Myanmar's guarded "cyberslavery compounds" and "forced to send thousands of messages from fake social-media profiles, posing as a rich American investor to swindle US real estate agents into cryptocurrency scams." Since 2020, south-east Asia's cyber-slavery industry has entrapped hundreds of thousands of people and forced them to perform "pig butchering" — the brutal term for building trust with a fraud target before scamming them. At first, the industry mostly captured Chinese and Taiwanese people, then it moved on to south-east Asians and Indians — and now Africans. Criminal syndicates have been shifting towards scamming victims in the US and Europe after Chinese efforts to prevent its citizens being targeted, experts told the Guardian. That has led some trafficking networks to seek recruits with English-language and tech skills — including east Africans, thousands of whom are now estimated to be trapped inside south-east Asian compounds, says Benedikt Hofmann, the UN Office on Drugs and Crime's representative for south-east Asia and the Pacific. Thanks to long-time Slashdot reader mspohr for sharing the article.

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A viral post last week posited the existence of the 'London banana' - a belt sweeping through the west of the capital where 'you'll have a great time'.

One of the shopping centre's multi-storey car parks on Montfichet Road in Stratford, east London went up in flames after 15 vehicles caught fire on the second floor of car park C.