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Jodie Tedder, now 62, claims she saw her father, James Steele, attack and murder 35-year-old Lyn Babcock in a Washington state hotel room back in 1968.

Thor Björgólfsson, known as the Nordic country's first billionaire, changed his tax residency over the last year - and has also moved his investment firm Novator from London to Zurich.

Backed by a former children's laureate, the report identifies more than 60 books from major publishing houses which feature children 'born in the wrong body'.

The average strength of a can of beer or bottle of wine has dropped by around one per cent, with a sharp increase in the number of beers sold which contain less than 3.5 per cent alcohol.

LEO MCKINSTRY: Nostalgia for that troubled, turbulent decade will shortly be a central theme of our country's governance.

If you happen to be a Kremlin-linked oligarch, say, or a Hollywood A-lister or even just a common-or-garden billionaire, then chances are you've docked your superyacht in Porto Montenegro.

The rock and roll singer known for songs including Tallahassee Lassie and Palisades Park passed away on Friday after a short battle with cancer.

Johnny Boden, of the posh clothing company that bears his surname, has paid Winkleman's stylist a hefty sum to design a range inspired by the star.

This week Slashdot reader joshuark found the story of exactly how in 2025 ProPublica reporter Renee Dudley confirmed Microsoft was running tech support for the U.S. Defense Department through China, America's biggest cybersecurity adversary — and how that investigation ultimately changed U.S. government policy. The reporter first found an ad offering $18 to $28 to hire Americans as "digital escorts" for China-based tech support, then just searched LinkedIn for people who apparently had answered the ad. They discovered that at the time "Behind the scenes, unseen by the users at the U.S. government, it's not just one person who responds," explains ProPublica's podcast. "It's two people... The China-based engineer is the one who knows how to fix the problem. On their end, they produce a block of code to solve it and send it over to the digital escort in the U.S. The digital escort then just copy-pastes it... All of this so that they can follow the government's rule: that you have to be a U.S. citizen or permanent resident to handle sensitive data." But amazingly to confirm it, ProPublica's researcher just had to input "Microsoft" and "escort" into the U.S. Patent Office search bar, and actually found patents related to digital escorts — along with names of the current and former Microsoft employees listed as inventors. Had the government signed off on the practice? "I could see what Microsoft actually told the government," the reporter says on the podcast, "And there was no mention of foreign engineers being used, and definitely no mention of China." ProPublic's story was published on a Tuesday, according to the podcast, and by Friday "Microsoft said it had stopped using China-based engineers to support Defense Department cloud systems." And America's Defense Department "also opened up an investigation, looking into whether any of Microsoft's China-based engineers had compromised the government's national security.

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'This is the final insult,' one politician said before New Jersey hosts Sunday's World Cup final between Argentina and Spain at the 80,000-seater stadium near New York City.

She was the picture of polished chic when she stepped out at Wimbledon earlier this month with her Danish actor boyfriend.

Ms Phillipson embarked on the legal battle after trying to dilute Tory legislation which put a duty on universities and student unions to actively promote, as well as protect, free speech on campuses.

BRYONY GORDON: I realised that the memefication of this World Cup is partly what has made it one of the most enjoyable in recent memory.

Spain was forced to cancel its final training session and Argentina faced delays as severe storms battered the region ahead of Sunday's final.

England assistant coach Anthony Barry appeared on the brink of tears as he spoke at half-time about his pride for his Three Lions players after they hit four past France.

The presenter, 49, was seen on a night out with film industry boss Charlie Coleman, an executive at Amazon MGM Studios, The Sun has reported.

Argentina's rugby stars appeared to join the mocking of England after their World Cup victory over their arch-rivals by wearing a kit paying homage to Diego Maradona's 1986 team.

Rogers has been one of Arsenal's top targets throughout the summer but until now the Gunners have not met Villa's valuation of their star attacker.

As La Albiceleste prepare to face Spain at New Jersey's MetLife Stadium in Sunday's showpiece event, thousands of fans swarmed upon the Big Apple - despite flash floods in the city.

Reuters reports: Incoming British prime minister Andy Burnham will scrap the government's troubled plans for a digital ID scheme when he enters office on Monday, a spokesperson for the new Labour Party leader said. Resources devoted to the scheme, deemed a "fiasco" by a cross-party committee of lawmakers, will be redirected to Burnham's priorities, the spokesperson said... "All the time and resource that was going to be spent on a national ID scheme will go instead to where it's most needed, such as helping with the cost of living," Burnham's spokesperson said. In November, the Office for Budget Responsibility watchdog estimated the cost of the digital ID scheme at around £1.8 billion ($2.4 billion) between financial years 2026/27 and 2028/29.

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