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A Texas man has been taken into custody by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement following allegations of his involvement in a multimillion-dollar fraud scheme.

Startling figures recorded by one council reveal an independent pub was stung by a 226 per cent hike in fees, costing them almost £17,000 for one year

Mohammed Tayyab bought a derelict care home in Bradford, West Yorkshire, for £355,000 in August 2021, with plans to bulldoze the eyesore building and replace it with a lavish detached home.

Astonished staff at the Metropole Hotel in Blackpool allegedly walked in on a Syrian man romping a migrant woman during a room inspection.

Fast Company's tech editor Harry McCracken (also harrymccSlashdot reader #1,641,347) writes: As part of Fast Company's "1995 week", I wrote about IBM's ThinkPad 701, the famous model with an expanding "butterfly" keyboard [which could be stretched from 9.7-inches to 11.5 inches]. By putting full-sized keys in a subnotebook-sized laptop, it solved one of mobile computing's biggest problems. IBM discontinued it before the end of the year, and neither it nor anyone else ever made anything similar again. And yet it remains amazing. Check out this 1995 ad for the keyboard! The article calls the butterfly ThinkPad "one of the best things the technology industry has ever done with moving parts," and revisits 1995's race "to design a subnotebook-sized laptop with a desktop-sized keyboard." It's still comically thick, standing almost as tall as four MacBook Airs stacked on each other. That height is required to accommodate multiple technologies later rendered obsolete by technological progress, such as a dial-up fax/modem, an infrared port, two PCMCIA expansion card slots, and a bulky connector for an external docking station... Lifting the screen set off a system of concealed gears and levers that propelled the two sections of keyboard into position with balletic grace... A Businesweek article cited sales of 215,000 units and said it was 1995's best-selling PC laptop. Yet by the time that story appeared in February 1996, the 701 had been discontinued. IBM never made anything like it again. Neither did anyone else... As portable computers became more popular, progress in display technology had made it possible for PC makers to use larger screens. Manufacturers were also getting better at fitting a laptop's necessary components into less space. These advances let them design a new generation of thin, light laptops that went beyond the limitations of subnotebooks. Once IBM could make a lightweight laptop with a wider screen, "the need for an expanding keyboard was no longer essential," says [butterfly ThinkPad engineer] George Karidis. "It would have just been a novelty." The article notes a fan's open source guides for repairing butterfly Thinkpads at Project Butterfly, and all the fan-community videos about it on YouTube, "from an excellent documentary to people simply being entranced by it. "As a thing of wonder, it continues to transcend its own obsolescence."

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EXCLUSIVE: Sixteen houses were gutted and lives torn apart when an inferno ripped through Wennington, East London , on a breezy 41 degree day in July 2022. Locals fear it will happen again.

Andy Byron, 50, the recently resigned boss of billion-dollar AI firm Astronomer, was filmed getting cosy with his HR director Kristin Cabot during Coldplay's sold-out show last Tuesday.

Dr Primrose Freestone, professor of clinical microbiology at the University of Leicester, says you should be laundering towels much more often than you think.

David Smith tried for years to lose weight off his 159kg frame to no avail. That was until a friend offered him some unlikely advice that saw him change his life and drop a whopping 66kg.

A neurologist has shared the eight simple steps she has her elderly mother complete every day to slow down the progression of dementia--and it could revolutionise how we think about the disease.

Tourists have been posting photos of huge summer crowds in the Italian village of Portofino - population 400 - on social media, and strict new rules have been put in place by the town's mayor to curb bad habits.

It may feel like a short-term win to put everything in the hold, but if your luggage gets lost then it can be a painful experience - and these items should always stay with you in the cabin, says one expert.

Trading Spaces (pictured), an American home renovation show which aired on TLC from 2000 to 2008, sees two neighbours redo a room in each other's homes on a budget.

The series, which is based on author Michael Connelly's Renée Ballard Series, premiered on July 9.

A rediscovered episode of the BBC show from 2016 (pictured) sees presenter Fiona Bruce, 61, and the experts head to Scarborough Grand Spa Hall on the North Yorkshire coast.

Amanda Holden has revealed her youngest daughter Hollie, 13, has landed her first runway show, walking in London Fashion Week later this year.

At just 18 he became the X Factor's bad boy with his foul mouth, unbrushed hair and names of seven sexual partners tattooed on his bottom, which he proudly showed off. 

A London-based foot specialist has revealed three huge mistakes people make with their feet.

The presenter, 35, has left fans amazed with her radiant skin and glamorous red carpet looks as they have all been vying to get the 'Stacey' look.

The former Manchester United and England midfielder was visibly fuming after almost scalping himself while attempting a DIY buzz-cut with a pair of clippers.