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Protesters gathered in their hundreds and were kept well away. They could only wait in agonised terror. When police cut the lights, suddenly wailing was drowned out by gunfire.

On Friday, Wall Street's most iconic investor revealed he has snapped up more shares to finally get in on the market's AI gains.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Washington Post: Winning the lottery isn't what brought Carrie Edwards her 15 minutes of fame. It was giving it all away. Standing alone in her kitchen one day in September, the Virginia woman was thunderstruck to discover she had won $150,000 in a Powerball drawing. As she was absorbing her windfall, she said, "I just heard as loud as you can hear God or whoever you believe in the universe just say, this is -- it's not your money." Then came a decision: She would donate it all to her three most cherished charities (source paywalled; alternative source). [...] Her journey to the lucky prize started when she walked into a 7-Eleven with a friend who wanted to buy two Powerball tickets. The jackpot for the Sept. 6 drawing was topping $1.7 billion, the second-largest amount ever. Edwards, 68, hardly ever played the lottery, but her friend was an active player who gave her two pieces of advice: Always buy a paper ticket, rather than getting them online. And the Powerball multiplier is a scam, don't do it. She ignored him on both accounts. She created a Virginia Lottery account on her phone. Then, instead of the typical strategies of using family birthdays and lucky numbers, she went to ChatGPT -- which she had only recently started using for research -- and asked, "Do you have any winning numbers for me?" "Luck is luck," replied the chatbot. Then it gave numbers that she plugged in -- paying the extra dollar for the Power Play to multiply anything she might win. She initially thought luck wasn't on her side when she didn't win the massive jackpot. But what she didn't realize is that she'd picked the "draw two" option, meaning her numbers were reentered for the next drawing. When she got a notification on her phone that she had won, she said, she thought it was a scam, or maybe she'd won something small, like $10. Just to satisfy her curiosity, she logged into her account and saw that she had matched four of the five numbers plus the Powerball in that second drawing. It would have been a $50,000 payout, but the multiplier tripled her winnings.

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Married At First Sight UK stars Keye Luke and Davide Anica have split, the Daily Mail can reveal.

The Daily Mail can reveal a bizarre anomaly in the distribution of Chinese restaurants across the country.

The second in command at the FBI was allowed to circumvent critical vetting processes to gain access to some of the most classified US secrets, insiders are warning.

Disgraced former US ambassador Peter Mandelson has lost an honorary post atr the design Museum over his links with billionaire paedophile Jeffrey Epstein. .

The Beatles' new biopics have hit a major stumbling block as filmmakers have reportedly been banned from shooting on the iconic Abbey Road.

How would you feel about paying a hefty £2.25 for a single piece of bread? That's the exorbitant price tag on Marks & Spencer's 'pan de cristal'.

Andrew Mountbatten Windsor, 65, could reportedly set up home in a £10million luxury villa in the Abu Dhabi royal family's fortified estate, to live a life of luxury away from the media spotlight.

Last weekend Dean Richmond, who recently bought a £4million property in the village, hosted a fireworks party at his new country estate. Much to the anger of residents.

Melissa Rein Lively couldn't have looked less like a woman keeping a low profile as she strode out, blonde hair flowing in the Arizona sunshine, from her home in an exclusive gated community.

So began the extraordinary love affair which would pose the biggest of all threats to John F. Kennedy's turbulent marriage and can now be revealed in full for the first time.

That's the bracing conclusion of family friends monitoring a simmering row between father and son which, I'm told, now threatens to boil over in court.

'They seem pretty close now,' said one of Pierce's friends. 'Chris has been working hard on his sobriety and has reconnected with his dad. Everyone is pleased for him.'

Five days ago, Treasury 'sources' ruled out making changes to the tax-free limit. They could easily have done that months ago but chose not to.

Young men now spend more of their free time alone than any other group, have fewer close friends than ever before, and are disproportionately more likely to commit suicide.

Sixteen years on she is to reunite with them on I'm A Celeb, which they host and in which she stars as a contestant when it begins tomorrow night - and it is likely to be a frosty reunion.

How heartbreaking for Adam Peaty's mother Caroline that she has been 'banned' from his wedding to chef Gordon Ramsay's daughter Holly.It is a decision the lad will regret for the rest of his life.

There is an increasingly haunted, distraught, even helpless look about her. She must know her second Budget is likely to be her last.