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We are constantly being told that what we really want in politics is 'change' and that the old two-party system is incapable of delivering it. Well, that is certainly not the case here in Oldham.

Global Counsel, which was founded by the peer and former New Labour minister, made more than £3.5million in 2024 and 2025 from WuXi AppTec, according to leaked documents.

The past two years have been bad enough, writes STEPHEN GLOVER. The next three are going to be even worse.

'Harry are you OK, are you OK, Harry?' That was running through my mind (to the tune of Smooth Criminal) as I watched the Duke and Duchess of Sussex's non-royal royal tour unfold last week.

The president touted the attack via Truth Social on Sunday afternoon, ahead of peace talks between negotiators from the US and Iran in Islamabad, Pakistan, on Monday.

Soaring numbers of foreign criminals in Britain's courts has seen taxpayer spending on translators soar to as much as £152,000 a day.

The forecasting group EY Item Club also warned that an energy price 'shock' will soon drive inflation to almost 4 per cent, while unemployment will hit 5.8 per cent in mid-2027.

It comes at a time of mounting scepticism about the boom in 'Turkish-style' barbers, with police believing a minority are being used as fronts for criminal gangs.

Crews were working for hours to extinguish the blaze

A mysterious white pickup truck has been stalking women along Montana's long, empty highways.

Samuel Smith took Hertfordshire Police to the High Court after a dozen officers arrived at his home, carried out an unlawful search and wrongfully detained him.

Tehran has attacked US military ships in the Gulf of Oman with drones, following the daring American raid on an Iranian tanker on Sunday.

I'm A Celeb South Africa hosts Ant and Dec have blasted David Haye in rare comments about the show.

Revealing new details of its pledge to tighten Britain's border controls, Reform UK said all illegal migrants who arrived in the five years prior to the next election would be locked up.

One word was repeated by almost everyone: 'Duty.' The present Queen, Camilla, expressed it most emphatically: 'I think duty has overridden everything.'

Zoom "has partnered with World, Sam Altman's iris-scanning identity company (previously known as Worldcoin), " reports Digital Trends, "to add real-time human verification inside meetings." Zoom is now inviting organizations to join the beta version of the rollout, which Digital Trends says "lets hosts confirm that every face on the call belongs to a real person, not an AI-generated imposter. " For those wondering how World's Deep Face technology works, it includes a three-step process. It cross-references a signed image from a user's original Orb registration, a live face scan from the device, and the frame of the video that's visible to the other participants in the meeting. Only when the three samples match does a "Verified Human" badge appear next to the user's name... Hosts can also make Deep Face verification mandatory for joining meetings, preventing unverified participants from joining entirely. Mid-call, on-the-spot checks are also possible...

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Blames outfit called Context.ai, which reckons an agentic OAuth tangle caused the incident

Vercel, the company that created the open source Next.js web development framework, has a data leak that led to compromise of some customer credentials, and blamed an outfit called Context.ai for the mess.…

Graham Norton's new ITV show The Neighbourhood will see families living on a real street compete in a series of ruthless, backstabbing challenges for a £250,000 prize.

The move comes as Brussels presses ahead with its Entry/Exit System (EES), which requires all non-EU visitors to give biometric data at airports and border crossings.

A buy route near Stansted Airport on the Essex - Hertfordshire border is being affected by traffic lights not working.