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Kentucky couple Jerome Norman and Mary Hall were sentenced to 20 years in jail after police said they starved and tortured three children in their care.

Following what is expected to be bruising results, MPs are expected to write and call for beleaguered Keir Starmer to stand down by party conference in the autumn.

A guest who stayed at a Disney resort in Florida is suing the company for not preventing a shocking encounter that will leave you shaking your head.

For her appearance, Anna, 48, looked effortlessly chic as she flaunted her abs in a long-sleeved black cropped top.

Adolescence continued its incredible winning streak as the smash hit Netflix drama picked up another two gongs at the BAFTA TV Craft Awards on Sunday.

The beloved John Hughes classic Ferris Bueller's Day Off is preparing to celebrate its 40th anniversary this year, see the cast now.

The rain in Spain may stay mainly in the plain, but Coco Gauff's lunch was all over center court at the Madrid Open on Sunday. Somehow, she overcame her illness to pull out a comeback win.

Retired IT consultant Roman played an epic game of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire on Sunday night.

"I love these machines," writes long-time Slashdot reader Shayde: I was super-active in the Unix-PC Usenet groups back in the 90s... We hacked the hell out of them. They were small, sexy, and... they ran Unix! Unfortunately, they were a commercial failure. There were so many things wrong with them — not just stuff that broke, but the baseline configuration was nigh on worthless. I recently was able to get another machine and got it up and running (with a few hiccups). I whipped up a video showing all the cool things it can do, but also running through what went wrong and why it ultimately failed. The video shows the ancient green-on-black screen of 1984's AT&T Unix PC (with the OS running on a silicon drive emulation). The original machine had 512K of memory and a 10-megabyte hard drive described as slow, failure-prone, and noisy. There's also a drive for inserting floppy disks, and a separate MS-DOS board (with its own CPU) that could be plugged into the expansion slot — but the device was "remarkably heavy," weighing in aqt 40 pounds See the strange 1984 mouse, and its keyboard with both a Return key and a separate Enter key. There's even plug-in ports for phone landlines. "It looked great," Shayde says in the video, showing off its Spirograph demo and '80s-era games like Pong, Conway's Game of Life, GNU Chess, "Trk", and NetHack. But besides slow startup times, it was expensive — in today's dollars, it would've cost roughly $15,000 — and suffered from Unix's lack of spreadsheets, word processing software and other office productivity tools at the time. At that price the Unix PCs couldn't compete with IBM's home computers and their desktop applications. "It just didn't have the resources, the software, the capabilities and the price point that made it attractive."

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But hotel businesses across the UK are cashing in. And the owner of the hotel that inspired two of Agatha Christie's novels has said he is set for his busiest summer since Covid.

Authorities have frozen around £168million of assets linked to the Kinahan drug cartel while its leader awaits extradition to Ireland.

Sir Keir Starmer and Donald Trump remained miles apart over Iran last night after their first telephone call for a fortnight. They discussed the blockade of the Strait of Hormuz.

The Only Essex show returns this weekend as the TOWIE cast jet off to Vietnam.

This morning we read an interview the Prime Minister gave to a Sunday newspaper in which he made the following - staggering - claim...

York City's boozy celebrations have lasted more than 24 hours after they sealed a pulse-raising return to the Football League.

Cal.com considers AGPL a license to drill, but not everyone feels that way

Opinion  Cal.com has closed its commercial codebase, abandoning years of AGPL-3.0 licensing in a move that has alarmed the developer community that helped build it and sent ripples through the broader open source world.…

What was once largely the preserve of cod liver oil, vitamin C and the occasional multivitamin has evolved into a sprawling industry.

Donald Trump has three challenging choices to ponder over before deciding his next move with Iran. He also claims the country's oil pipelines will erupt in just days.

Darren Jones said the fallout from 'what Donald Trump has done' would have a 'long tail' even if the Strait of Hormuz reopens immediately - which seems unlikely.

How will Apple change in September under its new CEO — former hardware chief John Ternus? The blog Geeky Gadgets is already expecting "significant updates to the iPhone over the next three years," as well as streamlined internal engineering (plus durability enhancements and high-capacity batteries). 2026: Foldable display 2027: Bezel-less iPhone 20 (celebrating the iPhone's 20th anniversary) CNET's web sites (which include ZDNET, PCMag, Mashable and Lifehacker) are even hosting a contest "to see which of our readers can make the best Apple predictions for 2026. Answer five questions in any of our three rounds of the contest to be entered to win [$applePrize] in September." But the blog 9to5Mac already has a list of new upcoming Apple products, courtesy of Bloomberg's Mark Gurman (who appeared on the TBPN podcast this week "to talk about Apple's CEO transition, what to expect from John Ternus, and more." As part of the conversation, Gurman said: "There are six major Apple products in development right now, six major new product categories." Here's the full list he shared: 1. AI AirPods 2. Smart glasses 3. Pendant 4. Smart display 5. Tabletop robot 6. Security camera [...] Gurman has reported on the Pendant before as a new AI wearable that's an alternative to AI AirPods and Glasses. All three products are expected to rely heavily on a paired iPhone for Siri and other AI features. The smart display ('HomePad'), tabletop robot, and security camera are all brand new Apple Home products. The AI features arrive "thanks to the revamped Apple Foundation Models trained by Google Gemini," reports the AppleInsider blog (citing Gurman's Power On newsletter at Bloomberg). The smart doorbell camera will include "an Apple Intelligence-upgraded version of the facial recognition already included with HomeKit Secure Video. Today, HSV can utilize the Apple Home admin's tagged faces in their Photos app to label people that are viewed on the camera. When a known person rings the doorbell, Siri will announce them by name over the HomePod chime."

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