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Kyiv says a dozen officers were killed when a swarm of high-precision drones smashed into a building by Russia's feared FSB in the Donetsk region.

JONATHAN MCEVOY: BBC Sport has decided time has moved on and that the old show that provided the lowdown on pre-match action on a Saturday lunchtime is no longer fit for purpose.

A chilling minute-by-minute police account has exposed the final minutes leading up to the death of a well-known UFO researcher amid intense public attention.

He survived a horrific airplane crash in 2008 that claimed the lives of four people and prevented him from flying for years.

The Admiral Grigorovich warship is escorting three Russian ships off the south coast in spite of Keir Starmer's threats to use force to seize sanctioned ships from Moscow.

Meta is reportedly cutting about 10% of its workforce, or roughly 8,000 jobs, while closing thousands of open roles it had intended to fill. "We're doing this as part of our continued effort to run the company more efficiently and to allow us to offset the other investments we're making," said Janelle Gale, Meta's chief people officer. The company had almost 79,000 employees at the start of the year. Quartz reports: Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has poured resources into building out AI capabilities, directing spending toward model development, chatbot products, and the engineering talent to support them. Meta set its 2026 capital expenditure guidance at $115 billion to $135 billion, almost double the $72 billion it spent in 2025. Employees have been encouraged to use AI agents internally for tasks such as writing code. The early disclosure, Gale explained, was prompted by the fact that information about the cuts had already made its way into press reports before the company was ready to announce. "I know this is unwelcome news and confirming this puts everyone in an uneasy state, but we feel this is the best path forward, given the circumstances," she wrote. According to the memo, severance for affected workers in the United States will cover 18 months of COBRA health insurance premiums, along with a base pay component of 16 weeks that increases by two weeks for each year of service. Departing employees will have access to job placement assistance and, where applicable, help navigating immigration status. Packages outside the U.S. will vary by country. Meta cut between 10% and 15% of its Reality Labs workforce in January, shut down several VR game studios, and shed about 700 positions across at least five divisions in March.

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Keeping it simple for the developers can lead to very complex headaches later

PWNED  Welcome back to PWNED, the column where we celebrate the people who’ve taught us how not to secure a server. If you’ve ever tied your own shoelaces together, then tripped over them, or attempted to dive into a swimming pool but hit your head on the diving board, we’ll be talking about your cyber equivalent.…

President Trump is returning to the White House correspondents' dinner on his own terms with his wife First Lady Melania Trump.

Simon Lyons, 45, and Farid Alizadeh, 45, set up Enstar Capital Ltd in 2004, and worked on more than £100m worth of developments.

Surrey Police originally said they received a report that a group of men followed a woman in her 20s from Labyrinth Epsom nightclub in the early hours of April 11.

A woman was mauled by a rabid wild fox outside her Worcester, Massachusetts apartment on April 3 just after 7am.

All the Typhoons, everywhere, all at once

A majority of China-linked threat actors are using compromised routers and IoT devices worldwide, turning this gear into proxy networks to carry out further intrusions, steal sensitive data, and disrupt victim organizations’ operations, according to a joint 10-country advisory.…

The singer, 21, threw an olive branch to his older sibling as he shared a sweet throwback photo with Brooklyn, 27, and Romeo, 23, from their childhood.

'I feel like something's broken in me,' says Jayne, a solicitor in her mid-50s who's used to solving other people's problems.

A massive statue has been uncovered near the Nile of Egypt, featuring details linked to the Bible story of Moses.

Anna Sales, from Bacton in Norfolk, described how the life of her family 'turned upside-down' when Chris, 42, was told he had an eight-centimeter tumour.

Camila Giorgi, 34, walked away from tennis in May 2024 to pursue her new career but told a fan on Instagram this week that she will pick up her racket again next year.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: The French government agency that handles the issuing and management of citizens' identity documents, including national IDs, passports, and immigration documents, confirmed Wednesday that it experienced a data breach. In an announcement, the Agence Nationale des Titres Securises (ANTS) said the data stolen in the breach could include full names, dates and places of birth, mailing and email addresses, and phone numbers on an undisclosed number of citizens. ANTS said the investigation to determine how the breach happened and its impact is ongoing, and people whose data was affected are being notified. ANTS, which said it detected the attack on April 15, did not specify how many people were affected by the breach. But some reporting suggests millions may have had some of their personal information stolen. According to Bleeping Computer, a hacker has advertised the stolen data on a hacking forum, claiming to have a database with 19 million records. The hacker's forum post referenced the same kind of stolen information as mentioned in ANTS' announcement and was published before ANTS publicly disclosed the breach on April 20.

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Sharon Pocock, 48, moved in to the Lydstep flats near the centre of Cardiff with her son and four-year-old Dachshund, George, in October 2024.

D4vd, real name David Anthony Burke, was charged with first-degree murder on April 20 for the death of Celeste Rivas Hernandez , 14.