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PC Zachary Marsden used 'unlawful and unnecessary' force against Mohammed Fahir Amaaz in an example of 'bad policing', his barrister argued in his closing speech.

Despite appearing to instigate the attack, Iran accused the US Navy of 'provocative actions' and described its assaults as part of a 'precise combined operation'.

Anne Hathaway and her Devil Wears Prada 2 co-stars were generously compensated for their roles in the hit sequel.

According to Keir Starmer, there's nothing much to see. The election results have been 'tough', he has conceded. And that's about it.

The warning was issued just a day after UK Border Force officer Peter Wai, 40, and retired Hong Kong police officer Bill Yuen, 65, were convicted of spying on Chinese dissidents living here.

James Agius, 50, of Hackney, East London, is accused of abusing members of the Orthodox Jewish community on a bus in North London, on Thursday afternoon.

He may have been inspired by the Duke of Sussex's memoirs, Spare, which should have been consigned to the fiction shelves of bookshops, according to some critics.

The BBC Radio 2 host, 55, has been rumoured to take over from the iconic pair for a while as she previously hosted spin-off show, It Takes Two.

Kate Garraway cosied up to her broadcaster friend Liam Halligan on Friday after 'growing close' as he prepared to take on a huge 300km charity bike ride. 

Sydney Sweeney and her new beau Scooter Braun put on a loved-up display as they took to the skies in Queensland this week.

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When it comes to accessories, I share many of the same instincts as Kendall.

Scarlett Dargan imagines this week's generational debate

Longtime Slashdot reader cellocgw writes: Hiding inside another layoff report, Fidelity is reorganizing: "The changes are aimed at moving the teams away from an 'agile' makeup -- comprising smaller, siloed squads -- and toward larger teams built to move faster on projects." OMG, as they say: "Sudden outbreak of common sense." According to the Boston Globe, Fidelity is cutting about 1,000 jobs even as it plans to hire roughly 5,300 new workers, many of them early-career engineers. Half of the 3,300 new workers hired this year "will be in tech or product-related roles," the report says, noting that "about 2,000 of those jobs are currently open, and 400 of them are in tech/product-delivery." "The company also plans to add almost 2,000 new early-career workers, with the goal of making the tech and product-delivery teams more hands-on. In all, that means roughly 5,300 new jobs in the pipeline for Fidelity." The company says AI isn't driving the shift; as cellocgw noted, it's about moving toward larger teams that Fidelity says can move faster on priority projects. The financial services firm also reported a strong 2025 under CEO Abigail Johnson, with managed assets rising 19% from 2024 to $7.1 trillion and revenue climbing 15% to $37.7 billion. "Throughout the company's history, our investments in technology have fueled our growth and customer service capabilities," Johnson wrote in a letter (PDF) included in the company's annual report. "We will continue to prioritize technology initiatives that help us advance digital capabilities, simplify our technology ecosystem, and protect the firm and our customers."

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A projection by polling firm Rallings & Thrasher suggested Nigel Farage is set to win around 284 seats based on yesterday's vote shares, shy of the 326 required to govern alone.

Taking to the stage at the Royal Albert Hall for a televised event to mark the legendary naturalist and broadcaster's centenary, the heir to the throne said: 'It is a rare privilege to celebrate a century of life.

King Charles and Queen Camilla teamed up with the BBC to secretly film an extraordinary tribute, aired during tonight's televised special 'David Attenborough's 100 Years on Planet Earth'.

Elizabeth Hurley showed off her youthful physique in a black and white striped bikini as she posed for poolside Instagram snaps on Friday.

Essex is full of hardworking people, entrepreneurial people. They’ve had enough. They want real change and that’s what they voted for

BrianFagioli writes: Micron says it is now shipping the world's highest-capacity commercially available SSD, and the numbers are honestly hard to wrap your head around. The new Micron 6600 ION packs 245TB into a single drive and is aimed squarely at AI infrastructure, hyperscalers, and cloud providers dealing with exploding data growth. According to the company, the SSD can reduce rack counts by 82 percent compared to HDD deployments offering similar raw capacity, while also cutting power usage and cooling requirements. Micron says the drive tops out at roughly 30W, which it claims is about half the power draw of comparable hard drive setups. The announcement also feels like another warning sign for spinning disks in the enterprise. Hard drives still dominate bulk storage because of lower cost per terabyte, but SSD capacities keep climbing into territory that used to belong exclusively to HDDs. Micron is also touting major performance gains, claiming up to 84 times better energy efficiency for AI workloads and dramatically lower latency versus HDD-based systems. While nobody is dropping one of these into a home NAS anytime soon, the idea of a quarter petabyte on a single SSD no longer sounds like science fiction.

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