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Allianz employs around 6,000 people in the UK at sites including its Guildford headquarters and a legal protection office in Bristol.

Sabadell has put TSB, which has 175 UK branches, up for sale and said it had received preliminary expressions of interest.

A report from Oxford Economics reveals that BP generated the equivalent of £1 of every £380 of value added to the economy in 2024.

The so-called 'Strictly curse' has been a tabloid staple for over a decade - rooted in the idea that taking part in the show often spells trouble for contestants' relationships.

Researchers described the results as 'promising', given how easy both habits are to follow and how quick the benefits seem to take effect.

Owner of Sifter Records in Burnage, Manchester since 1977, Peter Howard helped shape the future Live Forever stars' early tastes in singles, albums and everything in between.

Waymo plans to relaunch its robotaxi service in New York City, starting with safety driver testing while lobbying to change state law to eventually allow fully autonomous vehicles without human operators. The company has applied for a permit and will begin mapping in Manhattan, though legislative hurdles and skepticism from lawmakers remain. The Verge reports: A bill was introduced in the New York State Legislature earlier this year that would permit autonomous vehicles without safety drivers "provided that the automated driving system is engaged and the vehicle meets certain conditions." The bill is currently under consideration by the state Senate's transportation committee. New York City also has some of the most dangerous, congested, and poorly managed streets in the world. They are also full of construction workers, pedestrians, bicyclists, and double- and sometimes even triple-parked cars. In theory, this would make it very difficult for an autonomous vehicle to navigate, given that AVs typically rely on good weather, clear signage, and less aggressive driving from other road users for safe operation. And it's not clear that the state will amend its laws to allow for fully driverless vehicles, with some lawmakers expressing reservations. "This kind of testing hasn't even been completed in other parts of the country," state Senator John Liu told Daily News last year after the city announced its new permitting process. "It would behoove New York City to wait to see some of those other results of driverless technology in less dense urban settings. This is an example of something where New York City does not have to be first."

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Trent Alexander-Arnold, simply known as Trent on the back of his Madrid shirt, is making his first involvement since he ended his 20-year association with boyhood club Liverpool.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: YouTube CEO Neal Mohan has announced that the Google Veo 3 AI video generator will be integrated with YouTube Shorts later this summer. According to Mohan, YouTube Shorts has seen a rise in popularity even compared to YouTube as a whole. The streaming platform is now the most watched source of video in the world, but Shorts specifically have seen a massive 186 percent increase in viewership over the past year. Mohan says Shorts now average 200 billion daily views. YouTube has already equipped creators with a few AI tools, including Dream Screen, which can produce AI video backgrounds with a text prompt. Veo 3 support will be a significant upgrade, though. At the Cannes festival, Mohan revealed that the streaming site will begin offering integration with Google's leading video model later this summer. "I believe these tools will open new creative lanes for everyone to explore," said Mohan. [...] While you can add Veo 3 videos (or any video) to a YouTube Short right now, they don't fit with the format's portrait orientation focus. Veo 3 outputs 720p landscape videos, meaning you'd have black bars in a Short. Presumably, Google will create a custom version of the model for YouTube to spit out vertical video clips. Mohan didn't mention a pricing model, but Veo 3 probably won't be cheap for Shorts creators. Currently, you must pay for Google's $250 AI Ultra plan to access Veo 3, and that still limits you to 125 8-second videos per month.

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He made a sly dig at a former Essex contestant who he was coupled up with

New MCP server was shut down for nearly two weeks

Asana has fixed a bug in its Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that could have allowed users to view other organizations' data, and the experimental feature is back up and running after nearly two weeks of downtime to fix the issue.…

An award-winning film director was found dead in her home wrapped in a blanket with tape over her mouth - after being targeted for her diamond Rolex.

Escort Sharay Hayes, also known as 'The Punisher,' told DailyMail.com he didn't know he was being filmed during freak offs sessions with Sean 'Diddy' Combs and Cassie Ventura.

Microsoft is planning to ax thousands of jobs, particularly in sales, as part of the company's latest move to trim its workforce amid heavy spending on AI. From a report: The cuts are expected to be announced early next month [non-paywalled source], following the end of Microsoft's fiscal year, according to people familiar with the matter. The reductions won't exclusively affect sales teams, and the timing could still change, said the people, who requested anonymity to discuss a private matter. The terminations would follow a previous round of layoffs in May that hit 6,000 people and fell hardest on product and engineering positions, largely sparing customer-facing roles like sales and marketing.

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Johnny Depp made a surprise appearance as Captain Jack Sparrow at the Niño Jesús University Children's Hospital, in Madrid on Monday.

He was born at the zoo in 2020

Argentine side River Plate got their campaign up and running when they beat Urawa Reds of Japan 3-1, with Facundo Solidio, Sebastian Driussi and Maximiliano Meza all on the scoresheet.

Sabrina Carpenter is defending a photo from her September 2024 W magazine spread.

Investigators believe Air India Flight 171 had an emergency-power generator operating when it crashed last week, raising questions about whether the plane's engines functioned properly during takeoff. WSJ: The preliminary finding [non-paywalled source], according to people familiar with the probe, gives investigators a new line of inquiry as they study a crash that killed all but one of the plane's passengers. In all, at least 270 people died following the crash, including some on the ground in the western Indian city of Ahmedabad. The emergency system is known as a ram air turbine. It is a small propeller that drops from the bottom of the 787 Dreamliner's fuselage to serve as a backup generator. Engines normally produce electricity for an aircraft and help run its flight-control systems. The power generated by the RAT can enable crucial aircraft components to function. The system can deploy automatically in flight if both engines have failed or if all three hydraulic system pressures are low, according to an airline's Boeing 787 manual reviewed by The Wall Street Journal. It can also deploy if cockpit instruments lose power or problems emerge with the aircraft's electric motor pumps. Pilots can manually deploy the RAT if needed. The most common occurrence is when a pilot thinks that both engines failed, according to Anthony Brickhouse, a U.S.-based aerospace safety consultant. Engine failures can result from a variety of causes, including bird strikes or problems with fuel.

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Sec Def Hegseth says funds better spent elsewhere, because it's not like the military needs new tech, right?

A federal judge has temporarily blocked an attempt by the Department of Defense to cut funding for university research programs, perhaps inadvertently saving the DoD from an own-goal.…