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A Pentagon scientist has asked for presidential immunity so he can reveal the details about four alien races he allegedly saw in classified military files.

Dolphins have learned to use a new tool in a shocking sign of growing intelligence that was recently caught on camera.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: Your iPhone, SamsungGalaxy, andGoogle Pixel have a 1-year warranty. Unless you cough up extra dough for an extended service plan, you'll pay a hefty fee if you damage the screen and need a replacement (around $329 for an iPhone 17 done directly from Apple). But it doesn't have to be this way. What if you could order the part from the manufacturer and do the repair yourself? That dream is finally being realized for American consumers, thanks to Fairphone. The Dutch company is bringing its repairable and sustainably built Android smartphone -- the Fairphone (Gen 6+) -- to the US. Each one comes with a screwdriver. A replacement screen from Fairphone costs just $90. A new USB-C port is $20. A fresh battery is $40. In all, there are 12 modular elements you can swap yourself. It remains the only smartphone series with a 10/10 repairability scorefrom iFixit, not to mention an unmatched 5-year warranty and software updates through 2033. The new Fairphone (Gen 6+) is a small upgrade over the Gen 6 that the company launched last year. It has a newer Qualcomm Snapdragon 7s Gen 4 processor and double the RAM at 12 GB, but is otherwise largely the same device (hence the "plus" in the name). It now comes in Cobalt Blue, a nod to the miners who extract the cobalt used to make phone batteries, and the company's efforts to improve working conditions in mines in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The new Fairphone is available on Amazon and at Fairphone.com for $650, and it's officially certified to work on T-Mobile and AT&T's networks. While this will mark the U.S. debut of its flagship smartphone, the company first entered the stateside market last year with its repairable earbuds and headphones. It also plans to launch its next-generation Fairbuds 2 wireless earbuds later this year.

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Ambulances, helicopters and lifeguards rushed to the scene in Shoreham-by-Sea, West Sussex, after four people found themselves in difficulty in the sea.

Green activists claimed that British Jews were a 'weapon' of Israel and described violence towards Jewish people as 'understandable' in messages shared in a private WhatsApp group.

A new analysis has found the price of a typical shopping list for a family BBQ has soared over the past five years.

The Prime Minister was duped by an unknown individual who posed as top White House aide Susie Wiles.

This is the moment a father dragged a burning air conditioning unit out of the family home seconds before it burst into flames. 

Musician Keith Richards has become a grandfather for the ninth time at the age of 82.

Santanna Maria Ally, 38, who performed under the name Santanna Oush, died on August 9 on the last day of the Houghton Festival at 18th century Houghton Hall in north Norfolk.

The window display of the Royal China restaurant in London 's Chinatown includes a ceramic figurine of a Chinese Mudman, a happy yoke-carrying character much revered in Chinese folklore.

Improvements will be made after a six-figure cash injection

The group were suspected of multiple car thefts and burglaries, as well as other serious anti-social activities across the Kildare and Carlow regions for at least the past two weeks.

RICHARD GIBSON: Imran Khan is to be moved from solitary confinement to hospital following repeated appeals from his family over his health.

June Miles is accused of moving two of her Bernese mountain dogs from Antony Harrington's home after she discovered his body in the garden of the house at Meriden, West Midlands.

As torrential thundery showers make their way south, forecasters warn there could be flash flooding - because the ground is too hard to soak up the water.

Google has agreed to pay $10 million for a massive trove of anonymized Spirit Airlines data following the carrier's shutdown, including internal communications, spreadsheets, booking and frequent-flyer records, transactions, and employee information. CNN reports: Did you ever fly on Spirit Airlines? Or work there? Or send an email to someone who worked there? Then your information will soon be feeding Google's artificial intelligence model. The discount airline halted all operations in May, and it's been selling off its remaining assets through the bankruptcy process ever since. While most of that is planes, equipment, and real estate, there's other things that are valuable, too. It was disclosed late Monday that the company agreed to sell its data to Google for $10 million. That includes emails and internal communications, spreadsheets, transactions with the public including bookings and frequent flyer information as well as human resources information on its employees. The data has been stripped of anything that would allow individuals to be identified, according to the court filing. But it is still a massive amount of useful intelligence.

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An American singer who fell for a Scottish football fan during the Tartan Army's takeover of Boston during the World Cup has revealed she has ended her romance with him.

Brian Wilkins, 78, dubbed the 'Bird Man of Hartlepool', will stand trial in September at Teesside Crown Court, after he refused to stop feeding breadcrumbs to pigeons and seagulls.

LAWRENCE BOOTH: It's come to something when an England team who arrived in Australia in November with hopes of Ashes glory begin a home series against Pakistan with ridicule threatening.