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Tommy Thompson, the deep-sea explorer who discovered the famed S.S. Central America shipwreck, has been released after spending nearly a decade behind bars.

As Labour's stitch-up plan to force through controversial plans for digital ID continues to develop, we ask: Would you be happy to carry a digital ID card?

As one of the most stylish stars in Hollywood, Zendaya never puts a foot wrong - and has the six-figure contract with Louis Vuitton to prove it.

Amanda Thorpe, 33, was arrested after she allegedly flipped off her daughter, 12, and abandoned her at a bar to go dancing at a resort club at Universal CityWalk.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Financial Times: Amazon's ecommerce business has summoned a large group of engineers to a meeting on Tuesday for a "deep dive" into a spate of outages, including incidents tied to the use of AI coding tools. The online retail giant said there had been a "trend of incidents" in recent months, characterized by a "high blast radius" and "Gen-AI assisted changes" among other factors, according to a briefing note for the meeting seen by the FT. Under "contributing factors" the note included "novel GenAI usage for which best practices and safeguards are not yet fully established." "Folks, as you likely know, the availability of the site and related infrastructure has not been good recently," Dave Treadwell, a senior vice-president at the group, told employees in an email, also seen by the FT. The note ahead of Tuesday's meeting did not specify which particular incidents the group planned to discuss. [...] Treadwell, a former Microsoft engineering executive, told employees that Amazon would focus its weekly "This Week in Stores Tech" (TWiST) meeting on a "deep dive into some of the issues that got us here as well as some short immediate term initiatives" the group hopes will limit future outages. He asked staff to attend the meeting, which is normally optional. Junior and mid-level engineers will now require more senior engineers to sign off any AI-assisted changes, Treadwell added. Amazon said the review of website availability was "part of normal business" and it aims for continual improvement. "TWiST is our regular weekly operations meeting with a specific group of retail technology leaders and teams where we review operational performance across our store," the company said.

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Two British tourists have died in a tragic drowning on the NSW South Coast.

The minelayers near the Strait of Hormuz were among multiple Iranian vessels taken out by U.S. forces on Tuesday, according to U.S. Central Command.

A quick wire transfer to the Central Bank of North Korea would be enough to secure the weapons, according to American attorney John Bolton - who assisted Mr Trump in his first term.

War has many unintended consequences. One of them is the situation involving British expats stranded in Dubai and the realisation of how vacuous some, specifically 'influencers', can be.

The figure, revealed by Reuters on Tuesday, is far higher than the Pentagon's previously disclosed eight seriously ‌wounded.

The 'vengeful' cleric, 56, is backed by the hardline Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps and is viewed as even more extreme and oppressive than his father Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

The 43-year-old ex-Manchester City midfielder is accused of attacking married father-of-two Kevin Lynch, 51, at Huyton and Prescot Golf Club, in Liverpool, on Sunday evening.

The massive search began after New Mexico lawmakers agreed to form a truth commission to discover what went on at the ranch when it was owned by Jeffrey Epstein.

Officers attached to Task Force Horizon will search several locations on the property today for evidence in the case.

It appears that Elle Ferguson has been turning the heads of the Hollywood A-list.

Convicted thief Bobby Thorpe, 33, found himself at the centre of a dramatic police chase after brazenly fleeing from an address in Tonbridge, Kent, as police officers arrived to arrest him.

Pakistan, Vietnam, Thailand, and the Philippines are all trying to conserve fuel

The US government may be ordering staff back to the office, but governments across Asia have sent public sector workers back home to preserve fuel supplies due to supply chain disruptions caused by the war in Iran.…

We all remember how we groaned when mum told us money doesn't grow on trees. But it only takes us a couple of decades before we start repeating the 'mumisms' that used to drive us mad.

Who needs a House of Commons? Downing Street, again hoping to impose ID cards on an ungrateful nation, had a better idea.

The TV personality, 33, shared details of her 'scary' night after her two-year-old son was struggling to breathe and coughing all night.