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She's brushed shoulders with the great and good of English football including Wayne Rooney, Frank Lampard and John Terry - and even shared a recent snap with Jude and Jobe Bellingham.

Raziq Ali, 41, was given the green light to replace a modest garage to the side of his £350,000 detached home near Bradford but constructed what has been described as a full-blown 'detached dwelling'.

An elderly SNP politician has been arrested and charged with drug offences after police discovered a massive cannabis farm worth half-a-million pounds at a country property.

Lalo Schifrin died inside his Los Angeles home on Thursday from complications with pneumonia , his son, Ryan, confirmed. He was surrounded by his loved on

EXCLUSIVE: In order to maintain order, Glastonbury employs an army of security guards over the course of the event who patrol the huge perimeter.

'My skin has been transformed, it really works on the deeper layers'

The footage released by Ukrainian military shows a projectile tearing through the 240mm calibre multiple rocket launcher (MLRS), known as the M1991, in the village of Novopavlivka.

Donald Trump plans to visit Scotland next month for the first time since his victory in the US election, MailOnline can reveal.

"A second major academic institution has accused Uber of using opaque computer code to dramatically increase its profits at the expense of the ride-hailing app's drivers and passengers," reports the Guardian: Research by academics at New York's Columbia Business School concluded that the Silicon Valley company had implemented "algorithmic price discrimination" that had raised "rider fares and cut driver pay on billions of ... trips, systematically, selectively, and opaquely". The Ivy League business school research — which is based on an analysis of "tens of thousands of trips ... as well as an analysis of over 2 million ... trip requests" — follows a similar academic paper based on 1.5m UK trips that was published last week by the University of Oxford. The British study found that many UK Uber drivers were making "substantially less" each hour since the ride-hailing app introduced a "dynamic pricing" algorithm in 2023 that coincided with the company taking a significantly higher share of fares... [Len Sherman, the US report's author] added: "Since implementing upfront pricing, Uber has increased rider prices, has cut driver pay, has increased its take rates, and, of course, has greatly improved its cashflow during the period covered by this study...." The Columbia paper, which focused on 24,532 trips made by a single US Uber driver, concluded that the introduction of the new algorithm had allowed Uber to "significantly increase its take rate — the per cent of rider fares net of driver pay captured by the company — from about 32% at the start of upfront pricing to upwards of 42% by the end of 2024". Last week's University of Oxford research found that, since the launch of dynamic pricing, Uber's median take rate per UK driver had "increased from 25% to 29%, and on some trips ... is over 50%". Thanks to Slashdot reader votsalo for sharing the news.

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He turned his back on the limelight after falling out with Gavin & Stacey co-star James Corden. And even during his visit to Glastonbury , actor Mathew Horne tried to go under the radar.

It's a very eerie part of Essex history

JONATHAN MCEVOY IN SPIELBERG: this weekend Norris has exuded renewed intent on and off the track, and he duly converted the pace of his papaya car into a 12th career pole.

A host of Hollywood's biggest stars flocked to the northern Italian city this week for the wedding of the Amazon billionaire, 61, and his journalist partner, 55.

Billionaire Warren Buffett announced that he'll be giving away an additional $6 billion of his company's stock to five different charities.

An anonymous reader shared this report from WebProNews: The Linux world is abuzz with news of XLibre, a fork of the venerable X11 window display system, which aims to be an alternative to X11's successor, Wayland. Much of the Linux world is working to adopt Wayland, the successor to X11. Wayland has been touted as being a superior option, providing better security and performance. Despite Fedora and Ubuntu both going Wayland-only, the newer display protocol still lags behind X11, in terms of functionality, especially in the realm of accessibility, screen recording, session restore, and more. In addition, despite the promise of improved performance, many users report performance regressions compared to X11. While progress is being made, it has been slow going, especially for a project that is more than 17 years old. To make matters worse, Wayland is largely being improved by committee, with the various desktop environment teams trying to work together to further the protocol. Progress is further hampered by the fact that the GNOME developers often object to the implementation of some functionality that doesn't fit with their vision of what a desktop should be — despite those features being present and needed in every other environment. In response, developer Enrico Weigelt has forked Xll into the XLibre project. Weigelt was already one of the most prolific X11 contributors at a time when little to no improvements or new features are being added to the aging window system... Weigelt has wasted no time releasing the inaugural version of XLibre, XLibre 25.0. The release includes a slew of improvements. MrBrklyn (Slashdot reader #4,775) adds that Artix Linux, a rolling-release distro based on Arch Linux which does not use systemd, now offers XLibre ISO images and packages for testing and use. They're all non-systemd based, and "Its a decent undertaking by the Artix development team. The iso is considered to be testing but it is quickly moving to the regular repos for broad public use."

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Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez have been spotted for the first time since tying the knot in what has been referred to as 'the wedding of the century'. 

This week, the atmosphere on-screen has been determinedly cosy and jovial. But make no mistake: behind the scenes at BBC Breakfast, battle lines are being drawn.

Five children have been injured, with two being treated for 'severe injuries'

The troops are sent by their commanders as part of a new tactic to try and overcome Volodymyr Zelensky 's soldiers.

The former maths teacher, 42, who sparked an international manhunt in 2012 after he went on the run with a teenage pupil, was banned from teaching and placed on the sexual offenders' register for life.