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Nicola Sturgeon donated a signed £290 pair of her shoes for auction at an SNP fundraising event - then looked on as her fraudster husband 'bought' them for an eye-watering £4,000.

A trio of whistleblowers and witnesses have come forward claiming they paid a steep personal price after speaking out about UFOs they encountered.

John Starkey, 74, of Colwyn Bay, held readings at his shop in Llandudno, Wales and encouraged the women to be naked as part of an 'initiation' for a 'spiritual cleansing'.

Gwyneth's collaboration with Israeli real estate group Aviv Melisron has divided opinions and seen her accused of supporting the country's war in Gaza and Lebanon.

"A coalition of state attorneys general has opened an investigation into OpenAI," reports the Wall Street Journal, citing "people familiar with the matter." OpenAI was served Friday with a subpoena seeking documents related to a broad range of its activities and impact on users, including advertising, user engagement and retention, handling of consumer data and health data, activities related to minors and seniors, deep learning models, model sycophancy and company policies, some of the people said. The subpoena, viewed by The Wall Street Journal, was sent by New York's attorney general.... Earlier this month, Florida became the first state to file a lawsuit against OpenAI and its chief executive, Sam Altman. The lawsuit claims OpenAI and Altman knowingly released an unsafe product and ignored warnings that it could harm users. Florida's Attorney General, James Uthmeier, opened a criminal investigation into OpenAI in April over the role its chatbot played in a mass shooting that killed two people at Florida State University last year. The suspect allegedly turned to ChatGPT as a confidant and sounding board to plan the attack, and the chatbot dispensed advice for his questions... State attorneys general have been scrutinizing OpenAI's competitors in the AI industry as well. In December, a coalition of 42 state attorneys general led by Pennsylvania's Dave Sunday sent a letter to companies including OpenAI, Meta, Anthropic, Google and xAI. In the letter, the Attorneys General demanded safeguards to protect vulnerable users from harmful interactions with chatbots, warning that "developers may be held accountable for the outputs of their GenAI products" for "encouraging an individual to commit a criminal act." "We take the concerns raised by state attorneys general seriously," OpenAI told the Journal in a statement, "and intend to engage constructively with their offices." The article also acknowledges that The Wall Street Journal's parent company "has a content-licensing partnership with OpenAI."

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Charlotte appeared alongside her siblings, Princes George, 12, and Louis, eight, for her grandfather King Charles's birthday parade.

The former equestrian, 75, made her way to the Horse Guards Parade from Buckingham Palace alongside the Prince of Wales, 43, and the Duke of Edinburgh.

Meghan has shared a new photograph of herself with her best friend's newborn baby to her 4.6million Instagram followers - just hours before the Royal Family's appearance at Trooping the Colour .

The Princess of Wales looked typically stunning as she took part in the King's official birthday parade in London today.

Kate, 44, put on a typically elegant display in a light blue and white Catherine Walker coat dress and a matching Philip Treacy hat.

The presenter, 40, is now happily married to Spencer Matthews, with the couple expecting their fourth child together, but she was previously wed to Westlife singer Brian from 2012 to 2017.

The 90-year-old, who joined the King's official birthday celebrations following the death of his wife, Katharine, Duchess of Kent, last year, stood on the far right of the balcony on his own.

Juliana Hounsfield, from Bristol, was collecting her 11-year-old son from a birthday party when she received 'the worst call of my life'.

EXCLUSIVE BY CRAIG HOPE AND JACK GAUGHAN: No boots. No balls. No bibs. What would Roy Keane say? This threatened to be England's very own Saipan. Or, rather, 'Sly Van'.

Whilst the number of royals on the Buckingham Palace balcony has decreased over the years, there's still plenty of opportunity for the Firm's members to put on a charming display.

Police in Tijuana made the horrifying discovery on Friday, finding the body decomposing in a back bag in an abandoned car with California plates.

One Suffolk town was a key part of the 1987 Christmas special episode

The broadcaster, 45, has been a regular host of BBC Look North since 2020, and had previously worked on CBBC, CITV and The Disney Channel.

Emily Ratajkowski has suffered huge backlash after posting 'disturbing' topless photos 'breastfeeding' a doll while drinking wine on Instagram on Friday. 

It's the 10-year anniversary of Britain's "Brexit" vote withdrawing from the European Union. But a new UK poll "shows that a new Brexit referendum would reverse the vote that led to Britain's departure," reports Bloomberg: Fifty-two percent of Britons think the UK should rejoin the EU, according to an Ipsos survey of 1,137 British adults conducted between May 14 and May 20. That's the inverse of the mood in June 2016 when a comparable share of the electorate backed Brexit... Younger voters overwhelmingly favor reversing Brexit, whereas half of those ages 55 and above oppose returning to the bloc. "The number of people who say Brexit is going worse than they had predicted has almost doubled in the past five years," reports The Independent, " from 27% in 2021 to 48% today — more than those saying it was going as well as or better than expected." [T]here is more backing for a second referendum, with 48 per cent now saying they would support one, against 27 per cent who would oppose it. Even a fifth of Reform UK voters and a quarter of those who voted Leave in 2016 would back a second vote, the study found. Tufts University discussed the last 10 years with the European Studies chair at their international relations graduate school: Q: Have their fears of negative financial effects been realized? A: The figures are quite revealing: The British GDP has been reduced by 6-8%, business investment has been reduced by 12%, and trade volume has been reduced by 15%, compared to what it could have been if the U.K. had remained in the EU... Q: What do you think happens next? A: The United Kingdom made a choice and they might have the opportunity, at some point, to revise this choice. I hope that when they have to decide again, they will be much more informed.

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