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Tributes have been paid to 'sweetest, kindest, and most generous little girl' who was killed in a horror crash between a van and a tram in Manchester on Saturday as police reveal they have arrested a man.

Speaking publicly for the first time since the massacre Leanne Lucas described helping young girls flee to safety and calling 999 as child killer Axel Rudakubana chased after them.

Henry Riley (pictured) a reporter at LBC, which is based in London, interviewed a man named Clive who claimed he had been going to a nudist beach for the past 20 years with his wife.

Financial Times: Venture capitalists have always been happy to back pre-profit companies. Back in the halcyon ZIRP era, they became happy to finance pre-revenue companies. But at least even Juicero, Wag and the Fyre Festival had an actual product. From Bloomberg over the weekend: "OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever is raising more than $1 billion for his start-up at a valuation of over $30 billion, according to a person familiar with the matter -- vaulting the nascent venture into the ranks of the world's most valuable private technology companies. Greenoaks Capital Partners, a San Francisco-based venture capital firm, is leading the deal for the start-up, Safe Superintelligence, and plans to invest $500 million, said the person, who asked not to be identified discussing private information. Greenoaks is also an investor in AI companies Scale AI and Databricks. The round marks a significant valuation jump from the $5 billion that Sutskever's company was worth before, according to Reuters, which earlier reported some details of the new funding. The financing talks are ongoing and the details could still change." OK, so a jump from a $5bn valuation less than half a year ago to $30bn must mean that Safe Superintelligence has an absolutely killer product right? SSI focuses on developing safe AI systems. It isn't generating revenue yet and doesn't intend to sell AI products in the near future. "This company is special in that its first product will be the safe superintelligence, and it will not do anything else up until then," Sutskever told Bloomberg in June. "It will be fully insulated from the outside pressures of having to deal with a large and complicated product and having to be stuck in a competitive rat race."

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The bespectacled surgeon is accused of assaulting or raping 299 boys and girls over three decades - many of whom were under anaesthetic following surgical procedures.

Truett Hanes, 28, from Utah , US, who went viral for running the Austin Marathon in jeans, also now holds a Guinness World Record for completing the most pull ups in 24 hours.

Zhenhao Zou (pictured) is accused of drugging and abusing 10 women in London and China. Denying all charges, Zou said he likes 'rape role play' and the women were only pretending.

Lauren Laverne returned to BBC Radio 6 for the first time since revealing her cancer diagnosis last year.

The 63 year old had the procedure performed to show viewers that it was nothing to worry about and tackle stigma.

Mohamed Amra was labelled France 's 'public enemy number one' after two guards were shot dead by masked gunmen during the ambush last May. His escape sparked an international manhunt.

A dazzling array of celebrities flocked to the Shrine Auditorium in downtown Los Angeles for the ceremony, hosted by Kristen Bell .

He also faced mounting pressure to do the 'honourable thing' and resign his seat in the wake of the shocking incident.

Kelly Kozyra, 38, from Chicago , Illinois , US, was left with a gaping hole in her face after she became addicted to the party drug following a night out with her friends in 2017.

Peter Reynolds, 79, and his wife Barbie, 75, were detained as they travelled to their home in the country's Bamyan province on February 1.

A-Listers including Ariana Grande , Selena Gomez , Brooke Shields and Demi Moore turned to Old Hollywood for their fashion inspiration at the SAG Awards in Los Angeles last night.

Google is preparing to abandon SMS verification codes for Gmail authentication in favor of QR codes, Gmail spokesperson Ross Richendrfer told Forbes. The move aims to address significant security vulnerabilities inherent in SMS-based verification while combating fraudulent exploitation of Google's messaging infrastructure, he said. "Just like we want to move past passwords with the use of things like passkeys, we want to move away from sending SMS messages for authentication," Richendrfer said. The transition will target "rampant, global SMS abuse" that undermines security and enables criminal schemes. SMS verification currently serves dual purposes at Google: confirming user identity and preventing service abuse. However, these codes are vulnerable to phishing, dependent on carrier security practices, and frequently exploited in "traffic pumping" scams where fraudsters profit from artificially triggered SMS messages. The forthcoming implementation will display QR codes that users scan with their phone cameras instead of entering six-digit codes. This approach eliminates shareable verification codes and reduces dependency on telecom carriers. The changes will roll out "over the next few months," the company said.

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Medi Abalimba, 35, became known as 'The Football Fraudster' after targeting high-profile victims while posing as a Premier League player.

Network Rail was told it was not 'pulling its weight' to tackle the 'toxic' area beneath two railway bridges

The Duchess of Sussex has filmed herself walking around her garden in Montecito wearing a Northwestern sweater made famous by her late mother-in-law.

Angelina Censori has made a subtle statement seemingly supporting her sister Bianca's husband, rapper Kanye West.