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Travel and lifestyle writer Luisa Ruocco picks her favourite staycation spots in the UK - from the Lake District to the Cotswolds.

Ryan Pepper has been assaulted, threatened and psychologically abused in a UAE detention facility after being seized at Dubai Airport on November 3, 2025, according to his family.

Before we look forward, we should look back at a group stage that had it all. Managerial sackings, stunning goals, major upsets, and the biggest stars stepping into the spotlight.

Drivers are facing delays near Harlow following a crash affecting access to the M11 southbound.

Drivers are facing delays near Harlow following a crash affecting access to the M11 southbound.

The soap star, 52, took to Instagram on Friday to reveal she had been forced to go to A&E despite trying to avoid the hospital in the heat.

Scotland Yard has been carrying out a major audit of group-based sexual abuse in London dating back to 2010, amid concern that perpetrators could still be at large.

Drivers may soon be forced to stick to speed limits by satellite technology that automatically slows down speeding cars, The Mail on Sunday can reveal.

No country was targeted by more attacks during the Iran war than the UAE, and no country did more to try and hide the result of those strikes from the outside world.

As one half of 'theatre's coolest power couple', star of ITV's new serial-killer thriller and a lead in the upcoming Netflix blockbuster Kennedy, LAURA DONNELLY is white-hot right now.

It's also an award-winning beach

Roberto Martinez is adamant Portugal can handle the emotions thrown up by the anniversary of Diogo Jota's death - which falls the day after their clash against Croatia.

Jack Nekhala had a business selling on Amazon — and in December he received an unusual offer, reports Bloomberg. A woman said she could bribe an Amazon employee "to help him retrieve $90,000 in funds that the e-commerce giant had frozen after suspending him over an alleged violation of review policy." Hoping to ingratiate himself with the company and restart his business, Nekhala offered to provide evidence, including recorded conversations and screen shots, that he said proved Amazon personnel were peddling inside information and influence. The smoking gun, Nekhala told the representative: information about his seller account. Only certain Amazon employees are supposed to have access to such details, but Nekhala had received them from the woman on WeChat, the Chinese messaging app. Nekhala's experience, which he documented and shared with Bloomberg, provides a rare glimpse into an international black market that has been a persistent scourge of Amazon's online store. On one side are sellers looking for a variety of favors: a competitive edge over their rivals, information on how to boost sales, a way to get themselves unsuspended. On the other are middlemen who lurk on message apps like Telegram, WeChat and WhatsApp offering access to people inside Amazon who can get things done for a price... It's impossible to determine the scope of the illicit activity, but it's an open secret among Amazon sellers and consultants, who are frequently approached on social-media platforms and messaging apps. "The message is always the same: 'I'm going to show you screenshots to prove I have inside access,'" said Chris McCabe, a former Amazon employee who runs a seller consulting firm... In 2020, federal prosecutors exposed an international bribery scheme involving Amazon sellers and employees. The ring allegedly extracted about $100 million in unfair advantages by bribing Amazon employees in Asia to help them sell more products and sabotage their competitors. Five people in the US were convicted and received jail terms or probation. Last year, law enforcement officials in India began investigating more than 20 former Amazon employees suspected of accepting bribes from trucking companies in exchange for routes, according to The Times of India. After Nekhala reported his own experience to Amazon, the representative committed to "do some digging" and to email him instructions on how his evidence could be shared, according to a recording of the conversation. But Nekhala said he never heard back. The employee who leaked his personal information had already been fired for unrelated misconduct, according to Amazon. Amazon told Bloomberg employee involvement was "very rare," and that "We invest heavily in this area and have dedicated teams and systems in place to prevent all types of fraud, including by our own employees."

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He has been described as a "respected member of his community"

The disgraced former BBC newsreader, convicted of making indecent images of children, suggested a mental disorder eroded his judgment.

Oxford University sparked outrage by accepting millions in donations from a family trust controlled by the late Max Mosley, the son of British fascist leader Sir Oswald Mosley.

The project plans to improve infrastructure in the area, with upgraded roads, safer walking and cycling routes and better-designed public space

President Donald Trump has unveiled a redesigned limited-edition US passport commemorating America's 250th anniversary, featuring a prominent portrait of himself on the inside cover.

It will offer a broader, more joined‑up range of day-to-day health and wellbeing services closer to where people live

IBM spent a decade "building, testing and improving" quantum computing, reports the Wall Street Journal. "This year, the company is laying the groundwork to turn that technology into a fully-fledged, scalable business from an expensive science project." IBM said last month it plans to form a new independent subsidiary called Anderon, a foundry to produce the silicon wafers needed to make quantum-computing processors. The venture is seeded by a $1 billion investment from the Trump administration and another $1 billion of IBM's own cash. Anderon will give the company a new line of business in selling wafers to other quantum-computing companies. It will also provide a steady stream of wafers to continue developing its own quantum technology, positioning IBM to capture part of what the Boston Consulting Group projects will be a $90 billion to $170 billion market for quantum-computing providers by 2040... The company also plans to spend an additional $9 billion over five years to advance the final stages of its quest to build a quantum-mechanics-powered computer capable and reliable enough for widespread use, a goal known as fault tolerance. That computer, named Starling, is being targeted for 2029. With Anderon, IBM is thinking beyond Starling, or even a more powerful quantum computer planned for 2033.

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