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Wendy Holden reviews this month's best popular fiction

Eithne Farry reviews this month's best historical fiction

Geoffrey Wansell reviews the best crime books out this month

Explaining why she thought Cambridge had become a more intelligent university since she and I were there in the 1970s, the celebrity classicist Dame Mary Beard came out with a remark...

A history module uses a text that says orcs and other dark-skinned characters in the best-selling trilogy are the victims of 'ethnic chauvinism'.

Liam Payne's sister Ruth has shared a heartbreaking tribute to the singer on the one year anniversary of his death on Instagram on Thursday. 

Teaching an old bot new tricks

Paying Anthropic customers can now teach their Claude new tricks, which the company calls Skills.…

Ed Williams, the beloved actor best known for his role as the deadpan scientist Ted Olson in Police Squad! and The Naked Gun film series, has died at the age of 98.

Pressure was building last night on the Director of Public Prosecutions to explain why the China spy case was dropped even though there was bombshell evidence against the accused.

Cyber experts and China watchers told the Mail that smart devices - from TVs and mobile phones to switches and doorbells - risk giving Beijing access to our own private secrets.

Under the current rules, a body-mass-index (BMI) score of 18.5 to 25 is healthy, 25 to 29 is overweight, and 30 or above counts as obese - the point at which the risk of serious illness soars.

Remitly Business has revealed the countries currently offering up to £72k for people to move and settle there.

HUGO DUNCAN: Don't be fooled by the Chancellor ruling out a 'wealth tax' on Thursday - even if she quashed hopes among lefty Labour backbenchers of a full-blown attack on the rich.

It remains unclear whether the criminal charges prosecutors will pursue are directly related to those classified documents, or stem from other alleged violations

Rachel Counts, 23, (left) died from gunshot wound to her chest earlier this month, after her friend Omarion Horne, 23 (right) allegedly shot her during a game of Russian roulette.

Enamullah O, carried out the deadly knife attack in a park in the southern German city of Aschaffenburg in January, killing the boy, 2, and a 41-year-old father who tried to protect the children.

Forget the crushing crowds and sky-high costs in Santorini, as Italy offers a remote town that looks just like it - for a fraction of the price.

In the 'lemon capital of Europe,' visitors can explore its colourful old town, stunning beaches and even attend its annual citrus-themed festival - with flights from the UK coasting as little as £40. 

Andrea Marland captured the moment her nightmare neighbour Sam Bancroft drove a digger onto her land and begun moving soil from one side of the river to another.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Record labels Sony, Warner, and Universal yesterday asked the Supreme Court to help it boot pirates off the Internet. Sony and the other labels filed their brief (PDF) in Cox Communications v. Sony Music Entertainment, a case involving the cable Internet service provider that rebuffed labels' demands for mass terminations of broadband subscribers accused of repeat copyright infringement. The Supreme Court's eventual decision in the case may determine whether Internet service providers must terminate the accounts of alleged pirates in order to avoid massive financial liability. Cox has argued (PDF) that copyright-infringement notices -- which are generated by bots and flag users based on their IP addresses -- sent by record labels are unreliable. Cox said ISPs can't verify whether the notices are accurate and that terminating an account would punish every user in a household where only one person may have illegally downloaded copyrighted files. Record labels urged the Supreme Court to reject this argument. "While Cox waxes poetic about the centrality of Internet access to modern life, it neglects to mention that it had no qualms about terminating 619,711 subscribers for nonpayment over the same period that it terminated just 32 for serial copyright abuse," the labels' brief said. "And while Cox stokes fears of innocent grandmothers and hospitals being tossed off the Internet for someone else's infringement, Cox put on zero evidence that any subscriber here fit that bill. By its own admission, the subscribers here were 'habitual offenders' Cox chose to retain because, unlike the vast multitude cut off for late payment, they contributed to Cox's bottom line." Record labels were referring to a portion of Cox's brief that said, "Grandma will be thrown off the Internet because Junior illegally downloaded a few songs on a visit."

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