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Archie Harvey, 18, was killed along with a friend from a Swiss boarding school while they were on a snowboard trip to the Wellhorn mountain at Meiringen near Bern in March 2023.

Officers pursued the stolen van, driven by an unnamed 25-year-old man, from Wigan to Bolton and eventually to Chorley in Lancashire, where it smashed into pedestrian barriers.

The Palm Royale star and Thunderbolts actor sweetly held hands during a date night in Los Angeles.

Luigi Mangione, 28, was charged by both federal and state prosecutors with gunning down UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, 50, in Midtown Manhattan as he walked to a conference.

Thousands of prison cells are lying empty even though Labour is releasing criminals early to tackle overcrowding.

Astras are the fifth most common cars on Britons' driveways. But its unpopularity in recent years means you barely see the latest eighth-generation car on our roads.

Hannah Skelley on the looks we're in love with all over again

Former Cambridge professor Jason Arday, who resigned last week amid allegations of plagiarism and questions about his academic record, has been found dead at age 41 in London. The BBC reports: Jason Arday was found "unresponsive" at an address in Battersea, south London, on Friday afternoon, emergency services said. Metropolitan Police officers were called by the London Ambulance Service. A 41-year-old man was pronounced dead at the scene and his next of kin have been informed, the force said. Arday resigned as a Cambridge professor of sociology of education last week after allegations of plagiarism and questions about some of his achievements. He had denied the claims. In a statement, the Met Police said: "At this time his death is being treated as unexpected, but is not believed to be suspicious." The 41-year-old academic had denied any plagiarism - but admitted errors in his work - and last week said the recent furore had led to "an unrelenting level of public scrutiny and personal attack." The row first erupted after another academic -- self-defined "race realist" Nathan Cofnas, who was sacked from his Cambridge role in 2024 -- said he found numerous instances of plagiarism in Prof Arday's work and questioned some of his stated achievements. [...] Announcing his resignation last week, Arday said the "personal cost" of the scrutiny had become "too great." He said: "While criticism is an inevitable part of academic life, what I have experienced has gone far beyond scholarly disagreement. "The relentless accusations, speculation and public commentary have taken a profound toll on me and on those I love." He stressed that his resignation should not "be mistaken for an acceptance of the narratives that have surrounded me."

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The Greater Anglia service crashed off the tracks in Essex less than 24 hours after a Southern Rail train's carriages flipped over in Sussex.

In her most revealing interview ever, Nicole Kidman tells British Vogue that when she married Tom Cruise aged 22, friends told her to forget her career because it would soon be over.

The singer, 28, announced on Instagram on Friday she gave birth to a baby boy on Wednesday evening.

Flock Safety is tightening controls on its nationwide license plate reader network after mounting backlash over privacy and documented police misuse. By January 1, law enforcement customers will be required to use automated auditing, tie searches to specific case numbers, and accept a shorter seven-day default retention period. Critics, including the ACLU, argue the changes still leave too much surveillance power in police hands. The Associated Press reports: In an interview, Flock CEO Garrett Langley said many of the product changes will make what were once optional guardrails mandatory for its users to implement by Jan. 1. Among them: All law enforcement customers will have to implement an audit tool that's intended to flag abnormal search behavior. When the system detects abnormal behavior, the user would be locked out pending an internal review, the company said in a description of the changes provided ahead of Thursday's announcement. Flock, which says its customers own the data that the cameras record, is also shortening the standard data retention window from 30 days to seven. It said it will allow data to be preserved for longer when it is evidence tied to a case number. Law enforcement users will now also be required to enter a code from their records management system tying each search to a specific case before it is run, something Langley said civil liberties advocates have long been calling for. Overrides for emergencies would be automatically flagged for review, the company said. Customers will also be allowed to decide which offense types -- such as homicide or arson -- outside agencies can search their data for, which would allow a customer to block outside searches related to immigration enforcement, the company said. Langley said that change will give individual cities and departments control to use the system in a manner "consistent with community values." Critics say Flock's changes don't address the core problem: police can still decide for themselves when and whom to search without judicial oversight. The ACLU called the shorter data-retention period "a step in the right direction," but dismissed the other safeguards as "retreads" of inadequate protections, while Institute for Justice attorney Robert Frommer called the reforms "window dressing" from a company in "panic mode." He argued that searches should instead be approved "by judges with real warrants."

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The Lincoln and its more than 5,000 sailors and Marines have spent over 250 days at sea since leaving San Diego last November, diverted to support the war with Iran.

Gwyneth Paltrow and lookalike daughter Apple Martin twinned in swimsuits as they enjoyed a relaxing afternoon together recently.

France's Constitutional Council has struck down a law that would have banned children under 15 from social media, ruling that it disproportionately restricted freedom of expression and lacked adequate privacy safeguards around age verification. President Emmanuel Macron has asked the government to rewrite the measure, with the goal of putting a revised version in place before spring 2027. Reuters reports: "The Council holds that the contested provisions, on the one hand, disproportionately infringe upon the freedom of expression and communication and, on the other, fail to provide the legal safeguards necessary to ensure the right to respect for private life," it said. French lawmakers had approved the bill in July, becoming the first in Europe to follow Australia, whose world-first ban barred access to platforms including Facebook, Snapchat, TikTok and YouTube for under-16s in December. Lawmakers there are considering stricter penalties after data showed mixed success. Countries around the globe, including China, the United Arab Emirates and Turkey, have either instituted measures intended to curtail or bar access to social media for young people, or have said they were planning them. The European Union has said it was planning to seek stronger protections for children from harmful social media features.

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As the first McLaren of its kind, the McL 6GT will celebrate 'tactile, analogue and deeply mechanical' driving, and connect 'McLaren's heritage to the present'.

Cami Clark, 47, has been vital to the success of her billionaire husband, Dario Amodei - but has now sought to make herself as private as possible.

A powerful boat carrying 15 passengers dodged the French navy and the UK Border Force in a brand-new white inflatable with a 20hp £2,000 Suzuki outboard motor.

In a hearing on Friday, the 58-year-old cut a much calmer figure than his last court appearance, and was allowed to appear unshackled and change out of an orange prison issued jumpsuit.

By now, folk are aware enough of Hunt's remarkable talents, both for the winning of races over short distances and her willingness to accompany the golds with spoken nuggets.