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Princess Marie Caroline Of Liechtenstein was a vision in white as she wed Leopoldo Maduro Vollmer in a lavish ceremony on Saturday.

Police have praised the boy's actions which resulted in an arrest

Humanity's 'most famous ancestor' Lucy is visiting Europe for the first time ever, with her three-million-year-old remains being 'brought to life' in a hyperrealistic reconstruction.

Police want to locate him as soon as possible

It was once a busy train line but is now long gone

Police are concerned for her welfare

The X Factor star and presenter, 36, was married to his ex-husband Dan for six years before they divorced in 2021 after Rylan admitted he cheated on him.

Princess Diana remains one of the world's most enduring style icons. Since her death, she has been celebrated as one of history's best-dressed women - and her influence is as strong as ever.

The Department for Transport proposals include allowing local authorities to install numberplate recognition cameras.

The embattled Deputy Prime Minister split the ownership of her £650,000 constituency home with a trust administered by blue-chip law firm Shoosmiths.

The Washington Post covers "a string of false reports of active shooters at a dozen U.S. universities this month as students returned to campus." The FBI is investigating the incidents, according to a spokesperson who declined to specify the nature of the probe. While universities have proved a popular swatting target, the agency "is seeing an increase in swatting events across the country," the FBI spokesperson said... Local officials are frustrated by the anonymous calls tying up first responders, straining public safety budgets and needlessly traumatizing college students who grew up in an era in which gun violence has in some way shaped their school experience... The recent string of swattings began Thursday with a false report to the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, quickly followed by one about Villanova University later that day. Hoaxes at 10 more schools followed... Villanova also received a second threat. As the calls about shootings came in, officials on many of the campuses pushed out emergency notifications directing students and employees to shelter in place, while police investigated what turned out to be false reports. (Iowa State was able to verify the lack of a threat before a campuswide alert was sent, its police chief said. [They had a live video feed from the location the caller claimed to be from.]) In at least three cases, 911 calls reporting a shooting purported to come from campus libraries, where the sound of gunshots could be heard over the phone, officials told The Washington Post... Although false bomb reports, shooter threats and swatting incidents are not new, bad actors used to be more easily traceable through landline phones. But the era of internet-based services, virtual private networks, and anonymous text and chat tools has made unmasking hoax callers far more challenging... In 2023, a Post investigation found that more than 500 schools across the United States were subject to a coordinated swatting effort that may have had origins abroad... [In Chattanooga, Tennessee last week] a dispatcher heard gunfire during a call reporting an on-campus shooting. "We grabbed everybody that wasn't already out on the street and got to that location," said University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Police spokesman Brett Fuchs. About 150 officers from several agencies responded. There was no shooter. The New York Times reports that an online group called "Purgatory" is "suspected of being connected to several of the episodes, including reports of shootings, according to cybersecurity experts, law enforcement agencies and the group members' own posts in a social media chat." (Though the Times, couldn't verify the group's claims.) Federal authorities previously connected the same network to a series of bomb scares and bogus shooting reports in early 2024, for which three men pleaded guilty this year... Bragging about its recent activities, Purgatory said that it could arrange more swatting episodes for a fee. USA Today tries to quantify the reach of swatting: Estimated swatting incidents jumped from 400 in 2011 to more than 1,000 in 2019, according to the Anti-Defamation League, which cited a former FBI agent whose expertise is in swatting. From January 2023 to June 2024 alone, more than 800 instances of swatting were recorded at U.S. elementary, middle and high schools, according to the K-12 School Shootings Database, created by a University of Central Florida doctoral student in response to the Parkland High School shooting in 2018.tise is in swatting... David Riedman, a data scientist and creator of the K-12 School Shooting Database, estimates that in 2023, it cost $82,300,000 for police to respond to false threats. Thanks to long-time Slashdot reader schwit1 for sharing the news.

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The town is famed for being quieter than its neighbouring seaside town, with similar views and beautiful beaches

The actor, who is one of the most desirable men in the world, said yesterday that he had, indeed, decided to 'go Yorkshire' for his portrayal of 'the creature' in Guillermo del Toro 's forthcoming film.

The declassified papers dated from April 1982 reveal Argentine dictator General Leopoldo Galtieri had advanced plans to 'disappear' 500 British subjects.

Danny, 39, and his wife Georgia's marriage was rocked after he was filmed smooching his I'm A Celeb co-star at a BRIT Awards after party in February.

Visitors love it, whether they're looking to get fit, detox or chill out

The Bell hotel in Epping became the epicentre of protests that swept the country last month after a migrant boarder was accused of sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl.

A picture of Frank's clasped hands and upright stance as he watched Wilf and sister Romy, three, play while on their recent holiday in Greece was strikingly similar to the former prime minister.

Trump conducted high stakes meetings with both Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky as he seeks to restore peace to the region.