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Alan Ayckbourn's ingenious 1969 comedy How The Other Half Loves is a theatrical marvel.

'Computer History' records clicks and typing to build ChatGPT memories

Zuzanna Bohojlo, 16, was going to get ice cream when she was hit in Jozefow, a town in Warsaw, Poland, on Sunday.

"It's about taking part and celebrating British democracy."

At just 40, I was hit by tsunami of menopause symptoms. I had severe hot flushes and my clothes were soaked in sweat; the anxiety was so crippling, I found myself terrified to talk on work teams calls...

AI-powered Machine Account Discovery revolutionizes how organizations gain visibility into their machine account landscape.

Outside of the Covid years of 2020-2022, when grades were vastly inflated due to teacher assessment, today's grades are the highest proportion on record.

It is a festival beloved by post-GCSE revellers, fresh from exams and liberated from their academic worries by results day.

Microsoft has been steadily scaling back its China presence, closing at least 15 branch offices and joint ventures over the past five years as Beijing favors domestic software. U.S. export controls also make it harder to grow its cloud and AI businesses, leaving the market with relatively little economic upside. Reuters reports: Microsoft took a major hit from the erosion of trust between Washington and Beijing, the five people said. China has since 2017 pushed the use of domestic software, which Beijing sees as more secure and whose quality is increasingly competitive with Windows and Office. U.S. restrictions, including export controls on advanced technology, have meanwhile hindered efforts to scale Microsoft's lucrative AI and cloud businesses in China. [...] Microsoft ultimately decided to remain because it had carved out a profitable business servicing Chinese companies like TikTok owner ByteDance, which need Western technology to manage overseas operations, according to three people familiar with the matter. The company also believed that it needed a presence to maintain access to China's world-class engineering talent, two of them said. Microsoft had also cultivated a relationship with the government that is among the deepest of any tech company, its former China head Alain Crozier told Reuters. "Because of the geopolitics ... some days it's a little bit harder, but we never had a crisis," he said. A Microsoft spokesperson did not address questions about the firm's deliberations on its China business but said it operates in a regulatory "environment that applies to every international supplier" and that it remains committed to the Chinese market. The state of Microsoft's China business reflects market competition, regulatory demands and technological trends, the company said.

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The head of the Crown Prosecution Service finally apologised today for failing to put predator Simon Levy behind bars leaving him free on bail to kill two women and rape a third.

PAUL MARTIN: Amy Hunt completed a brilliant sprint double by landing 200m gold in Birmingham - but warned there will be no celebrating until her target of four is complete.

The next time you hear Labour tell you that the Government's measures to tackle illegal immigration are 'working', think of Piddington...

It's been nearly 24 years since Halle Berry emerged from the ocean in a barely-there orange bikini in James Bond: Die Another Day.

Jessica Bang has been playing golf for eight years and recently qualified to start her rookie season in the both Australian and Korean ladies golf association tours.

Authorities in Ceuta will round up migrants and hold them in warehouses before sending them back to Morocco.

Equipped with a solitary loo 'used promiscuously by men and women' alike, the unique legend of London's Colony Room Club can surely never die...

Google has released Gemini 3.7 Flash just three weeks after 3.6 Flash, focusing on better coding, agentic workflows, and enterprise automation while temporarily cutting API prices in half through the end of 2026. VentureBeat reports: For enterprise developers, the more consequential story may be the combination of those intelligence gains with lower inference costs: through the end of 2026, Gemini 3.7 Flash costs $0.75 per million input tokens and $3.75 per million output tokens. Starting Jan. 1, 2027, pricing rises to $1.50 per million input tokens and $7.50 per million output tokens. That means the current discount is temporary, but it gives teams deploying high-volume coding and business agents several months to evaluate whether Google's claimed reductions in retries and manual oversight translate into lower total operating costs. The launch also underscores Google's rapid iteration on its Flash line while its next flagship Pro model remains absent. [...] Google describes Gemini 3.7 Flash as its "most intelligent workhorse model yet for coding and agents." The company says the model is better at adapting when it encounters roadblocks, clarifying intent when necessary and following instructions with greater fidelity. [...] Google's benchmarks show a large generational improvement in several software engineering tests. [...] Google's own results do not show 3.7 Flash universally displacing higher-priced competitors. They instead suggest a model that has become substantially more competitive in coding and agent workloads while occupying a lower price tier.

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RECAP: Two people were seriously injured when a train carrying 150 people derailed in East Sussex this afternoon.

The Iraqi journalist who threw his shoes at President George W Bush reveals what he thinks nearly two decades later.

Dame Antonia Romeo, now Cabinet Secretary, was in charge of the Ministry of Justice for four years as problems mounted with the plan to build more cells.