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Paraguayan Jorge 'Chipi' Vera claims his credentials for the tournament have been revoked in response to his furious tirade aimed at FIFA and president Gianni Infantino.

A London Overground driver was found to be using their mobile phone while pulling out of Norwood Junction station in South London with a disabled boarding ramp still attached.

A key ruling with penalty shootouts could be rushed through before the World Cup knockout stages start at the weekend.

National Savings & Investments  is pulling out all the stops to woo savers. Last month it announced the Premium Bond prize rate will rise.

Some 160,000 successful claims for annual credits were made between 2016 and 2025 by grandparents or other family members.

The lengthy build-ups to Rachel Reeves' two full Budgets in October 2024 and November 2025 were disastrous for business.

As technology stocks around the world tumbled and the Nasdaq plunged 1.5% in New York, the rocket and AI firm's shares fell as low as $147 in early trading.

Wikipedia cofounder Larry Sanger has been indefinitely banned from editing the site after editors concluded that he violated its canvassing rules, "or in other words, calling on his followers off platform in order to influence Wikipedia's content," reports 404 Media. Sanger says the ban proves Wikipedia suppresses ideological diversity, while editors argue he was trying to mobilize an outside audience to influence internal decisions and had ignored an earlier warning. From the report: The discussion that led to the decision to ban Sanger concluded with what an editor called a "clear consensus" to ban Sanger. "There is general agreement among participants that he has engaged in off-wiki canvassing and is not here to constructively build the encyclopedia," the editor said in a note closing the discussion. "There is also a significant concern shared by many editors that his actions constitute calls for outing." While Sanger has been railing about bias on Wikipedia for years, the specific issue here is around his WikiProject Intellectual Diversity. WikiProjects are group efforts among Wikipedia volunteers to deal with certain issues on the site. [...] Sanger's WikiProject Intellectual Diversity, as its name implies, aims to bring more intellectual diversity to the site, mostly meaning more right-leaning perspectives. Sanger's WikiProject Intellectual Diversity and its goals alone do not merit a ban according to Wikipedia's policies. The problem, according to Wikipedia editors, is that during the discussion about whether to allow WikiProject Intellectual Diversity to become an official WikiProject, Sanger invited his 91,000 followers on X to influence that discussion. Discussions about potential bans are supposed to remain open for at least 72 hours. While consensus that Sanger had violated Wikipedia policies was clear, Sanger was banned at some point before that deadline. He was then briefly unbanned, and then again indefinitely banned once 72 hours had elapsed and the discussion about the ban closed. "Wikipedia has become more of a mob-rule anarchy than ever," Sanger said in a statement sent to me by a spokesperson. "In the kangaroo court in which a mob ousted me, Wikipedia's administrators showed that they don't appear to value details like formal charges, a designated prosecutor, basic decorum, distinction between prosecution and judge, dispassionate adjudication, and so forth. They have no proper system other than triggering a mob to selectively enforce their hodgepodge of vague rules." "Now that same mob has blocked me for trying to bring an intellectually diverse group of thinkers and editors to the site," Sanger continued. "Subscribing to their groupthink is now an official requirement of being a member in good standing. Something must change, and now. I only wonder if the system as it currently stands can even allow the discourse necessary to fix the system."

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Clumsy logging implementation squirrels away data without regard for cost

The voice behind the anthem Man! I Feel Like A Woman! has been hitting the stage in an array of racy looks - which have drawn both praise and criticism.

Les Bleus, who sealed their spot in the knockout stage with a 3-0 win over Iraq on Monday night, are scheduled to face Norway and Erling Haaland on Friday in their final Group I clash.

A 14-year-old boy has been arrested on suspicion of murder after the body of missing teenager Lilly Jones, 14, was found just 500 yards from her home in Blaina, South Wales.

Guthrie kept a brave face as she urged people to come forward with information, one day after it was revealed a ransom note received by the media had alluded to her mom's death.

The Claude in Slack app is dead, long live Claude in Slack

Cristiano Ronaldo fired back at his critics on Tuesday after scoring a brace and making history during Portugal's 5-0 win over Uzbekistan at the World Cup.

SNP ministers have banned male-bodied prisoners from women's jails after being 'dragged kicking and screaming' into obeying the law.

Walmart is acquiring self-serve connected-TV ad platform Vibe.co for a reported $1.4 billion, adding it to an advertising ecosystem that already includes smart-TV maker Vizio. AdExchanger reports: On Tuesday, Walmart announced that it is buying Vibe.co, the French self-serve ad platform that specializes in helping small brands buy streaming commercials with similar ease and precision as they get from search and social. Vibe has been vying for a bigger share of the ad dollars moving to connected TV, especially in the US, as evidenced by the company's ubiquitous billboards in major cities including New York and San Francisco. Now, Vibe joins Walmart Connect's commerce ecosystem alongside the smart TV maker Vizio. And Vibe's tech is poised to help unify Walmart's growing CTV footprint with the closed-loop attribution provided by its retail sales data. [...] Together, Walmart and Vibe.co strive to "build the best ecosystem for the performance TV market," Vibe CEO and Co-Founder Arthur Querou told AdExchanger. Performance CTV has a high ceiling for growth. The performance budgets dedicated for streaming platforms are still small potatoes compared to search and social, Querou said. Only one-quarter of CTV ad campaigns have lower-funnel objectives, and that number has been static for years, according to data from Advertiser Perceptions. Now that Walmart owns both Vibe and Vizio, advertisers should have an easier time tying streaming campaigns to shopper data. That promise stands to win Walmart more marketing dollars earmarked for retail media and streaming behemoths -- including Amazon. Walmart is especially interested in attracting more small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) who lack the tools, budgets or teams to invest in streaming TV, a Walmart spokesperson told AdExchanger. Other ad platforms, including MNTN and Magnite, have likewise targeted SMB advertisers as a source for continued growth in the CTV market. By adding Vibe.co, Walmart can court SMBs with the pitch that its new self-serve tools will make it easier for them to execute CTV campaigns. Plus, SMBs tend to prioritize performance campaigns, since they are under more pressure to justify tighter ad budgets and thus have to be more selective about which platforms they advertise on. And Walmart is better positioned than most platforms to prove its ads drove performance thanks to its retail data foundation.

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It's one of the biggest stages in all of sports but nearly two weeks into the World Cup and some of the biggest stars of soccer and beyond have been happy to share center stage with their kids.

On Sunday, a 13-year-old boy plunged down a 50-foot drop on the water ride Tiana's Bayou Adventure after he exited the ride vehicle in the middle of the attraction.

The 36-year-old now retired English actress - who previously recalled her psychotic breakdown - candidly discussed the events that led her to being institutionalized and the ensuing fallout.