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China's most dangerous technology has already been deployed, and you're likely already within the system's database.

The holiday park is one of few to make the five star standard

Scotland must surely be sick by now of being the gatecrashers at someone else's party.

The deal to take control of TikTok's U.S. business came with an unusual condition, according to people familiar with the matter. The investors — which include Oracle, Abu Dhabi investor MGX, and private-equity firm Silver Lake — "paid the Treasury Department about $2.5 billion when the deal closed in January," reports the Wall Street Journal, "and are set to make several additional payments until hitting the $10 billion total." The $10 billion payment would be nearly unprecedented for a government helping arrange a transaction, historians have said... Investment bankers advising on a typical deal receive fees of less than 1% of the transaction value, and the percentage generally gets smaller as the deal size increases. Bank of America is in line to make some $130 million for advising railroad operator Norfolk Southern on its $71.5 billion sale to Union Pacific, one of the largest fees on record for a single bank on a deal. Administration officials have said the fee is justified given Trump's role in saving TikTok in the U.S. and navigating negotiations with China to get the deal done while addressing the security concerns of lawmakers... The TikTok fee extracted from private-sector investors is the administration's latest transaction involving the nation's largest businesses. Trump took a nearly 10% stake in semiconductor company Intel and has agreed to take a chunk of chip sales to China from Nvidia in exchange for granting export licenses. The administration has also taken equity stakes in other companies and has a say in the operations of U.S. Steel following a "golden share" agreement with Japan's Nippon Steel in its takeover. Reuters notes earlier this month, a lawsuit was filed by investors in two of TikTok's social media rivals, seeking to reverse the approval of the deal. Thanks to long-time Slashdot reader schwit1 for sharing the news.

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President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, will be hosted by the King and Queen at Windsor Castle on Wednesday, where they will attend a state banquet as guests of honour.

John F Kennedy Jr often juggled more than one girlfriend at a time. Unfortunately, that meant there was often overlap, which could lead to awkward moments.

Britain's second largest city has been described as a 'slum area' and 'as bad as Victorian Britain' as it continues to reel from one of the longest-running industrial disputes of modern times.

Casey Harrison from Colchester says it was an “emotional rollercoaster” to raise funds for charity by taking on a half marathon whilst dressed as Ozzy Osbourne.

There's everything from beaches to shops and restaurants within a small distance

Casey Harrison from Colchester says it was an “emotional rollercoaster” to raise funds for charity by taking on a half marathon whilst dressed as Ozzy Osbourne.

Overall, critics were pleasantly surprised by The Claudia Winkleman Show when it graced screens on Friday night.

Fronted by The Traitors icon Claudia Winkleman, the new chat show takes on a similar format to The Graham Norton Show with a moodier, after hours vibe.

Dear Bel, My friend and I were university students together sharing a room and soon became firm friends. After a night out drinking, we returned to our room and ended up in bed together.

Despite it being less than two weeks since the beginning of the US-Israel war with Iran , the anonymous European buyer went ahead with the purchase of the 31,108 sq ft three-floor property.

Tourist attractions in 'ghost town' Dubai desperate to attract customers during the drone and missile attacks from Iran are offering free admissions - including 'camel hugging therapy'.

California saw its worst drought in 10,000 years between 2012 and 2015, remembers the Washington Post. And yet genetic analyses of California's scarlet monkeyflower "found that many rapidly evolved... allowing them to cope with water scarcity and rebound from decline." "The fact that certain organisms are able to adapt just because of genetics that are already present is a great source of hope," said Daniel Anstett, a plant biologist at Cornell University and lead author on a new study on the issue. "It's one more arrow in the quiver of different ways that populations might be able to survive the massive climate change we're inflicting on the planet." The recovery of [Sequoia National Park's] scarlet monkeyflowers offers rare, real-world evidence of what scientists call "evolutionary rescue," according to the study published Thursday in the journal Science. It suggests that some species may be able to evolve quickly enough to keep up with the accelerating consequences of human-caused warming — essentially saving themselves from extinction. This discovery could help people decide how to distribute limited conservation funds by pinpointing which species have enough genetic diversity to be resilient, ecologists Mark Urban and Laurinne Balstad, who were not involved in the study, wrote in a separate analysis published by Science. "The challenge going forward is to identify when evolutionary rescue is possible, when it is not, and how to rescue those species that cannot rescue themselves," Urban and Balstad wrote.

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Taylor Jenkins, 24, from Edinburgh , died on March 1 when the white BMW she was a passenger in drove on the wrong side of the road and crashed into another car.

Sir Keir Starmer faced a fresh barrage of criticism over his handling of the Iran war and Britain's military preparations.

Essex locals say they are driving less and are feeling the pinch as fuel prices have surged

Holly Worswick, 26, went to her local Specsavers for a regular eye test in 2021, where a brain tumour was discovered.