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Anya Taylor-Joy dazzled in a strapless gold gown as she made her latest red carpet appearance at the 22nd Marrakech International Film Festival.

Mariah Carey looked nothing short of sensational on the opening night of her Christmas Time In Las Vegas show at the Park MGM in Sin City on Friday evening.

In his mid-20s, Lu Heng "got an idea that has made him a lot richer," writes the Wall Street Journal. He scooped up 10 million unused IP addresses, mostly form Africa, and then leases them to companies, mostly outside Africa, "that need them badly." [A]round half of internet traffic continues to use IPv4, because changing to IPv6 can be expensive and complex and many older devices still need IPv4. Companies including Amazon, Microsoft and Google still want IPv4 addresses because their cloud-hosting businesses need them as bridges between the IPv4 and IPv6 worlds... Africa, which has been slower to develop internet infrastructure than the rest of the world, is the only region that still has some of the older addresses to dole out... He searches for IPv4 addresses that aren't being used — by ISPs or anyone else that holds them — and uses his Hong Kong-based company, Larus, to lease them out to others. In 2013, Lu registered a new company in the Seychelles, an African archipelago in the Indian Ocean, to apply for IP addresses from Africa's internet registry, called the African Network Information Centre, or Afrinic. Between 2013 and 2016, Afrinic granted that company, Cloud Innovation, 6.2 million IPv4 addresses. That's more addresses than are assigned to Nigeria, Africa's most populous nation. A single IPv4 address can be worth about $50 on its transfer to a company like Larus, which leases it onward for around 5% to 10% of that value annually. Larus and its affiliate companies, Lu said, control just over 10 million IPv4 addresses. The architects of the internet don't appear to have contemplated the possibility that anyone would seek to monetize IP addresses... Lu's activities triggered a showdown with Africa's internet registry. In 2020, after what it said was an internal review, Afrinic sent letters to Lu and others seeking to reclaim the IP addresses they held. In Lu's case, Afrinic said he shouldn't be using the addresses outside Africa. Lu responded that he wasn't violating rules in place when he got the addresses... After some back-and-forth, Lu sued Afrinic in Mauritius to keep his allocated addresses, eventually filing dozens of lawsuits... One of the lawsuits that Lu filed in Mauritius prompted a court there to freeze Afrinic's bank accounts in July 2021, effectively paralyzing the organization and eventually sending it into receivership. The receivership choked off distributions of new IPv4 addresses, leaving the continent's service providers struggling to expand capacity... In September, Afrinic elected a new board. Since then, some internet-service providers have been granted IPv4 addresses.

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Influencer Stefanie Pieper, 31, has been found dead in a remote Slovenian forest.

The son of David and Victoria Beckham , 22, took to his Instagram Stories with the snap while flashing his a glimpse of his black BOSS underwear which could be seen over the waist of his joggers.

A ruling by the Office of Rail and Road (ORR) means the service from Manchester Piccadilly to London Euston will still depart each weekday  but will carry only staff for up to five months.

The two pop stars have been close friends for 11 years, with Swift, 35, even referring to Sheeran, 34, at one point as her 'second brother.'

George Clooney's first wife Talia Balsam continues to turn heads at 66, stepping out recently with her Mad Men star husband John Slattery at the Museum of Modern Art for the Nuremberg screening. 

Duff was 15 at the time of filming, and was already a nationally famous child star as the title character on the Disney Channel sitcom Lizzie McGuire.

Joshua Travis died on Wednesday evening after being hit by a train on the railway line shortly after 7pm.

Extraordinary footage shows the unmanned craft - deployed by Ukraine's secret service - skimming across the Black Sea before slamming into the hulking vessels.

Jess Glynne has revealed she was unable to greet Alex Scott on the I'm A Celeb bridge because her mother had suffered a 'major stroke and underwent brain surgery'.

EXCLUSIVE: Melanie Abbott, 48, was left horrified after returning to her home in Milton Keynes this week to find piles of mud from where the lengthy hole had been filled in.

Jack Fincham was spotted kissing Married At First Sight star Leisha Lightbody at Tulleys Farm's Christmas light festival on Friday night.

The former Prince Andrew is still a vice-admiral in the Royal Navy, the final title he retains after his brother, King Charles, formally stripped him of his prince title on November 6.

Olivia Attwood has opened up about her recent health scare after she was forced to pull out of Loose Women moments before going on air.

Unite boss Sharon Graham criticised the watering-down of the Employment Rights Bill and the decision to hit 'ordinary' people with stealth taxes

Prince Edward , 61, and his wife Sophie, 60, stepped out at Newbury Racecourse this morning to officially reopen the Royal Box as the day's races got underway.

With a kick of her leg and flick of her skirt, Shirley Ballas made her way over to the Strictly Come Dancing judges' desk where she took her seat and threw her head back in laughter.

Warships and military personnel have moved into position near the Caribbean country in recent months, raising fears that Trump is preparing military action.