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Victoria Beckham mentioned her estranged son Brooklyn in her heartfelt thank you speech at the premiere of her Netflix documentary at London's Curzon Mayfair cinema on Wednesday.

The makeup artist, 48, 'just wants to get shot of it' according to friends, even though she will take a financial hit.

The victims have been identified as project architect Laura Rodriguez, 30, and construction workers Moussa Dembele, 40, Diallo Mamadún and a man called Jorge.

Home Office staff, who can oversee asylum seeker claims and cases of foreign national offenders, are permitted to work three out of five days a week from home.

Emergency services were called to Brownley Road in Wythenshawe, Manchester on Tuesday afternoon following reports of a child being 'dragged underneath'.

The 82-year-old woman, who was only identified by her surname Zhang, asked her family to catch the frogs, all of them smaller than the palm of her hand, without telling them what they were for.

Germany's cabinet has approved a new law allowing police to shoot down or disable rogue drones that threaten airspace security, following recent airport disruptions attributed to Russian reconnaissance. "Other techniques available to down drones include using lasers or jamming signals to sever control and navigation links," notes Reuters. From the report: With the new law, Germany joins European countries that have recently given security forces powers to down drones violating their airspace, including Britain, France, Lithuania and Romania. A dedicated counter-drone unit will be created within the federal police, Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt said, and researchers would consult with Israel and Ukraine as they were more advanced in drone technology. Police would deal with drones flying at around tree-level, whereas more powerful drones should be tackled by the military, Dobrindt said. Germany recorded 172 drone-related disruptions to air traffic between January and the end of September 2025, up from 129 in the same period last year and 121 in 2023, according to data from Deutsche Flugsicherung (DFS). German military drills last month in the northern port city of Hamburg demonstrated how like a spider, a large military drone shot a net at a smaller one in mid-flight, entangling its propellers and forcing it to the ground, where a robotic dog trotted over to seek possible explosives. Shooting down drones could be unsafe in densely populated urban areas, however, and airports do not necessarily have detection systems that can immediately report sightings.

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The printed editions of the Spy Dogs books by Andrew Cope - popular with seven to 11-year-olds - feature an URL which now directs the readers to explicit images and videos.

President Donald Trump announced Wednesday night that both Israel and Hamas had signed off on his proposed peace deal - a substantial step in ending the war in Gaza.

The couple have been locked in a family feud for months and haven't been pictured with Brooklyn's parents since Boxing Day last year.

The former Spice Girl, 52, and her former Red Bull boss husband, 51, were among a host of stars at the world premiere of her bandmate Victoria's new Netflix docuseries.

The magician and presenter, 48, experienced a tumultuous 2024 filled with mystery health scares and the tragic passing of his father.

Shayne Coplan, a 27-year-old NYU dropout who founded Polymarket from his bathroom in 2020, has become the youngest self-made billionaire after Intercontinental Exchange (owner of the NYSE) invested up to $2 billion in his once-controversial prediction market platform. Bloomberg reports: A couple of years after dropping out of New York University with dreams of making it big in crypto, Shayne Coplan was so broke that he took an inventory of his Lower East Side apartment so that he could sell belongings to make rent. Fed up with crypto grifts, in 2019 he started to explore economist Robin Hanson's ideas on prediction markets and their potential for improving society's ability to identify likely outcomes. "This is too good of an idea to just exist in whitepapers," he recalled thinking in a later post on X. Then Covid struck -- the perfect time to develop an app for stuck-at-home folks to bet on real-world outcomes, he reasoned. He began building Polymarket from his bathroom and launched the platform in June 2020. It wasn't a smooth road. The company's move-fast, ask-permission-later approach repeatedly ran afoul of regulators, who forced it to ban US-based users for years because it wasn't a registered exchange. A week after the 2024 presidential election -- one that Polymarket users wagered more than $3 billion on -- Coplan's apartment was raided by FBI agents. But he and his company are now riding high after Intercontinental Exchange Inc., the owner of the New York Stock Exchange, said it would invest as much as $2 billion in Polymarket at an $8 billion pre-money valuation. That deal makes its 27-year-old founder the youngest self-made billionaire tracked by the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.

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Alan, chat show jost Jonathan Ross and singer Cat Burns were chosen by Claudia Winkleman to be the Traitors of the series.

Victoria Beckham was supported by her beloved family and Spice Girls bandmates on the red carpet at the star-studded premiere of her much-anticipated Netflix documentary.

Walid Saadaoui, Bilel Saadaoui (pictured) and Amar Hussein are appearing at Preston Crown Court charged with terror offences

Gisele Pelicot, the Frenchwoman who became a feminist hero in a mass rape trial last year, has told a court that she is trying to rebuild her life 'from the ruins'.  

UK trains have the third slowest Wi-Fi speeds in comparison to 18 major European and Asian railway networks.

Verizon is acquiring Starry, the struggling wireless ISP that beams high-speed internet via millimeter-wave antennas. The company said the acquisition "advances" its ability to offer high-speed internet in apartments, condominiums, and other multi-dwelling units. The Verge reports: Starry made its debut in Boston in 2016, offering gigabit speeds via its unconventional approach to internet connectivity. Instead of carrying connectivity across a web of wires -- which are expensive and time-consuming to deploy -- Starry beams its internet service from a larger antenna into homes via high-speed, short-range mmWave broadcasts. The challenge with those broadcasts is that Starry connections generally require an uninterrupted line of sight between the transmitter and the receiver, as mmWave signals can be easily blocked. In recent years, Starry has run into trouble, with the company laying off half of its workers in 2022 and filing for bankruptcy in 2023. It also pulled out of one of its markets, Columbus, Ohio, leaving Starry with nearly 100,000 customers across Boston, Denver, Los Angeles, New York City, and Washington, DC. It sounds like Starry's tech will end up getting used by Verizon. Through the acquisition, Verizon plans on expanding its ability to deliver internet connectivity in urban locations, building on its 5G home internet and growing fiber footprint. Verizon expects the deal to close in 2026, subject to regulatory approval. "Verizon is uniquely positioned to accelerate this expansion because of its significant fiber backbone and extensive holdings of mmWave spectrum," the company said in its press release.

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The clifftop bar overlooking the Aegean Sea was perfect. Set under a trellised vine on a tiny square in front of a domed, whitewashed church, it seemed the ideal place for a sunset aperitif.