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More than 200 firefighters rushed to Kurrajong Street, at North St Marys, just before 11pm on Saturday after an inferno engulfed a waste facility factory.

An anonymous reader shared this report from CNBC: Italian defense company Leonardo on Thursday unveiled plans for an AI-powered shield for cities and critical infrastructure, adding to Europe's push to ramp up sovereign defense capabilities amid rising geopolitical tensions. The system, dubbed the "Michelangelo Dome" in a nod to Israel's Iron Dome and U.S. President Donald Trump's plans for a "Golden Dome," will integrate multiple defense systems to detect and neutralize threats from sea to air including missile attacks and drone swarms... Leonardo's dome will be built on what CEO Roberto Cingolani called an "open architecture" system meaning it can operate alongside any country's defense systems... Leonardo's dome will be built on what CEO Roberto Cingolani called an "open architecture" system meaning it can operate alongside any country's defense systems.

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Vanessa Hudgens and Cole Tucker have officially expanded their family.

Romance rumours between the two started last week when the rapper, 25, admitted he had a 'soft spot for Shona' and they have been seen growing closer since.

The couples learned live on air which of their previous dances they would perform and a frantic dash to pick out a costume, in what fans branded 'carnage'.

Alex Scott has revealed she snuck salt from a service station on the drive to the Jungle into her socks and named who else knew she was putting it in the food for a week. 

She was the first I'm A Celeb contestant to be booted out of the jungle. But former Lioness Alex Scott has revealed that she almost didn't make it to the Australian Outback.

The Doctor Who star, 62, was clearly disappointed after making numerous mistakes during her disco themed cha cha, 38, before once again returning to the floor for the first ever Instant Dance.

The meeting was at Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa's Oxfordshire estate on November 11, less than a fortnight after Andrew was stripped of his royal titles and home.

Paige Suisted was diagnosed with terminal brain cancer at 26 and given 18 months to live. A year later, the tumour has vanished but doctors still can't announce her 'cancer free.'

Mel Stride said it had become 'increasingly clear' that the Chancellor had given an 'inaccurate picture of the economic and fiscal context' driven by 'political considerations.'

Terry Mayers, 47, was described as 'an exemplary officer' with Greater Manchester Police.

The Dance Moms star, 22, took to TikTok on Saturday and revealed she's been left 'unable to breath' and 'almost blacking out' before doctors discovered a cyst on her ovary had burst.

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.'