Europe's alternative Christmas markets that are a bargain - with 86p mulled wine and £35 hotel rooms
If you're looking for an alternative market to visit in Europe, there are plenty of options. Some are a real bargain - one town has hotel rooms for £35 and mulled wine for an impressively cheap 86p.
Where your stolen car REALLY goes - and exactly how it gets there: As startling new figures reveal a motor is pinched every four minutes, DEEP DIVE exposes the tactics of thieves pocketing £1.8billion-a-year
Each year more than 120,000 cars are stolen from driveways, streets and car parks across England and Wales in a criminal enterprise worth £1.8bn a year.
CLAIRE FOGES: Say what you like about Lily Allen but her new album captured all the emotions I too felt when I discovered my partner had had an affair
Forty-five minutes later I was sitting on the floor staring at the blank unpainted wall, dry paintbrush in hand, having been hit by the musical-emotional equivalent of a freight train.
I became famous as the 'Anti-Greta Thunberg': I get death and rape threats from Antifa, I'll be killed if I return to Europe - and Elon Musk told me he fears the same fate if he ever visited the continent
Naomi Seibt, 25, from Germany , shot to fame in 2019 after her videos challenging climate change went viral, sparking comparisons to Swedish campaigner Greta Thunberg.
Little-known new rule that means PM can be ousted NOW by his own MPs - and guess who'd replace him... DOMINIC LAWSON
Political aphorisms live on long after they cease to be true. For example, it is still said that 'loyalty is the Conservative Party's secret weapon'.
Budget raid on pensions 'risk slashing £50billion from savings', Reeves is warned
Analysis suggests that cutting the reliefs for higher rate taxpayers risked 'severe' consequences.
I dare not tell my best friend why we school mums all loathe her husband. She'd be mortified if she found out what we really think of him: ANNIE STEPHENS
There are certain kinds of obnoxious men I try to avoid whenever possible. Adam is one of them. He's rude, arrogant and loves forcing his boorish opinions on everyone he comes across.
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 16 Becomes First Enterprise Linux With Built-In Agentic AI
BrianFagioli shares a report from NERDS.xyz: SUSE is making headlines with the release of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 16, the first enterprise Linux distribution to integrate agentic AI directly into the operating system. It uses the Model Context Protocol (MCP) to securely connect AI models with data sources while maintaining provider freedom. This gives organizations the ability to run AI-driven automation without relying on a single ecosystem. With a 16-year lifecycle, reproducible builds, instant rollback capabilities, and post-2038 readiness, SLES 16 also doubles down on long-term reliability and transparency.
For enterprises, this launch marks a clear step toward embedding intelligence at the infrastructure level. The system can now perform AI-assisted administration via Cockpit or the command line, potentially cutting downtime and operational costs. SUSE's timing might feel late given the AI boom, but its implementation appears deliberate -- balancing innovation with the stability enterprises demand. It's likely to pressure Red Hat and Canonical to follow suit, redefining what "AI-ready" means for Linux in corporate environments.
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Celebrity Traitors viewers are left exasperated as Kate Garraway remains in the castle despite few theories: 'How is she still in there!'
Celebrity Traitors viewers were left exasperated as Kate Garraway remained in the castle on Wednesday night's episode despite having no credible theories on who the Traitors are.
How Westlife fell victim to the curse of the boyband: 'Foolish' with money, links to a political scandal and an unedifying wedding row...and how it's all paved the way for their return to the stage
The boyband soared to fame in 1998 after being formed in Dublin, with the original line-up also featuring Brian McFadden be he left acrimoniously in 2004.
Suspected pickpocket who targeted a tube commuter gets instant karma when he strikes in front of a champion martial artist
Ivan Skoko, 29, used his expertise in Brazilian jiu-jitsu to wrestle the man to the ground at busy Borough Station, South London, on Tuesday.
Michelle Keegan 'set to hit Hollywood as A-list star Reese Witherspoon eyes her up for lead role in book adaptation' following Netflix success
Michelle Keegan is reportedly being eyed up for her first Hollywood film role following the success of the Netflix series Fool Me Once.
TV host Kirsty Gallacher breaks down as she reveals she was physically assaulted by a stranger while walking on a busy central London street last night
The former Sky Sports host revealed she was 'kicked like a football' during the unprovoked incident at 7pm.
Labour's favourite think tank urges Rachel Reeves to go the whole hog and scrap the two-child benefit cap, rather than a watering down the current system
The Resolution Foundation has urged the Chancellor to find an extra £3.5billion a year to ditch the whole limit as it warned that 'half measures' won't suffice.
Mediterranean diet 'most effective way' to treat IBS, scientists discover
A Mediterranean-style diet plan has long been hailed as the secret behind Italians and Spaniards living long and healthy lives, as well as low rates of obesity.
US Startup Substrate Announces Chipmaking Tool That It Says Will Rival ASML
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: Substrate, a small U.S. startup, said on Tuesday that it had developed a chipmaking tool capable of competing with the most advanced lithography equipment made by Dutch firm ASML. Substrate's tool is the first step in the startup's ambitious plan to build a U.S.-based contract chip-manufacturing business that would compete with Taiwan's TSMC in making the most advanced AI chips, its CEO James Proud told Reuters in an interview. Proud wants to slash the cost of chipmaking by producing the tools needed much more cheaply than rivals. [...]
An engineering feat that has eluded even large companies, lithography needs extreme precision. ASML is the only company in the world that has been able to make at scale the complex tools that use extreme ultraviolet (EUV) to produce patterns on silicon wafer at a high rate of throughput. Substrate said that it has developed a version of lithography that uses X-ray light and is capable of printing features at resolutions that are comparable to the most advanced chipmaking tools made by ASML that cost more than $400 million apiece. The company said it has conducted demonstrations at U.S. National Laboratories and at its facilities in San Francisco. The company provided high resolution images that demonstrate the Substrate tool's capabilities. "This is an opportunity for the U.S. to recapture this market with a homegrown company," Oak Ridge National Laboratory director Stephen Streiffer, an expert on high-energy x-ray beams, said in an interview. "It's a nationally important effort and they know what they're doing."
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Raid on Gloucestershire storage unit unearths over £100k of fake car parts - as one in six drivers could be at risk from lethal counterfeit components
More than 3,600 counterfeit car parts were seized in the major operation to tackle the illegal trade of knock-off vehicle components in Britain.
Prostate cancer screening slashes risk of dying from the disease by 13 per cent, major study reveals
Testing led to a 'sustained reduction' in deaths over the 23-year follow-up period, with the benefits outweighing potential harms by even more than previously thought.
Briton is detained in Ukraine accused of spying for Russia while working as a military instructor near the frontline
Kyiv prosecutors said the man, who has not yet been named, has been passing information to Russian intelligence.
CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews Down Cemetery Road: Like Slow Horses? You'll love this - if you can stand Dame Emma...
Her demeanour seems to say, 'This is how it is done, children. Watch closely and learn. 'She plays Zoe Boehm, one half of a shabby Oxford detective agency.