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Margot Robbie and Bradley Cooper shared a passionate kiss as they filmed intimate scenes for Ocean's Eleven prequel in the French Riviera on Monday.

The saying goes 'All roads lead to Rome' - but a new study suggests these paths weren't as uniformly straight as once thought.

SPONSORED FEATURE: DigiCert wants to hand every agent a passport, complete with an expiry date and a named human owner

Crime in the area is lower than it was before the site opened

The slated increase would take the level to just over £13,000 from April - above the personal allowance threshold of £12,570 for the first time.

Vascular surgeon Dr Muhammad Abdelmoez Abdelmoghny Khalil has been handed a nine-month suspension for his 'virulently antisemitic' social media posts.

The 29-year-old man died less than two weeks later, following the incident on June 21 at a music festival in Carcassonne, France .

More than 100,000 additional people were handed PIP for psychiatric conditions including ADHD last year - almost 40 per cent of all new disability benefit claims.

The accused appeared before Traunstein Regional Court on Tuesday.

The camera's installation in Cornwall is the latest example of AI being rolled out to catch motorists breaking the law.

404 Media reports: Last summer, a cop with the Lake County, Indiana Sheriff's Department used Flock's surveillance search engine to look for a license plate across more than 19,000 cameras in 1,558 cities and towns. The cop's stated reason for the search, according to a record of Flock's system, was "LMAO." The cop is one of dozens who put gibberish, jokes, or other nonsense into Flock's "reason" box, highlighting the casualness and lack of care some cops have when searching an incredibly powerful surveillance system. This is on top of the thousands upon thousands of cops who simply wrote something like "investigation," "test," or left the box blank as their search "reason," according to a new analysis by the Electronic Frontier Foundation and shared with 404 Media. EFF's investigation found cops across dozens of jurisdictions writing "LMAO," "LOL," "Hehe," "Haha," "idk," "blah," "TBD," and "robbery I don't remember the case number leave me alone" in Flock's "reason" box for searches. They found cops writing "idiot," "fuck this new search engine," "dickhead," "shithead," and "WEIRD KID" in the reason box. And they found an entire class of police button mashers, who ran searches for reasons of "asdfg," "gyghkkghghjkghjk," "jhjhjkhj," "jkhhkjhjk," "nmbvcbnm," and so on and so forth. The searches came from police departments across the country from 2023 through late 2025, when Flock changed how the "reason" box in its search system functions... Each time a search is performed, a record of it is saved in the Flock system, which can be obtained by the public using government records requests. These audit logs show hundreds of thousands of searches of the system; after 404 Media and other news outlets used these types of logs to show police using the Flock system to look for undocumented immigrants on behalf of ICE, a woman in Texas who had an abortion, and protesters, cops were warned by government surveillance centers to be "as vague as permissible" about the reasons for their searches... A police department said it investigated a cop who wrote "driving around being weird" in the reason field but found it was for "legitimate public safety purposes." If a police chief "stood in front of a city council and asked for permission to install hundreds of cameras just so his officers could investigate the high crime of 'haha,' they would be laughed out of the room," argues the EFF blog post, calling this proof that agencies can't be trusted to oversee themselves. But judges aren't being asked to authorize searches or review evidence, which the EFF post argues shows laws and courts haven't caught up yet with a new technology. Whatever auditing happens is clearly "deficient," the EFF warns, and while many jurisdictions require by law an actual reason for searches, "this keeps happening because police use automated license plate readers as a convenient shortcut around constitutional privacy safeguards." The EFF sees police officers "making a mockery of our civil liberties" by logging reasons like "LOL", "LMAO", "sexy", and "idk" while accessing sensitive location data. In fact, they argue the warrant-less databases fostered a culture of abuse that "allowed police to treat a mass surveillance network like their own personal search engine, permitting the tracking of the movements of everyday citizens for low-level complaints, personal whims, and sometimes, seemingly, for the lols." Flock Safety claims it has improved its system by requiring officers to select from a dropdown list of crimes before running a search-but that only makes it easier for officers to hide improper searches behind the veneer of uniformity. The system does not require proof that the dropdown reason actually matches the true purpose of the search... Since this update, officers are no longer required to type out why they are digging through a driver's movement history, and instead can select a pre-packaged option like "Traffic infraction" or "Other" in half a second... Mass surveillance is incompatible with a free society, and especially so when the people with access to this data are treating it like a joke. This ALPR mass surveillance — the indiscriminate, continuous collection and retention of location data on every driver, regardless of suspicion — should not exist. But because it does, EFF continues to urge courts and state legislatures to immediately step in and impose strict, enforceable restrictions to rein in this abuse. At an absolute minimum, this means mandating rigid data deletion deadlines and an ironclad warrant requirement. If police want the power to track a person's movements, they must be required to convince a judge with evidence and probable cause. They should not be able to bypass the Constitution with a search for "haha."

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Thomas Crooks, the 20-year-old who tried to assassinate Donald Trump in 2024, was described as a quiet loner in newly released interviews with the gunman's distant father.

An official report by Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration John Tuckett raised concerns over a programme to cut 563 staff from the Home Office agency which protects Britain's border.

Meghan Markle has posted a series of photographs on Instagram to celebrate Prince Harry's 42nd birthday today, writing: 'He's simply the best. Happy birthday, my love.'

Fresh Mount Etna ash disrupts Stansted flights to Sicily as Catania Airport closes; Ryanair flight diverted to Palermo.

Fresh Mount Etna ash disrupts Stansted flights to Sicily as Catania Airport closes; Ryanair flight diverted to Palermo.

The London Mayor was introduced as Lord Khan of Tooting in a traditional ceremony this afternoon.

A charity boxing event is set to return to Braxted Park next year in aid of the Lennox Children's Cancer Fund.

Kelly Osbourne has revealed why she no longer has a relationship with her older sister, Aimee, as she insists there is no hope for a reconciliation. 

Paul Pressland, 63, had drunk almost a bottle of red wine before having dinner with his wife, Gemma Martin, 52, and his in-laws on December 1, 2024 at their Dorset home.