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A Muslim man was heard chanting 'Allahu Akbar' outside of New York City hall on the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks today.

The revelation surfaced as Clinton was at Ground Zero for the 25th anniversary, standing among the very families whose loved ones died in the attack the memo foreshadowed.

Last time he ran for Parliament, Zack Polanski was registered to vote as David Paulden - then in 2020 and 2021 he was registered under both names. He blamed a council error

The Democrats were seen bursting into laughter during the solemn event on Friday morning in lower Manhattan, while mourners stood silently around them.

Bruce66423 shares a report from The Guardian: A bipartisan pair of American politicians is telling Britain's most secretive court to stop hiding its handling of Apple's legal fight against a government demand to break into its customers' encrypted data, warning that Whitehall's taste for secrecy is 'needlessly' straining relations between the two allies. The letter (PDF), shared with the Guardian ahead of being sent to the investigatory powers tribunal (IPT) on Friday, is signed by the Democratic senator Ron Wyden of Oregon and the Republican congressman Warren Davidson of Ohio. The row dates back to January 2025, when the Home Office served Apple with a technical capability notice under the Investigatory Powers Act, which requires companies to assist law enforcement in providing evidence. The UK government demanded that Apple provide a mechanism to access encrypted iCloud backups worldwide, a call the company met by withdrawing its Advanced Data Protection encryption feature from UK users the following month. Apple's challenge to that order at the IPT was later thrown out after the Home Office withdrew the original notice and issued a narrower one targeting only British users' data. "It is wholly inappropriate for a foreign executive body to attempt to dictate the distribution of powers within the US government, nor should it be permitted to use secrecy directives under the Investigatory Powers Act to frustrate Article I powers under the US Constitution," the pair wrote. Wyden and Davidson write that Congress "is not only a co-equal branch of government, it is the First Branch," and argue that no government can be allowed to place "its demands beyond the reach of legislative inquiry." "The UK government," they write, "cannot champion legislative oversight at home while using administrative gag orders to kneecap the constitutional authority of the US Congress."

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Giuliani, 82, and Mamdani, 34, shook hands and briefly shared words as they attended the solemn event on the Memorial Plaza at Ground Zero Friday morning.

A Cantor Fitzgerald bond trader was working on the 105th floor of the North Tower on September 11, 2001. He has shared the story of the mistake that saved his life during the terrorist attacks.

Both Wahlberg, 55, and Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane , 52, were booked onto the doomed American Airlines Flight 11.

You've heard of Sports Personality of the Year - and Shed, Horse and even Rear of the Year. Now get ready for something altogether more niche: Cemetery of the Year.

A car fire has closed one lane of the A12 near Brentwood.

Matthew Wright (pictured), 60, appeared at Bromley Magistrates' Court on Friday alongside three other former employees to face the criminal charge for the first time.

Dame Helen Mirren and Tom Hardy continued their show of friendship at a charity event on Friday, the morning after their red carpet reunion raised eyebrows.

Gogglebox star Calum has quit the show and is emigrating to Australia with his partner. 

Olivia Attwood and Sophie Habboo led the British stars who arrived in New York for Fashion Week as they attended the Alice and Olivia show on Friday.

The party's regional leaders have been warned that the Overnight Visitor Levy risks making city breaks in England far more expensive than those overseas.

The senior Reform MP said that councils run by her party will become flagships for undoing Equality, Diversity and Inclusion 'nonsense'.

Molly-Mae Hague and Tommy Fury's fans are convinced they secretly got married while on holiday in Turkey.

The furious Putin regime has pledged to return the Cosmonaut suit (pictured) to Russia, it is understood.

Bloomberg reports (paywalled) that Sam Altman told OpenAI employees the company is open to slowing the pace of AI development alongside other leading labs as concerns grow over increasingly capable systems and recent incidents in which models escaped human control. OpenAI has already paused development once this year for security work and is now pushing for mandatory U.S. AI safety requirements. Anthropic has also signaled interest in coordinating on the pace of new releases. Here are some of the details Bloomberg reported, as summarized by Reuters: - Altman told employees in a company-wide meeting that the ChatGPT maker could pace development alongside other AI labs, but some may not agree, the report added. - Safety warnings from AI researchers this week, along with several recent incidents where AI models from developers including OpenAI escaped human control, have prompted alarm and calls for tighter safety regulations. - Jacob Coxon, a former Anthropic and OpenAI researcher, publicly accused the companies earlier this week of racing toward AI advancements without acting responsibly. - An Anthropic spokesperson said on Thursday said that the company is interested in working with the AI industry on the pace of releasing new AI tools. - OpenAI said in July that AI acceleration for frontier model development may be so high that the world will "need to pace the rate of AI advancement" at some point in the future. - In August, OpenAI paused much of its model development for two weeks to bolster its defenses after its AI agents escaped containment and hacked open-source platform Hugging Face. - OpenAI said on Wednesday that it was pushing for mandatory national AI safety requirements in the United States, citing concerns that advanced AI systems could accelerate its own development.

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The scorching summer is set to produce some of the strongest champagnes in history - and a 'vintage year' for English sparkling wine makers.