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The hardest school to get into in Essex rejected over half of the first-choice applications it received

India and China deliver a nice milestone, with help from ancient internet history

Asia has become the second region in the world to reach 50 percent IPv6 capability, according to data from labs run by the Asia Pacific Network Information Center (APNIC).…

The Argentine pontiff, who died on Easter Monday, aged 88, has broken with tradition and asked that his final resting place be away from St Peter's Basilica in the Vatican.

Benedetto Ceraulo, 63, the hitman who killed fashion mogul Maurizio Gucci in 1995 at the behest of his ex-wife, allegedly shot his son during a family dispute then turned the pistol on himself.

Great Notley Parish Council will host a VE-Day 80th anniversary street party-style celebration to “promote community spirit and get people together”.

BBC Two's Great British Railway Journeys will tour Braintree, Maldon, Colchester, and other locations across Essex.

The park is incredibly popular when the weather gets warmer

Reese Witherspoon's thinly-veiled snarky jab at Blake Lively has resurfaced amid the mounting drama over Lively's legal war with It Ends With Us director Justin Baldoni.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from MIT Technology Review: A lawsuit to hold Yahoo responsible for "willfully turning a blind eye" to the mismanagement of a human rights fund for Chinese dissidents was settled for $5.425 million last week, after an eight-year court battle. At least $3 million will go toward a new fund; settlement documents say it will "provide humanitarian assistance to persons in or from the [People's Republic of China] who have been imprisoned in the PRC for exercising their freedom of speech." This ends a long fight for accountability stemming from decisions by Yahoo, starting in the early 2000s, to turn over information on Chinese internet users to state security, leading to their imprisonment and torture. After the actions were exposed and the company was publicly chastised, Yahoo created the Yahoo Human Rights Fund (YHRF), endowed with $17.3 million, to support individuals imprisoned for exercising free speech rights online. The Yahoo Human Rights Fund was intended to support imprisoned Chinese dissidents. Instead, a lawsuit alleges that only a small fraction of the money went to help former prisoners. But in the years that followed, its chosen nonprofit partner, the Laogai Research Foundation, badly mismanaged the fund, spending less than $650,000 -- or 4% -- on direct support for the dissidents. Most of the money was, instead, spent by the late Harry Wu, the politically connected former Chinese dissident who led Laogai, on his own projects and interests. A group of dissidents sued in 2017, naming not just Laogai and its leadership but also Yahoo and senior members from its leadership team during the time in question; at least one person from Yahoo always sat on YHRF's board and had oversight of its budget and activities. The defendants -- which, in addition to Yahoo and Laogai, included the Impresa Legal Group, the law firm that worked with Laogai -- agreed to pay the six formerly imprisoned Chinese dissidents who filed the suit, with five of them slated to receive $50,000 each and the lead plaintiff receiving $55,000. The remainder, after legal fees and other expense reimbursements, will go toward a new fund to continue YHRF's original mission of supporting individuals in China imprisoned for their speech. The fund will be managed by a small nonprofit organization, Humanitarian China, founded in 2004 by three participants in the 1989 Chinese democracy movement. Humanitarian China has given away $2 million in cash assistance to Chinese dissidents and their families, funded primarily by individual donors.

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The 52-year-old actor shed insight on his parenting style while chatting about his teenage kids having jobs during Tuesday's episode of Today with Jenna & Friends.

Social media sensation Michael Alves, who rocketed to stardom under the name Killdozer for his extreme food challenges, called his latest endeavor 'the worst week of my entire life.'

Former Australian Test cricketer Michael Slater has been released after spending more than a year behind bars - and many Aussies are crying foul.

The 17-year-old has stunned athletics fans around the world by breaking the 10-second barrier for the 100m and 20 seconds for the 200m, only to have them ruled out due to the wind.

The seemingly innocuous snap showed the Vice President holding his son inside the Sistine Chapel over Easter weekend.

Meanwhile, OpenAI expresses an interest in unbundling Chrome from Google

Google has agreed to unbundle its Play Store and Android operating system in India, but only on smart TVs, and will also cough up a $2.4 million fine after being found to have breached competition law.…

The doomsday cult mom opted to represent herself at trial defending allegations she conspired to murder her forth husband Charles Vallow to access his $1million life insurance policy.

The chilling attack took place near Olga Beach, Hadera, on Monday and prompted a major search and rescue operation.

In a major U-turn, energy minister Ed Miliband is set to introduce amended legislation that will require GB Energy to ensure that 'slavery and human trafficking is not taking place' in its supply chain.

Nicole Keefe, 27, who previously struggled to even get by monthly on her limited salary as a fashion photographer, now insists she can't ever imagine returning back to her former structured life.

Luca Polito had been driving his Lamborghini Gallardo in Concordia Sagittaria, northern Italy, with a friend in the passenger seat when the terrible accident occurred on April 19