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Thousands of fans at Lane Stadium watched in shock as the parachutist appeared to be blown off-course by a sudden gust of wind during a routine landing attempt.

The composer, 78, is famous for writing for writing hit musicals such as Cats, Evita, The Phantom Of The Opera and Jesus Christ Superstar.

LIVE: The latest updates on the Middle East as Iran declares the Strait of Hormuz is closed less than 24 hours after opening it.

Slashdot reader Bismillah shared this report from ITNews: Research and development engineer Romain Marchand of Paris headquartered Quarkslab obtained a telematic control unit (TCU) from a salvage yard in Poland... Marchand tore down the TCU, which is based on a Qualcomm system on a chip, and extracted the Linux-based file system from the Micron multi-chip package (MCP) which contained NAND-based non-volatile storage memory. The non-volatile storage contained sensitive information, including system configuration data and more importantly, logs that revealed the vehicle's GPS positions over time. None of that information was encrypted, Marchand told iTnews, which made it possible to collect and retrieve sensitive data of interest. What's more, the global navigation satellite system (GNSS) logs with GPS positions covered the BYD's full journey from the factory in China to its operational life in the United Kingdom, and to its final wrecking in Poland, Marchand explained in an analysis... The issue is not restricted to BYD, and Marchand added that the hardware architecture of the Chinese car maker's TCU is broadly similar to what can be found in other brands.

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Katie Price's son Harvey has called her new husband Lee Andrews 'daddy' in a sweet drawing, days after the star confirmed her husband does have a travel ban. 

Two of those arrested were counter-protestors and one was not known to be part of either group, according to Greater Manchester Police.

Donald Trump revealed the news at a speaking event with Turning Point USA in Arizona on Friday.

Insiders are urging Matt Brittin, a former Google executive who takes over next month, to resist the temptation to 'salami slice' BBC departments and channels to achieve the drastic cuts.

The Defence Secretary has ordered an investigation into the British Army's use of Chinese 3D printers to build weapons. 

Police said that a man was seen approaching a row of shops with a plastic bag containing what was later found to be three bottles containing fluid.

The whole point of being PM is to be in charge. No other job is so powerful. The person who holds it can summon whoever he likes to his presence and demand the facts.

British banks are set to be given early access to stress-test their cyber defences against Claude Mythos, a state-of-the-art AI bot.

Why does Sir Keir Starmer want to be Prime Minister? It's very hard to know. But what's certain is that Britain is paying the price of having a PM with no interest in doing the job.

"From 2008 to 2024, the number of four-year computer science degrees granted rose about fivefold..." reports the Washington Post. Then in 2025 CS suddenly dropped from the fourth-largest undergraduate major to sixth, they report (citing data from the nonprofit National Student Clearinghouse, which compiles numbers from 97% of U.S. universities. The 54,000-student drop was "the biggest one-year drop of any major discipline going back to at least 2020." But what major are they choosing instead? Sarah Karamarkovich, a research associate with the National Student Clearinghouse, pointed to an explanation from the data that we had overlooked. Enrollments in two interdisciplinary majors, data analytics and data science, topped a combined 35,000 in the fall of 2025. That was up from a few hundred when those disciplines were broken out into their own majors in 2020. Those relatively new categories reflect colleges' zeal to create specialized majors, including in AI, data science, robotics and cybersecurity. Some of those disciplines may be counted in the national enrollment data as computer science. Others are not. The numbers suggest that some of the disappearing computer science majors didn't flee so much as they splintered into related disciplines.... The 8 percent decline in computer science majors last fall was nearly mirrored by a 7.3 percent increase in engineering majors, according to the National Student Clearinghouse data. Within engineering, mechanical and electrical engineering major enrollments increased by the largest absolute amounts — a jump of 11 percent and 14 percent, respectively.

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Lottie Moss and her new boyfriend Themy Kalaitzis joined Olivia Bentley and Sam Prince at the Gran Marbella Resort & Beach Club launch party on Saturday.

The I'm A Celebrity : All Stars star, 45, horrified his fellow campmates and viewers when he bragged about dating a 'lovely' woman 'with the personality of a proper ugly bird'.

Yesterday the U.S. Congress approved "a short-term extension" of a FISA law that allows wiretaps without a warrant for surveilling foreign targets, reports CNN — but only until April 30. Republican congressional leaders had sought an 18-month extension, but "failed to secure" the votes after "clamoring from some of their members for reforms to protect Americans' privacy." The warrantless surveillance law, known as Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, was set to expire on Monday night. Members are hoping the additional time will allow them to come to agreement without ending authorization for the intelligence gathering program, which permits US officials to monitor phone calls and text messages from foreign targets... There was an hour of suspense in the Senate Friday morning when it appeared possible that Democratic Sen. Ron Wyden, a longtime critic of FISA 702, might block the House-passed extension. But ultimately, he said his House colleagues had assured him "this short-term extension makes reform more likely, and expiration makes reform less likely," and so he chose not to object.... House Republican leaders believed Thursday night they had struck a deal with conservative holdouts who harbor deep and longstanding concerns that a key piece of the law infringes on Americans' privacy rights. But in a pair of after-midnight votes, more than a dozen rank-and-file Republicans rejected the long-term reauthorization plan on the floor, which was the result of days of tense negotiations among leadership, lawmakers and the White House. The law allows authorized US officials to gather phone calls and text messages of foreign targets, but they can also incidentally collect the data of Americans in the process. Senior national security officials have for years said the law is critical for thwarting terror attacks, stemming the flow of fentanyl into the US and stopping ransomware attacks on critical infrastructure. Civil liberties groups on the left and the right, meanwhile, argue the surveillance authority risks infringing on Americans' privacy.

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A traveller who was ordered to leave a field after buying it, tarmacking over it and moving in a mobile home, can live there for now because moving him would breach his human rights.

The French soldier suffered a 'direct gunshot' wound after the patrol came under 'small-arms fire' on Saturday morning, with three others injured in the attack.

The singer, 45, who has been dating personal trainer Paolo, 33, since they met on the set of Celebs Go Dating, enjoyed a sun-soaked yacht trip in Marbella on Thursday.