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Lord Bamford, who has given more than £9million to the Tories and even hosted Boris Johnson 's wedding, revealed his latest intentions over the weekend.

Alice Figueiredo, 22, took her own life in a mental health unit at Goodmayes Hospital, Redbridge, after more than 10 similar attempts.

Kylie's boyfriend of two-and-a-half years, actor Timothee Chalamet, was nowhere to be seen at her mother Kris Jenner's star-studded 70th birthday party in Beverley Hills this weekend.

The director-general, who will stay in his post until a successor is found, said it had been a 'tough few days' since he announced his resignation alongside Deborah Turness.

Dave Knott writes: Microsoft has released Visual Studio 2026, the first major version of their flagship compiler in almost four years. Release notes are available here. The compiler has also been updated, including improved (but not yet 100%) C++23 core language and standard library implementations.

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Novak Djokovic accepted an apology from Piers Morgan after he was branded a 'liar and cheat' after the Serbian tennis star was deported from the 2021 Australian Open over a Covid scandal.

Sony reported that PlayStation 5 sales have reached 84.2 million units, officially surpassing every Xbox console ever released. IGN reports: The PlayStation 5 is now up to 84.2 million copies sold after shifting an additional 3.9 million units during the three-month period ending September 30, Sony has announced. That's a slight increase on the 3.8 million PS5 units Sony sold during the same quarter last year, but it's an impressive result given the price of the console has actually gone up over the course of this generation, rather than come down. [...] As an aside, unlike Sony, Microsoft does not make Xbox Series X and S sales figures public, but analysts have suggested the combined Xbox Series effort is being outsold by the PS5 by at least a factor of 2:1. The more appropriate comparison for the PS5 then, is with its predecessor, the PlayStation 4. Five years into the current console generation, the PS5 is slightly behind the PS4 (the PS4 sold-in to retailers more than 86.1 million units after five years on sale). But Sony has said this console generation is its most financially successful ever, with sales surpassing those made during the reign of all previous Sony consoles.

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Just a decade ago, many people wouldn't be seen dead in supermarket clothing, but now Tu and George are holding their own against affordable, trend-led UK high street stores such as H&M.

Heart-pounding video shows the pair narrowly avoided disaster despite being urged to leave the area.

Eva Lloyd, Emeritus Professor of Early Childhood at the University of East London, said juggling work and home pressures 'interferes' with parents' enjoyment of the pre-school years.

The incident was addressed on AFTV's YouTube channel on Monday, with Ty claiming it had initially been sparked by Sunderland supporters being 'in our faces' after their side snatched a draw.

The 48-year-old, who claims to be more than a decade younger biologically than his actual age, has long been an advocate of psychedelics for their mind-altering effects.

The employee in his 30s was found dead on Saturday after being trapped for several hours.

The alleged drunk driver accused of killing NHL star Johnny Gaudreau and his younger brother Matthew with his car has lost a major court battle in his ongoing trial in New Jersey.

A Munich court ruled that OpenAI violated German copyright law by training its models on lyrics from nine songs and allowing ChatGPT to reproduce them. OpenAI now faces damages as it considers an appeal. Reuters reports: The regional court in Munich found that the company trained its AI on protected content from nine German songs, including Groenemeyer's hits "Maenner" and "Bochum." The case was brought by German music rights society GEMA, whose members include composers, lyricists and publishers, in another sign of artists around the world fighting back against data scraping by AI. Presiding judge Elke Schwager ordered OpenAI to pay damages for the use of copyrighted material, without disclosing a figure. GEMA legal advisor Kai Welp said GEMA hoped discussions could now take place with OpenAI on how copyright holders can be remunerated. OpenAI had argued that its language models did not store or copy specific training data but, rather, reflected what they had learned based on the entire training data set. Since the output would only be generated as a result of user inputs known as prompts, it was not the defendants, but the respective user who would be liable for it, OpenAI had argued. However, the court found that both the memorization in the language models and the reproduction of the song lyrics in the chatbot's outputs constitute infringements of copyright exploitation rights, according to a statement on the ruling.

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From Kris Jenner's age-defying facelift to Mandy Moore's unrecognisable red carpet appearance, 2025 has been the year of shocking celebrity transformations.

Rachel Reeves is so intent on being the Iron Chancellor that the whole focus of her troubled 17-months at the Treasury has been about fiscal policy.

The 34-year-old, who had only worked there for two days, walked past a large polar bear warning sign and appeared to have kept a safe distance. But he did not realize that a second animal was lurking nearby.

A whole host of TV stars gathered at the Barbican on Tuesday night for the ITV Palooza.

Early risers listening to the BBC 's flagship Today programme at the weekend might have been forgiven for believing a coup had taken place and that Britain was now in the grip of a far-Right cabal.