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The Home Office announced the scheme - which allowed Channel small boat migrants to be returned to France - was 'no longer processing new cases'.

Andy Burnham has said he would be 'really concerned' if Manchester City's owners decided to sell the club in the wake of their guilty verdict of more than 100 breaches of Premier League rules.

Tom Cruise couldn't hide his delight over his recent meeting with Kate Middleton as he gushed over the 'stunning' Princess Of Wales in a new interview.

Pike's planned execution was halted at the 11th hour. She murdered Knoxville Job Corps student Colleen Slemmer, 19, in March 1996 when she was 18.

A pensioner was subjected to 'ten years of hell' by an elderly neighbour who performed lewd acts while standing naked in his window and came into her garden to touch her bras on the washing line.

Longtime Slashdot reader AmiMoJo shares a report from Mashable: Singapore's government is trying its hand at matchmaking again. The country's Government Technology Agency (GovTech) has launched FirstDate, a pilot dating service for singles aged 21 to 35. For now, it's open only to public officers, according to the service's website. Applications close Oct. 5. FirstDate is designed as an alternative to endless swiping. Instead of browsing a stream of profiles, users fill out a questionnaire about their interests, habits, values, and preferences. The service then sends them one match per cycle (the time it takes to mutually accept and presumably meet up). Each match includes a compatibility score, a brief description of the person, and a personal note. [...] The pilot arrives as Singapore's birth rate hits a new low, according to the Singaporean newspaper The Straits Times. The country's total fertility rate fell to 0.87 children per woman in 2025, down from 1.24 a decade earlier. In April, the government announced a new workgroup tasked with addressing falling birth rates, which is expected to report its findings by early 2027, The Straits Times reported. The service relies on the Gale-Shapley algorithm, a well-known mathematical method that solves the stable matching problem by pairing two sets of participants based on their ranked preferences. Once matched, users have 72 hours to mutually accept before contact details are shared, with optional "Date Quests" and post-date surveys designed to encourage and assess in-person meetups. Accounts are verified through Singapore's Singpass digital ID system to reduce fake profiles, and profiles are only visible to assigned matches. GovTech says user data is protected under government security standards, is not sold to third parties, and can be deleted upon request.

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In the story, a salon owner was interviewed about how her customers are increasingly asking for 'bare-looking' fake nails.

Barristers have been told that 'where it is appropriate' they can address biologically male trans women as men when they are facing allegations of sexual violence.

Russia has warned Nato it would be ready to resort to nuclear weapons if the Western alliance attempted to cut off Kaliningrad, a Russian exclave that borders the Baltic Sea.

Users on Ubuntu 24.04 will begin to get nagged to update to 26.04.1. Here's how to proceed

An internet famous couple have been charged with arson in connection to a fire that destroyed a home and a church in Charleston, West Virigina.

The body of John Agner, 85, a retired wood carver, was found battered to death in the front garden of his home in Verlus, southwest France, in the early hours of Saturday.

A specialist tactical officer was stabbed in the leg as the force swooped on 24 properties and arrested 17 people across London and four counties.

Federal paperwork to be pulped as agencies told to forget the old name, while critics ask who owns all those .si domains

Earth's life support systems are failing, scientists have warned - as seven out of nine planetary boundaries have now been breached.

fahrbot-bot shares a report from CNN: President Donald Trump on Tuesday unveiled America.gov, a government website meant to serve as a one-stop shop for people trying to accomplish basic tasks like renewing a passport, enrolling in Medicare or applying for disaster relief. The site, which launched with some basic functions ahead of a full rollout next year, is designed to serve as an AI-powered guide through the thicket of government agencies that Trump officials pledged would ultimately save people a whole lot of frustration. The administration's new initiative aims to allow Americans to access dozens of federal websites through a single point, making America.gov akin to a search tool that pulls information from across the government. And in the same way that people increasingly use AI models like ChatGPT or Google Gemini to compile information and provide customized answers, Trump officials claimed that America.gov would be able to do the same for people's interactions with the federal government. Enrolling in Medicare, for example, will become a matter of typing the request into the America.gov AI tool and following its step-by-step instructions. The same goes for applying to a government job -- the new tool will now let people upload their resume directly to the site -- or answering questions about federal benefits, publicly available documents or other necessities that fall under the federal government's vast umbrella. "Our vision is that one day, this type of convenience and simplicity will be across every government service," said Joseph Gebbia, who leads the government's National Design Studio. But the reality is that the most advanced actions won't be available until some point in 2027, raising questions about how long it will take for the administration to revamp the way the people interact with the government's websites. The current version of America.gov can only do "answers." U.S. Chief Design Officer Joe Gebbia said the new chatbot is powered by Google's Gemini and Elon Musk's Grok. "We have great partners behind the scenes," Gebbia told CNBC's "Squawk Box" shortly before the site, America.gov, went live around 10 a.m. ET. "Google is proud to be named a technology partner in this vital initiative, leveraging Gemini to help more than 100 million people access critical public resources with greater speed and ease," the company said in a blog post. "By supporting the administration's vision for digital modernization, we are committed to making these everyday public services seamless, accessible, and responsive for all Americans."

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He manipulated the young girl

Olivia Colman is the latest star to lean into 'authentic ageing', showing off salt-and-pepper curls at the premiere for her new film, Wicker - as going grey enjoys a glamorous rebrand.