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An Afghan asylum seeker has been charged with murder after allegedly stabbing his female boss to death, following German authorities' decision that his home country was too unsafe. 

Brian Belo won the third series of Big Brother in 2007 and has had a busy career since then

Calling all fashion fanatics! If you think you've got an eye for detail and an appetite for problem solving, it is time to put those to the test.

Nicky Haslam - who is friends with British Queen Camilla and claims Princess Margaret's husband Lord Snowdon was once his lover - has released his seventh Common List tea towel.

He won Olympic gold at the 1948 London Summer Games and later served as the penultimate torch bearer for the 2024 Pairs Games. Now, cycling legend Charles Coste has passed away at 101.

Three employees at cybersecurity companies spent years moonlighting as criminal hackers, launching their own ransomware attacks in a plot to extort millions of dollars from victims around the country, US prosecutors alleged in court filings. From a report: Ryan Clifford Goldberg, a former incident response supervisor at Sygnia Consulting, and Kevin Tyler Martin, who was a ransomware negotiator for DigitalMint, were charged with working together to hack five businesses starting in May 2023. In one instance, they, along with a third person, received a ransom payment of nearly $1.3 million worth of cryptocurrency from a medical device company based in Tampa, Florida, according to prosecutors. The trio worked in a part of the cybersecurity industry that has sprung up to help companies negotiate with hackers to unfreeze their computer networks -- sometimes by paying ransom. They are also accused of sharing their illicit profits with the developers of the type of ransomware they allegedly used on their victims. DigitalMint informed some customers about the charges last week, according to a document seen by Bloomberg News. The other person who was allegedly involved in the scheme was also a ransomware negotiator at the same firm as Martin but wasn't charged, according to court records. The person wasn't identified in court records, nor were the companies that were the defendants' former employers. Sygnia confirmed Goldberg had worked there. Martin last year gave a talk at a law school, which listed him as an employee of DigitalMint.

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Twenty-five trophies, 115 England caps, five international tournaments and countless priceless goals.

The former Manchester United and England footballer was made a knight of the British empire for services to sport and charity by King Charles during Tuesday's investiture.

Experts disagree about what the ruling means for AI training on copyrighted material

London's High Court has dismissed the major portions of Getty Images' lawsuit against generative AI firm Stability AI for training its image-generation model on copyrighted images, which some legal experts say could weaken intellectual property laws. However, others saw daylight for trademark and copyright protection in the judge's ruling.…

It's a case that sent shockwaves through the local community

Curly COMrades strike again

Russia's Curly COMrades is abusing Microsoft's Hyper-V hypervisor in compromised Windows machines to create a hidden Alpine Linux-based virtual machine that bypasses endpoint security tools, giving the spies long-term network access to snoop and deploy malware.…

Amazon has sent a cease-and-desist letter to Perplexity AI demanding that the AI search startup stop allowing its AI browser agent, Comet, to make purchases online for users. From a report: The e-commerce giant is accusing Perplexity of committing computer fraud by failing to disclose when its AI agent is shopping on a user's behalf, in violation of Amazon's terms of service, according to people familiar with the letter sent on Friday. The document also said Perplexity's tool degraded the Amazon shopping experience and introduced privacy vulnerabilities, said the people, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss internal matters. In response, Perplexity said Amazon is bullying a smaller competitor with a rival AI agent shopping product. The clash between Amazon and Perplexity offers an early glimpse into a looming debate over how to handle the proliferation of so-called AI agents that field more complex tasks online for users, including shopping. Like OpenAI and Alphabet's Google, Perplexity has pushed to rethink the traditional web browser around AI, with the goal of having it streamline more actions for users, such as drafting emails and conducting research.

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Martha Moxley, 15, was last seen by her family heading out into the cold October night to join friends carousing in the neighborhood in October 1975. She was found dead the following day.

Junkai Liu, 26, swiped the cards before they were tampered with and replaced. When customers paid to have funds put on them, the money was transferred into the gang's bank accounts.

A recent review has shown a collaboration project between emergency services in Essex has saved £20m of taxpayers money.

A woman who faked she was pregnant and continued the lie that she had given birth using a plastic doll has signed a deal with documentary makers.

Last week, Meghan Markle released her 2025 holiday line for her lifestyle brand, As Ever - but experts are lauding it as something that customers may not be too willing to pay for this festive season.

Britain's 1980s pop icon Boy George vilely attacked a lesbian who was banned from a Los Angeles gym after she complained about a transitioning man in the women's locker room.

Jack Aldridge appeared on the This Morning sofa on Tuesday to discuss his involvement in the ad, which is a nostalgia trip back to the 90s.

Breakout star Jack Alldridge stars in this year's traditional tear-jerker as a doting son who, in an effort to show his love and affection for his old school raver dad, gifts him a vinyl record.