New book by Macca's old manager says Paul was a bolshy Beatle, writes ALISON BOSHOFF
He's enjoyed an image as the most genial of the Fab Four - and as the eternally 'thumbs aloft' family man in Wings and in his solo career since. But is Sir Paul McCartney capable of being... mean?
Have designer handbags finally lost their gloss? How the likes of Victoria Beckham and Kim Kardashian are seemingly going bag-free
Is Victoria Beckham carrying her phone in her bra like the 73 per cent of Gen Zs who admitted to doing just that in a report this week?
Putin's troops 'drop booby-trapped wet wipe packs and power banks' onto the streets of Ukraine in new 'crime against civilians'
The charity Hope For Ukraine has accused Vladimir Putin of targeting innocent civilians and children, who may pick up the seemingly harmless items by mistake.
Left tells Burnham to put Red Ed in No11: Now hardliner MPs try to halt move to make Mahmood the next Chancellor
Rachael Maskell became the first Left-wing backbencher to publicly criticise his potential choice and back Energy Secretary Ed Miliband instead.
Why our Wags can still manage a smile in the wake of Argentina's devastating win
The England Wags are World Cup winners - thanks to a lucrative boost in the number of their social media followers.
Emotional Jesy Nelson says SMA battle is a 'never-ending, life-changing situation' as she reveals daughter Story has been diagnosed with scoliosis and both twins need further operations
Jesy Nelson struggled to hold back her tears as she said her daughters' SMA battle is a 'never-ending, life-changing situation' that never gets easier.
More than 600,000 Britons 'are too fat to work', study suggests
The scale of the problem is twice as big as previously thought and is likely to have a 'substantial' economic cost for society, researchers say.
Chinese memory ban would cut off RAMpocalypse relief
Two US lawmakers push tighter curbs on chipmakers from the Middle Kingdom
How an abuse survivor made it her mission to get her rapist behind bars - decades after attacks that her mother 'told her to get the morning after pill for'
Jamie Mckenzie was 11 when she was raped by serial child sex offender Daniel Bottger after he plied her with booze and took her to her parents' outhouse.
Family of three plunges to their death from tourist lookout tower in Germany
Two parents and their child were found dead at the bottom of the 213ft Harz Tower in Altenau on Thursday, according to local reports.
The Morning Poll: Can Andy Burnham unite the country when he becomes Prime Minister on Monday?
Can Andy Burnham unite the country when he becomes Prime Minister on Monday?
Lewis Hamilton urges fans to 'hold your people close' after Kim Kardashian's grandma Mary Jo Campbell passed
The photos captured Hamilton hanging at the lake with Kardashian and spending quality time with loved ones.
HP Fined $14 Million For 'Cartelization' of Ink Cartridges, Toner, PCs
India's Competition Commission has fined HP India and its partners about 1.4 billion rupees ($14.4 million), alleging the company colluded with resellers to rig government PC bids and fix prices for ink cartridges, toner, and other printing supplies. "It said that HP was aiming to outcompete other OEMs and discourage resellers from selling 'counterfeit' ink and toner," adds Ars Technica. From the report: In an order, the CCI said that HP India worked with five resellers to coordinate their bid prices for government contracts to increase the chances of an HP partner winning the contracts. The company was fined 1.3 billion rupees (about $13.1 million). [...] HP was also fined 119.8 million rupees (about $1.2 million) for "indulging in cartelization in sale and supply of supplies products comprising of toner, cartridges, and other consumable used with print hardware products," CCI said in its announcement. The agency also fined 21 HP resellers 35.2 million rupees (about $365,335).
In a separate order, the CCI said that WhatsApp records showed that HP and 16 of its Tier-2 reseller partners operated "in a collusive arrangement" and that the messages show the companies engaging in "bid rigging, including cover bidding, price fixation, and customer allocation during 2017-2020." HP India played a central role, the regulator said.
Per the order, HP India said that high printing supply prices led some resellers to threaten to "shift to low-cost counterfeit products to compete on price." "HP India was commercially forced into a position where it had to support the collusive arrangement adopted by the Tier-2 resellers," the order reads. For its part, the order said that HP India "humbly objects to HP India's role being characterized as a 'kingpin' of the entire collusive arrangement." [...] The CCI also ordered HP India and its channel partners to "cease and desist from anti-competitive conduct" and to hold competition compliance training programs within 60 days.
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Love Island's Ellie Chadwick quits the villa as her fellow islanders choose to dump Finley Maddock in brutal decision as four stars leave the show
Love Island's Ellie Chadwick has quit the villa after her fellow islanders chose to dump Finley Maddock.
OpenAI admits GPT-5.6 occasionally deletes files – but it's an 'honest mistake'
Data purges deemed an example of 'misaligned behavior' that upstart is working to avoid
Three in four eating disorder patients dismissed by GPs, major study finds
Writing in the prestigious medical journal The Lancet, the researchers - from Canada and the UK - say the findings suggest medics may fail to recognise eating disorders other than anorexia.
Beverley Callard, 69, reveals she has finished her radiotherapy treatment as she celebrates major health update amid breast cancer battle
Beverley Callard has shared the incredible news that she has finished her radiotherapy treatment amid her breast cancer diagnosis.
QUENTIN LETTS: This low-wattage Transport Secretary wasted her chance to wreak some political mischief
A lively Transport Secretary would be teasing the Europeans for technical incompetence and political disunity. But Heidi Alexander is not high-energy.
TSMC To Invest Additional $100 Billion In Arizona
TSMC said it will invest another $100 billion in Arizona after reporting a record 77.4% year-over-year jump in second-quarter profit. The expansion would bring its total U.S. investment to $265 billion and include new fabs for 2-nanometer production and advanced packaging to serve major U.S. customers. The Associated Press reports: As AI-related demand continues to jump and needs for computing power from data centers surge, TSMC has been expanding chip fabrication plants in the U.S., Japan and Taiwan. It said it is increasing its annual capital expenditure budget for this year to $60 billion-$64 billion, up from an earlier estimate of $52 billion-$56 billion.
TSMC, or Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., is a key supplier to Nvidia and Apple. It had previously already committed $165 billion in the U.S. for building plants in Arizona, with six fabrication facilities planned. The extra $100 billion in investments are to "support the strong multiyear demand from our leading U.S. customers," C.C. Wei, chairman and CEO of TSMC, said during the company's quarterly earnings conference Thursday. An additional four fabrication plants in Arizona will likely be built with the new investments, TSMC said. They will focus on making some of the most advanced chips that are 2-nanometer and below.
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Burnham 'casts a shadow over the economy' as Reeves leaves No11 with dismal growth and a fragile future
Days before Mr Burnham enters Downing Street, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said gross domestic product (GDP) grew by just 0.1 per cent in May, after shrinking by 0.1 per cent in April.