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Former top-100 player and host of the GMTV breakfast show, Castle, 62, has been one of the voices of the tournament but the BBC has decided to take their coverage in a new direction.

Meningococcal B can cause serious, life-threatening problems including inflammation of the lining of the brain and sepsis (blood poisoning).

Britain's scorching May and June heatwaves are thought to have claimed more than 2,700 lives, with almost half of those deaths fuelled by climate change.

Which jobs are most threatened by AI? "Programmers, software engineers and other tech industry employees," goes one common answer. "But many economists are more concerned about a different, larger group of white-collar workers," reports the New York Times: customer service reps, bookkeepers, payroll clerks and HR specialists, "who fly under the radar but collectively account for tens of millions of jobs..." They are spread across the country and throughout the economy, working in every industry, in big cities and small towns, at major corporations and mom-and-pop businesses... These jobs typically offer a middle-class salary or a pathway to achieving one — much as manufacturing jobs did for men before decades of globalisation and automation wiped many of them away... For now, such an outcome is a fear, not a forecast. Despite high-profile layoffs in tech and finance, there is little firm evidence that AI has hurt the labour market as a whole. Economists have become increasingly convinced that disruptions are likely, but they say it is too early to know where or how widespread they will be. They remain broadly sceptical of claims that the technology will lead to mass unemployment in the near future. Some AI industry leaders have walked back such predictions in recent weeks. But given the extraordinary pace at which companies are adopting AI — and at which the technology is improving — economists say policymakers need to consider the potential effects on the labour market. And they say they are concerned that the public debate has focused too much on software engineers and a relative handful of other high-status careers — lawyers, consultants, economists — rather than the workers who could be most vulnerable... Economists at Northwestern University recently recalculated measures of AI exposure based on the makeup of the total workforce, not just the people using the technology. Administrative and front-line roles, such as customer service representatives, rose to the top of the list. "The most affected jobs are secretaries, are routine clerks," said Michelle Yin, one of the working paper's authors. "They're not computer scientists or data scientists at all." The article also includes this counterpoint from an economist at the University of Illinois who has studied earlier waves of white-collar automation: that like other disruptive technologies, AI likely will also create new jobs. So the possibility exists AI will make workers more productive and allow them to earn more. "I would be cautious about just focusing on what are we losing as opposed to what are we going to gain on the other side."

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RIATH AL-SAMARRAI AT WIMBLEDON: Across the course of three hours, 46 minutes and four sets, Zverev threw it all at the world No 1. But it, once again, was not quite enough.

There's also no hope of Michelle making another comeback down the line, because her character Zoe has been killed off.

The German branded his side 'lucky' after Bellingham's brace and help from both VAR and a spider camera cable saw them creep past the spirited Scandinavians after extra-time.

On one side of the draw, France and Spain, the stylists and the matadors, most people's pick for the best two teams of the tournament so far. In the other semi-final, two more sides who many see as mirrors of each other, two sides whose progress to the last four has been more about struggle than style. 

The TV star, 32, has reportedly met with the Strictly casting team to talk about joining the show.

The 'abject terror' Ann Widdecombe must have endured in her final minutes has troubled her family more than anything in the wake of her brutal murder.

MARK CLATTENBURG: England had scored their equaliser. The English fans at Miami Gardens were going crazy, celebrating Jude Bellingham's brilliant goal. 

A video at the World Cup has gone viral after a pair of fans were seen bickering during a match which has left social media wondering what could have possibly led to the dispute.

The youngster was spotted by Middlesbrough filming their training session ahead of the Championship play-off semi-final.

Linus Torvalds once said LLMs might bring a 10X increase to programmer productivity. But speaking at Open Source Summit India 2026, he now says that number was "not scientific," reports ZDNet. "That was pulled out of my ass number, obviously." Today, he continued, "we're at the point where hopefully it creates more productivity than it takes away," but "we certainly saw more junk being generated by LLMs than we saw useful code up until the like early this year.... it can actually be a huge drain on resources when it takes humans a lot of effort to figure out that, hey, this machine-generated report was not true." Even now, he said, "most of the good ones require more than just the LLM," because "we've had to push back quite a bit... if you find a bug with an LLM, it's not enough to just ask the LLM to make a bug report and then throw it over the fence to us. We want to see a suggested patch; we want to see the human who ran the LLM act as a kind of back-and-forth." Torvalds described many AI-generated patches as "mindless band-aid kind of patches... they may fix the immediate problem, but the kind of bug remains, and it just is waiting in the hallway to hit you in another place." For his own toy projects, he uses LLMs as prototypers: "I use them as a way to prototype things... quite often the code is not usable in that form, but it's a great way to try something out," while insisting that for kernel-level fixes, "LLMs, in my experience, have not been at that level yet." Torvalds acknowledged that some AI-found issues have been "absolutely, stunningly, I mean, interesting in a painful kind of way," especially security problems that "show up in the technology press two days later." Despite the embarrassment, he said, "I'm very much not a shoot-the-messenger kind of person. I think we're much better off with LLMs finding bugs, even when they are embarrassing, and they are things that we should probably have found two decades ago." Torvalds also said he's using AI "for my own toy projects... Every time I travel to some new place, and this is the first time I've been to India, I send the kids pictures of where I am, and for some strange reason, Godzilla seems to follow me around and gets added to those pictures." ZDNet notes that Torvalds concluded, "There are many useful and less useful uses for AI," and "I think Godzilla is a great place to stop." Thanks to Slashdot reader joshuark for sharing the article.

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Homes have been evacuated after a blaze broke out in a derelict building in Harwich High Street.

Homes have been evacuated after a blaze broke out in a derelict building in Harwich High Street.

England's WAGs have said they are ready to head to Atlanta after the Three Lions' win against Norway.

Fans are stunned after a viral video of one of Kylian Mbappe's first interactions with Victor Wembanyama has re-surfaced amid the 2026 FIFA World Cup.

The president abruptly cut off Meet the Press anchor Kristen Welker on Sunday morning as she asked him if the Strait of Hormuz was open following conflicting reports on the status of the vital waterway.

A furious Sir Chris Hoy has said there was never any interest in rolling out routine prostate cancer screening.