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Jamil Wali exchanged more than 200 emails with the 'vulnerable' schoolgirl, some of which were sent as late as 11pm, telling her 'I am always here' and 'I got your back.'

The actor passed away Wednesday in Los Angeles from heart failure combined with complications from a rare neurological disorder called Marchiafava-Bignami.

The 28-year-old actress wore a plunging Wonder Woman outfit that served as an echo of Lynda Carter's classic 1970s turn as the superheroine.

The actress, 39, has revealed she got death threats after setting up a crowdfunding page for her wedding to Danny Cipriani.

The heartbreak ballad is featured on Urban's latest album Flow State, which was released five months after he and Kidman finalized their divorce.

Remember that rush rescue mission for NASA's $500M space telescope? It failed, reports CNN, and the LINK satellite won't be able to boost the telescope's orbit. NASA says its decades-old Swift telescope will now continue losing altitude, until it reaches Earth's atmosphere later this year and burns up. CNN reports: Just weeks after LINK lifted off on July 3, it started to spin out of control. [Satellite designer] Katalyst was able to regain control of the satellite, but the company acknowledged that the issue cost it time, which would delay LINK's rendezvous with Swift by about a month. However, that postponement — at least initially — did not seem to be a deterrent to the mission. Now, NASA and Katalyst have announced that LINK's mission will not capture and boost Swift to a higher orbit "due to ongoing attitude control issues," according to statements Wednesday. "NASA should be willing to move quickly and take smart risks when the potential return is worth it, and that is exactly what we did with this mission," NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman said in a statement. "This is not the outcome we were working toward, but it does not change why this mission was worth attempting. The team moved with extraordinary speed to give Swift a chance to carry out more science while advancing capabilities America will need for satellite servicing in the future...." The mission team is forging ahead with its plan for LINK to rendezvous with Swift — but as a demonstration rather than a rescue. "We are going to learn everything we can from LINK's rendezvous attempt and put those lessons to work on the missions that follow," Isaacman said... Swift wasn't designed to be serviced in space, which means that insights from the demonstration could be used for future missions... "We have already learned a tremendous amount," [said Ghonhee Lee, CEO of Katalyst Space Technologies], "and now our job is to turn those lessons into something durable — building a repeatable playbook to inform future rendezvous and proximity operations and satellite servicing."

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Rob is set to make a permanent return to the soap this autumn, and bosses are hinting that despite it being 20 years since his debut, he 'hasn't grown up too much.'

In an exclusive interview with the Daily Mail, Vogel said she pressured South Carolina law enforcement in to investigate Hayden's death and raised serious questions about Brian Hickerson's account.

At least five people are said to have been injured and others are reportedly trapped inside the building.

Sarah Parker defied instructions from the aircraft's pilot by leaving her seat and using the bathroom during takeoff from Birmingham Airport.

Strictly Come Dancing is bringing back celebrities meeting their professional dance partner for the first time on the dancefloor.

He was 11 years old when he began featuring on the show in 2009 as Manny Delgado, the son of Sofia Vergara's character Gloria.

The defiant West Ham owner, 77, was the subject of a BBC Panorama and Times newspaper investigation earlier this year, which accused him of sexually exploitative and predatory behaviour.

Slashdot reader fjo3 shared this article from Wired: [Flock] has told the public for years that its technology "cannot recognize, identify, or track individuals." It has now built a system that does both, an artificial intelligence tool for police that can identify drivers and track vehicles by their patterns of movement alone, WIRED has learned... Because the system also reaches police case files, 911 dispatch logs, and commercial identity records, those plates can be turned into names, home addresses, and relatives. It can search for people in an area drawn on a map based on nothing more than a physical description... The code describes 45 tools at the AI's disposal, giving it access to plate scans and camera metadata, arrest records, case files, dispatch logs, ballistics results, and commercial databases that contain Social Security numbers, dates of birth, phone numbers, email addresses, relatives and associates. Flock says it is testing the product with a small group of law enforcement partners and describes it as still in development, with capabilities that may not reflect what it eventually sells. It arrives as the company faces bipartisan political pressure, a growing record of officers caught misusing its platform, and a wave of vandalism that has left cameras sawed off and lenses painted over in cities across the country... An officer no longer needs a plate, a name, or a crime to begin: They supply a place, a stretch of time, and a pattern of behavior, and the system is designed to hand back the people who fit... One prompt Flock preloaded into the system reads: "Find me witnesses based on vehicles most seen in [neighborhood] during [last 14 days] during [daily timeframe] *(will not include whitelisted vehicles)." An officer would fill in the blanks and submit it. The output is a list of plates, which other tools in the product then convert into names and home addresses. Another prompt instructs the system to list everyone arrested more than twice in two years for "any offense," exempting only narcotics arrests, and then says to map where those people live, retrieve the calls for service at their homes, and "do a workup on the top three individuals." The prompt begins with everyone in the area who has an arrest record and ends with dossiers on three of them, chosen by the software. A "workup," in Flock's terminology, is a one-command background check. It starts with a name and a date of birth and returns what the department's records and commercial data hold: vehicles, prior listings as a suspect, and, on a second screen, relatives, phone numbers, and online accounts. Wired shares this reaction from a law professor at George Washington University. "It is clear Flock has aspirations far beyond ALPRs to become a digital platform for policing,"

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Hassan El-Khawas, 55, his partner Zeina Alayn, 37, and their 14-year-old daughter Sara El-Khawas were pulled from the sea but died at the scene.

Everywhere you look the influence of one figure overshadows Prince Harry's shock homecoming to Britain. It is there in both the element of surprise and in its breathtaking chutzpah.

The former Strictly star, 48, has said he is 'going through a midlife crisis' in the wake of his split from his wife Ola after 22 years of marriage.

The letter from Montagliani, who is also a FIFA vice-president, comes with Infantino still coming under fire over his now scrapped plans to sell off stakes in the World Cup.

The Duke of Sussex, who in a shock move is coming back to the UK with his family within weeks, has reportedly 'privately pleaded'

Long-time Slashdot reader AmiMoJo shared this report from the Guardian: Children's lungs grew bigger and stronger after the most polluting vehicles were restricted from entering London, a study has found. Examinations of London schoolchildren before and after the introduction of the city's ultra-low emission zone found a restoration of lung capacity that had been stunted by exposure to pollution... "Traffic pollution in cities damages children's health and development," said Chris Griffiths, a professor of primary care at the University of Oxford and Queen Mary University of London, and the study's joint senior author. "We provide the strongest evidence yet on how these harms can be prevented. Ambitious clean-air zones should be considered a priority for cities globally with traffic-related air pollution." Air pollution from traffic has stunted the development of children's lungs in London for decades. Previous research found that by the age of eight or nine, children from the most polluted areas had 5-10% less lung capacity than their peers elsewhere. That impairment, which scientists said was the result of exposure to nitrogen dioxide, put them at increased risk as adults of developing respiratory diseases, such as asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, cardiovascular and metabolic disease, and premature death.

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