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With the game tied at 2-2 in front of a bumper crowd at the Islanders' UBS Arena, tempers frayed between the green of the NYPD and the white and red of the FDNY.

The number of people being referred to a specialist for body dysmorphia has surged by almost two-thirds in the last three years, according to NHS figures.

American fast-food franchise Chick-fil-A opened its first London restaurant earlier this month.

A single consultant has been responsible for one in every ten cannabis medicines prescribed in the country.

Jerusalem's major holy sites, including the church, are closed because of the ongoing Iran war, as the city has come under frequent fire from Iranian missiles.

The child stars of the new Harry Potter series are reportedly being paid an astonishing amount for the first series.

Ellie Crampsie, from Glasgow, was found with 17 kilos of the Class B drug stashed in her luggage when she landed in Edinburgh on April 16, 2025.

The England jersey Gordon Banks wore during his 'save of the century' against Brazil's Pele is going up for auction.

Following the death of James Hayes in 2010, his son Sean inherited a notebook containing his father's favourite lottery numbers, a sentimental keepsake that would eventually change his life.

Farmanullah Sherzad, 26, was stabbed to death on Abbey Orchard Street in Westminster, London, at around 10.15pm on Friday.

It will be on display at the chocolate-themed park in Bournville, Birmingham, from Monday for fans to see.

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The top costs £14 and comes in a big range of sizes

HLE was set up by tech bosses to see just how intelligent their systems are and consists of 2,500 questions, spanning around a hundred topics from rocket science and mythology to physiology.

Yes, this week YouTube and Meta were found negligent in a landmark case about social media addiction. But "it's still far from certain what this defeat will change," argues The Verge's senior tech and policy editor, "and what the collateral damage could be." If these decisions survive appeal — which isn't certain — the direct outcome would be multimillion-dollar penalties. Depending on the outcome of several more "bellwether" cases in Los Angeles, a much larger group settlement could be reached down the road... For many activists, the overall goal is to make clear that lawsuits will keep piling up if companies don't change their business practices... The best-case outcome of all this has been laid out by people like Julie Angwin, who wrote in The New York Times that companies should be pushed to change "toxic" features like infinite scrolling, beauty filters that encourage body dysmorphia, and algorithms that prioritize "shocking and crude" content. The worst-case scenario falls along the lines of a piece from Mike Masnick at Techdirt, who argued the rulings spell disaster for smaller social networks that could be sued for letting users post and see First Amendment-protected speech under a vague standard of harm. He noted that the New Mexico case hinged partly on arguing that Meta had harmed kids by providing end-to-end encryption in private messaging, creating an incentive to discontinue a feature that protects users' privacy — and indeed, Meta discontinued end-to-end encryption on Instagram earlier this month. Blake Reid, a professor at Colorado Law, is more circumspect. "It's hard right now to forecast what's going to happen," Reid told The Verge in an interview. On Bluesky, he noted that companies will likely look for "cold, calculated" ways to avoid legal liability with the minimum possible disruption, not fundamentally rethink their business models. "There are obviously harms here and it's pretty important that the tort system clocked those harms" in the recent cases, he told The Verge. "It's just that what comes in the wake of them is less clear to me". The article also includes this prediction from legal blogger/Section 230 export Eric Goldman. "There will be even stronger pushes to restrict or ban children from social media." Goldman argues "This hurts many subpopulations of minors, ranging from LGBTQ teens who will be isolated from communities that can help them navigate their identities to minors on the autism spectrum who can express themselves better online than they can in face-to-face conversations."

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For Angelique Laliotis, the moment that would quietly divide her life into a 'before' and 'after' came in the most ordinary, almost forgettable way.

We've long known that the Chagos deal is a witch's brew of competing interests, drawing in the Chinese, a coven of Left-wing lawyers and a Mauritian government eyeing up billions.

They are the small, ­multi-award-winning team who have brought us some of the most ­powerful and enduring images in modern history.

Moving and ­powerful, the speech in the House of Lords by one of Britain's most prominent Jews was also remarkably prescient.