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The boy is said to remain in hospital after the tragedy, which unfolded at the family-friendly Alfagar Alto Da Colina aparthotel resort in Albufeira, Portugal, just before 7pm on Tuesday.

The plot reportedly targeted 26 celebrities, including footballers, rappers and wealthy businessmen, with French star Kylian Mbappe among them.

Adding insult to injury

Olympic medallist Jack Beaumont has described his terror as a motorboat captain appeared to 'lose his mind' and nearly ram him on the River Thames close to Maidenhead Rowing Club.

The sudden urge to splurge on a designer handbag might not be as random as it seems.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: Alphabet's Google escaped a breakup of its advertising technology business on Wednesday, when a judge in Virginia rejected U.S. antitrust enforcers' bid to force a sale of Google's online advertising exchange. While the ad exchange is a small part of Google's business, the ruling is the second powerful symbolic victory against the U.S. Department of Justice in its efforts to force Google to sell assets to address illegal monopolies. U.S. Judge Leonie Brinkema in Alexandria, Virginia, declined to make Google sell AdX, where publishers pay Google a 20% fee to sell ads in auctions that happen instantly when users load websites. She accepted most of the parties' proposed behavioral remedies. The DOJ and a broad coalition of states sued Google in 2023 over its dominance in markets for advertising technology used by online publishers and websites. In April 2025, Brinkema ruled that Google holds illegal monopolies on servers that host publisher ads and ad exchanges which sit between buyers and sellers. Google unlawfully locked publishers on its ad server into using its AdX, the judge found. The tech giant's anticompetitive conduct "substantially harmed Google's publisher customers, the competitive process, and, ultimately, consumers of information on the open web," Brinkema said at the time. At a trial last year on remedies in the case, the DOJ argued that Google cannot be trusted to run AdX, given its past behavior. Google argued that a forced sale would be technically difficult and result in a long and painful transition that would hurt customers. During the remedies trial, Google's lawyers warned that forcing it to sell parts of its ad-tech business would cause disruption and damage. [...] The ruling is the third time in a row that a judge has rejected a bid by U.S. antitrust enforcers to break up Big Tech in a crackdown that started during President Donald Trump's first term. In another major Google antitrust case, a judge similarly rejected the DOJ's push to force Google to sell Chrome. It is likely to fuel questions about whether courts are up to the task of checking the industry's unprecedented power over the U.S. economy.

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Nearly two-thirds of US national security pros surveyed believe AI risks, and government posture toward them, are unacceptable

The 65-year-old A-lister stood up for free speech and the embattled 58-year-old Avengers star who was also recently defended by 170 Jewish entertainment figures in an open letter.

The Bridgerton star stunned fans on Tuesday by sharing that he would no longer appear in the musical, in a show of 'unwavering support' for his 'dearest friend' Ariana Grande .

The 33-year-old pop megastar looked downcast on a lunch outing in Los Angeles with boyfriend Maxx Morando on Tuesday.

The second trailer for the much-anticipated Harry Potter TV series has been released, and offers a glimpse at the boy wizard's turbulent first weeks at Hogwarts.

Sydney Sweeney showed off her impressive relationship with her boyfriend Scooter Braun's children while spending the day out in Los Angeles on Tuesday.

It was a few days after returning from her French trip in April with husband Sean, 62, who works in home renovations, that Rhona started to itch.

Kai, 19, documented her emotional final days at home and her first week at school in a new video shared to her YouTube channel, and she seemed to have a hard time adjusting.

Friends and family are all relieved at Katie Price's decision to finally call it a day and leave con man Lee Andrews.

Gerard McCarthy, known for his roles in BBC dramas The Fall and Call The Midwife , had been due to appear with Dame Maureen, 80, in Right Before I Go at London's Soho Theatre.

The shocking clip was filmed on a scenic hillside popular with dog walkers on the outskirts of the quaint village of Maesycwmmer in south Wales last week.

Kendall Jenner touched down in Venice on Wednesday, in time for a whirlwind trip of red carpets and parties.

Uber is laying off about 3,300 employees, or roughly 10% of its workforce, as part of a restructuring aimed at cutting management layers and redirecting investment toward ridesharing, delivery, and robotaxis. CEO Dara Khosrowshahi announced the changes in an internal email that was also published online.TechCrunch reports: According to the email, the layoffs are part of a restructuring exercise that would shrink the number of managers by 20%, and some personnel in these roles would work as individual contributors going forward. The ridesharing giant is reducing the number of teams with one or two members by 50%, and letting go staff who are "more than seven layers down from the CEO," per Bloomberg. Khosrowshahi's email said the company is combining its engineering, science, and delivery divisions. The company is also bringing together its delivery operations across restaurants, retail, and direct divisions. Remote jobs at the company are going away, too, with Uber only allowing less than 1% of its staff to work remotely.

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