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Bridget Phillipson is at the centre of a new 'class war' row over government plans to stifle the rights of council tenants to buy their homes - after her family benefited handsomely from the policy.

A Royal Caribbean passenger died during a snorkeling adventure in St. Maarten on Thursday, according to a report. They suffered a medical emergency in the water.

The Dark Horse hitmaker said that she had been backstage getting ready for her show 'when this news was delivered, and they gave me no choice.

KIERAN GILL: It was as if Serena Williams had never been away as she held court inside Wimbledon's packed press auditorium, explaining how she concluded that she would return.

The 15-year-old had 'got into difficulty' in the water last night at Cowbury Reservoir, Stalybridge, Greater Manchester.

Students are using AI-powered smart glasses to cheat on tests, reports CNN. "And in East Asia's test-obsessed societies, where a single exam could impact the trajectory of a student's future career and social status, educators are scrambling to get ahead of the problem." Already, countries are stepping up inspections for test-takers. For China's grueling annual college entrance exam earlier this month — which more than 10 million hopefuls take each year — authorities required screening of all glasses. In the United Kingdom, the head of England's exam watchdog warned earlier this month that AI glasses and smart devices like earpieces could worsen cheating in exams... [T]wo incidents in South Korea were the country's first reported cases of cheating with AI glasses... In Taiwan, the university where a prospective student was caught cheating is now reviewing rules and standard operating procedures for AI eyewears during examinations. But experts worry these individual cases point to a more widespread issue. "If we're seeing a few cases being reported, we're seeing a lot more cases not being reported," said Thomas Corbin, lecturer at Deakin University in Australia, who has conducted research around the usage of AI-powered glasses and other smart devices in academic assessment. With the rapid development of AI technology, however, smart glasses are becoming slimmer, less noticeable, while integrating AI models that can operate independently with connectivity, raising concerns not only about exam integrity, but also about broader privacy risks... "Wearable AI is as much of a challenge to exams as ChatGPT was to essays in 2022 and I just don't think there is any real way that we can reliably have exam practices moving forward," Corbin said.

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The 2026 Wimbledon Championships is making its grand return to SW19 on Monday, with some of the biggest stars set to appear on Centre Court.

THE sun was finally setting over State Fayre to the west as a huge moon rose on the big screen at Hylands Park.

THE sun was finally setting over State Fayre to the west as a huge moon rose on the big screen at Hylands Park.

Rowhedge villagers have praised their beautiful village and described it as a 'hidden gem' surrounded by countryside.

Rowhedge villagers have praised their beautiful village and described it as a 'hidden gem' surrounded by countryside.

Tastes great. Less filling. It's a floor wax. It's a dessert topping. Light shaping. Light sending. Why not both?

The name is said to have been named as such because it marks out a mile from the nearby city

Tommy Stagg, a non-league striker who has played for a string of Essex and London clubs, has been revealed as a Love Island bombshell.

Tommy Stagg, a non-league striker who has played for a string of Essex and London clubs, has been revealed as a Love Island bombshell.

They are known for keeping their romance incredibly low-key and out of the public eye after first meeting on the set of 2017's Spider-Man: Homecoming.

Businesses in the UK are pouring record sums into workplace wellbeing, but new research suggests staff are seeing little real benefit.

Put out the bunting, dust down your best china, polish your front doorsteps. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are gracing shabby old Blighty with their presence.

Connections drive growth. Roman roads, naval signals and, eventually, the global telegraph network were all essential for the success of their civilisations because knowledge is power.

The Onion joked the new movie Supergirl is about a hero who must single-handedly save the world "after the catastrophic collapse of interest in the genre." Unfortunately, The Hollywood Reporter says the film's reviews "range from negative to tepid praise (averaging a 58 percent Rotten Tomatoes score)." Many point fingers at the film's script, with Variety's line — "a comic-book movie with the worst script I can remember" — going viral... Not to pile on, but there's another recurring gripe from the reviews that stood out: Critics bashed the film as being murky, dark and gray, with poor VFX: "Muddy CG sludge" wrote one. Another said the film was full of "sludgy browns and grays" and "the visual murkiness of the settings makes it hard to follow the already unintelligible action sequences." A third wrote the "VFX is so rough it makes The Flash look like Avatar." Moviegoers increasingly despise murky, dark visuals (often used to hide weak effects), along with obvious CGI and incoherent action. They've seen it so many times they've become allergic. The Bulwark agrees that the action sequences are "terribly lit, incoherently staged, and just generally weightless and ugly... [I]t's reminiscent of the disaster that was The Flash: It's just very obvious during certain sequences that everyone was in a big green-screen warehouse and the camera was whipping around with the knowledge that everything would be painted in later, so who really gives a crap how anything looks on the day of." But they also call the movie "a tremendous slog of a film, a real step backwards for the James Gunn-overseen DC Universe of movies and TV shows" that's "neither fun nor exciting" and "feels empty." The film does have one bright spot: Lobo, who is played by Jason Momoa as something like Michael Keaton's Beetlejuice by way of Jason Momoa's Aquaman. He's blustery and cantankerous and saucy and just a little menacing; it's a perfect piece of casting and a really nice performance. Unfortunately, it's the only spark of life in what is otherwise a deeply dour, deeply boring piece of filmmaking... Supergirl is just a misfire on nearly every level, one that lacks the sincerity and fun of last year's reboot of this universe or the comic pathos present in Gunn's Peacemaker series on HBO Max. Reason calls it "dark, depressive, and dull" and "a downer of a movie in nearly every way." It's not fun. It's barely even righteous. It's just miserable. At one point, Supergirl flat-out murders a guy by pushing a giant sword through his neck. Somehow, I suspect even Zack Snyder would be appalled. Time argued fans of last decade's superhero movies "should be demanding more, not less." Though "Will there be rioting in the streets once audiences get some idea of how lousy Supergirl is? Probably not."

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