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In Rochdale alone, eight rings of mainly Pakistani-heritage paedophiles have been convicted of preying on largely white girls in the early 2000s - and a further 20 men are awaiting trial.

Romeo Beckham enjoyed a boys night out on Monday at one of family friend Gordon Ramsay 's restaurant amid a family feud.

The head of Operation Columbia, the hunt for seven men suspected of the gang-related killing of a 23-year-old delivery worker, Bellamy could call on 45 detectives and forensics specialists.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Subscribers in Southern California of Spectrum's Internet service experienced outages over the weekend following what company officials said was an attempted theft of copper lines located in Van Nuys, a suburb located 20 miles from downtown Los Angeles. The people behind the incident thought they were targeting copper lines, the officials wrote in a statement Sunday. Instead, they cut into fiber optic cables. The cuts caused service disruptions for subscribers in Van Nuys and surrounding areas. Spectrum has since restored service and is offering a $25,000 reward for information leading to the apprehension of the people responsible. Spectrum will also credit affected customers one day of service on their next bill. "Criminal acts of network vandalism have become an issue affecting the entire telecommunications industry, not just Spectrum, largely due to the increase in the price of precious metals," the officials wrote in a statement issued Sunday. "These acts of vandalism are not only a crime, but also affect our customers, local businesses and potentially emergency services. Spectrum's fiber lines do not include any copper." Outage information service Downdetector showed that thousands of subscribers in and around Van Nuys reported outages starting a little before noon on Sunday. Within about 12 hours, the complaint levels returned to normal. Spectrum officials told the Los Angeles Times that personnel had to splice thousands of fiber lines to restore service to affected subscribers.

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Isla Fisher has shared a touching tribute to ex-husband Sacha Baron Cohen after the pair finalised their divorce on Friday.

Hailey and Justin Bieber both posted photos of their son, Jack Blues Bieber, over Father's Day weekend, showing off the tot's latest accessory.

The fragility of the workforce provides a 'direct challenge' to the Government's ambition to grow the economy and boost living standards, the Work Foundation warns.

An article on 28 December 2024 featured the headline: 'Labour's £400 tax hit on family holidays: Passengers to be hit with highest ever levies on flights in multi-billion-pound raid'.

Officers battled to contain the enraged demonstrators who whistled and jeered at tourists desperately trying to enjoy a drink and bite to eat on Sunday afternoon.

Threads is testing a new feature that lets users hide spoiler content by blurring images or text, which can then be revealed with a tap. The Verge reports: Meta spokesperson Alec Booker told The Verge that this is a "global test," though it's not clear how many people will gain access to it. Spoilers will also look a bit different depending on which device you're using. On desktop, spoilers are hidden by a gray block, but they appear behind a bunch of floating dots on mobile (which you can see in the GIF embedded [here]). "This feature is currently optimized for mobile, but we're working to improve the experience for desktop," Booker said.

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JACK GAUGHAN: Walker spent the second half of last season on loan at AC Milan but the Italian giants opted against triggering their option to purchase the right back.

Catherine, 43, sadly missed last year's event - one of the highlights of the British royal calendar - as she was undergoing preventative chemotherapy.

The Home Secretary promised to tighten the law on rape yesterday to stop grooming gang cases being dropped or downgraded.

As Director of Public Prosecutions between 2008 and 2013 - before entering politics - Sir Keir Starmer insists he tackled Asian child abuse rings 'head on'.

It was described by Home Secretary Yvette Cooper as 'a timeline of failure from 2009 to 2025' which shamed Britain.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has revealed that the attempts on Donald Trump's life in 2024 were Iranian-backed.

A new Salesforce-led study found that LLM-based AI agents struggle with real-world CRM tasks, achieving only 58% success on simple tasks and dropping to 35% on multi-step ones. They also demonstrated poor confidentiality awareness. "Agents demonstrate low confidentiality awareness, which, while improvable through targeted prompting, often negatively impacts task performance," a paper published at the end of last month said. The Register reports: The Salesforce AI Research team argued that existing benchmarks failed to rigorously measure the capabilities or limitations of AI agents, and largely ignored an assessment of their ability to recognize sensitive information and adhere to appropriate data handling protocols. The research unit's CRMArena-Pro tool is fed a data pipeline of realistic synthetic data to populate a Salesforce organization, which serves as the sandbox environment. The agent takes user queries and decides between an API call or a response to the users to get more clarification or provide answers. "These findings suggest a significant gap between current LLM capabilities and the multifaceted demands of real-world enterprise scenarios," the paper said. [...] AI agents might well be useful, however, organizations should be wary of banking on any benefits before they are proven.

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Pakistan has threatened to drop a nuclear warhead on Israel if Benjamin Netanyahu uses nuclear weapons against Iran, according to a top Iranian officer. 

The fragility of the workforce is a 'direct challenge' to the Government's ambition to grow the economy and boost living standards, the Work Foundation warned.

Boelter - facing multiple stalking and murder charges - was captured Sunday evening after the biggest manhunt in the history of Minnesota.