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Alan Jones, 59, from Merseyside, was dismissed by Pilkington UK Limited after the company claimed he had been carrying out work for another employer while signed off sick.

Harrison Hanley was holidaying on the Spanish island on April 25 when his body was discovered at the Parque Santiago 2 apartment complex on the Avenida Rafael Puig Lluvina.

Camilla, 77, met with campaigner Hetti Barkworth-Nanton, a close friend of Joanna Simpson, 46, who was murdered by her estranged husband Robert Brown at the family home in 2010.

KITT, which has been sitting in the Volo Museum in Illinois was accused of going 36 mph in a 25 mph school zone in New York City.

An employment tribunal has ruled partially in favour of Amrit Bansal-McNulty, a half-Indian footballer who was called a 'curry muncher' by ex-manager John Yems. 

Charles's aides reportedly voiced fears to No10 about the impartial monarch being dragged into a Labour row over who should be party leader and Prime Minister.

The suspect was detained at his home on April 11 following a complaint made to police about an incident in London in January. He was then taken into custody at a police station.

Stan and Wallis were first romantically linked since May 2022 and have kept their relationship relatively private.

Google is teasing a new line of "Googlebook" laptops for this fall, powered by a new Android-and-ChromeOS-derived operating system that will run Chrome, Android apps, phone-connected apps and files, and deeply integrated Gemini features. The company says Chromebooks will continue "after the launch of Googlebook" and "...all Chromebooks will continue to receive support through their device's existing date commitment." The Verge reports: "We'll have more to share on the exact OS branding later this year," Peter Du of Google's global communications team tells The Verge. [...] Googlebooks will have a Magic Pointer feature that offers contextual suggestions whenever you shake your cursor and point it at something on the screen. Google's examples include setting up a meeting by pointing at a date in an email or selecting images of furniture and a living space to visualize them together. Beyond your mouse pointer, Googlebooks will also feature the custom AI-created widgets that Google is also debuting today for Android phones and Wear OS smartwatches. I don't know what kind of horrors people will be able to make into widgets, but Google gives the example of making one to organize your flights, hotel information, restaurant reservations, and another for creating a countdown timer for an upcoming family reunion. (It's always flights, hotels, and restaurants, isn't it?) While there are many outstanding questions to be answered about Googlebooks, the biggest and most obvious ones are what will these laptops look like, what chips will be in them, and what will they cost? We've got none of that so far. Google only has some initial renders of a mysterious Googlebook and the promise that it's working with Acer, Asus, Dell, HP, and Lenovo to make the first models. There are no model names. No specs. Nada. Google isn't even saying if the laptop in its renders is made by a partner or a tease of some first-party Pixel-like Googlebook to come or is just a cool mockup. The one distinct hardware feature shown, the bar of glowing Google-colored light, will be a signature of all Googlebooks. (Sure, bring on the RGB. Why not?)

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In recent days, the former deputy prime minister has signalled she could fall in behind Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham in any leadership contest.

The veteran 70-year-old actor - who recently opened up about his rare health condition -  explained why he does not use his Hollywood platform to force his political or personal beliefs on others.

UK drone boats and Typhoon jets will be deployed to the Gulf in the aftermath of a peace deal over the Strait of Hormuz. The commitments were confirmed by the Defence Secretary last night.

A baby died after being 'smothered' and 'suffering non-accidental trauma and sexual abuse' by a teacher who was adopting him, a court heard on Tuesday.

The Saudi Arabia resident was seen in a brown and beige string bikini while posing at a white house by the ocean. She was also seen in a skimpy brown bikini.

Valdo Calocane, who was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia in 2020, fatally stabbed Barnaby Webber, Grace O'Malley-Kumar and Ian Coates in Nottingham in 2023, after 'red flags' were missed.

Snuggling comfortably in his mother's fur, newborn Atty was welcomed to the world just two days ago just as her namesake turned 100.

The TV personality, 47, has transformed her appearance over the years with multiple surgeries including six face lifts, 17 breast augmentations, dental work and a fox eye operation.

The ref asked to be given a 'clue' as he reviewed footage of Callum Wilson's stoppage-time equaliser, which he eventually ruled out.

Microsoft and G42's planned $1 billion AI data center in Kenya has stalled amid disagreements over power commitments, with President William Ruto saying the country would need to "switch off half the country" to support the project at full scale. Tom's Hardware reports: The project, announced in May 2024 during Ruto's visit to Washington, was supposed to bring a geothermal-powered data center to the Olkaria region in Kenya's Rift Valley. G42 was to lead construction, with the facility running Microsoft Azure in a new East Africa cloud region. The first phase targeted 100 megawatts of capacity and was expected to be operational by this year, with a long-term goal of scaling to 1 gigawatt. President Ruto isn't exaggerating about shutting off half the country's power. Kenya's total installed electricity capacity sits between 3,000 and 3,200 megawatts, and peak demand reached a record 2,444 megawatts in January, according to data from KenGen, the country's government-owned electricity producer. The full 1 gigawatt build would therefore have consumed roughly a third of the country's total capacity, and even the first 100 megawatts would have required a significant share of the Olkaria geothermal complex's output, which currently generates around 950MW across all its plants. John Tanui, principal secretary at Kenya's Ministry of Information, told Bloomberg that the project hasn't been withdrawn and that talks are continuing, adding that the "scale of the data center they [Microsoft] wanted to do still requires some structuring." A separate 60-megawatt project with local developer EcoCloud is also still under discussion. [...] Microsoft is spending $190 billion on capex in 2026, and the company adds approximately 1 gigawatt of data center capacity every three months globally. But power constraints are proving to be a universal bottleneck: nearly half of planned U.S. data center builds this year have been delayed or canceled due to shortages of electrical infrastructure.

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Her remains are set to go on display later this week