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An arsonist set fire to a Democratic Governor's mansion overnight while he and his family slept inside.

The model, 28, showcased her toned physique in a cropped black top which she layered under an oversized black leather jacket.

Stanford law school graduate Peter Thiel later co-founded Facebook, PayPal, and Palantir. But in 2010 Thiel also created the Thiel Fellowship, which annually gives 20 to 30 people under the age of 23 $100,000 "to encourage students to not stick around college." (College students must drop out in order to accept the fellowship.) And now Palantir "is taking a similar approach as it maneuvers to attract new talent," reports financial news site The Street: The company has launched what it refers to as the "Meritocracy Fellowship," a four-month internship program for recent high school graduates who have not enrolled in college. The position pays roughly $5,400 per month, more than plenty of post-college internship programs. Palantir's job posting suggests that the company is especially interested in candidates with experience in programming and statistical analysis. Palantir's job listing specifically says they launched their four-month fellowship "in response to the shortcomings of university admissions," promising it would be based "solely on merit and academic excellence" (requiring an SAT score over 1459 or an ACT score above 32.) "Opaque admissions standards at many American universities have displaced meritocracy and excellence..." As a result, qualified students are being denied an education based on subjective and shallow criteria. Absent meritocracy, campuses have become breeding grounds for extremism and chaos... Skip the debt. Skip the indoctrination. Get the Palantir Degree... Upon successful completion of the Meritocracy Fellowship, fellows that have excelled during their time at Palantir will be given the opportunity to interview for full-time employment at Palantir.

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The Hollywood actor, 72, was thrown out of the ITV house on Saturday after exploding into a foul-mouthed rant amid an altercation with Love Island's Chris Hughes .

An elderly couple had hope their artefact could be worth thousands but they were quickly humbled down by an expert's verdict in a repeated episode aired on Sunday.

Host Alison Hammond informed viewers of the Channel 4 show as the star, 85, pulled out just shortly before completing the final round for feeling unwell.

Britney Spears opened up about feeling 'incredibly disrespected in bed' by men in a vulnerable new post after recently sparking concern at an airport in Mexico.

A Minecraft Movie has soared to nearly $551 million in the global box office while Disney's Snow White live-action remake dropped even further out of the top five spot this weekend.

Criminals are going months without being tagged as prisons face a backlog after Labour's early release scheme, it was reported last night.

The US President made an extraordinary U-turn over the weekend by declaring that smartphones, computers and other electronic devices will be exempted from tariffs.

Celebrity Big Brother fans have blasted 'disgusting' Mickey Rourke after he was booted out of the house during Sunday night's episode.

Remember how last weekend Meta claimed its "Maverick" AI model (in the newly-released Llama-4 series) beat GPT-4o and Gemini Flash 2 "on all benchmarks... This thing is a beast." And then how within a day several AI researchers pointed out that even Meta's own announcement admitted the Maverick tested on LM Arena was an "experimental chat version," as TechCrunch pointed out. ("As we've written about before, for various reasons, LM Arena has never been the most reliable measure of an AI model's performance. But AI companies generally haven't customized or otherwise fine-tuned their models to score better on LM Arena — or haven't admitted to doing so, at least.") Friday TechCrunch on what happened when LMArena tested the unmodified release version of Maverick (Llama-4-Maverick-17B-128E-Instruct). It ranked 32nd. "For the record, older models like Claude 3.5 Sonnet, released last June, and Gemini-1.5-Pro-002, released last September, rank higher," notes the tech site Neowin.

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The bizarre incident came during Sunday's final round of the Masters, as Spieth made his way down the walkway between holes at Augusta.

Video caught the terrifying moment that smoke was seen billowing from a Hawaiian Airlines plane as it prepared to take flight from Los Angeles International Airport.

The opera singer, 53, and EastEnders star, 30, who took part in last year's line up of the show, were reportedly blasted by BBC bosses over a sex toy video.

A major incident was declared on Saturday evening when a house on John Street in Worksop, Nottinghamshire, exploded after a major 'gas leak'.

Doctor Who has received its lowest overnight ratings to dating as Ncuti Gatwa reprising his role as the Doctor over the weekend. 

It was a sign of trust when the Queen gave Meghan a role in the Commonwealth, one of her most beloved organisations. But then the duchess seemed to become dismissive of the whole organisation

Katy Perry looked ready for action on Sunday as she posed alongside Lauren Sánchez in their bodycon space outfits ahead of their Blue Origin space mission on Monday.

"More than three million children around the world are thought to have died in 2022 as a result of infections that are resistant to antibiotics," reports the BBC, citing a study by two leading experts in child health that used data from sources including the World Health Organization and the World Bank: Experts say this new study highlights a more than tenfold increase in AMR-related infections in children in just three years. The number could have been made worse by the impact of the Covid pandemic... The report's lead authors, Doctor Yanhong Jessika Hu of Murdoch Children's Research Institute in Australia and Professor Herb Harwell of the Clinton Health Access Initiative, point to a significant growth in the use of antibiotics that are meant to only be held back for the most serious infections. Between 2019 and 2021 the use of "watch antibiotics", drugs with a high risk of resistance, increased by 160% in South East Asia and 126% in Africa. Over the same period, "reserve antibiotics" — last-resort treatments for severe, multidrug-resistant infections — rose by 45% in South East Asia and 125% in Africa. The authors warn that if bacteria develop resistance to these antibiotics, there will be few, if any, alternatives for treating multidrug-resistant infections. "Antibiotics are ubiquitous around us," Professor Harwell warns in the article. "They end up in our food and the environment and so coming up with a single solution is not easy." The article also quotes a senior lecturer in microbiology at King's College London, who says the new study "marks a significant and alarming increase compared to previous data". "These findings should serve as a wake-up call for global health leaders. Without decisive action, AMR could undermine decades of progress in child health, particularly in the world's most vulnerable regions." Thanks to Slashdot reader Bruce66423 for sharing the article.

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