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Lobbyist David Taylor, who is married to Labour MP Joani Reid, was held by Scotland Yard on suspicion of assisting a foreign intelligence service.

Bosses and experts say Labour's national insurance hikes and wage policies are to blame for rising joblessness - with young people the worst hit.

Rachel Reeves could be forced to hike taxes even more, despite warnings that increases are already threatening to damage growth.

Keir Starmer sounded defiance over his refusal to allow UK bases to be used for offensive strikes, insisting he was worried about 'escalation'.

Google is eliminating its traditional 30% Play Store fee and introducing lower commissions, while at the same time allowing alternative billing systems and making it easier for third-party app stores to operate on Android. The changes stem largely from Google's settlement with Epic Games. Engadget reports: The biggest change is to how Google will collect fees from developers publishing apps on Android. Rather than take its standard 30 percent cut of in-app purchases through the Play Store, Google is lowering its cut to 20 percent, and in some cases 15 percent for new installs of apps from developers participating in its new App Experience program or updated Google Play Games Level Up program. Those changes extend to subscriptions, too, where the company's cut is lowering to 10 percent. For Google's billing system, the company says developers in the UK, US, or European Economic Area (EEA) will now be charged a five percent fee and "a market-specific rate" in other regions. Of course, for anyone trying to avoid those fees, using alternatives to Google's billing system is getting easier. Google says that developers will be able to offer alternative billing systems alongside its own or "guide users outside of their app to their own websites for purchases." [...] Epic is ultimately interested in getting people to use the mobile version of its Epic Games Store, and Google's announcement also includes details on how third-party app stores can come to Android. Third-party app stores will be able to apply to the company's new "Registered App Stores" program to see if they meet "certain quality and safety benchmarks." If they do, they'll be able to take advantage of a streamlined installation interface in Android. Participating in the program is optional, and users will still be able to sideload alternative app stores that aren't part of the program, but Google clearly has a preference. [...] Google says that its updated fee structure will come to the EEA, the UK and the US by June 30, Australia by September 30, Korea and Japan by December 31 and the entire world by September 30, 2027. Meanwhile, the company's updated Google Play Games Level Up program and new App Experience program will launch in the EEA, the UK, the US and Australia on September 30, before hitting the remaining regions alongside the updated fee structure. For any developers interested in offering their own app store, Google says it'll launch its Registered App Stores program "with a version of a major Android release" before the end of the year. According to the company, the program will be available in other regions first before it comes to the US.

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Helen Blythe, 39, has campaigned for five years for Benedict's Law, to better protect children at school after the death of her son in 2021.

Today, as the Sun and Jupiter connect from Pisces and Cancer in a supportive trine, emotions expand beyond their usual boundaries.

Developers ponder the horror of having to actually write code

Anthropic’s AI service Claude is having artificially intelligent hiccups and availability problems across its basic chat service, API, and Claude Code offering.…

Memory tiering and pooled memory are having a moment because they offer the chance to use less RAM

The high price of memory and solid-state storage has almost everyone worried – but not VMware, because the most innovative new feature in the Cloud Foundation 9 (VCF 9) private cloud suite it launched last year is memory tiering tech that allows offload of data from RAM to NVMe drives.…

Charity Beallis, 40, was found dead alongside her six-year-old twin son and daughter. Autopsy results are now in and have revealed the cause of death for all three.

The threat of ICE raids overshadowed the build up to last month's Super Bowl after secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem vowed ICE would be 'all over' the end-of-season finale.

The singer, 32, spoke about the 'loneliness' of fame and how he took a three-year hiatus from music to establish what he really wanted in life in a new interview.

Sony is reportedly abandoning its recent push to bring major PlayStation games to PC and will instead keep most single-player titles exclusive to the PlayStation 5. According to Bloomberg, the shift back toward console exclusivity may be driven by weaker PC sales and concerns about diluting the PlayStation brand. From the report: Online games such as Marathon and Marvel Tokon will still be released across multiple platforms, but single-player titles such as last year's samurai hit Ghost of Yotei and the upcoming action game Saros will remain exclusive to PlayStation 5, said the people, who asked not to be identified because they weren't authorized to talk publicly about the company's strategy. The people cautioned that things could change in the future due to the unpredictable nature of the video-game industry and that Sony's plans are constantly shifting. But in recent weeks PlayStation scrapped plans to bring Ghost of Yotei and other internally developed games to PC. Two games made by external developers but published by PlayStation, Death Stranding 2 and the upcoming Kena: Scars of Kosmora, are still planned for release on PC this year.

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Mother-of-two Hajra Zahid, 29, and younger sister Haleema Zahid, 25, drowned by accident on June 11, 2025 after mistakenly entering the deep parts of the mountain pool, the inquest heard.

Tom Brady's flag football game scheduled for Saudi Arabia later this month is on the move amid ongoing military conflicts in the region, a source with knowledge of the situation has confirmed to the Mail.

This Morning's Dr Philippa Kaye has revealed she has undergone a hysterectomy following a 'cancer risk'.

Newcastle defender Fabian Schar has revealed he spent a 'terrifying' few days in the Middle East amid Iran's retaliatory strikes on the region.

The 62-year-old actor was all smiles could not keep his hands off of his much younger 32-year-old girlfriend on an outing in Greece's Hydra Island on Tuesday.

The 23-year-old took to his Instagram to share a slew of snaps exploring the French capital, cutting a casual figure in a leather bomber jacket and grey jogging bottoms.