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The whale was spotted swimming near Germany's Baltic Sea coast - and efforts to help are being funded by two millionaires, despite experts saying he could die anyway.

The firm's new boss Meg O'Neill - who took over a month ago - is weighing up a £2billion sale of the assets.

With his avuncular smile, felt fedora and long, hand-kitted scarf, Robin Harper cut a distinctive figure when he won a seat at Holyrood in 1999.

Victoria Beckham planted a kiss on husband David's cheek as he kicked off his 51st birthday celebrations with a lavish meal at The Dorchester in London on Friday.

Lewis Capaldi was forced to halt his US show this week after it encountered technical difficulties.

The gang was responsible for almost half the phones stolen in London at the peak of their powers.

President Donald Trump waved off King Charles' charm offensive, suggesting Friday that the royal visit did not impress him enough to change his mind about NATO.

Yes, you can wear sheer and lace at any age

Microsoft is rolling out Xbox mode to all Windows 11 PCs, bringing a full-screen Xbox PC app interface similar to Steam's Big Picture Mode. "Some players in select markets will be able to download the Xbox mode experience today, with availability expanding to more players in those markets over the next several weeks," says the Xbox team. The Verge reports: Xbox mode aims to try and bridge the gap between Xbox consoles and Windows, but its original debut felt like a beta on the Xbox Ally devices. "Since first introducing Xbox mode, formerly known as 'full screen experience,' on Windows handhelds, we've been listening closely to player feedback and continuing to evolve the experience across devices," says the Xbox team. "Those learnings directly shaped Xbox mode on Windows 11 PCs." Microsoft is also rolling out improvements to the Xbox Ally X handheld today, including a preview of its Auto SR upscaling technology. Xbox console owners are also getting a new dashboard update today, with the ability to disable Quick Resume on individual games and a feature to add custom colors to the dashboard.

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The 61-year-old, who recently returned to EastEnders to reprise his role as hardman Grant Mitchell, is said to be wanting to 'challenge himself'.

Maisie Willis would regularly sell eggs from her pet chickens to passersby on her street in Holbury, near Southampton, before it was cruelly vandalised.

Mr Rahman appeared to like a number of offensive anti-Israel posts despite strict civil service impartiality rules - and he liked a post branding his own Home Secretary 'evil'

Jesy Nelson enjoyed a sweet walk through the forest with her twins as she shared a glimpse of her life as a mum on Instagram on Friday.

North, who has embarked on her own music career, ignited a social media firestorm last year by revealing she had acquired a dermal finger piercing.

joshuark shares a report from Live Science: An AI coding agent designed to help a small software company streamline its tasks instead blew a hole through its business in just nine seconds. PocketOS founder Jer Crane, said that the AI coding agent Cursor --powered by Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.6 model -- deleted the company's entire production database and backups with a single call to its cloud provider, Railway, on April 24. [...] "This isn't a story about one bad agent or one bad API [Application Programming Interfaces]," Crane wrote in an X post. "It's about an entire industry building AI-agent integrations into production infrastructure faster than it's building the safety architecture to make those integrations safe." Crane's company, PocketOS makes software for car rental companies, handling tasks such as reservations, payments, customer records and vehicle tracking. After the deletion, Crane said customers lost reservations and new signups, and some could not find records for people arriving to pick up their rental cars. "We've contacted legal counsel," Crane wrote. "We are documenting everything." Crane explained that Cursor found an API token -- a "digital key" made of a short sequence of code that lets software talk to other services and prove it has permission to act -- in an unrelated file which it then used to run the destructive command. According to Crane, Railway's setup allowed the deletion without confirmation, and because the backups were stored close enough to the main database, they were also erased. "[Railway] resolved the issue and restored the data," Railway confirmed via email to Live Science. "We maintain both user backups as well as disaster backups. We take data very, VERY seriously." In his post, he pointed to earlier reports of Cursor ignoring user rules, changing files it was not supposed to touch and taking actions beyond the task it had been given. To him, the database wipe was not a freak accident but the next step in a larger, more concerning, pattern. After the database vanished, Crane asked Cursor to explain what happened. The AI agent reportedly admitted that it had guessed, acted without permission and failed to understand the command before running it. "I violated every principle I was given," the AI agent wrote. "I guessed instead of verifying. I ran a destructive action without being asked. I didn't understand what I was doing before doing it." The statement reads like a confession [...]. "We are not the first," Crane wrote. "We will not be the last unless this gets airtime."

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Two teenagers have been taken to hospital with slash injuries to their faces after a large fight broke out on Southend High Street, police say.

The actress, 38, took to social media on Friday in a new video from inside the impressive closest at her £3.5million Essex mansion she owns with husband Mark Wright.

TikTok creator Kiersten Dyke has died. Her boyfriend of nearly nine years, Dominic Cinfio, took to social media to share a heartbreaking tribute.

With China producing up to 90 per cent of the ingredients going into antibiotics, experts have warned President Xi could deny the NHS and Armed Forces access to these medicines at any point.

CEO Mike Cannon-Brookes touts 'largest ever quarter for competitive displacements'

The chase is on. Atlassian reported its largest-ever quarter for taking share from a major IT service management provider, CEO Mike Cannon-Brookes said on the company's fiscal third-quarter earnings call Thursday, escalating its rivalry with ServiceNow.…