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Carse, 31, was seen in handcuffs in footage which circulated online after he was arrested - then de-arrested - on suspicion of being drunk and disorderly following the incident.

The viral 'no-make-up' make-up has sold more than two million bottles... so I put it to the test.

I now rejoice when my trains are late, which is often. You might even have seen me thrusting a clenched fist into the air as my belated so-called express crawls into the stations.

Rupert Grint has become the subject of fierce online vitriol from anti-JK Rowling activists after it was announced he will reprise his Ron Weasley role.

Database from legal advocacy group details growing unease with warrantless panopticon

Sarah Roberts, 52, allowed tens of thousands of pounds to be moved into her bank account by her husband, Hizekiah Roberts, 49, and her 29-year-old son John Parker.

Last week, 404 Media published a story that revealed an Amazon warehouse where the company scans and destroys thousands of books for AI training data. Today, the publication has released an interview with one of the Amazon employees at the warehouse. "The employee worked at Amazon's VGT3 warehouse, which is housed in the same facility as LAS8, where Amazon operates its print-on-demand business," reports 404 Media. "Both operations are part of a larger complex of Amazon facilities in Las Vegas, Nevada." Slashdot reader alternative_right shares an excerpt from the report: [...] What does it look like when they cut the spines off the books? It's a machine people operate. Each of these machines is just like a little workstation, and there'll be one person at each of these stations. It's really safe because it has a little cover and it has a little area where you slide the book into, remove your fingers from the area, and then you press a button, and it just comes down and slices it. And then you remove the books after the blade is gone. After they cut the spines they have these kind of library carts, kind of like how you would stack books, but instead, it's a stacks of paper and little cardboard things to separate -- I'm guessing -- the different books. I saw the pages being thrown in a shuttle after they were scanned. We were walking by and we went over to one of the shuttles and looked into it because we could tell they were throwing the old books in it or the cut books in it, and it's just a bunch of loose paper like just sheets thrown in there. What do you think about Amazon doing this? At first what they were telling people is that it was for Kindles, but I just didn't believe that. I instantly was like, I don't think that's how they do it because of publication rights and stuff, copyright and everything. Then I saw it was for AI. I don't like it only because I wish I could take these books. There's so much knowledge and so much stuff in them and some of them look like they might be rare, and I've heard that they order rare books, and that's why I say some of these are so obscure. I definitely don't like the idea that they can't be reused or anything like that afterwards. They're reducing the amount of available copies for other people.

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Jamie O'Brien, 33, pleaded guilty to assaulting Cordina, but the fighter denied assaulting him back.

Fred Wortman was sentenced to 30 years in prison in 2015 for the attempted murder of Staci Jones.

The jury in Lindsay Clancy 's murder trial has finished hearing all the evidence from the prosecution and defense as they prepare to hear closing arguments.

The serene, oak-lined cemetery is where the legendary singer will be laid to rest beside her devoted husband of nearly 60 years, Carl Dean.

'I count my lucky stars that I called Dolly my friend,' Witherspoon wrote after Parton died aged 80 Tuesday following a secret cancer battle.

Events across Essex have been cancelled due to forecast high winds and storms this week.

Police were called to Overstone Lakes in Sywell, Northamptonshire, at around 6.20pm on Monday following reports of an assault.

'These are test runs for a larger-scale attack'

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: For decades, console owners have faced a choice between the convenience of digital downloads and the permanence of physical game discs. Soon, Xbox owners will be able to get the best of both worlds for thousands of supported titles as part of a newly announced disc-to-digital program. The program -- announced today ahead of testing for Xbox Insiders starting August 31 -- will let players claim a "digital entitlement" for "most Xbox One and Xbox Series X disc-based games" simply by inserting the disc into a console and launching it. That game will then be playable completely digitally, without the need to ever insert the disc, as long as you (or a member of your family account) is logged in. The digital entitlement will also allow access to features like Xbox Play Anywhere (for play on PC) and Xbox Cloud Gaming, for supported titles. Microsoft says that your physical disc will "continue to work exactly as it always has" after the digital entitlement is claimed. But before you get any ideas, the fine print on the announcement mentions that there is only "one revokable license per game disc," so if you resell that disc or loan it to a friend, that digital entitlement could be transferred to a new account when someone else puts it into their console. A leaked memo obtained by the Verge earlier this month suggests that publishers have to actively opt in to allow their game discs to activate digital entitlements, which could explain why "most" but not all Xbox One and Series X titles are supported. Windows Central separately suggests, based on discussion with unnamed sources, that "some discs may be incompatible due to how they were manufactured at the time," which could explain why original Xbox and Xbox 360 discs are not being discussed for the program. "While not every title will be available at launch, this is an important step toward a future where players can have greater confidence that the games they buy remain with them for years to come," said Xbox Vice President Jason Ronald.

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Andy Burnham could be face-to-face with Donald Trump in a matter of weeks after revealing he is 'likely' to go to New York for the UN General Assembly session.

Mystery Turkish firm Azara Gid San has lost an appeal against the demolition of newly-built holiday homes at Jacobs Farm in Keighley, West Yorkshire.

Rachel Uchitel has undergone an extreme plastic surgery makeover in a bid to turn back the clock.

A painful health condition on the rise in young women - and a radical treatment option - prevented Dolly Parton from becoming a mother.