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Taylor Swift joined the chorus of stars honoring the late Dolly Parton when she released a statement on Tuesday night.

The convicted killer, 31, filed for post-conviction relief in Ada County District Court on July 27,  claiming that he only accepted his plea deal because he was 'advised to lie' by his legal counsel.

Another outage puts last week's promises to an early test

Amazon has agreed to acquire DuckLabs, bringing the team behind the popular open-source DuckDB database into AWS. "The deal fits Amazon's broader push to turn S3, its flagship cloud storage service, into a place where customers analyze data rather than just store it," reports GeekWire. "It gives Amazon a team experienced in building fast, lightweight analytics software that runs directly against data sitting in cloud storage." The DuckDB project itself will remain free and open source under the MIT license, overseen by the independent DuckDB Foundation. From the report: Employees of DuckLabs will join Amazon Web Services, including co-founders and DuckDB creators Hannes Muhleisen and Mark Raasveldt, who will continue leading the team and setting the project's technical direction. They will remain based in Amsterdam, where the team will continue developing DuckDB and related projects. [...] Financial terms were not disclosed. Amazon said it has signed a definitive agreement and expects the acquisition to close shortly. DuckLabs said it expects to become part of AWS in early September. Jordan Tigani, the CEO of MotherDuck, which sells a cloud service built on DuckDB, sees Amazon's acquisition as a predictable move to turn DuckDB's growing popularity into an AWS business. "That's Amazon's playbook, after all: wait until an open source project gets big enough, then launch it as a service," he wrote in a blog post, adding that "they're not acquiring Duck Labs just because they love open source." Tigani also believes the deal could ultimately strengthen DuckDB, since Amazon has an incentive to keep the project open and widely adopted: "If DuckDB becomes the standard, it is going to drive a lot more compute on their infrastructure, which is where they make their money."

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A giant deep-sea creature steeped in doomsday folklore washed up dead on a beach on Tuesday, which quickly fueled claims that it was a warning sign of an impending disaster.

A new study has revealed that left-handed people tend to be more left-leaning when it comes to their politics.

Wednesday's settlement resolves a lawsuit brought against Meta by 29 states over claims Instagram and Facebook were deliberately designed to hook young users.

Dolly Parton may be gone, but her reputation as one of pop's most revered performers will live gloriously on. 

Chelsea have been offered the chance to sign Emiliano Martinez from Aston Villa to fix their goalkeeping problem - and are considering completing a deal this week.

The full line-up for I'm A Celebrity spin-off series The Wild Frontier has been revealed.

PCs Matthew Blades, 37, and Tom Clough, 38, died alongside the five occupants of a VW Passat in the head-on smash in the early hours of Saturday morning.

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Parton, whose death at the age of 80 after a cancer battle was announced on Tuesday, seemed to live a life straight out of a country music songbook.

According to Professor Liz Stephens, Professor in Climate Risks and Resilience at University of Reading, a 'complex chain of hazards' is likely to blame.

A woman left completely blind after a car accident underwent a first-of-its-kind procedure and regained her sight.

Candidates across England, Scotland and Wales, will get to go behind the scenes in its stores and meet staff from various departments such as tech, logistics and food.

Meta has agreed to pay up to $18 billion and make major changes to Facebook and Instagram to settle claims from most U.S. states that the platforms were designed to addict children and misled users about their safety. For the next decade, teens will be limited to two hours a day and blocked from using the apps between midnight and 6 a.m. without parental consent. Meta will, however, still be allowed to use personalized recommendations and targeted advertising. Reuters reports: The settlements include more than $17.6 billion of payments to 48 U.S. states, Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico, American Samoa and the Northern Mariana Islands. Meta will also pay $459 million to resolve states' privacy claims related to the Cambridge Analytica scandal, where the British consulting firm collected personal data of millions of Facebook users. California would receive the highest payout, $2.2 billion, and New York and Texas would each receive more than $1 billion. Some of the payout is contingent on whether Alphabet's YouTube and ByteDance's TikTok impose similar protections for children. [...] The settlement requires approval by U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers, who oversaw the trial that began on August 18. Gonzalez Rogers still oversees thousands of lawsuits by individuals, school districts, and state and local governments accusing social media companies of harming children. Meta itself still faces thousands of lawsuits by individuals, school districts and municipalities. The next trials are slated for October in Los Angeles.

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The organisation's assets are also set to be frozen, including property and bank accounts, while US citizens would be prevented from doing business with them.

From offering a peaceful place to sit away from the busy airport to a disappointing menu - here are the best and worst airport lounges in the UK.

The US has halted all immigrant visa applications as the Trump administration moves to tighten restrictions and stop people arriving who will need public benefits.