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Unprecedented January wildfires in Los Angeles signal an emerging pattern of compound climate disasters, as record-breaking Santa Ana winds up to 100 mph combine with the driest start to a winter season in the city's history. The Palisades and Eaton fires have each burned over 10,000 acres amid drought conditions that climate scientists say are intensified by global warming. The blazes, occurring weeks earlier than historical fire patterns, come just 16 months after Los Angeles experienced its first tropical storm, illustrating what experts describe as increasingly unpredictable weather extremes driven by climate change.

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Ivan and Lottie Clifford were due to have their celebrant wedding ceremony at the Grade II-listed The Hidden Barn at 94, based in Knutsford in Cheshire, last on December 30.

A hunt for a gang of men 'clad in all black' is underway after they stabbed a 17-year-old boy to death outside a bus station in Bedford.

Brooklyn Beckham has shared a photo of the Los Angeles wildfires burning close to his family's $3.8m condo.

Ahmad J., then 17, allegedly had a sexual relationship with a prison psychologist, 31, and a department head, 27, for months at the youth prison in Schleswig, northern Germany.

The $15million mansion is in the heart of the Hollywood Hills area currently ablaze because of the so-called 'Sunset Fire'

Simon Morton, a former senior detective for Thames Valley Police, has said that abusers are still operating in plain sight and 'influencing and arranging others to do the same thing'.

Robert Williams-Jones, 43, was the manager of Amlwch Town FC when he punched a linesman after his team were losing 8-0 to a rival team in North Wales.

A high-speed crash on an Alabama road has unearthed a family's darkest secrets -  ones that could send a mother to prison for life.

Lily Allen has confirmed her split from husband David Harbour in a new podcast as she detailed her fragile state of mind during a 'tough period'.

The couple evacuated their home with their two sons earlier this week after the fires began to spread, and images have since shown that their property has been destroyed.

Foreign Secretary David Lammy said the government's definition is 'still being determined', as he argued that predators would be pursued regardless of race of religion.

Already inflated costs of NPU-based boxes set to jump on import tax

The "progress" of AI PCs is being "overshadowed" by enterprises concerned about the state of the economy and US President-elect Trump's tariff threats for kit made in China, according to market watcher and number cruncher IDC.…

VLC media player, the popular open-source software developed by nonprofit VideoLAN, has topped 6 billion downloads worldwide and teased an AI-powered subtitle system. From a report: The new feature automatically generates real-time subtitles -- which can then also be translated in many languages -- for any video using open-source AI models that run locally on users' devices, eliminating the need for internet connectivity or cloud services, VideoLAN demoed at CES.

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Members of the Rail, Maritime and Transport union ( RMT ) at Avanti West Coast will launch a series of Sunday walkouts in a dispute over rest day working.

Dan Gheorghe, 23, was involved in a money laundering group that left a woman devastated after they tricked her into transferring her 'nest egg' savings into another bank account.

Keir Starmer today vows to 'hit people smugglers where it hurts' with tough new financial sanctions.

A slew of notable locations, including Sunset Boulevard that splits the upscale Pacific Palisades, were engulfed in punishing flames that tore through residential and commercial areas alike

David Aston, 56, and wife Jacqueline, 58, pursued a campaign of harassment for more than three years in the seaside town of North Berwick, East Lothian.