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Emergency services were called to Swan Pool in West Bromwich at around 4.45pm on Saturday, June 27, following reports of a person in trouble in the water.

Daniel Vettrino, 37, was allegedly shot dead in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines after returning from a day out 'when he was accosted and shot in a parking lot', according to local media.

Gabriel entered the villa as one of the Casa Amor bombshells, but just hours before his debut hit screens, ITV confirmed he had been axed from the show due to 'a situation in his past.'

The grip exerted by Apple's App Store and Google Play on everyone who uses a smartphone is unlike any other business set-up on the planet - and most consumers are unaware of it.

Official figures show there were 19,779 foreign national offenders at the end of March who had been released from prison but not deported.

Spanish startup FOSSA Systems "has raised about $10.5 million to expand its connectivity constellation," reports Space News, noting some funding is backed by Spain's government: The support from the Spanish Society for Technological Transformation (SETT) comes a year after the fund injected 14 million euros into Spain's Sateliot , which is also developing a satellite connectivity network with security and defense applications. Spanish private investment firm Kibo Ventures led FOSSA's funding round, the six-year-old venture announced June 24, bringing its total raised to date to nearly 20 million euros. The proceeds will help fuel FOSSA's push beyond the tiny picosatellites it once used to connect low-power monitoring devices toward larger cubesats in low Earth orbit, enabling additional sovereign communications and space-based intelligence capabilities... The company's funding round follows a wave of investments this year in European ventures planning to develop sovereign space capabilities, including Austrian propulsion startup Gate Space, which secured 6.3 million euros earlier this month from a European Commission-backed accelerator program. "Our goal is to establish FOSSA as a European benchmark in sovereign space infrastructure," said Julián Fernández, FOSSA's CEO and cofounder.

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CRAIG HOPE IN NEW JERSEY: There is a danger England become over-reliant on the attacking duo and when they do not produce, such as the goalless draw with Ghana, the team suffers.

The forensic officer crouched beside the scorch marks, laying out yellow evidence cones. Every few minutes, his camera clicked.

Chelsea Becirevic showed off her slimmed-down waist as she enjoyed some quality time with a friend, following what she's described as a 'pretty s*** year'.

Scott Walker loved to escape the cold and dark Januarys of his native Inverness in search of winter sun - and as a self-employed painter and decorator, he could take the entire month off.

In snaps posted to his Instagram Stories, West, 49, and his wife continued to push the envelope as they posed up a storm - their clothing contrasting with the elegance of their shoot.

Two New York City roommate influencer have taken their feud over their apartment lease drama to the internet and now the public has weighed in on the ugly spat.

The former Love Island star, 35, has been on the party island to film the new series of her ITV2 show Bad Boyfriends, but spent the night dancing until the early hours.

Civil servants working for the Energy Secretary - who many fear could be put in charge of HM Treasury under Andy Burnham - can go into the office for as little as 40 per cent of the time.

United Utilities chief executive Louise Beardmore is in line to pocket £435,000 in shares a year, which will be paid out regardless of the company's performance.

Chinese AI systems "have matched the performance of Anthropic's powerful model Mythos in some cybersecurity scenarios," reports the Wall Street Journal. They call it "a development poised to reset the global tech race and pressure the White House in its overhaul of U.S. AI policy." Security researchers said that a new AI model, released this month by China's Zhipu AI, also known as Z.ai, can match the latest U.S. models when it comes to finding security bugs, although it still lags behind Anthropic's and OpenAI's products in other tasks. Overall, the capability gap between top U.S. models and those built by Chinese companies has narrowed significantly, and use of Chinese AI systems has surged as businesses seek to rein in runaway costs. A host of companies, including Microsoft, are weighing how they can offer Chinese models on their platforms, a development that is set to alter the balance of power among tech companies... Unlike models from Anthropic or OpenAI, Zhipu's GLM-5.2 is open-weight. That means it can be downloaded and run on hardware operated by anybody and can be modified and used without supervision. Open-weight models are ideal for users who want unfettered access to systems they control, but they are also ideal for hackers, who can run them in the shadows. GLM-5.2 has ranked as one of the 10 most-used AI models, according to data from OpenRouter, a company that provides access to more than 400 AI models. In some benchmarking tests, according to the cybersecurity company Semgrep, GLM-5.2 bested Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.8 model, which was released in May. When given further instructions, Opus 4.8 and GLM-5.2 can match Mythos in bug-finding ability, according to researchers... "Banning Fable while selling chips China needs to develop its own version is a gift to China," said Saif Khan, a distinguished technology fellow at the Institute for Progress think tank who worked on export restrictions in the Biden administration. The U.S. needs to maximize the use of Mythos and comparable models to harden its cyber defenses while it can, he added. Among the Mythos 5 and Fable 5 users that had lost access before Friday's decision to restore Mythos 5 access for some trusted entities: the National Security Agency, which had been testing the tools and found them impressive in trials, according to people familiar with the matter... "It is incentivizing companies across the globe to use cheaper but very capable Chinese open-weight models, while at the same time undermining the U.S. AI industry," said Niels Provos, a researcher who led security teams at Google and Stripe. "I don't understand it." Thanks to long-time Slashdot reader schwit1 for sharing the article.

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The Ministry of Justice has already written to 7,308 victims telling them the Government's reforms may see criminals in their case let out of jail within months.

Simon Carman, 46, from south of Perth, was arrested after the body of 17-year-old Thongchai Donhomla was found by local police in luggage near railway tracks.

For Michelle Moore, hot summer days were the worst. Since her late 20s, the 58-year-old council worker had been living with painful and disfiguring varicose veins.

You didn't think he'd go quietly, did you? Ben Stokes hoicked Zak Foulkes to Daryl Mitchell at midwicket, threw back his head in disappointment and walked off to a standing ovation.