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The Soham murderer (pictured) was attacked by a fellow inmate at a recycling workshop at HMP Frankland in County Durham on Thursday morning.

Figures show 2,658 sex offences were recorded on the network in 2024-25 - equivalent to more than 50 every week - an increase of almost 10 per cent.

Labour MP Josh Simons has resigned as a Cabinet Office minister, saying he had 'become a distraction from this Government's important work'.

LIVE BLOG: The United States and Israel have launched a daylight missile attack on Iran as Donald Trump declared he will 'raze their missile industry to the ground'.

Jack Whitehall lived up to his reputation as he hosted this year's BRIT Awards live at the Co-op Arena.

President Donald Trump signaled Saturday afternoon that he was willing to give the Iranian regime a way out after launching a 'major' attack early Saturday morning.

Ahead of the Spring Statement, the Tony Blair Institute said Labour's policies have 'added friction at the moment the UK needs greater agility'.

Gamco has cited the same argument that Weinstein uses in his bid to oust the boards of UK investment trusts and install his own nominees.

I've lost count of the number of times I've been asked, often in all seriousness, whether London is still safe, says Dame Susan Langley.

The bets, which makes holders money if the stock falls, have soared on fears that the popularity of hunger-suppressing jabs could hit sales at the sausage roll seller.

Reviews of the millions of documents included in the Epstein files have revealed the disgraced financier's deep ties in the medical industry.

Israeli socialite Hofit Golan and British TV stars Vicky Pattison and Laura Anderson are among the celebrities currently caught up in the Iranian missile strikes on Dubai's famous Palm Jumeirah.

"The drought of upcoming Star Wars movies is coming to an end soon," writes Cinemablend. In May the The Mandalorian and Grogu opens, and one year later there's the release of the Ryan Gosling-led Star Wars: Starfighter. But "there are some insiders who already believe that Starfighter will be a bigger hit than The Mandalorian and Grogu..." According to unnamed sources who spoke with Variety, there's a "sense" that Star Wars: Starfighter, which is directed by Deadpool & Wolverine's Shawn Levy, will be a more satisfying viewing experience. These same sources are allegedly impressed by the early footage they've seen of Ryan Gosling's performance and also suggested that Levy has "recaptured the franchise's spirit of fun." Furthermore, the article states that there's concern that because The Mandalorian and Grogu is spinning out of a streaming-exclusive series, it might not have as much appeal to people who aren't already fans of The Mandalorian... Star Wars: Starfighter, on the other hand, will be accessible to everyone equally. It's set five years after The Rise of Skywalker, which is an unexplored period for the Star Wars franchise onscreen. It's also expected that most, if not all of its featured characters will be brand-new, so no knowledge of past adventures is required. Slashdot reader gaiageek reminds us that 2027 will also see a special 50-year anniversary event in movie in theatres: a "newly restored" version of the original 1977 Star Wars.

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Benjamin Netanyahu and Donald Trump have reportedly been shown a photograph of Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's body.

So incredulous were colleagues of Viktoriia Honcharuk, 25, giving up her six-figure salary job as a New York investment banker to go to war that her line manager promised to keep her job open.

Our gallery, split into 21 categories, is built with thousands of images scraped directly from the Department of Justice's latest 'dump' of files.

Harvey Christian, from Cambridgeshire, was thought to have been on Ben Nevis in January 2023 when he went missing.

Operation Epic Fury was launched after President Trump lulled the Iranian regime into a false sense of security - and then unleashed hell.

It started Friday when all U.S. federal agencies were ordered to "immediately cease" using Anthropic's AI technology after contract negotiations stalled when Anthropic requested prohibitions against mass domestic surveillance or fully autonomous weapons. But later Friday there were even more repercussions... In a post to his 1.1 million followers on X.com, U.S. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth criticized Anthropic for what he called "a master class in arrogance and betrayal as well as a textbook case of how not to do business with the United States Government or the Pentagon." Our position has never wavered and will never waver: the Department of War must have full, unrestricted access to Anthropic's models for every LAWFUL purpose in defense of the Republic... Cloaked in the sanctimonious rhetoric of "effective altruism," [Anthropic and CEO Dario Amodei] have attempted to strong-arm the United States military into submission — a cowardly act of corporate virtue-signaling that places Silicon Valley ideology above American lives. The Terms of Service of Anthropic's defective altruism will never outweigh the safety, the readiness, or the lives of American troops on the battlefield. Their true objective is unmistakable: to seize veto power over the operational decisions of the United States military. That is unacceptable... In conjunction with the President's directive for the Federal Government to cease all use of Anthropic's technology, I am directing the Department of War to designate Anthropic a Supply-Chain Risk to National Security. Effective immediately, no contractor, supplier, or partner that does business with the United States military may conduct any commercial activity with Anthropic... America's warfighters will never be held hostage by the ideological whims of Big Tech. This decision is final. Meanwhile, Anthrophic said on Friday that "no amount of intimidation or punishment from the Department of War will change our position." (And "We will challenge any supply chain risk designation in court.") Designating Anthropic as a supply chain risk would be an unprecedented action — one historically reserved for US adversaries, never before publicly applied to an American company. We are deeply saddened by these developments. As the first frontier AI company to deploy models in the US government's classified networks, Anthropic has supported American warfighters since June 2024 and has every intention of continuing to do so. We believe this designation would both be legally unsound and set a dangerous precedent for any American company that negotiates with the government... Secretary Hegseth has implied this designation would restrict anyone who does business with the military from doing business with Anthropic. The Secretary does not have the statutory authority to back up this statement. Anthropic also defended the two exceptions they'd requested that had stalled contract negotiations. "[W]e do not believe that today's frontier AI models are reliable enough to be used in fully autonomous weapons. Allowing current models to be used in this way would endanger America's warfighters and civilians. Second, we believe that mass domestic surveillance of Americans constitutes a violation of fundamental rights." Also Friday, OpenAI announced that "we reached an agreement with the Department of War to deploy our models in their classified network." OpenAI CEO Sam Altman emphasized that the agreement retains and confirms OpenAI's own prohibitions against using their products for domestic mass surveillance — and requires "human responsibility" for the use of force including for autonomous weapon systems. "The Department of War agrees with these principles, reflects them in law and policy, and we put them into our agreement. We also will build technical safeguards to ensure our models behave as they should, which the Department of War also wanted. " We are asking the Department of War to offer these same terms to all AI companies, which in our opinion we think everyone should be willing to accept. We have expressed our strong desire to see things de-escalate away from legal and governmental actions and towards reasonable agreements. We remain committed to serve all of humanity as best we can. The world is a complicated, messy, and sometimes dangerous place.

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Professor Jacob George raised new concerns about the Pathways trial of puberty blockers. The medical officer's intervention subsequently triggered the Department of Health to pause the trial.