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A woman who went viral for bravely stood up to the Paris rioters, screaming at them to stop looting a supermarket at the height of the mayhem, has been identified as a 24-year-old actress by French media. 

David Henty is an art forger. By his own account, the very best art forger in the world, and extremely proud of his work.

Gone Fishing's Paul Whitehouse and his pal Bob Mortimer paid tribute to the series' beloved late TV dog Ted as they appeared on The One Show on Thursday.

The picture was taken at dawn, looking up to the tower of St Michael's Church perched upon the ancient Somerset mound.

The hop-on-hop-off service was travelling near the London landmark on Thursday afternoon when it collided with the stand.

The former model and designer, 59, who was a bridesmaid at Charles and Princess Diana's wedding, has four biological children with her husband, businessman David Flint Wood, 65.

Simon Roberts said the Chancellor must use next Wednesday's Budget to ease pressure rather than 'adding further taxes' to an industry that's already very heavily taxed.

Google is funding one of the nation's largest "virtual power plants," paying homes and businesses indirectly to reduce electricity consumption during periods of peak demand so more grid capacity can be available for data centers. Under its expanded deal with Voltus, the program could provide up to 1,070 megawatts in the Mid-Atlantic PJM grid -- roughly the output of a large nuclear reactor. The New York Times reports: That electricity won't come from new power plants. Instead, Voltus will sign up homes and businesses and give them financial incentives to curb their usage when local power demand is high or the grid is strained. Many of these reductions could occur automatically, such as through smart thermostats that dial back air-conditioning during peak summer hours or batteries that can provide temporary on-site power. Each of these tweaks frees up only a small amount of power on its own. But by aggregating them across thousands of businesses and homes, Voltus says it can reliably provide lots of extra capacity when it's most needed, and do so within a few years. While tech companies will likely ultimately need to build traditional power plants if they want to keep building large data centers, this approach could be a faster, cheaper and less-polluting option in the interim. "We really see virtual power plants as a critical short-term solution," said Ellen Zuckerman, head of energy market development for North and South America at Google. "It's a way to invest in our communities, really double down on our clean energy ambition, but also meet capacity at speed and scale."

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Hollywood star Jason Momoa has purchased a sprawling property in New Zealand formerly owned by late actor Sir Sam Neill.

Britain's energy policy is often ascribed to 'Red' Ed Miliband and his amanuensis Miatta Fahnbulleh, who has succeeded him as Energy Secretary. But they did not do it alone.

Craig Hill had to be brought to the hospital after finding himself inside a garbage truck as incredible new photos show the bad bruises he suffered from the incident.

Tom Skerritt, best known for his role in the original 1979 Alien film, has died.

joshuark shares a report from BleepingComputer: Microsoft says it mistakenly flagged a bug causing Always On VPN connection issues as fixed in the October 2026 Windows 11 cumulative updates. Always On VPN replaced the legacy DirectAccess technology and supports domain-joined, non-domain-joined, and Microsoft Entra ID-joined devices running Windows 10, Windows 11, and Windows Server. It runs in the background and establishes secure tunnels back to the user's corporate network whenever their device connects to the internet. Microsoft first acknowledged the issue in a service alert sent to IT administrators in late September, saying it was triggered on systems running Windows 11 24H2 and later after installing the September 2026 security updates when the initial Always On VPN connection failed (e.g., when using automatic protocol selection with IKEv2 and SSTP). "When automatic protocol selection or protocol fallback was configured, affected VPN connections could remain stuck in a Connecting state or fail to connect after an initial connection attempt failed," it said. "In some cases, subsequent connection attempts could display the error, 'The specified port is already in use.'" After releasing the October 2026 Patch Tuesday Windows 11 cumulative updates, Microsoft marked the bug as resolved, but in a Tuesday update it said the issues weren't actually addressed and that a fix would ship later. "This disclosure was mistakenly updated to Resolved status on October 13, 2026. We have returned its status to Mitigated," it said in a service alert sent to IT admins. "A resolution for this issue is planned to be included in an update to be released in the coming weeks. We apologize for any inconvenience or confusion." While Microsoft continues working on a permanent solution, it shared a temporary fix that requires affected customers to choose one of two VPN tunneling protocols to work around the issue.

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IZ it 'cos I don't like fancy dress? Sacha Baron Cohen - whose new Ali G film opens in cinemas today - is not a fan of people who dress up as his characters.

The activist Tommy Robinson has told jurors at his trial that after the Mail published a story about him, he tracked down the journalists to their homes using private investigators.

The 30-year-old Oscar nominee has gone viral for an Instagram clip originally posted by @victoriaparis which shows how he conducted himself at the runway show.

The schoolboy is said to have crashed when approaching a bend while taking part in a training session, causing him to smash through a fence at high-speed.

Former White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt is keeping it blunt when describing her successor, Katie Zacharia's brief stint in the job.

The 13-year-old transformed into Baddies star Natalie Nunn, and the costume even got the thumb's up from the woman she was imitating.