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With Netflix stock in freefall and the company scrambling to sign up new viewers, bosses have been forced to implement drastic measures, axing several projects.

Asylum seeker Behailu Naedw, 41, was free to roam Prestatyn, north Wales looking for victims despite having multiple previous convictions including burglary and vehicle crime.

Lucero Acosta saw her PFL debut in Chicago end with a brutal knockout and an awkward wardrobe malfunction while she was being beaten.

Dilshaw Omar Kawani, 53, was found guilty of seven offences of sexual assault and inciting a child to engage in sexual activity at Bournemouth Crown Court last week.

A New Mexico judge has ordered Meta to pay $25 billion after a jury found Facebook liable for deceiving users about privacy during the Cambridge Analytica scandal. State Attorney General Raul Torrez called it "one of the largest, if not the single largest state verdict against a company in American history." While Meta plans to appeal the ruling, the funds that are to be collected will go toward state education spending. The Associated Press reports: Jurors in September found Meta liable for over 43 million violations of New Mexico consumer protection laws when a political consulting firm, Cambridge Analytica, harvested Facebook user data to generate targeted political ads for the 2016 election. Forty-eight other states settled with Facebook in a nationwide case, but New Mexico chose to take the social media company to court on its own. [...] During the trial, jurors assessed whether Facebook misled users about privacy and content moderation 34 separate times. State prosecutors, though, argued Facebook's statements deceived the entire population of New Mexico and extended beyond social media users. In the end, jurors agreed with this premise and found Facebook liable for 2.1 million violations on certain counts, bringing the total number of violations to over 43 million. Facebook's attorneys have argued in subsequent court filings that the state's consumer protection laws don't apply to people in New Mexico who weren't using the platform at the time. [...] In one of the few wins for the defense, jurors found the state didn't prove that Facebook made false claims about removing harmful content, including misinformation about the COVID-19 pandemic. The state said the company favored certain accounts and allowed for violent or inaccurate content to proliferate. Attorney Randi McGinn said in her closing argument for the state that Facebook profited off harmful content, which CEO Mark Zuckerberg denied during his video deposition. Zuckerberg said the company has to carefully balance freedom of speech with content moderation. Attorneys for Facebook said the company has adapted its policies since the state's lawsuit was filed in 2021 and that it removes 99% of content that violates standards.

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Ilhan Omar's family risked a four-day sea voyage that killed scores of others to escape Somalia's civil war on the first leg of their journey to America, the Daily Mail can reveal.

In the largest study of its kind, Oxford University researchers uncovered 12 proteins linked to the cancer after testing blood samples.

Hayadulla Turkmani (pictured), 53, was sentenced at Basildon Crown Court on Wednesday for causing Michael Ashton's death by dangerous driving last year

David 'Rollingcloud' Jackson, 50, has since been identified as the bus driver who suffered a 'sudden medical emergency.'

Labour Against Antisemitism has written to the PM to demand that Jonathan Powell 'resign or be sacked' as the group claims his wife, Sarah Helm, poses 'security concerns'.

Barr defended Arnold after Chuck Lorre, who was a staff writer on the show from 1990 to 1992, alleged that her then husband had been credited on scripts that were actually penned by other writers.

The Institute for Government (IfG) analysis said Andy Burnham had 'limited time, funding and capacity to make meaningful improvements' to public services.

The Campaign Against Antisemitism condemned the new posters which follow attacks on the upmarket bakery chain elsewhere for alleged Israeli ties the firm denies.

"According to a recent report by Bloomberg's Jason Schreier (paywalled), EA has reportedly decided to shut down BioWare," the studio behind the Dragon Age and Mass Effect games, writes longtime Slashdot reader atari_kid. Quartz reports: Chief Studios Officer Cam Weber and Chief Operating Officer David Tinson wrote that "over the past several months, we've taken a hard look at our business." They said a small BioWare team had been doing early groundwork on a Mass Effect game, but EA chose to drop the effort. That decision means closing the studio and its Edmonton workspace, they wrote. "We do not take this decision lightly," Weber and Tinson said of the BioWare closure, according to Variety. EA will keep investing in Apex Legends and is continuing work on two upcoming launches, Marvel's Iron Man and the next Star Wars Jedi game, the executives said. They added that EA's Respawn and DICE studios will join forces on an upcoming project, in addition to new Battlefield titles. Bloomberg said the project is probably a new installment of the Star Wars: Battlefront franchise.

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The Prime Minister has described the scale of youth unemployment in the UK - with almost a million young people neither earning nor learning - as 'a moral failure'.

Michael Graf, brother of tennis legend Steffi, has posted a series of videos including recalling an alleged altercation with Andre Agassi seemingly from the tunnels beneath Las Vegas.

Harry James Kitto, 24, was 'repeatedly reassured' his food did not contain nuts when he arrived at the popular destination, Café Tortoni, in November 2025.

The party's former deputy leader, who died aged 93 at his Peak District home in June, left an estate worth £586,018.