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Police in Spain have launched a homicide investigation into the on-pitch collision that led to the death of a Spanish footballer.

In the footage, officers from the Dedicated Card and Payment Crime Unit - a banking industry-funded police unit - smashed down the door of an East Midlands home in an early-morning raid.

Zulma Guzman Castro (pictured), who is accused of murdering the two girls, was discovered to be hiding in Britain after she was seen drinking from a Buxton water bottle during a TV interview.

by George Whittaker

The openSUSE Project has officially released openSUSE Leap 16.1, introducing a major change to how the distribution can be installed, maintained, and deployed. Released on November 3, 2026, the update brings an integrated Immutable Mode that allows users to install a transactionally updated operating system with a read-only root filesystem, while continuing to offer the traditional Linux installation model.

The new approach also marks the beginning of the end for openSUSE Leap Micro as a separate distribution. Its functionality is now incorporated into Leap 16.1, giving administrators a unified platform for desktops, conventional servers, container hosts, virtual machines, and edge computing environments. Users can select the installation model that best fits their workloads without switching to an entirely different openSUSE product.

Beyond the new installation architecture, Leap 16.1 updates KDE Plasma to version 6.6, retains GNOME 48 with additional maintenance fixes, introduces LXQt 2.4, and continues using the Linux 6.12 long-term support kernel series. The release also expands container tooling, improves system monitoring, updates security components, and introduces changes designed to make enterprise-oriented Linux deployments more predictable.

Immutable Mode Becomes the Defining Feature of Leap 16.1

The most important addition to openSUSE Leap 16.1 is its new Immutable Mode, which allows the operating system to use a read-only root filesystem and transactional updates. Instead of modifying the active operating system directly whenever packages are installed or updated, the immutable configuration prepares changes in a separate filesystem snapshot.

This approach differs from a conventional Linux installation, where package managers typically modify files in the active root filesystem. On a traditional system, an update can replace libraries, executables, and configuration components while applications continue running. Although Linux package managers handle these operations carefully, interrupted updates or incompatible package combinations can sometimes leave a system in an inconsistent state.

Immutable Mode reduces this risk by preparing operating-system changes separately from the currently running environment. Updates become active after a reboot, allowing the system to start using a consistent set of packages and configuration changes. If an update introduces problems, administrators can return to an earlier snapshot rather than manually reversing individual package modifications.

The underlying technology is not entirely new to openSUSE. Similar functionality has been available through Leap Micro, which was designed for lightweight, transactionally updated server and infrastructure deployments. What changes in Leap 16.1 is that this operating model becomes an installation choice within the main Leap distribution.

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Ongar Garden Centre unveils Christmas events including Breakfast with Santa, festive dinners and afternoon tea for families across Essex this Christmas season.

Colchester Zoo is hiring two senior animal keepers for its Carnivore and Familiar Friends sections, with £29,432 salaries and November 20 and 27 deadlines.

A warning has been issued for beachgoers along the Essex coast concerning the venomous weever fish.

Ongar Garden Centre unveils Christmas events including Breakfast with Santa, festive dinners and afternoon tea for families across Essex this Christmas season.

Colchester Zoo is hiring two senior animal keepers for its Carnivore and Familiar Friends sections, with £29,432 salaries and November 20 and 27 deadlines.

A warning has been issued for beachgoers along the Essex coast concerning the venomous weever fish.

The Witham and Braintree Hubs will again serve free soup and a roll through their Warm Space initiative thanks to funding from councillors.

They are filming a new docu-drama

SUSE plans to cut roughly 10% of its 1,900-person workforce, with CEO Dirk-Peter van Leeuwen saying "automation and AI" are reducing the need for some roles and allowing the open source software company to operate with less overhead and flatter management structures. "We are announcing a reduction of SUSE's global workforce of approximately 10 percent," said Van Leeuwen in an email. "These decisions are painful for our people, our culture, and our open source community, but they are necessary for us to adapt and build a sustainable, resilient SUSE for the long term." The Register reports: Van Leeuwen says the business, bought by Swedish private equity provider EQT, decided to cut jobs after scrutinizing its "future strategy, required capabilities, and team structures." The rest of the organization will get a look at the fiscal year 2027 strategy on November 16. He said in the message to staff: "What is clear is that automation and AI are fundamentally shifting how software companies operate. AI capabilities are advancing exponentially, forcing us to radically reimagine our work. We have seen this trend already both inside our sector and in the wider economy. This means that the organizational design and cost base that SUSE is built on today will not carry us forward successfully. "We are adapting. Across SUSE, modern tooling is already changing our daily workflows, enabling teams to move faster with less operational overhead and flatter reporting lines. The requirement for some existing roles has greatly diminished. Other roles will evolve over the next few years. This means we are accelerating investments in high priority areas, and deprioritizing others. These are hard, painful decisions to make, but necessary for our future." [...] The specific roles at risk of redundancy were not outlined but SUSE claims it has considered where the people in those positions are "able to evolve, what they can stop doing, what they need to do more of - and decisions have been made on that basis." Staff caught up in the redundancies will be informed by November 4, employee representatives nominated the following day, and one to one meetings will begin at the start of next week. Van Leeuwen says in the internal memo that the job cuts are a "reflection of shifting organizational needs, not your talent or commitment. You have tackled hard infrastructure and open source challenges that power critical enterprise systems around the world. "Any organization will be fortunate to have your expertise."

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Forget designated drivers! Hungary's brilliant new wine bus lets you hop between 20 vineyards in one of Europe's most gorgeous lakeside wine regions.

The head of the Army today apologised to the family of a soldier killed by a defective vehicle - after accepting a formal reprimand for health and safety failings.

The soap star, 55, has risked the fury of ticket-holders who have paid to see her on stage by quietly pulling out of her eight scheduled performances in Woking this month.

John Kiriakou, who worked at the Central Intelligence Agency from 1990 to 2004, warned the US President was seeking to 'break' the 'final taboo' around dropping nuclear bombs.

Drivers in south Essex and Thurrock face a 23-mile diversion as Lower Thames Crossing works run from November 4 to November 10, National Highways warns.

Drivers in south Essex and Thurrock face a 23-mile diversion as Lower Thames Crossing works run from November 4 to November 10, National Highways warns.

Lucy Knapp, 17, was killed after her Seat Ibiza Xcellence left the road and hit a tree on Headcorn Road between Staplehurst and Headcorn about 8.25pm on June 11.