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In a move set to send shockwaves through the divided hard-Left party's ranks, members backed a proposal that calls for Israel to be treated like Apartheid South Africa.

An invasive land-walking fish from Asia is spreading into new US states, leading officials to ask Americans to take matters into their own hands.

Gabriel Horcasitas, 55, was sentenced to 10 and a half years behind bars for fatally shooting Christopher Pelkey, 37, in Arizona in 2021, but his time has been vacated over an AI video.

Christian Magg and his husband Greg Taylor saw their chocolate box dream turn sour when they sacked the builder renovating their Grade II listed Tudor cottage.

Flashbulbs erupt. A glamorous Hollywood actress walks out of a London courtroom, her face set in a determined expression as photographers jostle for a glimpse of her.

DNA testing confirmed the identity of Rana Soluri's remains after her body was discovered under a bridge in June. She is believed to have been strangled to death by her roommate March 2025.

The soap star, who played the role of Lee Carter, began dating the model six years ago after she slid into his DMs to confess her crush on him.

Car thefts in San Francisco are down almost 59% for the first eight months of 2026 compared with the same months in 2022, according to analysis of police department statistics by NPR's Planet Money — and car break-ins are down more than 82%. "San Francisco's law enforcement leaders tell us that greater use of surveillance technology — including a controversial, AI-powered license plate camera system made by Flock Safety — has been crucial to this drop in car crime." How much credit does Flock actually deserve...? [In July of 2022, San Francisco District Attorney] Jenkins began taking a more aggressive approach to prosecuting people accused of crimes. Meanwhile, the SFPD beefed up its tactics to fight car thefts and break-ins. In 2023, for example, the police increased patrols in tourist areas known for car break-ins and used "bait cars" to catch and build cases against organized car burglars. But, Jenkins says, "one of the most important factors" behind the drop in crime came when the city introduced new crime-fighting technology. In March 2024, San Francisco voters approved Proposition E, which, among other provisions, made it easier for SFPD to use drones and high-tech surveillance cameras. That same month, the SFPD began installing Flock cameras in strategic locations... In a statement to Planet Money, a spokesperson for the SFPD said, "ALPR has been instrumental in driving down crime in San Francisco. These tools enable our officers to identify crime vehicles with precision, and ALPR is assisting in reducing crimes that were previously very challenging to solve, like auto burglaries." Jenkins described how Flock cameras and drones can work together to catch suspected criminals. In one case the SFPD publicized, the department says Flock cameras spotted a moving vehicle linked to an auto burglary the previous day and alerted officers. Officers deployed a drone, which flew in from above and then began recording suspects in real time as they smashed windows and stole luggage out of a parked SUV. The police then moved in and arrested them. They can do all this, Jenkins says, "without putting innocent people in danger with dangerous police chases." Meanwhile, the surveillance system creates an evidence trail that [Jenkins'] office can use to prosecute suspected criminals... Jenkins also believes high-tech surveillance helps deter crime, although that's harder to prove... The most ambitious study of Flock's system so far is a recent one by University of South Carolina crime researchers Ian Adams and Scott Mourtgos. They analyzed data from 216 law enforcement agencies that introduced Flock cameras, comparing crime trends with places that had not adopted Flock. They found that deploying Flock cameras was associated with an 11% drop in car thefts in the first year. This is only one study, and it has yet to be peer-reviewed. It's also not a randomized controlled trial, the gold standard for finding the actual causal effect of something. Other factors, beyond Flock, could still help explain the decline. That study attempted to control for variables, the article points out — like how San Francisco's decline coincided with a broader drop in crime across American cities as America emerged from the pandemic... But the article also notes another worry shared by "countless citizens" and political leaders. Are these systems handing too much power to law enforcement to "invade our privacy, trace our whereabouts, and stomp on our civil liberties."

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The Beckham family have been torn apart in recent months following Brooklyn's fallout with his parents and siblings. 

Dale Martin, 21, was dragged out of his car and murdered in Derby on June 15 last year after the gang - armed with knives and machetes riding a moped and electric bikes - blocked his vehicle.

Luckily for the Streatham-born supermodel, 56, she had her kit to hand this weekend as she was forced to hop on a Lime Bike to dodge the traffic in between Paris Fashion Week shows.

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The pain first began when Carys Thurlby was a teenager. She remembers sitting in her GCSE exams 'chewing on paracetamol' as agonising sensations ripped through her pelvis and into her legs.

In the two decades I have been a GP the NHS has instructed us to tell patients the same thing about sleeping tablets: don't take them.

The new taskforce will be in charge of coordinating the government's engagement with religious organizations, providers, consumers and AI companies.

Tickets for next year's festival went online at 9am on Sunday - but fans received messages as early as 9.42am that they were sold out, leaving many devastated.

In my experience trying to engineer a reconciliation between people who aren't ready almost never works, and, with emotions running high, the anniversary of a parent's death is about the worst setting imaginable.

The Love Island star, 35, is taking the US by storm, currently starring on Dancing With The Stars with partner Mark Ballas - the son of Strictly's Shirley Ballas.

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There has been many criminals who have been sentenced in Essex this month