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A Qantas plane flying from Sydney to Johannesburg was forced to make a sudden U-turn just four hours after takeoff.

PATRICK MARMION: It was surely only a matter of time before Stephen Fry should take to the stage as one of Oscar Wilde's most colourful characters, Lady Bracknell.

Taylor Swift is a social phenomenon, a self-made master-piece of PR manipulation, the poet laureate of teenage girls everywhere.

The president said Tuesday that his administration is close to reaching a deal with the Ivy League institution, which it has targeted with a series of investigations and billions in cuts.

In its seventh year of championing breast cancer awareness, Lorraine's Change + Check campaign has announced the launch of National Check Your Boobs Day.

Cash was used for nearly half of all transactions a decade ago, before sliding to 23% in 2019, the UK Finance reports shows.

Mortgage lender Gen H is offering a part repayment, part interest-only mortgage targeted at first-time buyers with small deposits.

Amazon is replacing Android on new Fire TV hardware with its own Vega OS, debuting on the Fire TV Stick 4K Select. While major streaming apps are supported, sideloading is gone "because, well, this isn't Android anymore," notes 9to5Google. The company says "only apps from the Amazon Appstore are available for download." From the report: The company hasn't fully detailed all of the ins and outs of Vega, but Amazon hints that this is a move in the interest of performance. In a post, Amazon touches on Vega being "remarkably fast" despite the low-end hardware of its new Fire TV Stick 4K Select: "Our newest Fire TV Stick, the 4K Select, helps you maximize every pixel of your 4K TVs at an incredible value. It delivers vibrant 4K picture quality with HDR10+ support and apps that launch remarkably fast. The performance comes from our new operating system, Vega, which is responsive and highly efficient. Everything you need is right in the box -- it works with your favorite streaming services, and will soon support Xbox Gaming, Luna, and Alexa+." As pointed out by AFTVNews, the Fire TV 4K Select offers a mere 1GB of RAM, which is half as much as prior generations. So, in a way, that does speak to how lightweight this new platform is. But the bigger question is around apps. Amazon says that "your favorite streaming services" still work with Vega, and that Xbox, Luna, and Alexa+ will be coming "soon" (though they're already supported on existing Android-based Fire TV devices).

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The iconic brand recruited the duo for their Gapstudio Fall/Winter 2025 collection, a chic line with an emphasis on denim.

UMass Amherst research promises better bioelectronic communication

Scientists affiliated with the University of Massachusetts Amherst have developed an artificial neuron that can communicate efficiently with biological neurons, a research advance expected to accelerate the development of bioelectronic devices and interfaces.…

Last week, the Daily Mail's City Editor joined leading experts in warning he was worried that a terrible financial crash was coming. Here's what you can do to protect yourself.

Rust-coded editor beta arrives with general availability promised in October

Zed Industries has released a public beta of its code editor for Windows, marking a significant milestone for the Rust-based VS Code alternative that has until now been limited to macOS and Linux users.…

The family were said to have been wiped out when a strike hit a two-storey residential building in the village of Chernechchyna, in the northeastern Sumy region.

A woman has tearfully opened up about the devastating moment when her husband was arrested for sex crimes against minors, including her son, in a new docuseries.

AncestryDNA kits are described as perfect gifts for Father's Day or for genealogy enthusiasts, but they can often unlock devastating family secrets.

Sixteen Romanian nationals have been arrested in a car park in Wiltshire during a Home Office raid for 'working illegally'.

Rumours of 'trouble in paradise' had been circling Nicole and Keith for ages. Usually they were kept between journalists and publicists, but as the years went by, the whispers grew louder.

Trump, speaking at a rally in Quantico, Virginia on Tuesday, was discussing the use of nuclear warheads, when he boasted to Moscow about America's nuclear capabilities.

NASA employees claimed that the space agency is operating under a culture of fear that is preventing people from talking about safety concerns.

It's not just big tech anymore

The North Korean IT worker threat extends well beyond tech companies, with fraudsters interviewing at a "surprising" number of healthcare orgs, according to Okta Threat Intelligence.…