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The victim, now named as captain Smit Machchhar (pictured), was hailed for saving the lives of those 174 passengers on board.

The security service has called out 100 British academics taking funding from China's Ministry of State Security (MSS) for research on sensitive topics such as artificial intelligence (AI).

The type of female nail which disposes me most warmly to the bearer is bitten, chipped or broken, since that is the natural state of mine and I feel a kinship with these women.

It was a very personal origin story that Prime Minister Andy Burnham led off with in his first address to Labour conference as party leader.

Queen Mary has quietly returned to Australia with King Frederik for an intensely personal reason.

The floating scarecrow, also known as the Looming Eye Buoy (LEB), is designed to save seabirds from getting caught in fishing nets.

Ivanna Lisette Ortiz, 36, was also charged with 10 counts of assault with an assault weapon, and three counts of shooting at an inhabited dwelling or camper.

Teenage killer Christa Pike has been cleared for execution after the United States Supreme Court overruled a last-minute stay of her death.

Paul, 39, appeared on series two of the civilian show, where he was made a Traitor on day one and managed to throw a host of Faithfuls under the bus before he was banished.

The presenter's outfits have become almost as talked-about as the twists and betrayals on the hit show.

Microsoft broke its own cloud but isn’t sure how

The Welsh actress told AARP Magazine: 'We told them all the [Hollywood] horror stories to see if their passion for the art and the craft was genuine.'

Hattie Dynevor looked pretty in her pink maid of honour dress as she shared unseen snaps from her sister Phoebe's Bridgerton-esque wedding in Provence last month.

Weight loss jabs increase the risk of painful and unsightly nail problems, with nail detachment more than four times as common in fat jab users.

About 70 per cent of older care home residents are estimated to be living with dementia, and so we cannot have a meaningful debate about social care reform without talking about dementia.

When he was campaigning to be elected by the people of Leave-voting Makerfield, Andy Burnham could not have been clearer - he did not want Brexit on the ballot paper.

Andy Burnham used his conference speech yesterday to blame Brexit for many of Britain's problems.

This year has been 'devastating' for Switzerland's glaciers, scientists from ETH Zurich have warned.

Google has unveiled Gemini 4 Argon, a new frontier AI model that it says leads or ties rivals on 13 of 18 disclosed benchmarks. The model is initially being released only to trusted cyber defenders and select pre-release testers, with broader availability planned later. VentureBeat reports: Google is not claiming that Gemini 4 Argon wins every benchmark. But across the benchmark table disclosed in the company's embargoed materials, Argon posts the highest score, or ties for the highest score, in more categories than GPT-6 Astra or Claude Opus 5.5. Across the 18 benchmarks Google disclosed, Argon leads outright on 12 and ties for first on one. GPT-6 Astra leads outright on three and ties Argon on one. Claude Opus 5.5 leads outright on two. That makes Argon the leading frontier model by total number of benchmark leads or top scores in Google's comparison set, even though the results show a still-close race in which OpenAI and Anthropic retain advantages in several important technical categories. [...] The result is a more nuanced claim than "best model across the board." Argon appears to have the broadest top-score profile among the three frontier models in Google's disclosed comparison, but GPT-6 Astra remains ahead in several software, science-terminal and computer-use tasks, while Claude Opus 5.5 remains ahead in terminal-agent and post-training workflows. For enterprise buyers, that means model choice is still workload-dependent, even if Argon now gives Google its strongest claim yet to overall frontier leadership by benchmark count. [...] Argon also expands Google's output ceiling. The company says the model supports an industry-leading 1 million output tokens, up from a previous 64,000-token limit. That is a notable distinction for agentic software engineering, audit, migration and legal-review workloads where the value of a model often depends on how long it can sustain a chain of work before handing control back to a human.

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Jason Brown escaped jail, receiving a suspended sentence and a £500 fine for breaching a sexual harm prevention order, despite repeatedly changing his name to hide his criminal past.