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Our very earliest ancestor, according to Chris Packham, had a familiar name: Luca. Ever since I learned that, the song's been running through my head.

Dominic Whitton, 42, repeatedly beat artist Pepita Garcia, leaving her with 76 fractures in the weeks leading up to her death, while on police bail for controlling and coercive behaviour.

Former sergeant Matthew 'Des' Desmond', 49, will plead guilty despite having paperwork proving the drugs were prescribed for a spinal injury sustained from a jump in Afghanistan.

Richards, 38 is currently working on World Cup coverage with the BBC as well as Gary Lineker's The Rest Is Football podcast. He has been to New York and back three times during the tournament.

Wayne Taylor bravely entered the water alongside another unnamed man at Seaton Carew Beach in County Durham.

As the pressure builds and we gear up for the final few days of play across the pond, let's take a look at the top players of the quarter-finals, according to Sofascore...

Government reaffirms commitment to taxing EV owners for every mile they drive and reveals that cars can have mileage tracked to calculate annual payments.

CISA and allied governments are warning users to secure their routers as Russian state-backed hackers continue compromising the devices and turning them into proxy nodes to disguise attacks against critical infrastructure. The advisory urges users to disable outdated SNMP versions, use strong passwords, update firmware, and turn off unnecessary router services to reduce the risk of being swept into these botnets. Ars Technica reports: "Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) Center 16 cyber actors continue to exploit poorly configured and vulnerable networking devices worldwide, opportunistically compromising multiple critical infrastructure sector networks," the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency said Monday. The hacking groups are tracked under various names, including Berserk Bear, Energetic Bear, Crouching Yeti, Dragonfly, Ghost Blizzard, and Static Tundra. The advisory was co-issued by governments from around the world, including Australia, Denmark, New Zealand, and the UK. The primary means of compromise the agency warned about was hackers scanning IP ranges with active Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) agents that accept common or default authentication credentials. These scans are run by the very sorts of router botnets the actors are trying to enroll the targeted device in. By sending malicious traffic from spoofed addresses, the hackers can use the SNMP agent on poorly configured routers to run malware. SNMP allows users to collect and organize information about managed networking devices or to modify that information to change device behavior. With control of a device, the hackers then use it as an exit node when probing or attacking targets in the communications, defense, energy, financial services, and government sectors. By funneling the malicious traffic through a benign-appearing device on a trustworthy IP address, the attackers are able to lower the chances of getting blocked by firewalls and other security defenses. Monday's advisory made no mention of identical operations carried out in recent years by China. So-called residential proxies are also a go-to tool used by financially motivated criminal hackers to obscure their true IP address. In many cases, these sorts of proxies are made up of millions of streaming devices that are sold with preloaded malware.

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Carol Vorderman has revealed she was recently rushed to hospital in an ambulance after suffering a horror fall which left her unconscious.

Calls are growing for the Commons to sit for an extra day on Monday, instead of rising on Thursday as planned, so the new Prime Minister can answer questions on his plans.

The renewable energy systems have been switched off in dozens of schools across Suffolk after three separate blazes in less than a year.

Nicola Sturgeon will not be releasing the written statement she gave to police probing the SNP's finances, her lawyer has confirmed.

German textile firm ZEGO has filed for insolvency and is blaming a March cyberattack that shut down production for nearly six weeks. "ZEGO's filing adds another name to the short but growing list of companies that say a digital break-in was commercially fatal to their business," reports The Register. From the report: In a notice to customers and suppliers, the organization said it had exhausted every available option before seeking insolvency protection. Managing director Johannes Zenglein described the filing as "one of the most difficult steps in our company's 37-year history." "The cyberattack of March 29, 2026, however, impacted our company to an extent that we could not fully compensate for despite our best efforts," Zenglein wrote. "The consequences resulted in a production outage of nearly six weeks and significant financial strain. These effects ultimately impacted our financial situation so severely that filing for insolvency became necessary." ZEGO did not disclose what kind of attack it suffered, whether ransomware was involved, who was behind it, or whether customer or employee data was compromised. What it has made clear is that the operational disruption alone was enough to push the business beyond the point of recovery. ZEGO said insolvency proceedings have now been initiated, but insisted the filing does not necessarily spell the end of the business. It said it plans to keep production running while administrators attempt to restructure the business, preserve jobs, and keep customers and suppliers on board.

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Watches of Switzerland stock jumped as much as 8% to 778.5p after it was reported that bosses have held talks with potential buyers in recent months.

The lawsuit poses a threat to Paramount's plans to bring together two of Hollywood's five largest film studios to take on Netflix and Disney.

The AA said the average cost of a litre of petrol has reached 151p having dropped to 150.7p a week ago. Average diesel prices stand at 164.9p per litre.

Chief executive Oliver Blume outlined the plans in a memo to staff as he desperately bids to cut costs at Europe's largest car maker.

De Beers, whose gems are worn by singer Rita Ora (pictured), said it is pausing operations at its Venetia mine for two years to cut costs.

Akzo Nobel - which has owned the British brand since 2008 - said it has received multiple offers from Nippon Paint for the unit.

Emergency services rushed to Felbrigg Hall, near Cromer in Norfolk at about 11.45am on Monday.