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It was an evening when Hugo Vickers and his girlfriend Cindy Jackson were walking home from a romantic dinner in Central London.

Paramedics and officers rushed to the scene in Gillingham, Kent, before the child was taken to a hospital in London with serious injuries, where he remains.

A Lake District village once described by Wordsworth as 'the loveliest spot that man hath ever found' is under siege... from a kebab shop.

South Carolina's pine forests "have spent centuries hiding a secret as old as America itself," reports CBS News: In August 1780, British and American soldiers clashed there, leading to a terrible defeat for the Continental army [fighting for the 13 colonies rebelling against England]. Battlefield archaeologists Jim Legg and Steve Smith have been studying the site for decades, but recently, they made a shocking discovery: The sandy soil was home to several sets of remains buried in shallow graves. Metal buttons suggested the men had been Continental soldiers, but there was no other identification... About 2,000 Continental soldiers were killed, wounded or captured, and some men never returned home. Their families could only guess at their fates. But Legg and Smith's discovery, paired with an explosion in DNA technology, is changing what's possible. A set of remains, previously known only as 9B, has been identified as John Pumphrey, a young man from Maryland who enlisted in the Continental Army's 7th Maryland Regiment as young as 13... Pumphrey likely marched more than a thousand miles with the regiment. The unit fought in battles with then-Gen. George Washington in New Jersey and Pennsylvania... The Pumphrey family still exists today. The DNA that helped identify Pumphrey's remains came from three women: Pam Donahue, Karen Pumphrey Etchison, and Nancy Pumphrey White... In late June, members of the extended Pumphrey family came together to hear his story and say his name for the first time in centuries. His remains are interred in South Carolina, where he and the other soldiers were discovered, but the tombstone, once marked "Unknown," will soon have his name carved on it.

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'One of the most frustrating things for experts is that around 80 per cent of people with fatty liver don't show up on tests and go undiagnosed,' Siggi Clavien, founder of the Liver Clinic said.

He was awarded an MBE for splintering drug cartels in Colombia, but Jamie Lowther-Pinkerton may well become known for fixing a different conflict entirely - reuniting Britain's warring brothers.

With about 1,300 pupils applying for just 150 places a year, Greg Fairchild, of historic Reading School, Berkshire decided to take a hands-on approach to catching out unscrupulous parents.

Norfolk County Council has opened a safeguarding inquiry into the support provided to the 30-year-old after he was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder on June 18.

The 18-year-old had been riding the bike on Zakynthos island (Zante) with another person on board when a tourist bus crashed into them as the pair were driving onto a main road.

As America began celebrating its 250th birthday Saturday, 842,000 homes reported power outages, notes ABC News. Figures from tracking site PowerOutage showed states in America's Northeast and Midwest were impacted by severe weather and extreme heat. That number, which will fluctuate throughout the day as crews work to restore power, is for households, meaning that the number of people impacted by these outages is likely to be much larger... Millions of Americans, however, will be contending with a heatwave that is blanketing much of the country, including in Philadelphia where the Salute to Independence Semiquincentennial Parade that had been set for Friday was canceled due to the dangerous heat wave, according to Philadelphia ABC station WPVI. Elsewhere, America's Independence Day Parade, which was scheduled for 10:30 a.m. on July 4 in downtown Washington, D.C. was canceled by organizers late Friday evening due to the extreme heat in the District of Columbia... Amtrak announced it will be canceling a number of trains due to heat-related conditions. The outages seemed to last throughout the day, with 790,103 household outages still in effect by 4:30 p.m. EST. Ironically, the power outages hit several American states that were among the country's original 13 freedom-declaring colonies, including New Jersey (143,072 outages), Pennsylvania (40,944 outages), and Virginia (27,392 outages). CNBC adds that America's largest power grid operator said Friday "it was under a federal alert to cut electricity consumption across its territory as it battled generator outages, massive overloading on its transmission lines and a surge in air conditioning use from prolonged sweltering heat." PJM said it told utilities to reduce electricity to customers who are under contract to reduce consumption during emergencies. PJM serves 67 million people in the Mid-Atlantic, South and Washington, D.C., area. Spot wholesale electricity prices in northern Virginia, home to the largest collection of data centers in the world, have surged beyond $2,000 per megawatt hour this week. That compares to about $40 per MWh when PJM is not in distress.

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MIKE KEEGAN IN MEXICO CITY: The Three Lions' World Cup hopes have been hit by a series of injuries to the right side of their defence throughout the tournament.

Swift and Kelce, both 36, officially tied the knot at Madison Square Garden on Friday in front of 1,000 of their closest friends and the world's biggest stars.

Why, I can hear Americans yelling, on the eve of the nation's 250th birthday, did the country's very own princess, Miss Americana choose… Dior for the most significant dress of her life?

Taylor Swift may have assembled one of the most star-studded weddings in modern history, but if there's one thing more dazzling than the A-list arrivals, it's the gossip already spilling out.

Some of the world's biggest stars in sports, film and music flocked to Madison Square Garden on Friday night to watch Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce get married.

Taking to Instagram on Saturday, Michelle posted a video with her daughters in honor of Malia turning 28 on July 4 and many felt she looked like the girls' sister rather than their mother in the clip.

Microsoft is apparently shifting its profits to countries with low taxes — and out of countries where they have many more employees and significant sales. Back in 2005 Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer even said that a low corporate tax rate "is part of the overall advantage of doing business in Ireland," remembers long-time Slashdot reader theodp. (Ballmer added "It would be disingenuous to say otherwise.") But in 2026 the EU now requires a country-by-country compliance report, and the New York Times notes that Microsoft "was most likely the first major U.S. technology company to make a so-called country by country report of its finances to comply..." Like other big companies, Microsoft uses transactions between subsidiaries to shift profits around to reduce its tax bill. The report revealed a consistent pattern: high returns in low-tax jurisdictions and slim margins in higher-tax ones. The report showed the sometimes absurd results. Microsoft said it had generated almost 40 percent of its pretax income in tax-friendly Ireland, where it employed about 3 percent of its global work force. In higher-tax Germany, the largest economy in Europe, Microsoft earned barely half of 1 percent of its global profits, it said. Excluding Ireland, the company said, it generated less than 2 percent of its worldwide pretax earnings in Europe... [In Luxembourg Microsoft said it had $283 million in pretax income with only 34 employees.] [America's] Internal Revenue Service is challenging profit-shifting transactions used by Microsoft, and is seeking back taxes of nearly $29 billion4. The company has said it disagrees with the I.R.S. and said in a securities filing that it "will vigorously contest" the proposed tax bills. This week a Microsoft blog post offered their own "context," arguing that tax is "one important measure of contribution, but it is not the only one. "Our investments, partnerships, infrastructure, and long-term presence in countries around the world also reflect a commitment to helping strengthen the economies and communities where we operate, today and for the future."

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The engaged couple, who welcomed a child earlier this year but have not disclosed their name or gender, looked in good spirits as they soaked up the sights.

Some of the A-list guests have offered a first glimpse into how the couple overhauled the space into their own fairytale 'countryside retreat.'

Harry, 32, performed the final date on his London Wembley residency on July 3, the same day his ex was getting married to Travis Kelce thousands of miles away in New York.