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Emily Thornberry wrote to Yvette Cooper - who has been in the job for just a week - showing the strength of unhappiness about the affair even in the party's own ranks.

Ahead of Prince Harry 's whirlwind four-day 'pseudo royal tour' many, myself included, dismissed it as just another desperate and calculated attempt to ingratiate himself into the royal fold.

Tour guides welcoming holidaymakers to North Korea 's new Wonsan beach-side are advising using certain words that are popular in the West.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from France24: Fueled in part by anger over flashy lifestyles flaunted by elites, young anti-corruption demonstrators mainly in their 20s rallied on Monday. The loose grouping, largely viewed as members of "Gen Z", flooded the capital Kathmandu to demand an end to a ban on Facebook, YouTube and other popular sites. The rallies ended in chaos and tragedy, with at least 19 protesters killed in a police crackdown on Monday. The apps were restored, but protests widened in anger. On Tuesday, other Nepalis joined the crowds. Parliament was set ablaze, KP Sharma Oli resigned as prime minister, and the army took charge of the streets. Now, many activists are taking to the US group-chat app Discord to talk over their next steps. One server with more than 145,000 members has hosted feverish debate about who could be an interim leader, with many pushing 73-year-old former chief justice Sushila Karki. It is just one example of how social media has driven demands for change. [...] More than half of Nepal's 30 million people are online, according to the World Bank. Days before the protests, many had rushed to VPN services — or virtual private networks — to evade blocks on platforms. Fears of a wider internet shutdown also drove a surge in downloads for Bluetooth messaging app Bitchat, created by tech billionaire Jack Dorsey. "Tech played... an almost decisive role," journalist Pranaya Rana told AFP. "The whole thing started with young people posting on social media about corruption, and the lavish lives that the children of political leaders were leading." Hashtags such as #NepoKids, short for nepotism, compared the designer clothing and luxury holidays shown off in their Instagram posts to the difficulties faced by ordinary Nepalis. One post liked 13,000 times accused politicians' children of "living like millionaires," asking: "Where is the tax money going?" "NepoKids was trending all the time," including in rural areas where Facebook is popular, said rights activist Sanjib Chaudhary. "This fuelled the fire" of anger that "has been growing for a long time," he said. [...] Chaudhary said the government "seriously underestimated the power of social media." Nepal's first female prime minister was sworn in Friday as interim leader after protesters held an informal vote on Discord. "Former chief justice Sushila Karki, 73, was the unlikely choice of the 'Gen Z' protesters behind the movement that started out as a social media demonstration against the lavish lifestyles of 'Nepo Kids' but spilled out onto the streets and into the deadliest social unrest Nepal has seen in years," reports CNN World. "Karki has spent much of her career within the very establishment the youth are protesting against, yet her reputation as a fearless and incorruptible jurist has appealed to many young people in the country of 30 million."

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The Utah jail where Tyler Robinson will likely live out his days if convicted of Charlie Kirk's murder has been riddled with problems since it opened three years ago.

Russell Kim Kennington, 38, allegedly trespassed on the grounds of Utah Valley University and crossed two sets of yellow tape cordoning off the area where Kirk was killed on Wednesday.

A self-proclaimed African tribe have said they are 'not scared of jail' after a court ordered them off their woodland encampment.

Prince Harry, 40, was invited Kiyv by the Superhumans Center, a hub giving soldiers rehab for war trauma, as part of his duties as founder and patron of the Invictus Games

The TV presenter was friends for years with celebrity hairdresser Michael, 47, but they only began dating after she finalised her divorce with ex-husband Matthew Robertson in April 2018.

More than 1,600 police officers, including 500 from forces from outside London, will be deployed on what will be a chaotic day in the capital.

Intel's long-time Xeon chief architect Ronak Singhal is leaving the company after nearly 30 years, marking yet another high-profile departure amid Intel's leadership churn and intensifying competition from AMD and Arm-based cloud CPUs. The Register reports: The Carnegie Mellon alum holds degrees in electrical and computer engineering, along with at least 30 patents involving CPUs. Singhal joined Intel in 1997 after spending the previous summer as an intern at Cyrix. After a year in Intel's Rotation Engineers Program, he spent the remainder of his tenure helping to develop some of the chipmaker's most consequential and, at times, controversial processors. Most notably, Singhal oversaw the core development of Intel's 22nm Haswell and 14nm Broadwell processor architectures. His innovations aren't limited to the datacenter either, with his architectural contributions playing a significant role in the success of Intel's Core and Atom processor families as well. [...] Singhal is only the latest Xeon lead to jump ship since the start of the year. In January, Sailesh Kottapalli, another senior fellow, left for Qualcomm barely a month after former CEO Pat Gelsinger's unceremonious "retirement." Even before Gelsinger's eviction, Intel's datacenter group has been something of a revolving door. Last summer Singhal's long-time colleague Lisa Spelman departed the company, eventually landing a spot as CEO of HPC interconnect vendor Cornelis Networks. Her replacement, Ryan Tabrah, lasted seven months in the role, about half as long as Intel datacenter boss Justin Hotard, who defected for the forests of Finland to lead Nokia as its new President and CEO back in April. In fact, the churn now extends all the way to the top. On Monday, Intel announced its CEO of Products, Michelle Johnston Holthaus, would be leaving the business. The move is part of a broader executive shakeup that will see former Arm engineer Kevork Kechichian take over as head of Intel's datacenter engineering group. Jim Johnson, meanwhile, will take over as head of the chipmaker's client computing group while Srinivasan (Srini) Iyengar will head up a new central engineering division.

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Breaking her silence, the grandmother of alleged Charlie Kirk assassin Tyler Robinson told Daily Mail she was stunned by the charges.

Family members of Tyler Robinson, 22, told police about his disturbing remarks about Charlie Kirk before Wednesday's shooting.

The 77-year-old author faced backlash for making a comment on X, formerly Twitter, and suggesting that the late right-wing activist had 'advocated stoning gays to death.'

Although it hasn't been seen in the wild yet

A new ransomware strain dubbed HybridPetya was able to exploit a patched vulnerability to bypass Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) Secure Boot on unrevoked Windows systems, making it the fourth publicly known bootkit capable of punching through the feature and hijacking a PC before the operating system loads.…

They are two 20-something suspects in notorious targeted murders - both white, good-looking, having everything to live for and from solid families.

Just last December, the Duke of Sussex was waxing lyrical about life in the USA.

An article on 30 November 2024 reported that the BBC Radio 1 presenter, Dean McCullough, had faced accusations of bullying from production staff on his Radio 1 afternoon show who had...

Sarah Beeny has been ordered to tear down her £3m home after she built it without permission. The presenter has been told she must demolish a 1970s farmhouse building at her Somerset estate.

The Oxford Union is facing a growing backlash after its incoming president made gloating remarks about Charlie Kirk's assassination. Prestigious speakers have cancelled forthcoming appearances