77 m. ago Facebook tests charging users to share links in potential blow for news outlets

News organisations fear move could hit newsrooms and other media publishers by stopping users sharing their contentFacebook is testing a system that charges users for sharing web links, in a move that could prove to be a further blow to news outlets and other publishers.Meta, the social media platform’s owner, said it was carrying out a “limited test” in which those without a paid “Meta Verified” subscription, costing at least £9.99 a month, could only post two external links a month. Continue reading...

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19 h. ago CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews Fallout on Amazon Prime Video: Crass, derivative, disjointed... and this drivel cost £15million an episode!

For an extra £2.99 a month, viewers of Amazon Prime Video's post-apocalyptic drama Fallout, soaked in ultra-violence, can skip the ad breaks. That's one offer I won't be taking up.

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9 d. ago Former children’s commissioner to lead grooming gangs inquiry

A former children’s commissioner will chair the national inquiry into grooming gangs after months of delays.Baroness Anne Longfield will lead the inquiry over three years with a budget of £65 million.Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood set out the appointment and the inquiry’s terms of reference in the Commons on Tuesday.Of her appointment, Baroness Longfield said: “The Inquiry owes it to the victims, survivors and the wider public to identify the truth, address past failings and ensure that children and young people today are protected in a way that others were not.“The Inquiry will follow the evidence and will not shy away from difficult or uncomfortable truths wherever we find them.”There has been mounting pressure on the Government to move forward with the inquiry, first announced by the Prime Minister in June.In October, the final two candidates to chair the inquiry dropped out of the process which led to concerns it could take months to get someone in post.Five women also resigned ...

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2 w. ago Revealed: Myanmar junta ‘crony’ given key role behind Fifa peace prize

Inaugural prize expected to be handed to Donald Trump but ‘process’ for choosing future winners to be proposed by controversial tycoon’s committeeIt was the timing that set off the first alarm bells. With Donald Trump brooding over missing out on the Nobel peace prize, and shortly before Gianni Infantino, the president of world football’s governing body, Fifa, was due to meet the US president in Miami, an announcement was made.In a press release and a post on his personal Instagram account last month, Infantino said Fifa would launch its very own peace prize, to be awarded each year to “individuals who help unite people in peace through unwavering commitment and special actions”. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago One in five bereaved families wait more than SIX MONTHS for a post

A shortage in paediatric pathology doctors is also causing delays in diagnosing and treating health conditions in foetuses, babies and children, the Royal College of Pathologists warned.

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3 w. ago Brit woman in 'US suicide pact changed her mind' before being stabbed to death

WARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT British woman Sonia Exelby, 32, who allegedly flew to Florida to be 'violently' murdered, shared a tragic social media post in her final months

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3 w. ago Heartbreaking final post of British woman who 'flew to US for suicide pact'

WARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT. Sonia Exelby, the British woman who allegedly flew to Florida with the intention of being killed, shared a tragic post in her final months

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last month The Luka Era begins: inside the transformation powering the post

Shipped out of Dallas and dropped into Hollywood, Dončić has responded with a leaner body, a louder voice and a growing command of the Lakers’ post-LeBron futureIt’s been nine and a half months since the trade that rocked the sports world was broken via a Shams Charania tweet that prompted the majority of the basketball news-breaker’s followers to assume he’d been hacked. Fresh off of a trip to the NBA finals, the young Slovenian superstar Luka Dončić was shipped off in the middle of the night to the Los Angeles Lakers for Anthony Davis, and the NBA as we know it was changed forever. The fallout from one of the most shocking trades in sports history is still evolving in real-time: disgraced Mavericks general manager Nico Harrison, who spearheaded the transaction, was let go by the team last week, in a move Mavericks fans have been loudly clamoring for since news broke that their homegrown franchise player was being abruptly cast to sea. But on the other side of the coin was a mixed ...

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