11 h. ago London police arrest three men on suspicion of spying for Russia

Metropolitan Police reports ‘increasing number’ of people recruited by foreign intelligence services

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12 h. ago Once the AI bubble pops, we’ll all suffer. Could that be better than letting it grow unabated?

The world will be pushed into a recession, but perhaps we can build something more promising from the piecesThe world economy hinges on the success or failure of artificial intelligence. It’s becoming apparent that we are probably doomed either way.Employment growth is stuck and wage growth is slowing, especially among low-paying jobs. Loan delinquencies are rising, driving an increase in bankruptcies. Consumer confidence has collapsed. And reckless policymaking is taking its toll. Donald Trump’s trade war is cutting farmers’ access to the Chinese market and manufacturers’ access to Chinese rare-earth magnets. His clampdown on migration is hitting access to labor, from agriculture to healthcare. The drawn-out government shutdown is starting to sap economic growth. Continue reading...

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27 h. ago Police 'increasingly concerned' for missing teens last seen at Greater Manchester McDonald's

The pair, aged 16 and 14, were last seen on Monday

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31 h. ago Woman in 20s found dead as police 'increase patrols' with murder investigation launched

A 40-year-old man has been arrested after a woman was pronounced dead at a Nottingham property last night (October 21) - police are now urging anyone with information to come forward

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3 d. ago Louvre heist puts pressure on French government over museum security

Justice minister says ‘we have failed’ after thieves take seven minutes to steal priceless jewels from museumThe French government is under increasing pressure over museum security as police continue to search for thieves who took seven minutes to steal priceless jewels from the Louvre, the world’s most-visited museum.“What is certain is that we have failed, since people were able to park a furniture hoist in the middle of Paris, get people up it in several minutes to grab priceless jewels, and give France a terrible image,” the justice minister, Gérald Darmanin, told France Inter radio on Monday. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Police concerned about missing teenager who could be miles from home

James, 16m was last seen on Friday morning

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4 d. ago Police 'increasingly concerned' for 'heavily pregnant' woman who's missing again

An urgent appeal was launched last week

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5 d. ago Boy goes missing from Dundee industrial estate as cops launch probe

Police raced to the scene, but the boy was no longer in the area.

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7 d. ago The Iris Affair review – it takes real guts to write TV this thrillingly preposterous. Strap in!

Tom Hollander and Niamh Algar star in this fun, propulsive tale of a genius code-cracker, an oddball entrepreneur and an evil supercomputer known as Charlie Big Potatoes trapped in a secret lair. Brace yourself for a wild rideThere’s in media res and then there’s the opening of The Iris Affair. The new caper-drama opens with a man being beaten half to death while a woman (Niamh Algar) looks on unmoved and refusing to hand over a MacGuffin to the man ordering the beating (Tom Hollander, channelling Michael Caine). They are watched by a rather more concerned teenager, Joy (Meréana Tomlinson), who becomes infinitely more concerned when Hollander-Caine’s character realises that jamming a gun into her neck might be a better way to elicit a response from MacGuffin lady. Then he realises he can’t quite bring himself to shoot the child. But he can order his heavy to do so. The hired gun swings around and we cut to Sardinia, Italy, the day before. And that, my friends, is how a prologue shou...

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8 d. ago Electric bills 'could soar 20 per cent in the next five years', UK's top energy supplier warns

Rachel Fletcher, regulations director at Octopus, said the costs of Whitehall policies, including green levies to expand renewable power and nuclear, were increasing energy bills.

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9 d. ago New police statement after boy, 13, found 'cold' on the ground in huge search operation

The boy went missing after becoming separated from friends

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1 week ago Mountain rescue teams drafted in amid major search for missing child at Holcombe Moor

Greater Manchester Police received reports about a missing 13-year-old boy and launched a search

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1 week ago Cruel online trolls use AI to post fake pictures of missing boy with strange man

Gus Lamont, aged four, disappeared from his grandparents' home and keyboard sleuths have come forward with some theories of their own - including sickening hoaxes.

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1 week ago Police drop bombshell after ending the search for little Gus after he vanished without a trace

Police will launch a new search for missing four-year-old boy Gus at the family's Outback station tomorrow.

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1 week ago Sick truth behind Gus update as little boy remains missing after vanishing without a trace in the outback

A sick theory about Gus Lamont, 4, who went missing in the Australian outback, has spread online but the image which sparked the update was AI generated. 

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1 week ago Aryna Sabalenka narrowly misses ball boy after throwing tennis racquet

Aryna Sabalenka narrowly missed a ball boy as she threw her tennis racquet on court at the Wuhan Open on Saturday, 11 October.

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1 week ago Police 'increasingly concerned' after teenage boy goes missing

The 15-year-old was last seen in the early hours of this morning

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1 week ago Ukraine war briefing: Power restored to Kyiv after Russia drone attacks

Zelenskyy says attacks targeted energy infrastructure as winter looms; boy killed as drones and missiles hit Zaporizhzhia. What we know on day 1,326Power was restored to 270,000 consumers in Kyiv after attacks from Russia knocked it out, Ukraine’s energy minister Svitlana Hrynchuk wrote on Facebook on Friday. People in Kyiv heard blasts throughout Thursday night and many woke up without power on Friday after the huge air attack targeted Ukraine’s energy system. Images posted online showed firefighters working to tackle burning blocks of flats. Hrynchuk did not say how many people had lost power. Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, said the Russian strikes targeted civilian and energy infrastructure as Ukraine prepares for winter temperatures.Russian drones and missiles damaged 12 apartment buildings in the south-eastern Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia, killing a seven-year-old boy and injuring four people, according to the regional governor. The Kyiv mayor, Vitali Klitschko, sa...

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1 week ago A trans grandmother, a patriarch scarred by horrors of war, and two very unusual marriages: We reveal the deeply complicated world of Gus Lamont's Outback family

Unearthed documents and local sources have revealed that the family of missing South Australian boy Gus Lamont has a complicated - and tragic - history.

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1 week ago A trans grandmother, a patriarch scarred by horrors of war, and two very unusual marriages: We reveal the deeply complicated world of Gus Lamont's Outback family

Unearthed documents and local sources have revealed that the family of missing South Australian boy Gus Lamont has a complicated - and tragic - history.

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