17 h. ago UK universities offered to monitor students’ social media for arms firms, emails show

Loughborough, Heriot-Watt and Glasgow corresponded with companies concerned about campus protestsUniversities in the UK reassured arms companies they would monitor students’ chat groups and social media accounts after firms raised concerns about campus protests, according to internal emails.One university said it would conduct “active monitoring of social media” for any evidence of plans to demonstrate against Rolls-Royce at a careers fair. Continue reading...

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40 h. ago Taylor Swift reveals Ed Sheeran found out about her engagement on social media

Taylor Swift has admitted the shocking way one of her closest friends, Ed Sheeran, found out about her engagement to NFL star boyfriend Travis Kelce

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41 h. ago Scientist learns he has won Nobel prize while on digital detox in US mountains

Fred Ramsdell’s wife switched on her phone and screamed – it was full of messages congratulating her husbandOut on a digital detox in the western US backcountry, scientist Fred Ramsdell was startled when his wife let out a yell. He feared she had spotted a grizzly bear, only to discover a far better surprise – he had won the Nobel prize in medicine.The Nobel committee had been unable to reach the immunologist, whose phone was on airplane mode as he was on a hiking and camping trip, but finally got through to the couple early on Tuesday morning, Swedish time. Continue reading...

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57 h. ago Pair admit horror sex attack on random woman in underground car park

WARNING GRAPHIC CONTENT: Luis Dos Martins Mariano, 19, and co-accused 20-year-old Alcino Soares, were jointly charged with rape following the horror attack

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57 h. ago Pair admit horror sex attack on woman they'd never met in underground car park

WARNING GRAPHIC CONTENT: Luis Dos Martins Mariano, 19, and co-accused 20-year-old Alcino Soares, were jointly charged with rape following the horror attack

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3 d. ago Heartbreaking final phone call of Nova festival victim who rang family to send final message of love after being shot three times by Hamas... only to be executed as her mother could only listen

Libby Cohen Meguri, described by her mother as 'the happiest person this world has ever known,' was one of the 1,200 victims murdered during Hamas' attack in southern Israel on October 7, 2023.

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4 d. ago South Carolina State University sealed off as 'gunshots heard' near student housing

South Carolina State University is on lockdown following reports of a shooting on campus Saturday night. The reported gunshots came from student housing

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4 d. ago ‘He wasn’t this national hero’: US college students voice concern over Charlie Kirk’s idolization

Black, brown and LGBTQ+ students across the US are puzzled by all the praise the far-right commentator has received after his killingAlana*, a student at Utah Valley University, was taken aback by the deification of Charlie Kirk in the wake of his assassination on 10 September. As an Afro-Latina genderqueer senior at DC’s Howard University, she found it off-putting when she saw an image on Instagram of Kirk hugging Jesus. “He wasn’t this national hero or politician,” Alana, who is using an alias, said. He was “just a white man with a loud opinion.”The sentiment on the historically Black university’s campus, she said, is that Kirk’s rhetoric about marginalized communities was hateful and that they are being unfairly blamed for his death. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago I'm a scam hunter who's foiled more than 500 fraudsters. Then I fell victim to an HMRC con so pernicious I almost lost everything. This is the mistake I made that you MUST be aware of: JULIE

My phone lights up with a message. It's from a man I don't know, the third to message me today. 'Hey you,' it reads. 'Are you able to send over that money that you owe me?'

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5 d. ago I'm a scam hunter who's foiled more than 500 fraudsters. Then I fell victim to a HMRC con so pernicious I almost lost everything. This is the mistake I made that you MUST be aware of: JULIE

My phone lights up with a message. It's from a man I don't know, the third to message me today. 'Hey you,' it reads. 'Are you able to send over that money that you owe me?'

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5 d. ago Prison officer sobs as 'inappropriate tryst' with inmate she smuggled for is exposed

A senior Manchester prison officer has been sentenced to 15 months in jail after making dozens of secret sexual calls and messages to an inmate on a smuggled phone

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7 d. ago Trial date for suspect in Florida State mass shooting has been postponed until next October

The trial of the Florida State University student accused of killing two people and wounding six others in a mass shooting on campus in April has been postponed until next October

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7 d. ago Parents facing 'mixed messages' over mobile phone use in Scots schools as Labour calls for ban

Parents have repeatedly warned school bullies are using smartphones to film attacks on other pupils before sharing the footage on social media.

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7 d. ago Newcastle University student dies after trying MDMA as parents issue warning

Nathan Pavlovic was just 21 when he became unwell after taking the Class A drug MDMA, dying just hours later. Now his family have issued a heartfelt warning as students start university

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8 d. ago Student, 23, took own life when university wrongly told him he failed

Ethan had been told he would not be allowed to graduate, but in fact he would have been awarded a 2:1

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8 d. ago 'Ryan knows more than he's telling us': She vanished from her boyfriend's yacht in mysterious circumstances. Now her tearful friend insists he still has questions to answer

More than four years have passed since Kate Owen's friend Sarm Heslop disappeared from he boyfriend's yacht in the Caribbean. 

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8 d. ago Tragic student took own life after university wrongly told him he wouldn't graduate

Ethan Scott Brown , 23, was expecting an Honours degree in geography after years of hard work at the University of Glasgow but he was incorrectly told he wouldn't be graduating

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8 d. ago Tragic student, 23, took own life after university made major graduation error

Ethan Scott Brown , 23, was expecting an Honours degree in geography after years of hard work at the University of Glasgow but he was incorrectly told he wouldn't be graduating

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8 d. ago How a Leeds University student who suffered from anorexia tragically starved to death in a hotel room in Bali after adopting a raw vegan 'fruitarian' diet

At 27, the Polish-native and former Leeds University student tragically died alone in a hotel room in Bali of malnutrition, having adopted the restrictive routine.

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8 d. ago Honours student took his own life after university wrongly told him he was not eligible to graduate

Ethan Scott Brown, 23, was due to graduate in December 2024 after studying geography at the University of Glasgow .

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