6 h. ago Oasis light up Cardiff sky ahead of reunion tour in epic drone show

A huge drone display appeared above Cardiff's Principality Stadium ahead of the first night of Oasis' reunion tour, getting fans excited for what will be an unforgettable night

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6 h. ago Huge Oasis drone show lights up the sky ahead of band’s first reunion gig

Oasis have had an illuminated start to their tour

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27 h. ago US tests laser weapons that harness energy to blast drones from sky

The laser weapons use directed energy to strike drones in the sky and the exercise to test them was dubbed as "the first of its kind" as the US looks to inject tens of billions into its defence plan

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6 d. ago 'Ruthless' gang that sold assassination kits including handgun, silencer and bullets to criminal hitmen are jailed for more than 60 years

Gary Hardy, 62, dealt the weapon bundles which were constructed in the backyard of co-conspirator 64-year-old Robert Knowles.

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7 d. ago Wealthy Wall Street recluse claims he was duped by Harvard fellow into funding weapons for alleged coup in South Sudan

Financier Robert Granieri was allegedly duped into handing over millions to fund the purported attempt to topple the South Sudanese government

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8 d. ago Teen arrested after he's found with alleged offensive weapons at Irvine harbourside

A 19-year-old man has been arrested and charged after being stopped by police.

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8 d. ago Killing machines: how Russia and Ukraine’s race to perfect deadly pilotless drones could harm us all

Cheap, scaleable and highly autonomous, these weapons are developing quickly – and experts say they should prompt a global rethink about securityOn a fine day in early June, Ukrainian soldiers launched their latest killer robot. With a click on a screen, the unattractively named Gogol-M, a fixed-wing aerial drone with a 20-foot wingspan, took off from an undisclosed location and soared into a wide blue sky.This “mothership” travelled 200km into Russia before releasing two attack drones hanging off its wings. Able to evade radar by flying at a low altitude, the smaller drones autonomously scanned the ground below to find a suitable target, and then locked on for the kill. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Consecration review – creepy nuns deliver the classic moves of holy terror very effectively

Purest hokum, of course, but what hokum! Real pride has gone into crafting this set of shocks, and it’s very well acted in beautiful locationsThis is the way the world ends, not with a bang but a wimple. In this well-crafted horror movie, a young woman called Grace (Jena Malone) finds herself up against a bunch of nuns who may or may not be trying to do something extremely dodgy with an unknown relic, and as with last year’s Omen prequel, there’s a nice line in casting here from the Ladybird Book of Horror Nuns. There’s dotty young nun who pops up going “peekaboo” (Eilidh Fisher), an arrogant mother superior (Janet Suzman), a hardliner weapon-of-Christ sort (Jolade Obasola), and the rather rarer spooky nun with one eye hidden behind an ominous white bandage (Alexandra Lewis). Their acting is uniformly excellent, as is that from Danny Huston, who plays a priest who introduces himself thusly: “I’m Father Romero, I’m here from the Vatican,” which announces him as probably up to no good...

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3 w. ago The underwater bomb robot fighting Putin's saboteurs: British defence experts develop sub to blast Russian targets threatening undersea cables and energy pipelines

Video footage shows the robot, which has been adapted by British defence experts from a commercially available remotely operated vehicle (ROV), approaching and blasting a simulated target.

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