1 hour ago Adolescence star Owen Cooper, 15, has already filmed his next TV role alongside White Lotus star

The actor is set to star in romantic comedy-drama Film Club, alongside White Lotus star Aimee Lou Wood (who plays Evie) and House of the Dragon star Ralph Davis. (who portrays Noa).

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36 h. ago Vicious Rottweilers leave boy, 12, brain dead after dragging him into woods

Guilherme Gabriel Couto, 12, was playing football in Santa Marta, in Brazil's Minas Gerais state, when two Rottweilers escaped their home and attacked him

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7 d. ago Dog owner who let his Doberman savagely attack and injure two

Teenager Lennon McKay was also banned from having dogs for five years after allowing his Doberman to leave the two-year-old boy needing 13 facial stitches.

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1 week ago Skype got shouted down by Teams and Zoom. But it revolutionised human connection | John Naughton

The company that pioneered voice communication over the internet has withered to dust in Microsoft’s hands. Still, I for one am grateful for itSo Microsoft has decided to terminate Skype, the internet telephony company it bought in 2011 for $8.5bn (£6.6bn). Its millions of hapless users are to be herded into Microsoft Teams, a virtual encampment with a brain-dead aesthetic that makes even Zoom look cool. This eventuality had been telegraphed for quite a while but, even so, it comes as a jolt because Skype was a remarkable venture, and its demise closes a chapter of an interesting strand of technological history.The internet has been around for much longer than most people realise. It goes back to the 1960s and the creation of Arpanet, a military computer network that emerged after the US had its “Sputnik moment” – the awful realisation that the Soviet Union seemed to be racing ahead in the technology stakes. The design of Arpanet’s successor, the internet we use today, started in th...

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2 w. ago Mother tells of heartbreak after finding her teenage son brain dead after a painkiller overdose

Tanya Hilling, 43, from Ipswich tried to wake her teenage son from his lie-in - only to find him brain dead after a fatal overdose of illegally-sold prescription drugs.

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3 w. ago 'My brain and head still work, but everything else is dead': Paralysed, he bravely faced the thug who pushed him down nightclub stairs

Rob Harris broke his neck as he fell after being deliberately pushed by Niall Peak

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3 w. ago Violent boyfriend beat up pregnant partner when her son put too much salt on potatoes

He whinged that nobody loves him and nobody cares about him yet attacked her relentlessly and mercilessly, leaving her little autistic boy in fear.

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3 w. ago I spent a YEAR locked in my body unable to move.. what my family did behind my back will scar me for life

For nearly a year, Jake Haendel couldn't move or speak, but could see and hear everything around him, including nurses calling him 'brain dead' and family members having a violent argument.

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3 w. ago ‘Tears were running down my face’: why Bridget Jones 4 is the most moving romcom of modern times

Word back from the cinemas is united – and sniffly: Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy is leaving audiences in surprising puddles. Our writers reveal the moment that made then sob loudest, and why• This article contains spoilers I managed to cry before the opening titles, at a scene so innocuous that I must have disconcerted those around me. Bridget picks up her daughter’s stuffed rabbit, sniffs it, says “It stinks!”, then kisses it anyway. It hints at the radical self-acceptance our widowed protagonist seems determined to instil in her children – but it’s also testament to the amount of Bridget lore heaped into this film. Continue reading...

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