Hunt for North Carolina woman who traveled to idyllic Caribbean island without husband then vanished... as he issues heartbreaking plea She let criminals run riot over $1bn skyscraper development for YEARS. Now LA's mayor has the audacity to hail the clean-up of city's infamous'graffiti towers' John was devastated to learn he had melanoma that had spread to his lungs, liver and kidney. He had just one symptom - and it WASN'T on his skin Alleged stabber's astonishingly casual response to being arrested as he lounges in IHOP and sips drink as cops try to cuff him: 'One moment' Married elite NYC lawyer, 45, is caught red-handed with underling, 29, in passionate Central Park rendezvous... then tracked down at $2.3m home he shares with wife nearby Will Harry and William call a truce and both attend tribute event to mark 30th anniversary of Diana's death? I blew up my ten-year marriage after a single night with my husband's friend. People will judge me - but here's why I don't regret it German police hunt member of'Islamist scene' after driver ploughed van into crowds at Berlin Pride event in'brutal attack' leaving at least one person dead and 16 injured Monster 20-foot great white named'Big Rose' spotted as shark sightings surge 1,000% off US coast Rap star 21 Savage's 14-year-old'nephew' kills himself after accidentally shooting younger sister Trump doubles down on threat to build'North America Air Filter Barrier' between the US and Canada to block wildfire smoke Inside new life of Lindsay Clancy's husband and fertility doctor wife: Family reveals touching texts, intimate wedding details and happy photos... as ex stands trial for murder of their three children Caitlin Clark and Angel Reese lead glamorous arrivals at WNBA All-Star Game as league's biggest stars stun on orange carpet Chilling moment Florida man kills drinking buddy before casually dumping his body off a pier and kicking victim's shoes in behind him Bruce Springsteen is a'bitter old man' slammed by fellow rockers for'dissing his own country': Insiders reveal what's behind shift that turned The Boss into The BORE Margot Robbie looks chic in a yellow silk co-ord as she joins her mother Sarie Kessler on a girls' trip to Paris Whether it's slogging through the freezing rain or waking up at the crack of dawn to avoid the heat, taking the dog out for a walk is a daily ritual for millions of pet owners.

Hunt for North Carolina woman who traveled to idyllic Caribbean island without husband then vanished... as he issues heartbreaking plea She let criminals run riot over $1bn skyscraper development for YEARS. Now LA's mayor has the audacity to hail the clean-up of city's infamous'graffiti towers' John was devastated to learn he had melanoma that had spread to his lungs, liver and kidney. He had just one symptom - and it WASN'T on his skin Alleged stabber's astonishingly casual response to being arrested as he lounges in IHOP and sips drink as cops try to cuff him: 'One moment' Married elite NYC lawyer, 45, is caught red-handed with underling, 29, in passionate Central Park rendezvous... then tracked down at $2.3m home he shares with wife nearby Will Harry and William call a truce and both attend tribute event to mark 30th anniversary of Diana's death? I blew up my ten-year marriage after a single night with my husband's friend. People will judge me - but here's why I don't regret it German police hunt member of'Islamist scene' after driver ploughed van into crowds at Berlin Pride event in'brutal attack' leaving at least one person dead and 16 injured Monster 20-foot great white named'Big Rose' spotted as shark sightings surge 1,000% off US coast Rap star 21 Savage's 14-year-old'nephew' kills himself after accidentally shooting younger sister Trump doubles down on threat to build'North America Air Filter Barrier' between the US and Canada to block wildfire smoke Inside new life of Lindsay Clancy's husband and fertility doctor wife: Family reveals touching texts, intimate wedding details and happy photos... as ex stands trial for murder of their three children Caitlin Clark and Angel Reese lead glamorous arrivals at WNBA All-Star Game as league's biggest stars stun on orange carpet Chilling moment Florida man kills drinking buddy before casually dumping his body off a pier and kicking victim's shoes in behind him Bruce Springsteen is a'bitter old man' slammed by fellow rockers for'dissing his own country': Insiders reveal what's behind shift that turned The Boss into The BORE Margot Robbie looks chic in a yellow silk co-ord as she joins her mother Sarie Kessler on a girls' trip to Paris READ MORE: How long can you REALLY keep your leftovers in the fridge?

Primark's new'supermarket tactic' to woo customers in online price war It is something I keep hearing shoppers say when I ask them whether they shop at the fast-fashion giant. It's definitely got more expensive, says 19-year-old student Eshal Malik as she browses the jewellery at Primark with a friend. But that might be about to change. Primark said on Monday that it was lowering prices on hundreds of clothing items, including jeans, jumpers and socks. It's the kind of headline you'd expect from M&S or Next, says retail analyst Natalie Berg, explaining that price cuts like this from such a low-cost retailer are surprising.

Rightmove searches for rental properties that allow pets have plummeted since law changes gave renters more rights. Following the introduction of the new rules, pet searches dropped by more than 50% in May and June compared with a year earlier. Landlords in England cannot unreasonably refuse pets in their properties under changes made in May in the Renters' Rights Act. But agents say some renters wrongly believe permission to have a pet is guaranteed, and landlords say some homes remain unsuitable for multiple pets or large dogs. Landlords must consider requests fairly and cannot unreasonably refuse them, but they can still decline where there is a valid reason, said Megan Eighteen, immediate past president of lettings agents trade body ARLA Propertymark. She said there was plenty of potential for misunderstanding, among tenants about pet-friendly properties.

Is the war entering a new phase? At least 11 people have been killed in Russian and Ukrainian drone strikes on Ukraine, including children at a holiday camp in a Russian-held area in the east. Overnight on Friday, at least eight people, including two children, were killed in a suspected Ukrainian attack on holiday camps in a Russian-held part of Zaporizhia, according to regional governor Yevgeny Balitsky. Ukraine did not immediately comment on the attack. Balitsky accused Ukraine of "deliberately" targeting civilians and said that 14 other people, including three children, were wounded in the strike.

ChatGPT creator OpenAI publicly revealed on July 21 that one of its advanced models escaped containment, accessed the internet and hacked another AI company's systems. The unprecedented breach, believed to be the first time an AI model has independently infiltrated another company's databases without human instruction, has sparked global alarm and comparisons to the robot uprisings depicted in The Terminator and The Matrix. James Knight told the Daily Mail this is no fantasy, warning that AI-powered hacking programs could devastate a nation in a single day by simultaneously breaking into thousands of corporate and government networks, stealing sensitive data and paralyzing vital systems with ransomware. Knight, a veteran cybersecurity expert whose company is hired to uncover weaknesses in major corporations' computer systems, said: 'For two years now, we have had AI software that can already achieve this level of breach within 15 minutes.' He added that the nightmare scenario of'Agentic AI,' which are AI-fueled hacking programs, being used by terror groups or hostile nations to target thousands of companies at once without any human input could become a reality within 25 years.

In "Biological War," Annie Jacobsen imagines society collapsing from a man-made plague--part of a wave of such prophecies. But what do we miss when we try to predict the future? In the fall of 1989, a select group of Soviet scientists was summoned to Obolensk, a secluded municipality on Moscow's periphery, and gathered at what appeared to be an insane asylum to discuss a pioneering technique for mass murder. If someone had been observing the institutional activity from space--a distinctly non-theoretical possibility--they might have seen a shuffle of patients roaming the grounds or playing volleyball in their pajamas. These were actors, hired to play the disturbed as a cover story for something even more disturbing. The eight-story glass building at the center of the complex, which had putatively been devoted to vaccine manufacturing, was in fact a highly classified defense facility. Its remit was called, or "biological preparations"--what one participant later described as "the most ambitious Soviet arms program since the development of the hydrogen bomb." The most recent experiments there had at last demonstrated the viability of a weapon that could wipe out entire enemy populations without leaving a scratch on their infrastructure. It was a pathogen genetically engineered to spread within hours, to kill within days, and to resist all existing treatment.

From the beginning of my course, I've been thinking about what my graduation dress was going to be, says Keerthana Krishnadas. I had to make sure I looked 10 out of 10, I couldn't compromise on that. She is one of hundreds of thousands of university students graduating this summer and, like many, has been figuring out what to wear for a photo marking one of life's milestones - without breaking the bank. You can save some bucks if you thrift your outfit because you're only going to wear it once, says Keerthana. She bought hers second hand.

Warning shot or publicity stunt - how worried should we be about the OpenAI hack? This week the tech world was gripped by a story that has it all - and which started like a sci-fi thriller. Hugging Face - a kind of app store for artificial intelligence tools - announced on 16 July it had been hacked by a cyber criminal wielding enormously powerful AI. The bombshell announcement was full of scary, highly technical terms: a swarm of sandboxes, agentic attacker, and self-migrating command and control. Hugging Face said the hack was different from anything it had handled before because it was done at superhuman speed by an AI with little or no human guidance. The AI performed 17,000 actions in less than two days, successfully breaching the large wealthy tech company to steal secrets.

With an acting defence minister in place and a new commander-in-chief in charge of the military, Ukraine's recent political crisis is over, right? The political fallout from President Volodymyr Zelensky's 15 July decision not to re-appoint Mykhailo Fedorov as defence minister, as part of a cabinet reshuffle, continues to reverberate about Kyiv and beyond, even as air raid sirens wail and Russian drones and missiles are intercepted overhead. Fedorov's mostly young supporters are still mounting daily street protests, demanding that Zelensky reinstate the popular young innovator widely credited with driving much of Ukraine's recent technological innovation. On Thursday, Fedorov said he had rejected Zelensky's offers of alternative posts in government, saying there were only three positions worth having to influence the course of the war: minister of defence, commander-in-chief of the military or president of Ukraine. If you don't have a ministry under you, you don't have a budget, ex-deputy defence minister Alina Frolova said, and you don't actually have the authority to do something. Fedorov's reference to the presidency did not go unnoticed.