Things to Do in L.A. Tap to enable a layout that focuses on the article. AI image of deadly snake sent Santa Ana into panic. Santa Ana police issued this advisory on Monday advising the public to be on the lookout for a snake that is not native to North America. It turned out to be an AI-generated image. This is read by an automated voice.

More than half a million faces were scanned in some of the capital's busiest transport hubs during the trial. More than half a million faces were scanned in some of the capital's busiest transport hubs during the trial. Tue 29 Sep 2026 05.48 EDTLast modified on Tue 29 Sep 2026 07.53 EDT A six-month trial of live facial recognition (LFR) technology in London's railway stations that cost more than £320,000 and almost 100 hours of police officers' time led to one false match against a watchlist of suspects and no arrests. More than half a million faces were scanned between February and July this year in some of the capital's busiest transport hubs during the British Transport Police (BTP) trial of the surveillance technology, which aimed to help catch offenders and people breaching court orders. A freedom of information document obtained by Liberty Investigates and shared with the Guardian shows that equipment hire and police staffing for the 18 deployments across the trial cost £320,786 and led to only one alert on a watchlist, which turned out to be an incorrect identification, also known as a false positive.

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Follow this section to personalize your feed and get instant alerts. Follow Go to your personalized feed WHY FOLLOW? Smart Alerts: Get notified about major news as it happens. Follow this tag to personalize your feed and get instant alerts. Follow Go to your personalized feed WHY FOLLOW? Smart Alerts: Get notified about major news as it happens. Follow this author to personalize your feed and get instant alerts. Follow Go to your personalized feed WHY FOLLOW? Smart Alerts: Get notified about major news as it happens. Colin Kaepernick speaks onstage during The Gordon Parks Foundation Awards Dinner and Auction on May 19, 2026 in New York City. Colin Kaepernick speaks onstage during The Gordon Parks Foundation Awards Dinner and Auction on May 19, 2026 in New York City. Follow this author to personalize your feed and get instant alerts. Follow Go to your personalized feed WHY FOLLOW? Smart Alerts: Get notified about major news as it happens. Following a string of high-profile police shootings of Black men 10 years ago, San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick began protesting such incidents by sitting during the national anthem at preseason games.

Family says dead man was not'Putney pusher' The family of Nicholas Brandram have insisted he was not the so-called Putney pusher and have blamed the Metropolitan Police for his death. The 44-year-old was under suspicion of being the jogger who pushed a woman into the path of a bus during a run on Putney Bridge in west London in 2017. Brandram's family said he took his own life after months of immense pressure caused by a Metropolitan Police investigation and there was no forensic evidence linking the banker to the incident. The Met has been asked for comment. To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.

Balaclava boys on electric bikes: How to tackle the problem? From the Pentland Hills near Edinburgh to the streets of the country's biggest cities, a common menace is causing irritation, alarm and in some cases even death. The sight of young men, their identities hidden by black balaclavas, tearing around on electric bikes or scooters is becoming a familiar one. The picture above was taken by a man who posted on social media about morons on electric bikes scaring a nearby horse, external as they rode illegally on public footpaths. Aside from being showered with gravel churned up by the gobby miscreants, no one came to harm that day, but others have not been so lucky.

A body has been found in the search for missing three-year-old boy Noah Woods, police have confirmed. Noah disappeared at about 15:00 BST on Tuesday from a playground in Brantham, Suffolk, after becoming separated from a relative. Supt Tom Pearse of Suffolk Police said dive teams recovered the body of a child from a nearby pond. He said the death was being treated as unexplained but not suspicious. To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.

To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A runaway horse was chased by police on motorbikes in Santa Fe, New Mexico, when it escaped before a parade on 13 September. The unharmed horse was eventually cornered by police, before being lassoed. Police officers followed and cornered the horse on motorbikes, before it was wrangled by a lasso-carrying cowboy. The horse was given a drink of water before being walked back to the start of the Desfile de la Gente parade, Santa Fe Police Department said in a post on Facebook.

Thai police have arrested a Buddhist monk on suspicion of embezzling 100 million baht ($3m; £2.2m) from his monastery, along with a suspected female accomplice he was filmed having sex with. Phra Wachirayan Wi, a former abbot at the prominent 14th-Century Wat Phutthaisawan in the ancient capital of Ayutthaya, allegedly pocketed donations meant for the temple on more than 20 occasions over two years. In Thailand, Buddhist monks take a vow of celibacy and also renounce material possessions. He was defrocked after his arrest. He has yet to comment publicly.