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AI tools designed to generate child sex abuse material (CSAM) will be made illegal under “world leading” legislation, the government has announced. The crackdown will also target anyone who possess AI “paedophile manuals” which teach people how to use AI to sexually abuse children. It comes after warnings AI-generated child abuse imagery is being produced

A body has been found near to where two missing sisters disappeared in Aberdeen. Eliza and Henrietta Huszti, both aged 32, were last spotted on CCTV in the city’s Market Street at Victoria Bridge at about 2.12am on Tuesday 7 January. The women were seen crossing the bridge and turning right on to a footpath

Love Island winner Jack Fincham has been released on bail pending an appeal – hours after being jailed for his cane corso dog attacking a man while he was running. The 32-year-old had pleaded guilty at Southend Magistrates’ Court to two counts of being in charge of a dangerously out-of-control dog, with one of the

A Chinese PhD student who has been accused of drugging and raping 10 women was “a persistent sexual predator, a voyeur and a rapist,” a jury has heard. Zhenhao Zou, 27, faces 11 counts of rape, three counts of voyeurism, 12 of possession of an extreme pornographic image, one of false imprisonment and eight of

Rachel Reeves is supposedly someone who understands tight budgets. While she may not have all the cash she’d like to deliver her airport expansion plans, the real constraint is carbon. And Britain’s carbon budget has, to use the fiscal parlance of the Treasury, very little headroom at all. This isn’t an academic point. Under the

Love Island winner Jack Fincham has been jailed for six weeks after his cane corso dog attacked a man while he was running. The 32-year-old pleaded guilty at Southend Magistrates’ Court to two counts of being in charge of a dangerously out of control dog, with one of the incidents causing injury. As well as

The XL bully ban is costing police forces millions of pounds in veterinary bills and kennelling, police chiefs have warned. The National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPCC) said the ban on the breed was placing a “huge burden on policing”. Kennel spaces are “reaching capacity” and costs are “increasing by the day”, the NPCC said. It

Doctors should be able to opt out of recommending assisted dying to terminally ill patients, MPs have been told. Dr Andrew Green, chairman of the British Medical Association’s (BMA) medical ethics committee, said it is important doctors should be able to say they do not want to take part in the process at any stage.

The driver of an SUV that crashed into a school in Wimbledon killing two schoolgirls has been arrested after detectives reopened the investigation, the Metropolitan Police said. Nuria Sajjad and Selena Lau died after the collision at The Study Prep school in southwest London, on 6 July 2023. A “distinctive gold” Land Rover smashed through

A distrust of the police, curiosity, and the “thrill of the moment” were some of the reasons behind young people joining in last summer’s riots, research has suggested. The involvement of some children was “spontaneous and unconsidered” and had less to do with online misinformation, the Children’s Commissioner said in a new report. Dame Rachel

Detectives investigating the rape of a woman in west London have released an e-fit of a man they are working to identify. A woman was walking alone along Bradiston Road, in Maida Vale, when a car – believed to be a dark-coloured Audi A3 – stopped at the junction ahead of her. A man pushed

Police have been made aware of “abhorrent attacks” on social media aimed at Premier League official Michael Oliver and his family, the referees’ body has said. The Professional Game Match Officials Limited (PGMOL), responsible for referees in England’s professional football leagues, said it was “appalled by the threats and abuse” aimed at Oliver. It comes

Each Monday, our Money team speaks to someone from a different profession to discover what it’s really like. This week we chat to James Davies, a specialist orthodontist at Quayside Orthodontics in Carmarthenshire and Pembrokeshire… People think my job is… something they would not want to do. Looking in people’s mouths all day! What I’d say

Sir Keir Starmer and Donald Trump “stressed the importance of the close and warm ties” between their countries and “agreed to meet soon” in a phone call, Downing Street has said. During the conversation on Sunday, the prime minister congratulated the president on his inauguration and paid tribute to his “role in securing the landmark

The 52-year prison sentence of Axel Rudakubana is to be reviewed following complaints it was “unduly lenient”. Southport’s MP Patrick Hurley was among those calling for a longer term on Thursday after the 18-year-old was jailed for murdering Alice da Silva Aguiar, nine, Bebe King, six, and Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven, in July last year.

Mobile network Three has apologised after customers across the country reported problems making and receiving voice calls. More than 10,000 people have logged problems on outage site Downdetector, with the first issues reported around 1pm. The network said a “small percentage” of customers were affected and that it was working hard to fix it. X

A police investigation into the Southport attack is still active, a senior officer has said. Rudakubana murdered three girls at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class last summer in the Merseyside town, when he was 17 years old. He was sentenced to a minimum of 52 years behind bars after pleading guilty to killing Alice da

Manchester City have accepted AC Milan’s loan-to-buy offer for defender Kyle Walker. Under the terms of the deal the Italian club can sign the England international permanently in the summer, for a fee of around £4.2m (€5m), Sky in Italy said. Walker, 34, will arrive in the city around lunchtime on Thursday and have a

A rare red alert for “very strong” wind has been issued for parts of the UK ahead of Storm Eowyn. The alert, which covers all of Northern Ireland from 7am on Friday until 2pm, and parts of Scotland from 10am to 5pm, warns of “very dangerous conditions” and “widespread disruption”. Tornados could also hit parts

Police have launched a murder investigation after the death of a woman in Plymouth. Devon and Cornwall police said officers were called to the West Hoe area of the city at 8.55pm on Wednesday after the woman in her 40s was found seriously injured in the street. She was taken to hospital, but was pronounced