Author: James Martin
The moving goodbye letter a murdered ISIS hostage wrote to his parents has been read at the trial of the terror suspect accused of masterminding his abduction.Peter Kassig wrote the final letter to his parents Ed and Paula five months before he was beheaded by Jihadi John in November 2014, and revealed that he did not believe his captors’ claims that his family had given up on him. It was read at the trial of El Shafee Elsheikh, 33, Wednesday by Peter’s retired teacher dad Edward Kassig, who struggled to hold back tears, as Kassig’s mom Paula, a former nurse, watched. ‘But…
Twitter might finally be delivering an , but the company appears to have quietly altered a key way deleted tweets can be preserved. As writer Kevin Marks first , the company changed its embedded javascript so that the text of deleted tweets is no longer visible in embeds on outside websites. Previously, the text of a deleted tweet was still visible on web pages on which it had been embedded, but now Twitter is using javascript to render the tweet as a blank white box. Overall, it might not seem like a major change on Twitter’s part, but it’s one…
Video published on Wednesday shows Ukrainian soldiers killing their apparently captured Russian counterparts with their hands tied behind their backs – just as accusations of similar atrocities committed by Russian forces surface from the city of Bucha.The video, which the New York Times verified Wednesday, shows Ukrainian troops committing the killings, after what appeared to be an ambush outside a village west of Kyiv. ‘He’s still alive,’ one of the Ukrainians – identifiable by their flag patches and ‘glory to Ukraine’ paraphernalia – can be heard saying, as a Russian soldier is seen with a jacket pulled over his head. ‘Film…
Sue was always against having treatments done, but after a few subtle anti-ageing procedures including botox and filler, she said she’ll never look back.She told Express.co.uk: “I always thought that I wouldn’t get it done because I didn’t like the look of other people I’d seen on TV.”I thought it looked plastic, that their cheeks were puffed up like hamsters and their eyes looked small.”But as she got older and her appearance became “tired”, she decided to take the plunge and go for some barely-there non-surgical ‘tweakments’ at CB Aesthetics in January of this year.The thing that Sue liked most about…
How YouTube pranksters tricked an unmanned Amazon ‘smart’ store into not charging them for their food by simply replacing it on the shelves with bags of SAND weighing the same amountArchie Manners and Josh Pieters boast 1.46million subscribers on YouTube The duo claim they bi-passed the 2,000+ sensors that watch your every moveAs well as the shelves that keep track of products you take off by weighing themThe pair say they did this by replacing Sainsbury’s-bought goods with sand By Charlotte Mclaughlin For Mailonline Published: 20:55 EDT, 6 April 2022 | Updated: 22:30 EDT, 6 April 2022 YouTube pranksters have tricked an…
Meta still isn’t keen on reviving its F8 conference, but this time it’s not due to the pandemic. The Facebook parent firm revealed that it “will not hold” F8 in 2022 as it retools for “building the metaverse.” Instead, Meta will lean on Conversations (its first business messaging event), Connect and other developer presentations throughout the rest of the year. The company hasn’t held a live F8 since 2019. Both F8 2020 and 2021 were online-only due to COVID-19. This isn’t the first time Meta skipped F8 altogether, though. It didn’t hold conferences in 2009, 2012 and 2013. A move…
Bruce Willis appeared happy and comfortable as he was seen on a walk through a nature area on Wednesday, a week after the actor’s family announced he was ‘stepping away from’ his career in show business after he was ‘diagnosed with aphasia, which is impacting his cognitive abilities.’In a clip posted by his wife Emma Heming Willis, 43, to the tune of the Rolling Stones’ Honky Tonk Women, the acting veteran, 67, was seen walking through a woodsy area on a clear spring day. She also shared a series of photos from the outdoors outing in which she and her husband…
From Bohemian Rhapsody, about Freddie Mercury and Queen, to Elton John’s Rocketman, films about pop stars have proved box-office gold.Yet I hear that production of a big-budget movie about Eighties star Boy George, Karma Chameleon, has hit a major stumbling block.I can disclose the Culture Club singer and his long-time friend and collaborator Philip Sallon, who was expected to feature heavily in the film, have had a huge bust-up. And Sallon tells me he’s refusing to help out with the production. Boy George and his long-time friend and collaborator Philip Sallon have had a huge bust-up. Pictured: Boy George and…
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg — a real, human man who works — understands the plight of those who work remotely. The 37-year old founder of one of the world’s largest companies is actually working remotely as you read this. But unlike you or me, Zuckerberg’s home office is in the metaverse. Zuckerberg on Facebook today teased an upcoming software update to the Quest 2’s Horizon Home that includes a home office space. It looks kind of like a Blue Bottle Coffee, or maybe a dentist’s office. But it’s in VR, you see. It’s becoming glaringly clear that Zuckerberg wants the…
‘They were in the wrong place at wrong time’: British family hit by landslide on Australia holiday of a lifetime were victims of freak accident and were just 50metres from safety, tour guide revealsBritish family were in ‘wrong place at wrong time’ after hiking tragedy They were hit by freak landslide after heavy rains while in Blue Mountains Mehraab Nazir, 49, and his youngest son, 9, were killed by falling rocks Ana Nazir, 40, survived but is in critical condition in a Sydney hospitalThe daughter, 15, was hailed a hero for leading rescuers to the familyThe couple’s other son, 14, has recovered…