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UK drivers have stolen almost £200,000 of fuel from petrol stations on average every day since the Iran war broke out and sent prices soaring, according to industry analysis.Incidents of fuel being taken from forecourts without payment have risen by a fifth in the five months since 28 February, figures from Forecourt Eye suggest.The conflict in the Middle East severely disrupted oil supplies across the region, triggering a rise in wholesale prices and subsequent increase in costs at the pump in the UK.Forecourt Eye said the value of the stolen fuel is estimated to have risen by 48% compared with…

The popular Bitcoin hardware wallet Coldcard product, made by Coinkite, is at risk following a $70 million hack. Coinkite on Thursday admitted that its Coldcard Mk3 model was affected following the hack and advised users to move their funds. Then, on Friday, the company said that users of the later hardware devices Mk4, Mk5, and Q should also take precautions.  Hackers on Thursday were first able to drain funds from 1,196 Bitcoin addresses because their private keys were not generated using sufficient entropy — or randomness.  Since then, a total of 1,082.65 Bitcoins have disappeared from wallets, according to data…

Presenter Tony Livesey has left BBC Radio 5 Live after 16 years at the station, the corporation has announced.Livesey stepped back from his weekday late night talk show last month following allegations made against his former newspaper boss David Sullivan.He had previously worked as editor-in-chief of Sullivan’s Daily and Sunday Sport publications.Several women have accused Sullivan, a billionaire businessman and West Ham co-owner, of abusing his power and preying on them for sex, in some cases when they were teenagers. Sullivan has strongly denied the allegations.The claims against Sullivan were made in a joint investigation by the Times and BBC…

Manu Bhaker (Image credit: Instagram) NEW DELHI: Double Olympic medallist Manu Bhaker has urged young people to avoid using abusive language, saying that “using bad language is not cool” and that the words people use reflect their personality.The 23-year-old shooter, who won two medals at the Paris Olympics, shared a long message on X on Sunday. She did not mention any particular incident but spoke about the increasing use of abusive language in everyday conversations.’Choose your words wisely’Bhaker said people should be careful about the words they use because they shape a person’s character over time.”The language we choose reflects…

Jan Suraaj Party (JSP) founder Prashant Kishor is contesting his first election. Counting of votes for the Bankipur assembly by-election in Patna began on Monday, August 3, 2026. As of now, Kishor’s lead has widened to 14,953 votes over Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate Neeraj Kumar Sinha after 25 rounds of counting, with 50,976 votes to Sinha’s 36,023. Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) candidate Rekha Kumari remains in third place with 11,515 votes. Counting is still underway.The Bankipur seat fell vacant after five-time BJP Member of Legislative Assembly (MLA) Nitin Nabin resigned following his election to the Rajya Sabha and his…

Xyper has launched an on-chain crypto marketplace where autonomous AI agents and human creators can independently earn rewards for social content, with payouts distributed automatically through smart contracts directly to their wallets.The launch comes as 87% of creators now use generative AI in their day-to-day work, while global influencer marketing spend is projected to reach $40.51 billion in 2026.That second point is not theoretical. Earlier this year, X’s head of product announced the platform would no longer allow apps that pay users to post, immediately revoking API access for InfoFi projects that had built reward programs around exactly that model. Xyper’s approach sidesteps…

EUR/USD just broke above a multi-month trend line resistance! Will this lead to a trend reversal for the pair?

Image via Wiki­me­dia Com­mons It’s been a human­ist tru­ism for some time to say that Shake­speare speaks to every age, tran­scend­ing his time and place through the sheer force of his uni­ver­sal genius. But any hon­est stu­dent first encoun­ter­ing the plays will tell you dif­fer­ent­ly, as will many a sea­soned schol­ar who works hard to place the writer and his work in his­tor­i­cal con­text. Even one­time direc­tor of London’s Nation­al The­atre, Nicholas Hyt­ner, once said, “I’ll admit that I hard­ly ever go to a per­for­mance of one of Shakespeare’s plays with­out expe­ri­enc­ing blind pan­ic dur­ing the first five min­utes. I…

The film also served as a turning point for Halkias, who was cast in the role of Sessa’s mentor Stavros, a move that changed the way he viewed his own life.  “It was fun to realize, ‘Hey man, you’re not a kid anymore. You’re being cast to be the guy who helps the kid,’” he reflected. “’So stop thinking about yourself as a kid. You’re a grown man, grow up, for God’s sake.’” As the 37-year-old shared, that realization came about during a pivotal point in his life when he was already “having those thoughts.” “It really helped me to…

Sprinkled throughout the narrative of the sophomore season of “Diarra from Detroit” (relocated to Paramount+ after the shuttering of BET+ this year) are references to beloved stories in which a gang of friends comes together to solve a puzzle. “Scooby-Doo” gets a shoutout, so does “The Goonies.” But in the opinion of this writer, season two, which changes course from Diarra’s schoolteacher career to life as a burgeoning private eye, shares considerable DNA with Nancy Drew. There’s a hunt for an antique desk, secret societies, shifting alliances, and wisecracking friends at one’s side the whole way through.  And as an…