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BBCTom Parker, 37, broke his leg in a fishing accident three miles off the Devon coastTom Parker was working alone three miles (4.8km) off the Devon coast when his fishing boat hit a wave and lurched to one side.”I was pulling one of the ropes and I slipped and fell,” he says. “I had this really, really bad pain in my ankle. So much so, I couldn’t get up off the floor.”He didn’t know it at the time, but Tom, 37, had broken his fibula and badly damaged his ankle ligaments.He somehow hauled in his fishing gear and made it…

Tesla is breaking up the team behind its Dojo supercomputer, ending the automaker’s play at developing in-house chips for driverless technology, according to Bloomberg. Dojo’s lead, Peter Bannon, is leaving the company, and the remaining team members will be reassigned to other data center and compute projects within Tesla, per Bloomberg’s reporting, which cited anonymous sources.  The disbanding of Tesla’s Dojo efforts follows the departure of around 20 workers, who left the automaker to start their own AI company called DensityAI. The new startup is reportedly coming out of stealth soon and is building chips, hardware, and software that will…

US Attorney General Pam Bondi says Venezuelan president one of the world’s ‘largest narco-traffickers’.The United States has offered a $50m reward for information leading to the arrest of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, doubling an earlier reward of $25m set by the Trump administration in January.The US has accused the Venezuelan leader of being one of the world’s leading narco-traffickers and working with cartels to flood the US with fentanyl-laced cocaine.In a video posted to social media on Thursday announcing the “historic” increase in reward money, US Attorney General Pam Bondi accused Maduro of collaborating with Venezuelan crime syndicates Tren de…

176 Popular Fuji musician, King Wasiu Ayinde Marshal, also known as K1 De Ultimate or KWAM 1, has denied allegations of misconduct at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja. This comes as the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) launches a full-scale investigation into an incident involving the singer during boarding procedures for a ValueJet flight to Lagos. According to FAAN, the altercation happened on Monday, August 5, 2025, while passengers were boarding Flight VK 201 operated by ValueJet Airlines. The agency claimed KWAM 1 attempted to carry a flask containing an unidentified liquid onto the flight, in violation…

Fans at the FedEx St. Jude Championship this weekend can be just like Scottie Scheffler.Editor’s Picks2 RelatedNetflix is presenting “Scottie’s Chicken Shack” at the event, a nod to the four-time major winner’s role in “Happy Gilmore 2.”In the film, released on Netflix on July 25, Scheffler makes a playful cameo that includes him punching the Team Maxi golfer he’s facing and ending up in handcuffs as a tongue-in-cheek nod to the titular character’s famously short fuse. The scene also references Scheffler’s real-life arrest by the Louisville Metro Police outside of Valhalla Golf Club after he tried to drive into the…

GettyPresident Donald Trump has called on the head of US chipmaker Intel to resign “immediately”, accusing him of having problematic ties to China.In a social media post, he said CEO Lip-Bu Tan was “highly conflicted”, apparently referring to Mr Tan’s alleged investments in companies that the US says are tied to the Chinese military. It is unusual for a president to demand the resignation of a corporate executive.Mr Tan was appointed in March to turn around the tech giant, a pioneer of the US chips industry that has more recently fallen behind competitors. It has received billions of dollars from…

Victoria police issue hundreds of fines to food delivery driversPolice in Victoria have issued nearly 300 fines to riders of e-bikes, scooters and bikes working for food delivery companies as they crack down on dangerous rider behaviour in Melbourne.Officials said an operation since the start of June has seen 289 fines issued, including 37 in just a few hours on this Tuesday alone. Riders were fined for allegedly travelling on footpaths, riding through red lights and using mobile phones while travelling.Police said the operation began amid reports of dangerous behaviour during peak times for food delivery. Some of those fines…

Earlier this month, a wave of tourists from the continental US began visiting Puerto Rico for the chance to see Bad Bunny. This would not be that remarkable – plenty of people go overseas for concerts, as tickets often go for much less than in the US (any dedicated Swiftie will tell you it was much cheaper to see her in Mexico City than, say, LA) – if not for the fact that Bad Bunny, born Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, planned ahead for an influx of outsiders to the island. The first nine dates of his landmark 30-show residency at…

Here are the key events on day 1,261 of Russia’s war on Ukraine.Here is how things stand on Friday, August 8:Fighting The Ukrainian military said its drone units hit the Afipsky oil refinery in Russia’s Krasnodar region. It was not immediately clear what the extent of the damage was at the refinery, which, together with the Krasnodar refinery, processed 7.2 million metric tonnes of crude oil in 2024. Local Russian emergency services said they had extinguished a fire at the Afipsky refinery, saying it was caused by fallen drone debris. The Russian Ministry of Defence said air defence systems had…

Donald Trump on Wednesday celebrated a commitment by Apple to increase its investments in US manufacturing by an additional $100bn over the next four years.Apple’s plan to up its domestic investment comes as it seeks to avoid Trump’s threatened tariffs, which would increase the tech giant’s costs as it relies on a complex international supply chain to produce its iPhones. Apple’s CEO, Tim Cook, warned during an earnings call in May that the tariffs could cost the company up to $900m that fiscal quarter alone.After Cook gifted Trump a US-made souvenir with a 24-karat gold base at the Oval Office…