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Police in Florida have been criticised for allegedly entering a funeral home in a futile bid to unlock a dead man’s smartphone. Linus Phillip, 30, was killed while trying to escape from police at a petrol station in Largo on 23 March. After his body was released to the Sylvan Abbey Funeral Home, his family say, two police officers tried ...

Spotify, the UK’s biggest music streaming service, has started testing a way of filtering out songs which have explicit lyrics. The feature has been introduced on its iPhone and iPad apps – six years after being requested on its online forums. But some users have told BBC Radio 5 live: that the feature does not have enough controls. Rivals such ...

A man suspected of killing four people at a Waffle House in Tennessee has been arrested by police in Nashville. Police said Travis Reinking, 29, was caught in a wooded area. He allegedly opened fire at the restaurant on Sunday with an AR-15 rifle, before discarding his coat and fleeing naked. A customer, James Shaw Jr, prevented further bloodshed by ...

ALEXIS SANCHEZ struggled to produce a sample for the Wembley dope testers then explained why Manchester United have had wait to see the best of him. The Chile striker was the last player to emerge from a stadium he must wish he could play in every week. Sanchez had underlined the old sporting maxim that while form is temporary, class ...

European regulators will investigate Apple’s planned purchase of Shazam, the music recognition app that was developed in the UK. The European Commission said Apple could encourage Shazam users to use its music streaming service rather than its competitors’ if the deal goes ahead. Apple Music has about half as many paid subscribers as Spotify, the world’s biggest streaming platform. Shazam ...

A team of US doctors has successfully carried out the world’s first total transplant of a penis and scrotum. Surgeons at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, performed the operation on a soldier who had been wounded by a bomb in Afghanistan. They used a penis, scrotum and partial abdominal wall transplanted from a deceased donor. They say the soldier ...

A VAN has ploughed through a crowd of people in Toronto, Canada, leaving nine people dead and sixteen injured. One man is in police custody. Toronto police have confirmed nine people have died and 16 were injured after a van ploughed through a crowd in the Canadian city. The driver was arrested after the incident and a huge investigation is ...

The woman who is set to become the seventh wife of South Africa’s ex-President Jacob Zuma has been forced to resign from her job at She Conquers, a non-governmental organisation, local media reports. Nonkanyiso Conco’s “affiliation” with Mr Zuma – 52 years her senior – was contrary to the organisation’s campaign to “empower young women in every phase of their ...

REAL MADRID president Florentino Perez has played down talk of the club signing David de Gea or Thibaut Courtois this summer. The duo have been linked with a move to the Spanish capital for a number of years, with Los Blancos famously missing out on the former due to a fax machine error in 2015. De Gea’s stunning form at ...

MOHAMED ELNENY could miss the rest of the season despite receiving an injury boost. Elneny was forced in the first half of Arsenal’s 4-1 win over West Brom after landing awkwardly following a challenge with Mark Noble. After the match, Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger expressed his concern that the midfielder could be out for an extended period. “Unfortunately it doesn’t ...