Everybody is looking for a shortcut, but not every shortcut is smart. These AI writing fails from Microsoft show how short-sighted it is to replace writers with machines."

Alex Murdaugh allegedly had a man shoot him in an attempted life insurance payout scheme worth $10 million, authorities say.

Miscalculated landing ends in undignified scrambling to get back on its feet in front of chick – and cameras

Odis Latham, 47, and Russell Sparks, 48, were arrested Monday.

A businessman and the hapless assassins he hired were all convicted of attempted murder.

An amusement park in southwestern Germany has had to shut down a new ride after people quickly noticed that it looked like a big spinning swastika. The "Adlerflug," German for "eagle's flight," will now be redesigned.

Chinese vlogger caught using filter to make herself look younger upsets fans.

Simon Kuper returns to the place where Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt began their climb to power.

Jeremy Hunt had the nerve to call local councils ‘hidden victims of the cuts’, noticing that hospitals have been forced to prolong patient stays at great expense because of the disappearance of community care: ‘that wasn’t a smart move.’ No shit, Sherlock. By Tom Crewe.

Who is Reuel Marc Gerecht? By Shane Ryan.

A man already on probation for cocaine possession insists the blow in his nose during a weekend traffic stop doesn't belong to him

Just when the smallest jet should have been replaced with a new model, the company fell into tight-fisted hands—with fatal consequences. By Clive Irving.

American cities are being hijacked with an N.S.A. cyberweapon that has already done billions of dollars in damage overseas. The N.S.A. will say nothing. By Nicole Perlroth, Scott Shane.

‘We the Cree people are laughing about it because of what it means in our language,’ says Grand Chief Jonathan Solomon

A dubious project raises serious questions about the world’s most prestigious consulting firm and its work for corruption-plagued regimes. By Ian MacDougall, Anand Tumurtogoo.

Australia's A$50 note has a blunder in the small print - and it took more than six months to spot.

Ireland’s cervical cancer scandal, and its underlying logic of profit-driven, privatized health care, has ramifications far beyond the country’s shores. By Erica X Eisen.

The Markup was one of the most highly anticipated media startups in recent memory. By Mathew Ingram.

I had a whole gaggle of 100-point bucks in my sights, sleeping peacefully on their feet, like cows... By Evan Allgood.

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