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Christopher Trybus, of Swindon, Wiltshire, stood trial accused of causing the death of Tarryn Baird, who died aged 34 in November 2017.

The 44-year-old defendant also faced charges at Winchester Crown Court of controlling and coercive behaviour and two charges of rape.

He has been cleared of all charges.

It was the first case of its kind in England and Wales.

Mr Trybus, who denied the offences, claimed his wife made the allegations as a result of mental health issues, including a probable diagnosis of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) after she witnessed violent car-jackings in South Africa, where the couple grew up.

The defendant, who runs an IT business, also said he was out of the country when some of the incidents were alleged to have taken place.

The judge, Mr Justice Linden, thanked the jurors for their service and told them: "It was a difficult and sad case and the stakes were high for the families involved so we understand your task has not been an easy one and no one should underestimate your role in these proceedings."

Describing how he felt about Ms Baird in light of the allegations, Mr Trybus told the court: "It's such a complex feeling, I loved her dearly and she has gone and said all of these things.

"At no point has this ever happened, it's such a mix of emotions, I am upset that she said these things but she is not here so I can't be upset with her, it's not something I can put into words."

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Scientists believe the dirt helps the monkeys line the gut to stop irritation from foods which are "extremely rich in calories, sugar, salt and dairy".

The soil also provides bacteria and minerals missing from junk food offered or stolen from tourists, such as chocolate bars, crisps and ice cream.

The snacks have negative digestive effects for the macaques and can cause symptoms from nausea to diarrhoea, but the food is "as delicious for them" as it is for humans, according to a Cambridge University study.

Animals in frequent contact with Gibraltar's visitors were observed to eat more dirt, with this behaviour higher during peak holiday season.

The researchers think the behaviour is likely to have been learned socially as different troops of monkeys have preferences for certain types of soil.

Experts said the soil acts as a "barrier" in the digestive tract and limits the absorption of harmful compounds.

Dr Sylvain Lemoine, a biological anthropologist from Cambridge's Department of Archaeology, added: "This could alleviate gastrointestinal symptoms from nausea to diarrhoea.

"Soil may also provide friendly bacteria that helps with the gut microbiome.

"Non-human primates become lactose intolerant after weaning, so dairy is known to cause digestive issues in monkeys, and ice cream is hugely popular with Gibraltar's tourists and consequently its macaques."

The junk diet was "completely unlike" foods normally eaten by the species, such as herbs, leaves, seeds and the occasional insect - with the behaviour being "driven entirely by proximity to humans".

Dr Lemoine said: "Humans evolved to seek out and store energy-dense fats and sugars to survive periods of scarcity, leading us to crave high-calorie junk food.

"Availability of human junk food could trigger this same evolutionary mechanism in macaques."

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Gibraltar's macaques number around 230 animals across eight stable groups that inhabit different areas of the Rock.

Scientists recorded 46 dirt-eating "events" in 44 different animals across 98 observation days between summer 2022 and spring 2024.

The study is published in the journal Scientific Reports.

After years of lab work, a rock that the rover drilled and analysed in 2020 has been confirmed to include organic molecules.

Among them is a nitrogen heterocycle. Its molecular structure - a ring of carbon atoms including nitrogen - is considered a predecessor to RNA and DNA.

But scientists have no way of knowing if these molecules were created by biologic or geologic processes - either path is possible, the space agency says.

However, their discovery provided further confirmation that ancient Mars had the right chemistry to support life.

The news comes soon after the success of the Artemis II mission, in which four astronauts travelled further from Earth than any human had ever been.

"This collection of organic molecules once again increases the prospect that Mars offered a home for life in the ancient past," mission project scientist Ashwin Vasavada said.

"This is Curiosity and our team at their best. It took dozens of scientists and engineers to locate this site, drill the sample, and make these discoveries with our awesome robot."

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The rock sample was nicknamed Mary Anning 3 after an English paleontologist and was found on part of the planet's Mount Sharp - a region that was covered by lakes and streams billions of years ago.

Detecting DNA predecessors is "pretty profound because these structures can be chemical precursors to more complex nitrogen-bearing molecules," said the paper's lead author, Amy Williams of the University of Florida in Gainesville.

"Nitrogen heterocycles have never been found before on the Martian surface or confirmed in Martian meteorites."

Also discovered was benzothiophene, which has previously been found in meteorites.

These meteorites, along with the organic molecules within them, are believed by some scientists to have seeded prebiotic chemistry across the early solar system.

Richard Horne, the head of the National Cybersecurity Centre, stressed the need for organisations to improve their cyber defences, saying they needed to act with "10 times urgency".

But he said he did not consider AI a national security threat at present, as new models were "not finding new attacks, they're just exposing more security vulnerabilities".

He added: "We're in a kind of perfect storm where we have two forces - one huge technology disruption, one rising geopolitical tensions, and they come together. And cybersecurity's in the middle of them."

Anthropic's new model Mythos has been causing widespread concern after the AI firm announced that it was significantly better at finding cyber vulnerabilities than previous AIs.

The company decided not to release Mythos publicly, instead sharing it with a select set of companies and organisations - including the UK AI Security Institute, which independently confirmed their assessment.

Mr Horne said the new abilities of frontier AI models to "do the work of a huge number of people in an instant" made this "a significant moment in time".

He added: "What it's going to mean is where organisations are reliant on technology that they haven't patched, haven't updated with the latest security updates. That will be exposed.

"Where tech producers are shipping code that has this poor quality and has security bugs in it. That will be exposed.

"And where organisations have old, obsolete technology, that can't be updated, it can't be patched. That will be exposed."

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AI, he said, would speed up the need to apply security updates.

"We talked about applying critical patches in days, and that's coming down to minutes," Mr Horne said.

"So, organisations really need to focus on how they execute the application of security updates as quickly as they can."

Ajay Haridasse fell to the ground shortly after the 26th mile mark at the Boston Marathon on Monday.

Aaron Beggs pulled Mr Haridasse to his feet and was joined by Robson De Oliveira - the pair then put their arms around Mr Haridasse to support him to the finish.

"After falling down the fourth time, I was getting ready to crawl," Mr Haridasse told the Boston Herald. "Obviously the wheels kinda fell off at mile 26."

He said without Mr Beggs or Mr Oliveira, he would not have qualified for next year's Boston Marathon, which he hopes to run.

Mr Haridasse said if Mr Oliveira did not help him, "that would have been his fastest race ever".

"I'm running Boston again," Mr Haridasse told the paper. "I'm definitely running again."

"It was a split-second decision," Mr De Oliveira wrote on social media. "When I entered the final stretch of the marathon, I was just a few meters away from achieving my personal best, but in the distance I saw [Haridasse] collapsing.

"I knew I wouldn't have the strength to help him on my own. In that moment, I thought, 'God, if someone stops, I'll stop too and help him.'"

He said he knew he could help "because two are stronger than one".

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Mr De Oliveira also ended up in the medical tent after the race with Mr Haridasse, who was suffering from extreme dehydration.

"The fact not many people realise you gave everything to help and ended up in a worse state than the guy we helped," Mr Beggs replied on Mr De Oliveira's post. "True star."