Rupert Murdoch And Jerry Hall Celebrate Wedding

Rupert Murdoch and Jerry Hall have celebrated their wedding with family and famous friends from the worlds of media, showbiz and politics.

Mr Murdoch and the former supermodel held a private ceremony a day after they officially tied the knot in London.

The newlyweds' service started at 11am at St Bride's Church in Fleet Street, which proclaims itself as "the Journalists' Church".

It offers "a spiritual home to all who work in the media".

Around 100 guests attended, including the couple's 10 children from previous marriages.

Mr Murdoch - whose company 21st Century Fox owns a stake in Sky - arrived at the venue a little after 10.30am.

He paused briefly for photographs before entering through the church gates, flanked by his sons James and Lachlan.

Shortly afterwards, media figures including Alan Yentob, Rebekah Brooks and Daily Mail editor Paul Dacre arrived.

Comedian Barry Humphries, artist Tracey Emin, musician Sir Bob Geldof, actor Sir Michael Caine, jewellery designer Jade Jagger and actor Richard E Grant were among the other guests.

Music and singing could be heard from outside the church, signalling the start of the service.

Crowds of onlookers pressed up against the church railings hoping to catch a glimpse of the couple.

Four People Killed As Ferry Capsizes Near Bali

Four people have died and survivors were forced to jump to save themselves as a ferry capsized between the Indonesian islands of Bali and Java.

The Rafelia 2 ran into trouble in the narrow Bali Strait on Friday, floating on its side for some time before sinking.

Four people were found dead in the wreckage, including a woman still holding her child, according to Johan Saptadi, head of the Search and Rescue Agency in East Java.

Seventy-one people were rescued.

Didi Hamzar, head of Bali's Search and Rescue Agency, said the ship's manifest said there were just 51 people on board, including 14 crewmen, although Indonesian passenger boats often carry more people than listed.

The ship had been travelling from Gilimanuk port in Bali to Ketapang in East Java when it began to leak.

Indonesia's 256 million people are distributed across around 17,000 islands, meaning boats are a vital form of transport.

Sea accidents are common and safety regulations are often not well-enforced.

Stolen Fire Engine Crashes Into Cars And Homes

A stolen fire engine caused carnage when it crashed into cars and houses in Northern Ireland.

Two men, aged 19 and 66, are being questioned by police after the vehicle was stolen from a station in Larne, Co Antrim.

There were no reported injuries following the theft in the early hours of this morning.

Group commander Kevin O'Neill, from Northern Ireland Fire and Rescue (NIFRS), said: "At approximately 4.30am this morning Larne station was broken into and a fire engine was stolen.

"Subsequently this fire engine was driven into a number of cars and houses in the Larne area."

He said the station was damaged in the break-in and the NIFRS was working to ensure services were maintained in Larne.

On board with the Flying Scotsman

Get on board the Flying Scotsman as the recently restored locomotive takes to the tracks and celebrates the golden era of steam with this interactive video feature. 

The videos provide a track-side view of the Flying Scotsman as it travels through the English countryside following its £4.2m restoration.

Huge crowds watched the iconic train's spectacular journey from London King's Cross to York on its inaugural run last month.

The world famous locomotive is now on display at the National Railway Museum before taking to the rails once again for special tours across the UK throughout 2016. 

Twitter, eBay, Airbnb, Reddit and More Officially Supporting Apple in FBI Fight

Sixteen technology companies today teamed up to officially support Apple in its ongoing encryption dispute with the FBI, a copy of which has been shared by Apple. Twitter, Airbnb, eBay, LinkedIn, Square, Atlassian, Automattic, Cloudflare, GitHub, Kickstarter, Mapbox, Meetup, Reddit, Squarespace, Twilio, and Wickr filed an amicus brief [PDF] backing Apple's assertion that the FBI's use of the All Writs Act to force Apple to help the government unlock the iPhone used by San Bernardino shooter Syed Farook is both unprecedented and dangerous. 

The government's demand here, at its core, is unbound by any legal limits. It would set a dangerous precedent, in which the government could sidestep established legal procedures authorized by thorough, nuanced statutes to obtain users' data in ways not contemplated by lawmakers."

The filing, which urges the court to vacate the government's motion to compel Apple to unlock the phone, argues that handling user data in a "safe, secure, and transparent manner" that protects privacy is of the "utmost importance" to protect consumers from hackers and other wrongdoers, while also recognizing the government's "important work" in law enforcement and national security. It says the companies oppose forced backdoors, but will continue to comply with "proper and reasonable" requests for data. 

Dozens of technology companies, industry trade groups, and encryption experts have been submitting documents to support Apple, all catalogued on Apple's website. AT&T, Intel, and the Electronic Frontier Foundation filed separate amicus briefs this morning, as did the Consumer Technology Association in partnership with the Business Software Alliance [PDF], a group that includes Microsoft, Salesforce, Oracle, IBM, and Autodesk. 

Other amicus briefs have come from Access Now and the Wickr Foundation, ACT/The App Association, the American Civil Liberties Union, and a group of cryptography experts including Jonathan Zdziarski. 

More amicus briefs are expected to be filed throughout the day, including one from a consortium that includes Google, Nest Labs, Facebook, WhatsApp, Evernote, Snapchat, and Mozilla. 

All "Friend of the court" or amicus briefs supporting Apple are due by Thursday evening to give Sheri Pym, the judge presiding over the case, time to read through them before a court hearing. Apple is set to face off against the FBI in court on Tuesday, March 22. 

Update: As expected, another consortium of technology companies that includes Google, Amazon, Box, Cisco, Dropbox, Evernote, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Mozilla, Nest, Pinterest, Slack, Snapchat, Whatsapp, and Yahoo has submitted an amicus brief in support of Apple.  

Additional amicus briefs have been filed by the Center for Democracy & Technology, The Media Institute, Privacy International and Human Rights Watch, a group of 32 law professors, and a consortium including AVG Technologies, Data Foundry, Golden Frog, the Computer & Communications Industry Association, the Internet Association, and the Internet Infrastructure Coalition. 

Five families of San Bernardino victims have filed in support of the FBI. 

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UN human rights chief backs Apple in FBI encryption row

Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein, high commissioner for human rights at the United Nations, has warned that a "Pandora's box" will be opened if Apple co-operates with the FBI.

The FBI has ordered the tech giant to assist it with unlocking an iPhone used by San Bernadino gunman Syed Farook. 

Prince Al Hussein said the law enforcement agency "deserves everyone's full support" in its investigation.

However, encryption was essential in the interests of freedom, he added.

"There are many ways to investigate whether or not these killers had accomplices besides forcing Apple to create software to undermine the security features of their own phones," he said in a statement.

"It is potentially a gift to authoritarian regimes, as well as to criminal hackers.

"Encryption and anonymity are needed as enablers of both freedom of expression and opinion, and the right to privacy. Without encryption tools, lives may be endangered."

Syed Rizwan Farook and his wife Tashfeen Malik killed 14 people and left 22 injured when they opened fire at his place of work in California in December 2015.

The FBI has asked Apple to disable a feature that means the data on an iPhone is erased after 10 incorrect attempts at the four-digit password. It also wants to be able to run software that could go through the 10,000 possible combinations to unlock the gunman's handset quickly.

Apple says agreeing to the request would set "a dangerous precedent".

Tech support

A number of major tech firms have also pledged their support for Apple's refusal to circumvent its own security.

Two groups of tech giants have now filed an amicus brief, which allows parties not directly involved in a court case, but who feel they are affected by it, to give their view.

They include Twitter, AirBnB, eBay, LinkedIn, Reddit, Amazon, Microsoft, Snapchat and Yahoo.

However, a lawyer representing a group of Farook's surviving victims said he would file similar legal paperwork on their behalf in support of the FBI.

"They were targeted by terrorists, and they need to know why, how this could happen," said Stephen Larson, a former judge.

He declined to say how many of the victims he was representing, but did add that he would not be charging them a fee.

Google’s Newest Trick Will Delight Animal Lovers

Google knows a lot of stuff: What time the Super Bowl is, what the weather’s like outside, and who Martin Van Buren’s vice president was.

Now it knows what sound the dog makes, too.

A new update brings a handful of animal sounds to the search engine, as spotted by The Huffington Post. Simply type a question like “What sound does a humpback whale make?,” and you’ll be treated to a small sampling of magnificent whalesong.

There’s also a cat’s meow, horse’s neigh and more. Sadly, there’s no answer for “what does the fox say?” — but we already have that answer anyway.