Secret messages embedded in television adverts can direct smartphones to spy on their owners using listening software, according to German researchers. There’s been a huge growth in Android apps using software that’s designed to search for inaudible “ultrasonic” signals, and these signals can contain code which orders apps to begin tracking people’s location, what they’re watching on television... 

A DAD-of-four who split up a fight in a McDonald’s was shot dead moments after being told he wouldn’t see the morning. Raymond Mitchell, 34, had only popped into the restaurant to buy a hot chocolate. But he apparently caused offence after splitting up two men fighting in the queue. One of them, who had several gold teeth, shouted at Raymond: “You are gonna die tonight, you are not gonna see...