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Chairman Baroness Heather Hallett (pictured) said Covid-19's impact on children was 'severe and long-lasting' because they missed educational opportunities and social interaction.

The Chancellor told ITV News that she would 'make sure' betting firms paid more ahead of the Budget.

If your parents engaged in a risky behavior around the time they hit puberty, it could end up taking years off your life as an adult, a newly presented study from researchers in Norway has suggested.

She earned a legion of fans - and an Emmy nomination - with her performance in The White Lotus.

University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH) is offering surveillance tests to women with the BRCA1 or BRCA2 gene mutations that put them at higher risk of the disease.

Two years ago Britney Spears dropped her bombshell memoir, The Woman in Me, and launched a fierce bidding war over the rights to adapt the tell-all book into a Hollywood movie.

WhatsApp founder Jan Koum has accused a renowned interior designer of ripping him off millions while renovating his luxury homes and superyachts. 

Thomas Sanford - the father of 40-year-old Thomas Jacob Sanford - issued the family's first words since his son rammed his pickup truck into the Grand Blanc Township church.

Paris Fashion Week kicked off with the star-studded Saint Laurent show on Monday, with Kate Moss, Charli XCX and Hailey Bieber among those gracing the front row.

Under the Chancellor's 'youth guarantee', 18 to 21-year-olds who have been on Universal Credit for 18 months without earning or learning will be offered paid work.

This time, the undercover bods are desperate to obtain a drug-runner's handset 'with the encrypted messaging app still running'. They hope this will lead them back to Mr Big.

Comedian Jason Manford returns as host with the star-studded evening honouring the best in TV from the last 12 months.

The Oscar-winner made a triumphant entrance on the catwalk as she beamed from ear to ear while presenting a creation from the brand's Spring/Summer collection.

The Taliban have imposed a nationwide telecommunications shutdown in Afghanistan, severing fibre-optic connections and cutting off internet, mobile, and satellite services as part of "morality" measures. Netblock is currently tracking the outages. The BBC reports: Since seizing power in 2021, the Taliban have imposed numerous restrictions in accordance with their interpretation of Islamic Sharia law. Flights from Kabul airport have also been disrupted, according to reports. Several people in Kabul have told the BBC that their fibre-optic internet stopped working towards the end of the working day, around17:00 local time (12:30 GMT). Because of this, it is understood many people will not notice the impact until Tuesday morning, when banking services and other businesses are due to resume. [...] The Taliban earlier said an alternative route for internet access would be created, without giving any details. Business leaders at the time warned that if the internet ban continued their activities would be seriously hit. Hamid Haidari, former editor-in-chief of Afghan news channel 1TV, said after the shutdown that "loneliness enveloped the entire country." "Afghanistan has now officially taken first place in the competition with North Korea for [internet] disconnection" he said on X.

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A mysterious craft was spotted over Texas this month, adding it to a growing list similar triangle-shaped UFOs invading US airspace.

The 54-year-old comedian - whose ex husband Will Arnett is currently dating a supermodel - was joined by her rarely-seen 15-year-old son Abel out in LA on Sunday.

The Oscar-winner, 55, has been in a relationship with his now-wife, 42, since 2006, and the pair welcomed two children, Levi, 17, and Vida, 15, before they finally tied the knot in 2012.

Leonardo Machado was too young to be a food delivery driver but earned money by 'renting' the licence.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Politico: California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a first-in-the-nation law on Monday that will force major AI companies to reveal their safety protocols -- marking the end of a lobbying battle with big tech companies like ChatGPT maker OpenAI and Meta and setting the groundwork for a potential national standard. The proposal was the second attempt by the author, ambitious San Francisco Democrat state Sen. Scott Wiener, to pass such legislation after Newsom vetoed a broader measure last year that set off an international debate. It is already being watched in Congress and other states as an example to follow as lawmakers seek to rein in an emerging technology that has been embraced by the Trump administration in the race against China, but which has also prompted concerns for its potential to create harms.

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A plus-size rapper has settled a lawsuit with taxi giant Lyft after one of their drivers refused to take her because of her size.