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Footage shows neighbours of missing Wa Siti, 55, holding their torches and machetes as they grappled with the snake in the tall grass of South East Sulawesi in Indonesia

Today would have been Lady Anne Glenconner and Lord Colin Glenconner's 69th wedding anniversary, a matrimony that was truly a royal affair.

Speaking on Woman's Hour, UK Homes Therapist Michelle Ogundehin explained that many well-intentioned organisers are simply trying to go about the process too quickly.

Sonia (Natalie Cassidy) originally lived in her modest abode on Albert Square with only her ex-partner Reiss Colwell (Jonny Freeman).

Footage of the brief exchange outside the Vatican yesterday is now deeply poignant following the pontiff's death today at the age of 88.

Martin Lewis had issued advice to anyone who has moved home since 1993. The money expert, 52, revealed if you've moved house in the last 31 years you could be owed money.

British UFC star Paddy Pimblett has revealed he has piled on the pounds since picking up the biggest win of his career over Michael Chandler last weekend.

The pontiff died today aged 88 after spending his final weeks in hospital with an infection that developed into pneumonia in both lungs.

Pope Francis is being mourned all over the world following his death at the age of 88, with football paying its own tribute to the Argentine.

Suzanne Cherry, 62, died in hospital four days after she was hit by a van, which was being chased by police, at Aston Wood Golf Club in north Birmingham .

Married couple textile designer Natasha and bathroom designer Tim, from Gloucestershire, wanted to buy a holiday home in the city of Lucca, Tuscany, for £130,000.

Kim Antrobus and her friend Louise Edlin, were so excited for a girls' getaway to Costa Azul, Portugal, last month. But their holiday was 'ruined' when they checked in to their hotel.

The Scottish singer, 28, announced he would be taking a break away from the spotlight for his mental health after performing at Glastonbury in June 2023.

The Swedish royal, 42, who is the youngest child of King Carl XVI Gustaf and his wife Queen Silvia , revealed last month she was launching a natural skincare line called MinLen.

An often overlooked pyramid in Mexico was filled with pools of a rare element in its underground chambers, leading to new theories that the structure may have had a shocking hidden purpose.

In February tech journalist Nicholas Carr published Superbloom: How Technologies of Connection Tear Us Apart. A University of Virginia academic journal says the book "appraises the past and present" of information technology while issuing "a warning about its future." And specifically Carr argues that the government ignored historic precedents by not regulating the early internet sometime in the 1990s. But as he goes on to remind us, the early 1990s were also when the triumphalism of America's Cold War victory, combined with the utopianism of Silicon Valley, convinced a generation of decision-makers that "an unfettered market seemed the best guarantor of growth and prosperity" and "defending the public interest now meant little more than expanding consumer choice." So rather than try to anticipate the dangers and excesses of commercialized digital media, Congress gave it free rein in the Telecommunications Act of 1996, which, as Carr explains, "...erased the legal and ethical distinction between interpersonal communication and broadcast communications that had governed media in the twentieth century. When Google introduced its Gmail service in 2004, it announced, with an almost imperial air of entitlement, that it would scan the contents of all messages and use the resulting data for any purpose it wanted. Our new mailman would read all our mail." As for the social-media platforms, Section 230 of the Act shields them from liability for all but the most egregiously illegal content posted by users, while explicitly encouraging them to censor any user-generated content they deem offensive, "whether or not such material is constitutionally protected" (emphasis added). Needless to say, this bizarre abdication of responsibility has led to countless problems, including what one observer calls a "sociopathic rendition of human sociability." For Carr, this is old news, but he warns us once again that the compulsion "to inscribe ourselves moment by moment on the screen, to reimagine ourselves as streams of text and image...[fosters] a strange, needy sort of solipsism. We socialize more than ever, but we're also at a further remove from those we interact with." Carr's book suggests "frictional design" to slow posting (and reposting) on social media might "encourage civil behavior" — but then decides it's too little, too late, because our current frictionless efficiency "has burrowed its way too deeply into society and the social mind." Based on all of this, the article's author looks ahead to the next revolution — AI — and concludes "I do not think it wise to wait until these kindly bots are in place before deciding how effective they are. Better to roll them off the nearest cliff today..."

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Williams was subjected to abuse from the Munich crowd during his match, including what appeared to be an F-word insult shouted in his direction.

Lauren Baker and Jasmine Layton both run their own biohazard cleaning businesses clearing out drug dens and crime scenes - and say they wouldn't want to do anything else.

When Jorge Mario Bergoglio was 12, he developed a crush on a girl called Amalia. Their parents disapproved, but Jorge went ahead and proposed anyway.

A leading doctor has warned of the five key signs of colon cancer , amid the 'alarming rise' of cases amongst Gen Z and millennials.