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Phoebe Waller-Bridge's long-awaited, big-budget Tomb Raider TV series seems to have run into a wall - or should that be fallen into a trap?

Maura Higgins appears to be distracting herself from the Danny Jones saga by throwing herself into work as MailOnline can reveal she has appeared in another racy campaign.

The latest middle-class must-have, Dubai chocolate has been dubbed 'the Hermès bag of chocolate'. But such is its popularity that, chances are, you haven't been able to get your hands on one.

It is often said if you ask a foolish question, you should expect a foolish answer.

The Stranger Things star, 49, attended CinemaCon 2025 at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas on Thursday.

Sue Roe's new book details how while on holiday with his wife, Picasso installed his mistress in a beach hut - then took up with another! But then came…

Sally Morris reviews the best kids books out now.

This week, Andrew Pierce answers our burning questions, what is he reading, what book would he take to a desert island, what gave him the reading bug, what left him cold?

Sara Lawrence reviews the best debuts books out now.

Barry Turner reviews the best Classic Crime novels out now.

Anthony Cummins reviews the best Literary Fiction out now.

In his ode to spring, beloved author Michael Morpurgo recount the joys of the life bringing season.

Air conditioning will contribute more to rising global energy demand than data centers through 2030, according to an International Energy Agency. While attention has focused on computing power consumption, the IEA projects data centers will account for less than 10% of increased energy demand by 2030, significantly less than space cooling requirements. Global cooling degree days, a measure of air conditioning need, were 6% higher in 2024 than 2023 and 20% above the long-term average for the first two decades of the century. China, India and the United States saw particularly sharp increases. Air conditioning represented 7% of global electricity consumption in 2022, with some U.S. regions reporting that cooling can comprise over 70% of residential energy use during peak periods. The number of air conditioning units worldwide could nearly triple from fewer than 2 billion in 2016 to approximately 6 billion by 2050, creating a growing challenge for power grids.

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DAVID COVERDALE: The revamp of the hill, officially called Aorangi Terrace, forms part of the All England Club's plans to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the championships in 2027.

He passed away at a hospice facility in West Palm Beach, Florida due to metastatic prostate cancer , his brother Paul told the New York Times .

Firefighters were scrambled to a mid-terraced home in Kingsway, Prescot, yesterday at 11.42pm after a fire had broken out in the first floor rear bedroom of the property.

U.S. stock markets suffered their worst day since the Covid pandemic after Donald Trump announced sweeping new tariffs, triggering a global selloff and wiping out $470 billion in value from tech giants Apple and Nvidia. From a report: The tech-heavy Nasdaq fell 6%, while the S&P 500 and the Dow dropped 4.8% and 3.9%, respectively. [...] Meanwhile, the US dollar hit a six-month low, going down at least 2.2% on Thursday morning compared with other major currencies and oil prices sank on fears of a global slowdown. Though the US stock market has been used to tumultuous mornings over the last few weeks, US stock futures -- an indication of the market's likely direction -- had plummeted after the announcement. Hours later, Japan's Nikkei index slumped to an eight-month low and was followed by falls in stock markets in London and across Europe. Multiple major American business groups have spoken out against the tariffs, including the Business Roundtable, a consortium of leaders of major US companies including JP Morgan, Apple and IBM, which called on the White House to "swiftly reach agreements" and remove the tariffs. "Universal tariffs ranging from 10-50% run the risk of causing major harm to American manufacturers, workers, families and exporters," the Business Roundtable said in a statement. "Damage to the US economy will increase the longer the tariffs are in place and may be exacerbated by retaliatory measures."

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Thursday night saw Mia Collins and Liam Snellin get booted off the BBC competition after the entrepreneurs were tasked with creating their own fashion brand.

The SKIMS founder had on a fur top around her chest but forgot to add her bottoms in a pinup post that received hundreds of thousands of likes. The 44-year-old had her black hair slicked back.

Intel and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. have reached a preliminary agreement to form a joint venture operating Intel's chipmaking facilities, with TSMC taking a 20% stake, The Information reports [non-paywalled source]. Intel and other U.S. semiconductor companies would hold the majority of shares in the proposed venture. Instead of capital investment, TSMC has discussed sharing chipmaking methods and training Intel personnel. The talks face internal opposition from some Intel executives concerned about widespread layoffs and the abandonment of Intel's own technology, according to the report. The deal could help TSMC neutralize a struggling competitor while potentially giving Taiwan more leverage with the U.S. administration, which recently imposed tariffs on Taiwanese goods excluding chips.

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