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For decades, patients have moaned about dreary meals served up in NHS hospitals, with complaints about cold dinners, 'tiny portions' and overcooked slop.

Maltesers fans claim the delectable brown balls 'taste better' from a cardboard box - and now scientists reveal why.

The idea of your partner having sex with a robot might sound like the stuff of nightmares. But a new report has revealed that a quarter of people wouldn't mind - albeit with an important caveat.

Unlike her most famous client Sir Keir Starmer, voice coach Leonie Mellinger knows exactly how to deliver a punchline.

It's common for couples to muse that the universe might have worked in a mysterious way so that they could meet. And it seems Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's first date met those requirements.

The 71-year-old man was found guilty by a jury

Adam Kinzinger's heroism in saving a young woman from a knife attack in 2006 jump-started his political career - but new revelations from his then-girlfriend take the shine off his record.

In the past three years, this ghastly war has taught us one thing - never, ever under-estimate the Ukrainians. Their audacity is undimmed. Their heroism puts doubters to shame.

Legendary commentator Clive Tyldesley has provided an update on his health. Tyldesley responded to comments after posting a hospital selfie earlier in the day.

Olivia Attwood has raised concerns over the 1,000-plus men that queued to take part in a marathon sordid sex session with notorious OnlyFans star Bonnie Blue.

Filming for the show last summer took place on Ferntower Road in Islington, north London, an elegant tree-lined thoroughfare where houses cost anything up to £2million.

The team are raising money to try and keep it going

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: If you watched the 2007 documentary King of Kong or followed the controversy surrounding score-chaser Billy Mitchell, you know all about Donkey Kong's famous kill screen. For over four decades, no one was able to pass the game's 117th screen (aka level 22-1) due to a glitch in the game's bonus timer that kills Mario well before he can reach the top of the stage's girders. That was true until last weekend, when Mario speedrunner Kosmic shared the news that he had passed the kill screen using a combination of frame-perfect emulator inputs, a well-known ladder movement glitch, and a bit of luck. And even though Kosmic's trick is functionally impossible to pull off with human reflexes on real hardware, the method shows how the game's seemingly insurmountable kill screen actually can be overcome without modifying the code on an official Donkey Kong arcade board.

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A terrifying interactive map reveals just how much of major UK cities would be flattened by the impact of the 'city killer' asteroid 2024 YR4.

As unlikely as it sounds, taping your mouth shut at night is being touted online as the solution to it all. And thanks to such claims, the practice has become something of a health craze.

I have been married for 20 years and, when we tied the knot, I was madly in love with a gorgeous man I thought perfect in nearly every way. Now we are in our 40s, I'm afraid I'm not so sure.

A father is at war with his council in a planning row that could see him lose more than £250,000 and have his renovation works demolished.

There will be a closure for a full day

The late Queen of England and Ireland was so legendary that her reign was officially crowned the Elizabethan era. But one rumour has threatened to crack her tenable legacy, according to History Extra.

Louise Lasalle, 11, from Essonne, northern France, was last seen around 1.50pm on Friday as she left the André-Maurois middle school in Épinay-sur-Orge, before her body was discovered.