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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Donald Trump are open to using military force like airstrikes and special forces against drug cartels in Mexico.

Furious mother, Emma Cormie from Moray, Scotland, has criticised the school's use of inappropriate material that left her daughter 'anxious' and 'stressed'.

A NASA astronaut revealed she has lost a bodily function since being stranded in space for eight months. Sunita Williams, and crewmate, Barry Wilmore were supposed to be in space for 8 days.

A failure to produce reports for Parliament has left the committees charged with scrutinising spending in the dark over what Britain needs to buy to defend itself.

The Swiss canton ("state") of Basel-Stadt fixed a tax flyer typo by buying the incorrect domain and setting up a redirect, avoiding a $100,000 reprint cost. TechCrunch reports: As Swiss news outlet SRF reports, the Basel tax administration printed fliers that were supposed to include a URL to file taxes online. However, the Swiss country code top-level domain (ccTLD) of ".ch" was omitted, leaving just the Basel-Stadt suffix of ".bs" -- which just happens to be the ccTLD of the Bahamas. A spokesperson for Basel-Stadt's department of finance told SRF that it would cost the equivalent of around $100,000 to print and send out a batch of new flyers, so it was a no-brainer to fork out $1,000 to administer the new domain instead.

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Sunita Williams lays claim to lead for female EVAs

NASA 'naut Sunita Williams has broken Peggy Whitson's record for total spacewalking time for a female astronaut with a trip outside the International Space Station (ISS) to collect samples from the outpost's exterior.…

Ex-British army sniper, Alexander Garms-Rizzi, 23, has been killed in Ukraine after sacrificing himself being gunned down by a Russian drone in a bid to save his fellow servicemen.

'Gone are the days a feller can get his wiener frozen f*** solid to the ground without it going viral,' the man wrote.

University of Wolverhampton's School of Art will be razed to the ground as part of a major redevelopment of the campus, but critics have blasted the move as 'wasteful' and 'anti-growth'.

STEPHEN GLOVER: Judge Alison Raeside (pictured) presided in numerous hearings to do with Sara Sharif, including the one in 2019.

Hailey Bieber could be set to expand her hugely successful Rhode skincare and makeup company this year with a high profile move into retail.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: What exactly is wrong with the batteries in some of Google's Pixel 4a phones still out there? Google has not really said. Now that many Pixel 4a owners are experiencing drastically reduced battery life after an uncommon update for an end-of-life phone, they are facing a strange array of options with no path back to the phone they had. Google's "Pixel 4a Battery Performance Program," announced in early January, told owners that an automatic update would, for some "Impacted Devices," reduce their battery's runtime and charging performance. "Impacted" customers could choose, within one year's time, between three "appeasement" options: sending in the phone for a battery replacement, getting $50 or the equivalent in their location, or receiving $100 in credit in the Google Store toward a new Pixel phone. No safety or hazard issue was mentioned in the support document. Google did not explain why only certain devices were affected, but Hector Martin -- of Asahi Linux on Apple silicon, open source Kinect drivers, and other fame -- took apart the update's binary kernel and has some guesses. Martin points out that the updated Pixel 4a kernel has these interesting characteristics: - It seems to have been built by a Google engineer "on their personal machine, not the proper buildsystem." -- There is no source provided, as would normally be required of a Linux kernel build, though it may only need to be provided on request under the GNU General Public License. - The maximum charge voltage of certain battery profiles changes from 4.44 volts to 3.95, which would mean batteries cannot charge to anywhere near their former potential. - There are two main battery profiles, with distinct "ATL" and "LSN" markers; Martin suggests they relate to Amperex Technology Limited and Lishen, manufacturers of battery cells. - LSN-tagged batteries assigned the "debug" profile can see capacity reduced from 3,080 milliamp hours (mAh) to 1,539 mAh. The big question is why Google pushed an automatic update to a phone from 2020. "No news or community reports have surfaced yet of Pixel 4a devices causing fires, or even simply failing to function, after four years," writes Ars' Kevin Purdy. "It's an automatic update with a strong fix, but for what?" Google's support page only states that the update will "improve the stability of their battery's performance."

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She has always made an impression wherever she goes and on Friday, The TV presenter. 49. was successful in doing so again.

King Charles III is set to show 'what he stands for' in a feature-length film for Amazon Prime shot at Dumfries House, Scotland, that will focus on his passion for the environment.

Dr Victor Acharian (pictured) refused to see the 26-year-old patient, who attended the gynaecological appointment with her boyfriend, in August 2023.

ALEX BRUMMER: There can be no greater example of Labour's naive attitude to growth and business than its refusal to back an investment on Merseyside by British pharmaceutical pioneer AstraZeneca.

Enormous plumes of smoke were seen billowing from Satmar V'Yoel Moshe Orthodox synagogue on Northumberland Street.

Forrester's take on President's economic agenda offers little optimism for the industry

It's been less than two weeks since Donald Trump returned to the White House, and the effect the administration may have on the global tech industry is still far from clear. …

Higher taxes mean that a 'golden era' of British gin-making could be over, according to the UK Spirits Alliance - which represents 300 liquor producers .

Concerns have been raised over Lord Hermer's 'conflicts of interest' after refusing to disclose his earnings for representing the likes of Gerry Adams and Shamima Begum.