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The president signaled his support for spy chief Gabbard's claims that Obama fabricated evidence to make it seem like Russia interfered in the 2016 election in a bid to undermine Trump's win.

If you scroll through the social media feeds of these 'nomads', it's easy to assume they live a charmed life. But, as we will demonstrate, they aren't always the big shots they claim to be...

Al Carns staged talks with former Special Forces soldiers (pictured, file photo) on Saturday before formal negotiations around payouts begin.

Based on the superb books by Val McDermid, this returning drama has plots as deep and dark as a coal mine shaft.

The Queen's sister was described as being 'incredibly sloshed' as musicians danced around, according to former BBC presenter Steve Blacknell.

It is set to be a must have this summer

The 'model' whose social media persona became an internet sensation at the championships was actually created by AI.

Newly engaged Emily Atack and her fiancé Alistair Garber have been enjoying a romantic getaway at the Midi-Pyrenees in France

Sitting up in the dentist's chair, still numb from the anaesthetic, I gazed into the mirror and felt sick with dismay.

Zayed Alanzi, 26, (pictured) is said to have stalked a woman before he grabbed her by the cheeks, kissed her and shoved his tongue inside.

"The distant reaches of the Solar System are still mysterious," writes ScienceAlert. "Not much sunlight pierces these regions, and there are strong hints that undiscovered objects lurk there. The objects that astronomers have discovered in these dim reaches are primordial, and their orbits suggest the presence of more undiscovered objects." And now thanks to the giant 8.2-meter Subaru telescope at Hawaii's Mauna Kea Observatory, astronomers have discovered "a massive new solar system body located beyond the orbit of Pluto," reports Space.com. The weird elongated orbit of the object suggests that if "Planet Nine" exists, it is much further from the sun than thought, or it has been ejected from our planetary system altogether. The strange orbit of the object, designated 2023 KQ14 and nicknamed "Ammonite," classifies it as a "sednoid." Sednoids are bodies beyond the orbit of the ice giant Neptune, known as trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs), characterized by a highly eccentric (non-circular) orbit and a distant closest approach to the sun or "perihelion." The closest distance that 2023 KQ14 ever comes to our star is equivalent to 71 times the distance between Earth and the sun... This is just the fourth known sednoid, and its orbit is currently different from that of its siblings, though it seems to have been stable for 4.5 billion years. However, the team behind the discovery, made using Subaru Telescope as part of the Formation of the Outer Solar System: An Icy Legacy (FOSSIL) survey, thinks that all four sednoids were on similar orbits around 4.2 billion years ago. That implies something dramatic happened out at the edge of the solar system around 400 million years after its birth. Not only does the fact that 2023 KQ14 now follows a unique orbit suggest that the outer solar system is more complex and varied than previously thought, but it also places limits on a hypothetical "Planet Nine" theorized to lurk at the edge of the solar system. There's "no viable transfer mechanisms" to explain the observed orbits "with the current configuration of planets," according to the team's recently-published paper. But since those orbits are stable, it "suggests that an external gravitational influence beyond those of the currently known Solar System planets is required to form their orbits." So where does that leave us? ScienceAlert summarizes the rest of the paper — and where things stand now: Astronomers have proposed many sources for this external gravitational influence, including interactions with a rogue planet or star, ancient stellar interactions from when the Sun was still in its natal cluster, and the capture of objects from other lower-mass stars in the Solar System's early times. But the explanation that gets the most attention is interactions with a hypothetical planet, Planet Nine. If Planet Nine exists, it has a huge area to hide in. Some astronomers who have studied its potential existence think it could be the fifth largest planet in the Solar System. It would be so far away that it would be extremely dim. However, we may be on the cusp of detecting it, if it exists. The Vera Rubin Observatory recently saw first light and will begin its decade-long Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST). The LSST will find transient events and objects in the Solar System like no other telescope before it. It's purpose-built to find hard-to-detect objects, and not even an elusive object like Planet Nine may be able to hide from it.

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Former film student Ben Buckfield died last year after overdosing on Class A drug, MDMA, while attending the Boomtown festival in South Downs National Park, near Winchester, Hampshire.

The actress, 79, said she supported the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill, which would allow adults with less than six months to live to apply for assisted death.

A 70-seater coach carrying Minehead Middle School pupils on Thursday crashed off the road, flipped onto its roof and slid 20ft down a steep bank.

On her deathbed, Ethel Kennedy crowned the new matriarch of America's Royal Family. But this new leader has found herself embroiled in explosive drama as she makes savage cuts to the family.

It comes after The Mail on Sunday revealed that of occupants at 70 hotels, a 312 asylum seekers had been charged with 708 criminal offences, including rape. Pictured: Protest against migrant hotel

Emergency services were called to Spit Beach Car Park, near Par in Cornwall, after reports the 54-year-old had got into difficulty in the water.

PETE JENSON: Rashford rest easy after leaving behind his life as a United cast-off to become Barcelona's headline summer signing and their first Englishman since Gary Lineker left in 1989.

'I loved my first purchase so much, I bought four more as the designs are really flattering'

Liam Neeson has joked that his favourite part of making The Naked Gun was filming 'the sex scenes' with his co-star Pamela Anderson.