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MailOnline analysis has revealed where the most expensive family days out are - including the hidden costs of parking charges...

John Kiriakou, an ex-CIA officer who was jailed for being a whistleblower in 2012, shared why he thinks Jeffery Epstein's 'client list' will never see the light of day.

It was once home to a Himalayan black bear named Lulu, as well as a number of other animals, including chimpanzees and reptiles

The Prince and Princess of Monaco appeared to put controversy about their marriage behind them as they posed lovingly in a series of sweet snaps to commemorate the day he was bestowed power.

Adam Levine and his wife Behati Prinsloo celebrated their 11th wedding anniversary on Saturday with sweet Instagram posts - nearly three years after his 'sexting' scandal.

Protesters have gathered outside a hotel in Essex believed to be housing asylum seekers.

Protesters have gathered outside a hotel in Essex believed to be housing asylum seekers.

The Rivals actress, 35, who announced the hunk had popped the question on Friday, looked gorgeous in a plunging black bikini top and colourful bottoms while soaking up the sunshine.

A new video shows flames emanating from one side of a Boeing 767 moments after takeoff, reports LiveMint.com. "Delta flight 446 was forced to make an emergency landing in Los Angeles," they report, adding "No one was injured. The fire was extinguished upon landing." According to a report by Aviation A2Z, the plane (24-year-old Boeing 767-400 with registration N836MH) had just departed from Los Angeles International Airport when its left engine ignited. The pilots promptly declared an emergency and requested to return to the airport. Delta faced a similar issue less than three months ago. The article notes the engine of an Airbus also caught on fire in April when pushing back from the gate for departure. CBS News describes that incident: Delta said crew members evacuated the cabin when flames were seen in the tailpipe of one of the plane's two main engines and fire crews quickly responded. According to Delta, the plane, an Airbus 330, had 282 passengers, 10 flight attendants and two pilots on board... The engine fire marks the latest aviation scare involving the airline in recent months. In February, 21 people were injured after a Delta plane flipped upside down while landing amid wintry conditions at Toronto Pearson International Airport. All of the injured passengers were later released from the hospital. In January, several people were injured after a Delta flight aborted its takeoff at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, forcing about 200 passengers to evacuate the plane through emergency slides. ["A passenger says the engine on the Boeing 757 caught fire," according to CBS's video report in January.]

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The songstress, 55, flaunted her jaw-dropping figure in a skimpy thong bodysuit which boasted racy cut outs and left very little to the imagination.

Video footage shared on social media showed a brief tussle between the actor who unfurled the flag and a staff member who tried to take it off him.

It is a brilliant place to take the kids for the day this summer - offering water sports like sailing and rowing and a mini diving board into the lake

Lamine Yamal is the latest star to throw a bash that has landed him in trouble. The Barcelona and Spain star has been widely criticised for an 18th birthday celebratory bash.

After a few months on it, Kelly, 32, said she noticed a rather unwelcome change that has now made it extremely difficult to get any food down - even when she feels starving

Organisers have called the event a "peaceful protest"

San Francisco-based startup Orchid Health "screens embryos for thousands of potential future illnesses," reports the Washington Post, calling it "the first company to say it can sequence an embryo's entire genome of 3 billion base pairs." It uses as few as five cells from an embryo to test for more than 1,200 of these uncommon single-gene-derived, or monogenic, conditions. The company also applies custom-built algorithms to produce what are known as polygenic risk scores, which are designed to measure a future child's genetic propensity for developing complex ailments later in life, such as bipolar disorder, cancer, Alzheimer's disease, obesity and schizophrenia. Orchid, [founder Noor] Siddiqui said in a tweet, is ushering in "a generation that gets to be genetically blessed and avoid disease." Right now, at $2,500 per embryo-screening on top of the average $20,000 for a single cycle of IVF, Siddiqui's social network in Silicon Valley and other tech hubs is an ideal target market... Yet several genetic scientists told The Post they doubt Orchid's core claim: that it can accurately sequence an entire human genome from just five cells collected from an early-stage embryo, enabling it to see many more single- and multiple-gene-derived disorders than other methods have. Experts have struggled to extract accurate genetic information from small embryonic samples, said Svetlana Yatsenko, a Stanford University pathology professor who specializes in clinical and research genetics. Genetic tests that use saliva or blood samples typically collect hundreds of thousands of cells. For its vastly smaller samples, Orchid uses a process called amplification, which creates copies of the DNA retrieved from the embryo. That process, Yatsenko said, can introduce major inaccuracies. "You're making many, many mistakes in the amplification," she said, rendering it problematic to declare any embryo free of a particular disease, or positive for one. "It's basically Russian roulette...." Numerous fertility doctors and scientists also told The Post they have serious reservations about screening embryos through polygenic risk scoring, the technique that allows Orchid and other companies to predict future disease by tying clusters of hundreds or even thousands of genes to disease outcomes and in some cases to other traits, such as intelligence and height. The vast majority of diseases that afflict humans are associated with many different genes rather than a single gene... And for traits such as intelligence, polygenic scoring has almost negligible predictive capacity — just a handful of IQ points... Or parents might select against an unwanted trait, such as schizophrenia, without understanding how they may be screening out desired traits associated with the same genes, such as creativity... The American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics calls the benefits of screening embryos for polygenic risks "unproven" and warns that such tests "should not be offered" by clinicians. A pioneer of polygenic risk scores, Harvard epidemiology professor Peter Kraft, has criticized Orchid, saying on X that "the science doesn't add up" and that "waving a magic wand and changing some of these variants at birth may not do anything at all." The article notes several startups are already providing predictions on intelligence. "In the United States, there are virtually no restrictions on the types of genetic predictions companies can offer, and no external vetting of their proprietary scoring methods."

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Following Denise Richards' accusations of abuse against her estranged husband Aaron Phypers, insiders reveal exactly what went down while filming their Bravo reality series.

The National Association of Schoolmasters Union of Women Teachers (NASUWT) revealed that 51 per cent of Jewish teachers have experienced anti-semitism since May 2023.

A NUMBER of roads across areas of the county will close next month - including High Street closures and a road shutting for over 45 days.

Witham MP Priti Patel joined the Hindu community at the opening of the Sri Srinivasa Perumal Temple in Hatfield Peverel.