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Contactless card payment has been with us for 18 years. For many, myself included, it has transformed the way we pay for things

HMS Richmond and the USS Higgins passed between Taiwan and mainland China on Friday, prompting fury in Beijing.

The world of sport has been rocked in recent years by allegations of doping , match fixing and other underhand tactics.

Cotton buds should never be put into the ears - but there are things that can be done to tackle uncomfortable build-ups of wax.

He wore train-track braces and a teenager's awkward smile, but suspected assassin Tyler Robinson could not be more 'handsome' and 'wonderful' in the eyes of his mother and grandmother.

Charlie Kirk's widow, Erika Kirk, pledged to carry on her late husband's 'conservative movement' during an emotional broadcast Friday evening.

The quaint English parish topped the ranking of the 50 most beautiful villages in the world recently released by Forbes Magazine.

As part of an exclusive series, The Gazette has gone behind the scenes at Stansted Airport, meeting some of the people who help keep the county’s busiest airport moving.

The latest cases heard at North Essex Magistrates Court.

She boasts a five-bedroom converted barn home, set on an acre of land with extensive gardens

The latest cases heard at North Essex Magistrates Court.

As part of an exclusive series, The Gazette has gone behind the scenes at Stansted Airport, meeting some of the people who help keep the county’s busiest airport moving.

Laura Marie (pictured), from Devon, will pass 378 days in a simulated version of conditions on Earth's neighbouring planet, at Nasa's Johnson Space Centre in Houston, Texas.

The legendary singer and former chairman of Watford FC, 78, could be seen in good spirits as he sat in the stands waiting for kick off at 3pm.

The former England star made his debut for Dagenham & Redbridge last week, coming on as a substitute during their 5-2 defeat by Worthing after recovering from a hamstring injury.

He's the toxic TikTok influencer who refers to women as 'things', 'tarts' and 'sluts' while posing as a financier with a '£20million' annual income and a home in paradisiacal Bali.

Carina Harford, founder of London-based interior design studio Harford House, revealed the things that she says can make a home look cheap - adding it has nothing to do with how much money is spent.

In 2015 Kim Dotcom answered questions from Slashdot's readers. Now CBS News reports on "the latest chapter in a protracted 13-year battle by the U.S. government" to extradite Finnish-German millionaire Kim Dotcom from New Zealand: A New Zealand court has rejected the latest bid by internet entrepreneur Kim Dotcom to halt his deportation to the U.S. on charges related to his file-sharing website Megaupload. Dotcom had asked the High Court to review the legality of an official's August 2024 decision that he should be surrendered to the U.S. to face trial on charges of copyright infringement, money laundering and racketeering... The Megaupload founder had applied for what in New Zealand is called a judicial review, in which a judge is asked to evaluate whether an official's decision was lawful. A judge on Wednesday dismissed Dotcom's arguments that the decision to deport him was politically motivated and that he would face grossly disproportionate treatment in the U.S... New Zealand's government hasn't disclosed what will happen next in the extradition process or divulged an expected timeline for Dotcom to be surrendered to the United States Dotcom "has been free on bail in New Zealand since February 2012," the article points out — and "One of his lawyers, Ron Mansfield, told Radio New Zealand that Dotcom's team had 'much fight left in us as we seek to secure a fair outcome,' but he didn't elaborate..." The article notes that the latest decision "could be challenged in the Court of Appeal, where a deadline for filing is October 8."

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A REGISTERED sex offender in Essex has entered a guilty plea to more than a dozen charges after hundreds of images of children were found in his possession.

A REGISTERED sex offender in Essex has entered a guilty plea to more than a dozen charges after hundreds of images of children were found in his possession.