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After a nail biting day of men's semi finals at Wimbledon on Friday the stars were out once again on Saturday for day 13 of the tournament. 

The AA Driving School has analysed 5.5 million answers from its driving theory test app to discover the trickiest questions to answer correctly, with less than a fifth of qualified drivers very confident they could pass a retake

A 63-year-old woman died in front of distraught onlookers yesterday at a Scots beauty spot.

She once said love is lovelier the second time round when she found romance again following divorce.

Chelsea winger Pedro Neto has penned a touching tribute to Diogo Jota's after the former Liverpool star tragically died in a car crash in northern Spain on July 3 aged 28.

An SNP quango has handed out £18.4 million to defence firms in the past five years, despite ministers claiming the Scottish Government does not fund companies involved in munitions.

Thousands hard-pressed Scots are raiding their savings to pay for cataract surgery amid soaring NHS waiting lists, MailOnline can reveal.

The American was comforted by the Princess of Wales after being demolished in just 57 minutes on Centre Court by Iga Swiatek.

It killed tens of millions of people in 14th century Europe," CNN reports, though "today, it's easily treated with antibiotics." And yet "A resident of northern Arizona has died from pneumonic plague, health officials said Friday." Plague is rare to humans, with on average about seven cases reported annually in the U.S., most of them in the western states, according to federal health officials. The death in Coconino County, which includes Flagstaff, was the first recorded death from pneumonic plague since 2007, local officials said... The bubonic plague is the most common form of the bacterial infection, which spreads naturally among rodents like prairie dogs and rats. There are two other forms: septicemic plague that spreads through the whole body, and pneumonic plague that infects the lungs. Pneumonic plague is the most deadly and easiest to spread.

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MATTHEW LAMBWELL ON CENTRE COURT: Iga Swiatek won 6-0, 6-0 in 57 minutes, a match that went by in a flash but will linger in the memory and in the record books.

The 30-year-old, who was on Bournemouth's books from 2007 to 2012 but never made his senior debut for the club, was left in a coma for two weeks after the crash in February.

Former news anchor and journalist Kirsty Wark has shown that she's game for a laugh after sending herself up in a new Scots comedy show.

A police investigation is ongoing

Vanessa Hudgens is expanding her family!

Noel Fielding made a rare public appearance on Saturday with his partner Lliana Bird as they attended BST Hyde Park together.

"Microsoft's Outlook email service malfunctioned for over 21 hours Wednesday and Thursday," reports CNBC, "prompting some people to post on social media about the inability to reach their virtual mailboxes." The issue began at 6:20 p.m. Eastern time on Wednesday, according to a dashboard the software company maintains. It affected Outlook.com as well as Outlook mobile apps and desktop programs. At 12:21 ET on Thursday, the Microsoft 365 Status account posted that it was rolling out a fix. Although earlier on Thursday Microsoft posted on X that "We identified an issue with the initial fix, and we've corrected it..." More details from the Associated Press: Disruptions appeared to peak just before noon ET on Thursday, when more than 2,700 users worldwide reported issues with Outlook, formerly also Hotmail, to outage tracker Downdetector. Some said they encountered problems like loading their inboxes or signing in. By later in the afternoon, reports had fallen to just over a couple hundred... Microsoft did not immediately provide more information about what had caused the hourslong outage. A spokesperson for Microsoft had no further comment when reached by The Associated Press on Thursday.

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He said there are songs that bring 'amazing memories' from the clubs

An American-Mexican radio DJ who has visited every country in the world has revealed which one he thinks is the world's most dangerous to travel - and which he thinks is the most overrated.

He also inspired the name of a car park, and his name is on a monument and a tree

For over a decade, a medieval theme park has lay derelict, decaying and rotting. As indictments of 21st-century Britain go, Chorley's Camelot theme park is hard to top.