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Claudia Hearne was embroiled in a planning nightmare after completing her extension, where the future of her rear extension on her £1million west London home hung in the balance.

United States forces have launched strikes on Iran for a ninth consecutive night, hours after the military confirmed a third soldier was killed in the combat.

The 45-year-old former child star was defeated by Laura Friedman while running for California's 30th congressional district in 2023

Officials said that a large group of bystanders was outside Reign Event Center in Minneapolis just before 12.30am when a fight escalated.

With the score poised at 0-0 in the first half of extra-time, the Spanish winger thought he'd won it when he slotted a side-footed effort under Emi Martinez.

An anonymous reader shared this report from Tom's Hardware: The Zilog Z80 has just turned 50 years old. This iconic 8-bit processor first went on sale in July 1976 and stayed in production for 48 years until Zilog, now a Littelfuse subsidiary, stopped accepting orders in June 2024. However, there's an open-source replacement closer than ever to shipping in the chip's original 40-pin DIP package thanks to community-funded fabrication... The chip powered the ZX Spectrum, TRS-80, MSX machines, Nintendo's Game Boy, Sega's Master System, the Pac-Man arcade cabinet, and Texas Instruments' graphing calculators, then shipped in industrial controllers for decades after home computing moved on to more powerful successors. Zilog's end-of-life notice, dated April 15, 2024, told customers its wafer foundry was discontinuing support for the Z84C00 family, and last-time-buy orders closed that June. However, Renaldas Zioma's FOSS Z80 project, launched shortly after the end-of-life notice, now has working silicon. The first version, fabbed on SkyWater's 130nm node through Tiny Tapeout 7 on a die of just 0.064mm(2), has been confirmed as functional via the project's GitHub repository. A QFN64 version with all 40 pins exposed followed on the Efabless CI2406 shuttle, two further runs then went through IHP's 130nm process, and the current run targets the classic DIP40 form factor using chip-on-board assembly on GlobalFoundries' 180nm GF180MCU node via Wafer.Space. The end goal here is to fab a drop-in replacement for machines like the ZX Spectrum and RC2014 kits... Zilog is trimming the Z80's official successor line as well. A product change notification from last October put the eZ80L92, along with several Z8F-series microcontrollers, on end-of-life, citing "little to no demand..." [T]he pipelined eZ80 architecture, introduced in 2001 and still inside TI's current TI-84 Plus CE calculators, otherwise remains in Zilog's catalog. In 1999 Slashdot was calling Zilog's updated eZ80 "one of the fastest 8-bit CPUs available today, executing code 4 times faster than a standard Z80 operating at the same clock speed." Slashdot headline from 2001: Zilog To File For Chapter 11.

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A slew of stars gathered at Met Life stadium in New Jersey for the highly-anticipated World Cup final, and many of them completely missed the mark with their outfits.

It is a look that could - and probably should - have vanished with the departure of Hilda Ogden from Coronation Street all those years ago.

Daily Mail Sport's Craig Hope delivers his verdict from the MetLife Stadium.

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An 86-year-old Briton became the oldest casualty of this year's San Fermin festival after being gored during the final bull run in Pamplona.

Chairman Samir Shah said bosses will now take presenters' lucrative external work into account during salary reviews.

Football may not have come home this year - but one sport England has excelled in this past week is snail racing.

Police arrested the woman at Gran Canaria airport after she protested there had been problems with the bank card she had used to book the all-inclusive holiday.

Dr Ederson da Silva, 68, and his wife, Roseli Amarilda Pechulo Silva, 62, were returning from the funeral of the doctor's father when tragedy struck.

The Chelsea midfielder was given a second yellow card for a late challenge on Spain defender Pau Cubarsi and dismissed with minutes to go.

Influencer Andrew Tate tried to get Donald Trump's help yesterday as he was arrested in Miami on new sex abuse charges.

Online 'content creators' were handed taxpayers' money to promote Labour's policies in the department, including its soft justice measures.

After all the drama of the two semi-finals, the showpiece game of the 2026 World Cup couldn't live up to the hype but at least it had the right winner.

The reality star's daughter Kara revealed that Keough, 70, had been battling cancer in a GoFundMe page requesting donations to help cover her treatments.