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One of the photos showed James planting a kiss on his wife Alizee's cheek during a hiking trip to the Lake District, accompanied by the couple's beloved dogs.

Two years after unsubstantiated rumours of an affair between golf reporter Balionis and grand slam winner McIlroy, she interviewed him several times during this year's tournament.

Venice is renowned for its unique canal system and popular gondolas - but the 'Floating City' might have to be relocated to protect it from rising sea levels, experts warn.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from UploadVR: A group of independent researchers built a device that can artificially induce smell using ultrasound, with no consumable cartridges required. [...] The team of four are Lev Chizhov, Albert Yan-Huang, Thomas Ribeiro, Aayush Gupta. Chizhov is a neurotech entrepreneur with a background in math and physics, Yan-Huang is a researcher at Caltech with a background in computation and neural systems, and Ribeiro and Gupta are co-researchers on the project with software engineering and AI expertise. Instead of targeting your nose at all, the device directly targets the olfactory bulb in your brain with "focused ultrasound through the skull." The researchers say that as far as they're aware, no one has ever done this before, even in animals. A challenge in targeting the olfactory bulb is that it's buried behind the top of your nose, and your nose doesn't provide a flat surface for an emitter. Ultrasound also doesn't travel well through air. The solution the researchers came up with was to place the emitter on your forehead instead, with a "solid, jello-like pad for stability and general comfort," and the ultrasound directed downward towards the olfactory bulb. To determine the best placement, they say they used an MRI of one of their skulls to "roughly determine where the transducer would point and how the focal region (where ultrasound waves actually concentrate) aligned with the olfactory bulb (the target for stimulation)". [...] According to the researchers, they were able to induce the sensation of fresh air "with a lot of oxygen", the smell of garbage "like few-day-old fruit peels," an ozone-like sensation "like you're next to an air ionizer," and a campfire smell of burning wood. While technically head-mounted, the current device does require being held up with two hands. But as with all such prototypes, it likely could be significantly miniaturized.

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It's got the character of a cute village but plenty of modern amenities

Residents on Lowfield Road in Kilburn, north-west London , woke up yesterday morning to find their walls covered with splashes of paint.

Climate charity Possible has pushed officials to 'take swift action' to help protect people wanting to go abroad on family holidays.

Travellers with journeys to or from Manchester Piccadilly have been warned to face disruption as a result of a major overhead cable failure.

The late monarch, who died aged 96 in September 2022, is still viewed positively by three out of four Britons [81%] - higher than any of her living relatives.

A Super 6 player from Bassingbourn, Cambridgeshire has scooped the £250,000 jackpot after correctly predicting six scores from this weekend's Premier League action.

Includes a to-do list on search data sharing and platform access as DMA enforcement ramps up

Brussels has told Google to open up its search data and give rivals equal footing on its own platforms, sketching out how it expects the tech giant to comply with the bloc's competition rulebook.…

Police have received reports of a white man of 'large build' getting into the car who they'd like to speak to in connection with the incident

The Russian President is poised to tighten his grip on military power with a controversial new law that could pave the way for his troops to be sent abroad under a sweeping new pretext.

Lululemon is currently under investigation in Texas for potentially using toxic PFAS in its apparel.

Looking at one air base on just one day of the Iran war, it appears probable that the US lost over a billion dollars worth of equipment.

Ghostbusters icon Rick Moranis made a rare appearance at CinemaCon 2026 in Las Vegas on Wednesday, ahead of his big screen comeback in Spaceballs 2.

The One Direction singer fell from a third floor balcony at the upscale CasaSur hotel in Palermo on October 16 2024 aged of 31.

Cast your mind back to the 'Sandringham Summit' of January 2020. Seems like a lifetime ago, doesn't it? And yet it remains an event that has acute relevance, at least in royal terms, today.

US officials have quietly pushed back a planned release of visa documents relating to the duke's emigration status until after his father's high-stakes trip to Washington.

When the taxpayers are wondering whose side you are on...

Britain's government faces a public backlash against AI unless it can show ordinary people that they stand to benefit from its push to inject the technology into every area of the UK in the name of growth.…