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Euphoria's eye-watering wardrobe budget has come under fire after a character who is supposedly 'broke' was spotted wearing a $1,000 hoodie.

The tree was the largest of a cluster of evergreens which are believed to have lined a leafy street in Dorchester, Dorset, for over 100 years.

Commando Joseph Jones, 22, delivered the 'fast, jab-style punch' to 29-year-old Cemal John Yilmaz outside a bar on Lower Fore Street in Exmouth, Devon, on December 13.

The Gallagher brothers famously took to the stage at the Grade II country house in Hertfordshire in August 1996.

The construction of Egypt's Great Pyramid has long baffled archaeologists, with no surviving ancient texts explaining how its massive stone blocks were lifted.

The boy died at the scene

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has found a rather unusual way of avoiding tedious meetings - by sending in an AI clone instead.

The letter, sent to Cheshire MPs, the Police and Crime Commissioner and Commons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle, alleged that Sir David had failed to check 'basic facts'.

Didn't admit liability, will cough $17M, still fighting age discrimination cases

IBM has become the first company to settle with the US government under the Trump administration's Civil Rights Fraud Initiative, a program aimed at ensuring diversity programs don't cross a line and result in discrimination.…

Staff at Ravensfield Primary School in Greater Manchester staged a walkout in January after complaining of being violently assaulted by the children in their care.

Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch has suggested that drivers should not get points on their licence for minor speeding offences in 20mph zones.

The news has been described as 'deeply disappointing'

The Street, on the A1017 in Sturmer, on the Essex and Suffolk border, will close later this month for pothole repairs and resurfacing work.

J. Allen Hynek started as an Air Force consultant brought in to help explain away early UFO reports, but over time he grew frustrated with what he saw as the government's effort to minimize unexplained cases rather than seriously investigate them. Longtime Slashdot reader schwit1 shares an article from Popular Mechanics, in collaboration with Biography.com, that argues Hynek's shift from skeptic to advocate helped shape modern ufology, and that the Air Force's attempts to control the narrative may have deepened the public distrust and conspiracy thinking that followed. From the report: Do you think the U.S. government is hiding, and possibly reverse-engineering, extraterrestrial technology? Think again. Or better yet, don't think about it at all. Nothing to see here. That's the underlying message of a report released in 2024 by the Department of Defense. The 63-page "Report on the Historical Record of U.S. Government Involvement with Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) " concludes that the DoD's All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) "found no evidence that any [U.S. Government] investigation, academic-sponsored research, or official review panel has confirmed that any sighting of a UAP represented extraterrestrial technology." The AARO, as The Guardian summarizes, is "a government office established in 2022 to detect and, as necessary, mitigate threats including 'anomalous, unidentified space, airborne, submerged and transmedium objects.'" This report came on the heels of, and in contradiction to, what was arguably the most high-profile hearing on UAPs -- formerly known as unidentified flying objects, or UFOs -- in decades: the August 2023 testimony of "whistleblower" Dave Grusch. [...] The 2024 AARO report stated that during the time Hynek was working with Project Blue Book [the U.S. Air Force's best-known UFO investigation program], "about 75 percent of Americans trusted the [US government] 'to do the right thing almost always or most of the time.'" But, the report noted, since 2007, that number has never risen above 30 percent. "This lack of trust probably has contributed to the belief held by some subset of the U.S. population that the USG has not been truthful regarding knowledge of extraterrestrial craft." Ultimately, the Air Force's efforts to stifle Hynek -- pressuring him to offer the public standard responses to questions he wasn't even allowed to ask -- appears to have backfired. Ironically, the Air Force's attempts to quiet suspicions only fueled them, leading to more conspiracy theories and distrust. People came to believe that the government was hiding the truth, contrary to Hynek's actual revelation: that, in reality, the people at the top may not care much about finding the answers after all.

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Sai Keerthana Sriperambuduru joined the York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in October 2023.

In an exclusive interview with The Crime Desk Barbara Stone reveals how the case changed her life, how her brother spends his time behind bars and the family's fight to clear his name.

Corhampton Golf Club, in the South Downs near Southampton, was denied its application to create four new holes on the course because it would 'significantly harm the character' of the area.

Normally I'd shun the big banks when it comes to my savings. However, HSBC, Nationwide and Santander have all launched accounts in recent days that are worth opening.

The actress, 17, has had a very successful career in recent years after landing a role in BBC's Waterloo Road and her very own record deal.

A man has denied murdering an 'adored' 18-year-old student (pictured), who was stabbed to death on his way home from a night out with his new football teammates.