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One of the last surviving members of Bomber Command, 104-year-old Colin Bell, shares the extraordinary story of his heroic wartime service.

Mojtaba Khamenei was said to have been placed under pressure by his family to produce heirs and traveled to London.

Adults who had gum disease as kids may be at a greater risk of developing heart disease as adults, a study suggests.

Israeli and American strikes have bombarded Iran over the last five days, with retaliatory attacks fired back at US-allied states in the Gulf.

A common nutrient found in red meat may help protect the heart - but new research suggests that low levels could be linked to worsening inflammation.

He was once one of the biggest Hollywood actors on the planet, dominating the movie industry throughout the 1990s and early 2000s. 

The former glamour model, 47, shocked fans when she married the so-called businessman, 42, in Dubai in January within 10 days of meeting him.

After discovering his passion for running and participating in two marathons last year, the singer, 32, displayed the hard-earned results as he appeared shirtless on the cover of Runner's World.

The A12 southbound has been left partially blocked near Marks Tey after a crash, with congestion building to Colchester Football Stadium.

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor is giving up the lease on another Crown Estate property after paying well below market rate for it for over two decades.

Essex Highways is reporting a crash on the A12 London-bound just after junction 25, the A120/ Marks Tey interchange.

If anyone has seen the 14-year-old, you should contact the police

Rachel Reeves, in powder blue, sashayed in one pace behind the most disliked prime minister in memory. Her own approval ratings are at Buster Crabbe depths.

The 30-year-old from Southend showcased his act to Simon Cowell , Amanda Holden , Alesha Dixon and KSI on the February 28 episode.

When it comes to money, Britain does need to learn. Currently, 47 per cent of people say they aren't confident in managing their own money, the FCA says.

My girlfriend and I reckon it's probably time to get a joint account. What should the main considerations be when choosing one?

Dustin Destree shares a report from Phys.org: Although plastic particles in the air are increasingly coming into focus, knowledge about their distribution and effects is still limited. Chemical analyses from Leipzig now provide details from Germany for the first time: Around 4% of the particulate matter consists of plastic. Around two-thirds of this comes from tire abrasion. Extrapolated, this means that people in a city like Leipzig inhale approximately 2.1 micrograms of plastic per day through the air, which increases the risk of death from cardiovascular disease by 9% and from lung cancer by 13%. These findings underscore the need to take global action against plastic pollution and to examine air quality and health at the regional level, write researchers from the Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research (TROPOS) and Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg in the journal Communications Earth & Environment. "With around two-thirds of microplastics coming from tire abrasion, this shows that action is needed and that the fine dust problem cannot be solved by switching to electric mobility alone. To protect health, it would be important to also take tire abrasion into account when regulating air quality and to set limits for microplastics in the air," demands Prof. Hartmut Herrmann from TROPOS, who led the study. The study has been published in the journal Communications Earth & Environment.

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NASA is eyeing an April launch window for the upcoming Artemis II mission after it repaired a helium-flow issue on the Space Launch System upper stage rocket. "Work on the rocket and spacecraft will continue in the coming weeks as NASA prepares for rolling the rocket out to the launch pad again later this month ahead of a potential launch in April," NASA wrote in an update on Tuesday. Space.com reports: The repair work occurred inside the huge Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) at NASA's Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida. Artemis 2's SLS and Orion crew capsule have been in the VAB since Feb. 25, when they rolled back to the hangar from KSC's Launch Pad 39B. Just a few days earlier, the Artemis 2 stack successfully completed a wet dress rehearsal, a two-day-long practice run of the procedures leading up to launch. In the wake of that test, however, NASA noticed an interruption in helium flow in the SLS' upper stage. That was a significant issue, because helium pressurizes the rocket's propellant tanks. Rollback was the only option, as the affected area in the upper stage was not accessible at the pad. The problem took a potential March launch out of play for Artemis 2, which will send four astronauts on a roughly 10-day flight around the moon. It will be the first crewed flight to the lunar neighborhood since Apollo 17 in 1972. The next Artemis 2 launch window opens in April, with liftoff opportunities on April 1, April 3-6 and April 30. And those options apparently remain in play, thanks to recent work in the VAB. That work centered on a seal in an interface through which helium flows from ground equipment into the SLS upper stage. That seal was obstructing the interface, which is known as a quick disconnect.

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Today's snippet from Rich D is short and sweet, and admittedly, not the most TFs of WTFs out there. But it made me chuckle, and sometimes that's all we need. This Java snippet shows us how to delete a file:

if (Files.exists(filePath)) { Files.deleteIfExists(filePath); }

If the file exists, then if it exists, delete it.

This commit was clearly submitted by the Department of Redundancy Department. One might be tempted to hypothesize that there's some race condition or something that they're trying to route around, but if they are, this isn't the way to do it, per the docs: "Consequently this method may not be atomic with respect to other file system operations." But also, I fail to see how this would do that anyway.

The only thing we can say for certain about using deleteIfExists instead of delete is that deleteIfExists will never throw a NoSuchFileException.

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