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The last time I saw my mother, she weighed less than 5st. She was 64 years old but looked like a woman of 80 - tiny and hollowed out, her skin papery, the whites of her eyes yellowed.

Around 290,000 people are expected to flock to the Berkshire racecourse for the event, which runs from Tuesday until Sunday, with many visitors already putting their best fashion foot forward.

You may not think that Chris Moyles and Gwyneth Paltrow would have anything in common. 

Wheelchair users were filmed standing up and bouncing in celebration after their football team won a World Cup match.

DANIEL MATTHEWS IN IRVINE: At their base in Irvine, California, nothing is being left to chance when it comes to security and secrecy. It makes for an odd scene.

A police cordon is currently in place in Bures on the Essex and Suffolk border after a vehicle appears to have crashed into a wall.

A police cordon is currently in place in Bures on the Essex and Suffolk border after a vehicle appears to have crashed into a wall.

It has been the story of Neymar's career in World Cups that he has made headlines off the pitch rather than on it. And this one is no different.

Mohammed Azim, 41, used his Mercedes sprinter flatbed 'as a weapon' to crush Lily Whitehouse, 19, against a lamppost in Oldbury, West Midlands, last November.

The presenter, 66, is back filming series six of Clarkson's Farm , after revealing he is battling 'aggressive' prostate cancer.

Longtime Slashdot reader schwit1 shares a report from Reuters: Meta has lobbied the U.S. Congress for legal immunity from child-harm claims tied to social media products such as Instagram, as it faces thousands of lawsuits from young users and their families, according to a source familiar with the matter and proposed legislative language reviewed by Reuters. If adopted by lawmakers and passed into law as part of the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) under consideration in the U.S. Senate, such a provision could undermine thousands of lawsuits against Meta and other online platforms over harms to children. Meta and Google's YouTube face a combined $6 million in damages after they lost the first case at trial early this year. While legislators have given no indication of adopting the language, the lobbying effort shows the kind of legal protections Meta is seeking amid the biggest attempt to regulate online platforms in the U.S. since the 1990s. Meta has reportedly proposed the language in exchange for dropping its opposition to KOSA. Under the law, platforms would be required to mitigate harms to minors tied to features such as infinite scrolling, notifications, and appearance-altering filters.

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Locals say they 'feel safe here'

Crews from Leaden Roading and Wethersfield fire stations worked to rescue a trapped driver following a collision in Stebbing, Essex.

The deadly altercation unfolded on a shaded pétanque court in the village of Mimizan in south-west France on Wednesday.

Police are appealing for further information

The 65-year-old man was riding on a hairpin bend on the Pennes Pass road in the Italian Alps on Thursday when he collided with a 43-year-old German motorcyclist.

There were 392 arrivals on Thursday, official Home Office figures confirmed, in addition to 710 on Monday.

More Rust, but more trouble with AI slop, too

The warning from the dictator's hardline foreign minister Sergei Lavrov came as Russia is being forced onto the back foot in the war.

Paris Saint-Germain and Morocco star player Achraf Hakimi will stand trial in a rape case, a French appeals court confirmed on Friday.