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In a sign of her growing confidence, Ms Badenoch is understood to be planning to remove 'dead wood' opposition Cabinet ministers holding up the party's renewal.

Hayden Panettiere sent fans into a frenzy once again as she unveiled her latest hair transformation.

Footage from the protest shows a woman in Trafalgar Square shouting 'f*** you' at anti-Iranian regime protesters and flashing her middle finger.

NASA heralded a new study published Friday documenting a first for humanity — "the first time a human-made object has measurably altered the path of a celestial body around the Sun." It was 2022's DART mission where NASA crashed a spacecraft into an asteroid — and the experiment "could have implications for protecting Earth from future asteroid strikes," writes ScienceNews: A spacecraft slowed the orbit of a pair of asteroids around the sun by more than 10 micrometers per second... Within a month, researchers showed that the impact shortened Dimorphos' 12-hour orbit by 32 minutes. Some of the rocks knocked off of Dimorphos fled the vicinity completely, escaping the gravitational influence of the Dimorphos-Didymos pair, says planetary defense researcher Rahil Makadia of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Those rocky runaways took some momentum away from the duo and changed their joint motion around the sun. To figure out how much that motion was affected, astronomers watched the asteroids pass in front of distant stars, dimming some of the stars' light like a tiny eclipse. These blinks, called stellar occultations, can be visible from anywhere on Earth and are predictable in advance... Calculating how far off occultation timings were from predictions revealed that the asteroids' orbit around the sun was about 150 milliseconds slower than before the DART impact... Didymos and Dimorphos are not a threat to Earth, Makadia says, and weren't before DART. But knowing how a deliberate impact changes one asteroid's orbit can help make defense plans against another, "in case we need to do a kinetic impact for real." The researchers spent nearly two and a half years to collect 22 measurements of the asteroid's post-crash position, relying on amateur astronomers "to go out into the middle of nowhere and observe the necessary stellar occultations," acvcording to their paper. Planetary defense researcher even tells ScienceNews "There was an observer who drove two days each way into the Australian outback to get these measurements."

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Maya Jama and her boyfriend Ruben Dias have ramped up security at their £4million Cheshire home after being targeted in a burglary attack.

Actor Corey Parker, who appeared in the hit sitcom Will & Grace and a range of film and television projects throughout the 1980s and 1990s, has died at the age of 60 after battling cancer.

President Donald Trump saluted the six fallen soldiers as their bodies arrived on US soil at a Delaware Air Force base to be prepared for their final resting place on Saturday.

Victoria Beckham put on a loved-up display with her husband David following her Paris Fashion Week show on Friday. 

The US President said he 'will remember' the lack of British support for his war with Iran, describing the UK as 'once our great ally' in an extraordinary attack on the Prime Minister.

The 30-year-old made the candid remark while talking to Matthew McConaughey about his hopes that movie theaters are able to survive.

Alice Evans was seen smiling as she left court in Los Angeles, California, on Friday after completing the final day of her trial with ex-husband Ioan Gruffudd. 

David Beckham filmed a series of fun TikTok videos with his family ahead of his wife Victoria's Paris Fashion Week show on Friday.

Despite Katie's claims that her new husband Lee Andrews is a millionaire, he lived in this modest bungalow with his father just weeks before their whirlwind romance.

Britain's Got Talent fans were left baffled during Saturday night's episode after a hilarious fight broke out between Simon Cowell and Alesha Dixon.

Princess Beatrice and her sister Princess Eugenie have been left 'bitterly disappointed' after being told they would not be welcome at Royal Ascot this summer.

The It Ends With Us star, 38, supported her Deadpool actor husband, 49, as he cheered on Wrexham as they attempted to secure a shock FA Cup upset.

Long-time Slashdot reader fjo3 shared this report from Agence France-Presse: Japan has approved ground-breaking stem-cell treatments for Parkinson's and severe heart failure, one of the manufacturers and media reports said Friday, with the therapies expected to reach patients within months. Pharmaceutical company Sumitomo Pharma said it received the green light for the manufacture and sale of Amchepry, its Parkinson's disease treatment that transplants stem cells into a patient's brain. Japan's health ministry also gave the go-ahead to ReHeart, heart muscle sheets developed by medical startup Cuorips that can help form new blood vessels and restore heart function, media reports said. The treatments could be on the market and rolled out to patients as early as this summer, reports said, citing the health ministry, becoming the world's first commercially available medical products using induced pluripotent stem cells... In a statement, Sumitomo Pharma said it had obtained "conditional and time-limited approval" for the manufacture and marketing of Amchepry under a system which is reportedly designed to get these products to patients as quickly as possible. The approval is a kind of "provisional license", the Asahi newspaper said, after the safety and efficacy of the treatment was judged based on data from fewer patients than in ordinary clinical trials for drugs. A trial led by Kyoto University researchers indicated that the company's treatment was safe and successful in improving symptoms. The study involved seven Parkinson's patients aged between 50 and 69, with each receiving a total of either five million or 10 million cells implanted on both sides of the brain... The patients were monitored for two years and no major adverse effects were found, the study said. Four patients showed improvements in symptoms. The article notes that "Worldwide, about 10 million people have the illness, according to the Parkinson's Foundation," while also notes that today's current therapies "improve symptoms without slowing or halting the disease progression..."

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Andy Carroll was seen for the first time since pleading not guilty to breaching a non-molestation order.

Amy Dowden has opened up about her desire to have children after being forced into medically-induced menopause following her chemotherapy treatment for cancer.

A TikTok star mom has tragically died at 47 after suffering complications following a tummy tuck procedure she had documented for thousands of followers online.