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Blake Lively and her husband Ryan Reynolds put on a brave face as they stepped out together in NYC on Tuesday following yet another bombshell amid their lawsuit with Justin Baldoni.

The blackouts in Spain and Portugal this week viscerally exposed how vulnerable Europe's energy networks have become. Energy security has been sacrificed on the altar of green dogma.

MPs are urging HMRC to start using AI to improve its productivity and 'out of date' services as the cost of collecting taxes soared by half a billion.

The Wisconsin Supreme Court suspended a judge accused of helping a man evade immigration authorities, saying Tuesday that it is in the public interest to relieve her of her duties.

You could be sitting on piles of vintage gems and on-trend pieces that could turn a worthwhile profit.

The collection of dozens of artworks from across the political spectrum was due to open to the public after its private view tonight at the Kingston Riverside 'TownSq co-working' venue in Surrey.

Tracey Cox explores why more couples are opting to LAT - Live Apart Together. She revealed LAT couples report higher desire, have more sex and experience higher levels of relationship quality.

The Great British Bake Off host was on a flying lesson at the time but was the first to answer a mayday call issued by the pilot, who had crashed his aircraft in a farmer's field and had sustained cuts to his leg.

Campaigners have long argued that cash still has a place on the high street, particularly for the elderly, vulnerable and those fleeing domestic abuse.

Most households could safely agree they like butter on their crumpets.

Kosmos 482, a failed Soviet Venus probe, is expected to make an uncontrolled reentry in mid-May after orbiting Earth for 53 years. Gizmodo reports: The lander module from an old Soviet spacecraft is expected to reenter Earth's atmosphere during the second week of May, according to Marco Langbroek, a satellite tracker based in Leiden, the Netherlands. "As this is a lander that was designed to survive passage through the Venus atmosphere, it is possible that it will survive reentry through the Earth atmosphere intact, and impact intact," Langbroek wrote in a blog update. "The risks involved are not particularly high, but not zero." Kosmos 482 launched on March 31, 1972 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome spaceport in Kazakhstan. The mission was an attempt by the Soviet space program to reach Venus, but it failed to gain enough velocity to enter a transfer trajectory toward the scorching-hot planet. A malfunction resulted in an engine burn that wasn't sufficient to reach Venus' orbit and left the spacecraft in an elliptical Earth orbit, according to NASA. The spacecraft broke apart into four different pieces, with two of the smaller fragments reentering over Ashburton, New Zealand, two days after launch. Meanwhile, two remaining pieces, believed to be the payload and the detached upper-stage engine unit, entered a higher orbit measuring 130 by 6,089 miles (210 by 9,800 kilometers). The failed mission consisted of a carrier bus and a lander probe, which together form a spherical pressure vessel weighing more than 1,000 pounds (495 kilograms). Considering its mass, "risks are similar to that of a meteorite impact," Langbroek wrote. As of now, it's hard to determine exactly when the spacecraft will reenter. Langbroek estimates that the reentry will take place on May 10, but a more precise date will get clearer as the reentry date nears.

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Fans are convinced that Jennifer Garner made a thinly-veiled dig at Blake Lively just months before the It Ends With Us legal war kicked off.

Sebastian is now maintaining a huge framework which, in his words, "could easily be reduced in size by 50%", especially because many of the methods in it are reinvented wheels that are already provided by .NET and specifically LINQ.

For example, if you want the first item in a collection, LINQ lets you call First() or FirstOrDefault() on any collection. The latter option makes handling empty collections easier. But someone decided to reinvent that wheel, and like so many reinvented wheels, it's worse.

public static LoggingRule FindFirst (this IEnumerable<LoggingRule> rules, Func<LoggingRule, bool> predicate) { foreach (LoggingRule rule in rules) { return rule; } return null; }

This function takes a list of logging rules and a function to filter the logging rules, starts a for loop to iterate over the list, and then simply returns the first element in the list, thus exiting the for loop. If the loop doesn't contain any elements, we return null.

From the signature, I'd expect this function to do filtering, but it clearly doesn't. It just returns the first element, period. And again, there's already a built-in function for that. I don't know why this is exists, but I especially dislike that it's so misleading.

There's only one positive to say about this: if you did want to reduce the size of the framework by 50%, it's easy to see where I'd start.

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M&S has launched a gorgeous floral tea dress that looks remarkably like a £245 frock from Rixo - the designer label loved by the Princess of Wales.

It was the weirdest of love triangles - a king's brother, desperately in love with a married woman. His wife doing her best to befriend the mistress.

Daniel Graham, 39, and Adam Carruthers, 32, from Carlisle, Cumbria, are on trial accused of felling the 19th Century Sycamore Gap tree in an act of 'mindless vandalism'.

Harrowing new details have emerged from Gene Hackman 's wife's autopsy after she died from a rat-borne virus.

Whistleblowing, email is evidential mail, HR is not your friend, and more discussed by CxO panel

RSAC  Chief security officers should negotiate personal liability insurance and a golden parachute when they start a new job – in case things go sideways and management tries to scapegoat them for a network breach.…

Kerry Washington left little to the imagination in a racy look while attending a star-studded event in New York on Tuesday night.

And of course – sigh – they look like women with long blonde hair

Chinese carmaker Chery has started using its own humanoid robots as sales staff in its showrooms.…