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Gene Hackman's wife Betsy Arakawa died of the extremely rare lung infection hantavirus pulmonary syndrome, officials revealed this week. The disease spreads from rodents.

The fall comes at a worrying time for a fragile housing market that faces stamp duty hikes being introduced by Chancellor Rachel Reeves next month.

The cost of disability and incapacity handouts has risen by 40 per cent in real terms since 2013 and is forecast to reach £100billion by 2029/30.

DAILY MAIL COMMENT: The epidemic of welfare dependency is perhaps the biggest anchor on economic growth in Britain, and it is getting heavier by the day.

New submitter grandrollerz writes: Despite streaming online since the RealAudio days of the late 1990s, the BBC has announced that most of its radio stations will become unavailable to international users later this year. Starting in Spring 2025, only talk news stations BBC World Service and BBC Radio 4 will remain accessible outside the UK. This change is due to rights issues and the launch of a new BBC audio website and app that will replace BBC Sounds for international users. The BBC Sounds app will be available exclusively to UK audiences, although UK users traveling abroad for short periods will still be able to use it. This move has disappointed many long-time international listeners who will lose access to their favorite BBC radio stations. It follows a similar move to further commercialize its services where in 2024 the BBC and Amazon Music struck a global deal to make BBC podcasts available on Amazon Music outside the UK, but only for subscribers to Amazon's Prime and Amazon Music Unlimited services.

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The French model, 30, showcased her toned physique as she slipped into an eye-catching white bodysuit.

David Hasselhoff's ex-wife Pamela Bach suffered from extreme pain for decades before shock suicide, at age 62, according to one of her longtime friends.

Andrew Tate, who touched down in Florida with his brother Tristan last week, is staying at a condo in Miami and has appeared on a popular podcast, uploaded videos mocking the case against him.

The star, who works as a presenter and match day reporter for Sky, was treated for thyroid cancer at the start of the current season and is now recovering from a brain infection.

At least two congressional offices are in possession of a seven-page draft 'executive order' on how the U.S. can help the island territory transition to independence.

An axed Emmerdale star has reportledy taken a cryptic swipe at the soap after being their character was brutally axed last month.

If you ever hear someone say, 'I don't want to hurt you', chances are they are going to end up breaking your heart, according to an Aussie matchmaker. Here's why...

The widow of Terry Walters, who was falsely accused over thousands of pounds in supposed losses from his Hockley branch in 2007, urged the Government to speed up the compensation scheme.

It marked a disappointing end to what appeared to be a successful launch, as the billionaire works toward his goal of sending humans to Mars.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: A 37-year-old Tennessee man was arrested Thursday, accused of stealing Blu-rays and DVDs from a manufacturing and distribution company used by major movie studios and sharing them online before the movies' scheduled release dates. According to a US Department of Justice press release, Steven Hale worked at the DVD company and allegedly stole "numerous 'pre-release' DVDs and Blu-rays" between February 2021 and March 2022. He then allegedly "ripped" the movies, "bypassing encryption that prevents unauthorized copying" and shared copies widely online. He also supposedly sold the actual stolen discs on e-commerce sites, the DOJ alleged. Hale has been charged with "two counts of criminal copyright infringement and one count of interstate transportation of stolen goods," the DOJ said. He faces a maximum sentence of five years for the former, and 10 years for the latter. Among blockbuster movies that Hale is accused of stealing are Dune, F9: The Fast Saga, Venom: Let There Be Carnage, Godzilla v. Kong, and, perhaps most notably, Spider-Man: No Way Home. The DOJ claimed that "copies of Spider-Man: No Way Home were downloaded tens of millions of times, with an estimated loss to the copyright owner of tens of millions of dollars."

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The Wanted's Nathan Sykes recently revealed he doesn't see a four-piece reunion on the cards anytime soon following the death of his beloved bandmate, Tom Parker, in 2022 at the age of 33. 

London Mayor Sir Sadiq Khan has reignited his long-standing feud with US President Donald Trump by calling on Londoners and the wider British population to stage mass protests over his UK visit.

Beautician Vanya Gaberova, 30, decorator Tihomir Ivanchev, 39, and lab technician Katrin Ivanova, 33, have been found guilty of conspiring to spy for Russia.

Donald Trump appears to have settled a power struggle and told his Cabinet they have power to make cuts to government waste ahead of 'First Buddy' Elon Musk and DOGE.

President Trump has signed an executive order to establish a strategic reserve of cryptocurrencies by using tokens already owned by the government. Reuters reports: A "Strategic Bitcoin Reserve" will be capitalized with bitcoin owned by the federal government that was seized as part of criminal or civil asset forfeiture proceedings, the White House crypto czar, billionaire David Sacks, said in a post on social media platform X. The order kept open the possibility of the government buying bitcoin in future. The U.S. commerce and treasury secretaries "are authorized to develop budget-neutral strategies for acquiring additional bitcoin, provided that those strategies impose no incremental costs on American taxpayers," a factsheet on the White House website said. "This is the most underwhelming and disappointing outcome we could have expected for this week," Charles Edwards, founder of bitcoin-focused hedge fund Capriole Investments, wrote in a post on X. "No active buying means this is just a fancy title for Bitcoin holdings that already existed with the Govt. This is a pig in lipstick."

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