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Among the cast of Midsummer!, a student production running at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, is a young woman whose stellar parental ancestry can be seen in her features, if not her name.

Fire crews were called to help a farmer in Stapleford Abbots, Epping Forest, after six sheep became stuck in a river.

Fire crews were called to help a farmer in Stapleford Abbots, Epping Forest, after six sheep became stuck in a river.

From running trainers to Pilates sets and fitness trackers, shop the best John Lewis workout clothes and gym essentials for every sport from just £22.

Some 22 per cent of adults said they had less faith in pensions once they learned that unspent pots will become liable for death duties from spring 2027.

A four-ton SpaceX Falcon 9 upper stage left drifting after a 2025 lunar mission is expected to crash into the Moon at about 5,400 mph, likely striking Einstein Crater. The impact should occur at approximately 2:35 a.m. ET (0635GMT). Reuters reports: Such stages typically fall back into Earth's atmosphere and burn up or plunge into the ocean after boosting the rocket's payload to a precise spot in orbit. But because the January lunar lander mission required more thrust than missions closer to Earth, the rocket's second stage remained in space, floating aimlessly among thousands of other pieces of space junk that active satellites must steer clear of. It was not until earlier this year that astronomers determined that the rocket stage, which had dumped its remaining fuel and cannot be controlled, was on an orbital trajectory ending at the moon. "What has happened is essentially a mixture of solar activity and gravity forces have put it on a path toward the moon," Julianna Scheiman, SpaceX director of NASA science and Dragon programs, told reporters on Monday. "This may be of some -- probably minor -- scientific interest, and we may learn some things from it," said Bill Gray, creator of widely used astronomy software who published a report on the stage's impact in April. "It doesn't present any danger to anyone, though it does highlight a certain carelessness about how leftover space hardware (space junk) is disposed of." You can try to watch the impact via a livestream on YouTube; however, the area it's expected to hit (Einstein Crater) is on the moon's western limb, "which is often difficult to see from Earth," notes Reuters. It will also likely "kick up a plume of lunar dust that will likely be illuminated by sunlight but difficult to spot with the naked eye from Earth."

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Could a public reunion be an opportunity to heal the rift between father and son, or does Harry's past criticism of the monarchy mean the King should keep his distance?

Matt Damon and wife Luciana Barroso attended The Odyssey premiere in South Korea on Monday night in Seoul,

This is why cloud-inspired networks win: virtual switches are all consistent

Writing in the prestigious medical journal The Lancet, the researchers - from Canada and the UK - say the findings suggest medics may fail to recognise eating disorders other than anorexia.

A man sexually assaulted cabin crew and racially harassed a woman on a flight on New Year’s Eve, a court heard.

The first episodes feature Under the Canvas founder Ben Gould, Robin Cancer Trust chief Toby Freeman and IC Media director Isaac Crowson.

The authority says the plan will play a key role in ensuring decisions about new housing, jobs, services and infrastructure remain under local control.

A man sexually assaulted cabin crew and racially harassed a woman on a flight on New Year’s Eve, a court heard.

The proposal includes more than 200 'affordable' homes

Samantha Armytage couldn't seem to keep her composure on Wednesday morning when she interviewed the distinctive-looking Muay Thai fighter Ryan McDonald. 

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Nowhere is the US data center boom bigger than in Texas. But less than a year after declaring Texas the "epicenter of AI development," Governor Greg Abbott has declared a moratorium on all new power grid connections for data centers -- at least until developers provide more information about their projects' potential impacts on the grid and communities. The Republican governor directed regulators in an August 3 announcement at the Public Utility Commission of Texas and the grid operators at the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) to perform a "comprehensive verification and audit of all data centers advancing through ERCOT's interconnection process." As an independent system operator, ERCOT oversees a power grid that operates separately from the rest of the United States and provides services to most of Texas. Texas has aggressively courted data center development with its availability of cheap land and relatively abundant energy resources, along with offering state incentives, like tax breaks and fewer regulations. That puts the state on track to surpass Virginia in becoming the largest US data center market. But the recent AI boom and the accompanying frenzy of data center development threaten to overwhelm the Texas grid on paper, despite the state leading the country in adding new power generation. The ERCOT interconnection queue currently includes more than 1,800 projects representing over 474 gigawatts' worth of requests to connect to the Texas grid -- more than five times Texas' record peak electricity demand -- and about 90 percent of those power connection requests come from data centers. "That unprecedented load growth could endanger the reliability and stability of the Texas electric grid," according to the statement from Abbott's office. Many of those data center projects may never materialize for various reasons. But ERCOT has still forecast that data center demand and other factors could drive statewide electricity demand to double the current demand record by 2032, according to The Texas Tribune. The review will examine each project's projected electricity consumption, reliance on the grid and state incentives, ownership, and water use. It will also assess measures intended to "reduce impacts on neighboring property owners and communities," including noise controls, lighting, traffic improvements, setbacks, and emergency planning. Ars Technica notes that the directive does not address air pollution or greenhouse-gas emissions and does not apply to data centers generating their own power on-site.

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Mohamed Mohamoud, 22, was said to be 'longing for martyrdom' when he left Bristol in a failed bid to join ISIS.He had sought advice from the unnamed AI chatbot before travelling to Somalia, a court heard.

A report by the Muslim Council of Britain suggested that 49 constituencies would become major targets for Muslim independent candidates by 2029 thanks to demographic changes.

Taoiseach Micheál Martin's €53million (£45m) Dassault Falcon 6X is supposed to be kitted out with a FalconEye system which helps the plane land in inclement conditions.