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A rare astronomical event set to occur in days has sparked renewed speculation about biblical prophecy, apocalyptic warnings and signs of the End of Times.

Official figures from the Carlos III Health Institute show there were 1,149 excess deaths in Spain from August 3-18.

The French leader turned heads when he arrived for yesterday's summit with a deep tan after returning from his south of France holiday.

The young manager previously worked as a full-time coach under former Wigan boss Kolo Toure and spent 10 years at Leicester City training the Foxes' youth ranks.

The solitary bottlenose dolphin, believed to be a young male, went viral after video emerged of it excitedly playing with a family and asking for belly rubs in Lyme Bay, Dorset, earlier this month.

The incident happened on a Jet2 flight which had taken off as normal at 6.41pm last night to fly 1,100 miles to the Spanish resort of Alicante.

His injuries will require surgery

Joel Kawahara, 70, was last heard from around 7.30am PT on August 8 after he departed alone on his fishing boat, the Karolee, off the coast between Washington and Oregon .

Funding fights and Starship stumbles could still bring it back down to Earth

NASA has begun assembling the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket that will send humans on a lunar landing mission in 2027.…

GRAPHIC CONTENT WARNING: Emilie Martin (pictured), 39, of east London, was shopping at the chain supermarket in the capital's Hackney area in 2015 when the attack happened.

The late Queen refused to open an airport terminal after her relative wasn't allowed to bring his shotguns on board a plane at the airport, he has claimed.

Amanda Anderson, 43, first noticed the blemish in January but assumed it was down to the cold winter.

Global fertility rates have fallen from five children per woman in the mid-twentieth century to 2.2 today, with approximately half of countries now below the 2.1 replacement threshold, according to data from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington. Mexico's rate dropped from seven children in 1970 to 1.6 in 2023. South Korea recorded 0.75 in 2024, down from 4.5 in 1970. The IHME projects over three-quarters of countries will fall below replacement level by 2050. A UN survey of 14,000 people across 14 countries found 39% cited financial limitations as a primary reason for not having children. China's population peaked around 2022 at 1.4 billion, while the U.S. Census Bureau predicts America's population will peak in 2080 at 370 million.

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Coronation Street fans were left open-mouthed by a recent sex scene that saw Steve and Cassie get down and dirty on a kitchen table. The eye-popping romp was witnessed by Tyrone.

Raphael Graven, better known online as Jean Pormanove, died aged 46 at his home in Contes, Alpes-Maritimes, on Sunday night.

Campbell 'Pookie' and Jett Puckett have captured hearts as the internet's favorite couple. But 10 years ago, she was a struggling content creator hoping to make it big in the influencer world.

Chatten Free School in Witham hosted its end-of-year festival, Chattenbury, to help autistic children build up tolerance to large events.

It is also set to boost the city's nighttime and evening economy

by George Whittaker A Shift in GNOME’s Core Applications

For over two decades, Eye of GNOME (often shortened to EOG) was the silent workhorse of the GNOME desktop environment. It wasn’t flashy, but it did exactly what most people expected: double-click a picture, and it opened instantly. Yet, with the arrival of GNOME 45 in late 2023, a new name appeared in the lineup of “core” apps: Loupe. From that moment forward, Loupe became the official default image viewer on GNOME desktops, displacing EOG.

This decision wasn’t made lightly. GNOME has been steadily refreshing its default applications in recent years, Gedit was replaced by GNOME Text Editor, and Cheese gave way to Snapshot. Loupe is the continuation of this modernization trend. Eye of GNOME is still available in repositories for those who want it, but the GNOME team has shifted its endorsement to Loupe as the better long-term solution.

What Loupe Brings to the Table

Loupe isn’t just a reskin of EOG. It was built from scratch with today’s hardware, design standards, and security expectations in mind. At first glance, the interface looks minimal, but there’s more happening beneath the hood than many realize.

• Rust-Powered Foundation – Unlike Eye of GNOME’s decades-old C codebase, Loupe is written in Rust. This choice immediately grants it memory safety, helping avoid whole categories of crashes and vulnerabilities. For an app that regularly opens untrusted files, this is an important safeguard.

• GPU-Accelerated Image Handling – Instead of pushing all rendering to the CPU, Loupe leverages the GPU. Panning across a large image or zooming into a 50-megapixel photo feels fluid, even on high-resolution displays.

• Touch-Friendly Navigation – GNOME has been preparing for a future that includes more touch devices. Loupe fits right in, supporting pinch-to-zoom, two-finger swipes to move between images, and smooth transitions that feel natural on both touchscreens and trackpads.

• Streamlined Metadata View – Instead of burying photo information behind a separate dialog, Loupe integrates an optional sidebar. With a click, you can see dimensions, file size, EXIF data, and even location details without leaving the main view.

• Security Through Sandboxing – Image decoding is handled in isolated processes using a new backend called Glycin. If a corrupt or malicious image tries to crash the decoder, it won’t take the entire viewer down with it.

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Jack Kay, better known as the Ibiza Final Boss, has signed a five-figure deal with boohooMAN.