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Lital Hirschl-Shahar was sat between her four young daughters (pictured) on Wednesday's Flydubai flight FZ1073 as it plummeted 14,000ft in 29 seconds during the attempted hijack.

For 23 years it was thought the killers fled across the border into Iran to escape justice.

For years Michael Douglas, the very much married star of the film, denied rumours that he and co-star Kathleen Turner (pictured) had enjoyed a torrid full-blown affair on set.

While most magnets have two poles (north and south, or positive and negative), recent advances in quantum mechanics have revealed an "octupolar order," writes Phys.org, where a pattern of particles in a crystalline structure "behaves as if it has eight magnetic poles rather than the familiar two." Now, a team led by quantum physicists at the University of Toronto has established a new method for observing quantum magnetic states using light to probe the atomic vibrations produced as electrons spin. The work is a critical first step toward harnessing multipolar magnetism for practical technologies, including next-generation data storage and computing devices. "We identified new signatures of a hidden type of magnetic state which cannot be detected using ordinary probes," says Arun Paramekanti, a professor in the Department of Physics and the Center for Quantum Information & Quantum Control in the Faculty of Arts & Science at the University of Toronto, and senior author of a study published in Physical Review Letters that describes the findings. "Our research opens up the possibility for using higher-order magnets in several applications including controllable read-write memory elements found in everyday computers...." By directing a special type of rotating light at magnetic materials, the team observed a clear optical fingerprint of the otherwise hidden magnetic order.... The findings offer a new tool for uncovering and manipulating previously inaccessible forms of magnetism, opening new avenues for quantum technology development.

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The Prime Minister U-turned on the contentious proposals introduced during Sir Keir Starmer's premiership which aimed to reduce the UK courts backlog.

404 Media reports: "We will not add facial recognition to our devices," Flock CEO Garrett Langley said in a recent video. But other, third-party companies are telling cops that they are willing to add facial recognition to data gathered by Flock cameras in order to "close that gap." A company called VIDIZMO is advertising the capability to export footage from FlockOS to its own platforms that do facial recognition, behavior prediction, and racial and gender analysis on live camera feeds. VIDIZMO is a several decades-old video analysis and database company that has started offering facial recognition technology to cops within the last six months. In a May email to Johnson City, Tennessee, deputy police chief Michael Adams, a salesperson from VIDIZMO wrote that the company's product could do facial recognition on both Flock and Axon [body-worn camera] data in "one searchable platform...." VIDIZMO's CEO, Nadeem Khan, told 404 Media on a video call that the company has not yet started running facial recognition tech on footage from Flock cameras, and that it has not actually built the specific tool that would export data from Flock's system to its own platform (though the company advertises this capability online, and the company already sells other facial recognition products). But Khan said VIDIZMO "would love to do the integration," and that he believes facial recognition "is the way the world is going, the way the world will have to be," and that he thinks Flock should offer the capability itself in a way that "balances privacy, security, and the freedom that we enjoy in this country." The article notes that VIDIZMO says on its website, "You can identify individuals from seven races: White, Black, Indian, East Asian, Southeast Asian, Middle Eastern, and Latino Hispanic." VIDIZMO adds that stores or cities can also then do "demographic analysis" for marketing purposes by determining the races or ages of people showing up....

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At one time she had a reputation as the ultimate social butterfly, rarely out of the Groucho Club when the celebrity hangout's reputation for louche hedonism was at its peak.

Last month I was chatting to an old Labour adviser who had worked for Neil Kinnock in the 1980s. Our conversation turned to Kinnock's famous 1985 attack on Militant.

On screen, TV presenter Maya Jama seems the glowing picture of confidence as she takes on the ultimate game of deception in Celebrity Traitors.

It has been billed as one of the biggest medical discoveries in recent history. The shingles vaccine, designed to protect against the blister condition, appears to also ward off dementia.

The US state's Commissioner of Correction stepped down on Saturday following the failed killing of Christa Pike (pictured), who survived two lethal doses of the sedative pentobarbital.

The bitter split in Zack Polanski's Greens over their approach to Israel deepened last night after it emerged officials at the party conference were forced to organise a 'safe room' for Jewish members.

Researchers found that heavy drinkers had an 18.6 per cent higher risk of osteoarthritis compared to non-drinkers.

The molecule, called Neu5Gc, is not naturally produced by humans - as a result, the immune system may recognise it as foreign and trigger inflammation linked to diabetes.

Brenda Blethyn, 80, star of the ITV crime drama Vera for 14 years, says she takes great pride in watching Vicky McClure in Trigger Point.

Andy Burnham had barely got his feet under his No10 desk when he telephoned Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, president of the United Arab Emirates.

Kemi Badenoch will vow that a Tory government would stop couples losing access to free childcare once one parent earns more than £100,000 at the Conservative Party conference in Birmingham.

The Mail on Sunday understands MPs who want to ditch Nigel Farage in favour of Kemi Badenoch must first sit as independents in the Commons.

Man's best friend should have their own bespoke version when riding in a car, academics have said.

Strictly Come Dancing star Johannes Radebe was widely praised by fans for vastly improving on his presenting skills on Saturday.