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The MMA prospect was scheduled to compete in the UFC for the first time on April 26, seven months after earning himself a contract with Dana White's promotion.

An anonymous reader shared this report from the Wall Street Journal: Five years ago, Airbus made a bold bet: The plane maker would launch a zero-emissions, hydrogen-powered aircraft within 15 years that, if successful, would mark the biggest revolution in aviation technology since the jet engine. Now, Airbus is pulling the brakes. The company has cut the project's budget by a quarter, reallocated staff and sent remaining engineers back to the drawing board, delaying its plans by as much as a decade... Airbus has spent more than $1.7 billion on the project, according to people familiar with the matter, but over the past year concluded that technical challenges and a slow uptake of hydrogen in the wider economy meant the jet wouldn't be ready by 2035... Airbus says the past five years of work and money haven't been wasted. The company has established that hydrogen is technically feasible and delaying the project will give it more time to fine-tune the technology, executives said... Airbus shifted focus to hydrogen-fuel cells, which use a chemical reaction to generate energy for an electric motor. It would produce only water vapor, but would require a more radical redesign of the airframe and propulsion system. The plane would carry only 100 passengers about 1,000 nautical miles. Over time, even that proved challenging because of the extra weight of the fuel cells and their limited electricity generation. Instead of a short-haul narrow-body — the workhorse of the aviation industry — at best the aircraft would be more akin to a less appealing regional turboprop. Airbus received a multi-billion Covid-era support package from the French government that "required Airbus to spend a portion of the money on bringing green aircraft to market by the 2030s," according to the article. "The hydrogen project helped Airbus access additional government funding, as well as private green financing... Airbus ultimately assigned the project an annual budget of about €400 million, primarily funded through its own coffers, according to people familiar with its financing arrangements."

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A group of pet-loving lawyers are pushing for a change in the law which could mean some vengeful spouses are now stopped from keeping their former partner's much-loved pet.

The women behind the Supreme Court battle over the definition of a woman have been inundated with death threats and abuse since the landmark judgment.

The Oasis star, 57, who previously had a close bond with the now disgraced actor and comedian, has now been allegedly advised by his daughter, Anaïs, to cut contact.

The birthday girl looked breathtaking in a black silk dress that flashed ample cleavage as she posed barefoot on the sand with a fuchsia flower in hand.

The disclosure sparked accusations of a 'betrayal' of war heroes as it would land firms who employ them with a tax bombshell.

Britain is set to massively increase its production of explosives in order to forgo a reliance on the US and France for ammunition. 

Marijuana appreciators Snoop Dogg, Chelsea Handler, and more took to social media to mark '420', cannabis' unofficial holiday.

Fremont County Sheriff's Office (FSCO) detectives made the deadly discovery after noticing a white Chevrolet van driving by them without dimming its headlights in Canon City, Colorado on March 26.

The blaze broke out at the Goodman's Fields luxury apartment complex on Leman Street in Aldgate in central London on Sunday evening.

A female hockey fan sitting behind the Dallas Stars bench was caught on live television wearing a NSFW t-shirt, with NHL fans keeping their eyes glued to her any time she appeared.

The former PLT creative director, 25, gushed the tot, two, was already 'as big as her' in the caption of her latest Instagram post.

For the first time, astronomers have confirmed the existence of a lone black hole," reports Science News — "one with no star orbiting it." It's "the only one so far," says Kailash Sahu, an astronomer at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore. In 2022, Sahu and his colleagues discovered the dark object coursing through the constellation Sagittarius. A second team disputed the claim, saying the body might instead be a neutron star. New observations from the Hubble Space Telescope now confirm that the object's mass is so large that it must be a black hole, Sahu's team reports in the April 20 Astrophysical Journal.... [And that second team has revised its assessment and now agrees: the object is a black hole.] While solitary black holes should be common, they are hard to find. The one in Sagittarius revealed itself when it passed in front of a dim background star, magnifying the star's light and slowly shifting its position due to the black hole's gravity. This passage occurred in July 2011, but the star's position is still changing. "It takes a long time to do the observations," Sahu says. "Everything is improved if you have a longer baseline and more observations." The original discovery relied on precise Hubble measurements of star positions from 2011 to 2017. The new work incorporates Hubble observations from 2021 and 2022 as well as data from the Gaia spacecraft. The upshot: The black hole is about seven times as massive as the sun, give or take 0.8 solar masses.... Located 5,000 light-years from Earth, this black hole is much closer than the supermassive one at the Milky Way's center, which also lies in Sagittarius but about 27,000 light-years from us. The star-rich region around the galactic center provides an ideal hunting ground for solitary black holes passing in front of stars. Sahu hopes to find additional lone black holes by using the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, slated for launch in 2027.

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The shocking allegation is one of number of complaints lodged against the Duke and Duchess of Sussex which claims they are difficult to work with and often bully members of staff.

Lib Dem leader Sir Ed Davey has long made sanctimony an art form. But increasingly he's excelling at hypocrisy, too.

Dressed in a dark suit and holding a candle, Putin crossed himself at a church service when the celebrant announced: 'Christ is risen.' But the Easter ceasefire was over before it had even begun.

As two frontbenchers are plotting to defy the Supreme Court's gender ruling, intervention by the the Prime Minister is more necessary than ever. But his silence shows he is as weak as water.

Russian despot Vladimir Putin has not issued an order to extend the Easter ceasefire in Ukraine, the Kremlin said today. 

Officers were called just after 9.15pm on Friday following reports of concern for the welfare of two people in Bryn Terrace, Cefn Cribwr, near Bridgend.