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Haunting details of Michelle Trachtenberg's final night have been unearthed by DailyMail.com. The star was found dead on Wednesday in her apartment in Manhattan.

Beijing is controversially planning to construct a major new embassy on the 600,000 sq ft site of the former Royal Mint , opposite the Tower of London.

Guerrero's sister Gris announced over the weekend that she had lost her brother 'very suddenly and unexpectedly' on Saturday.

St Thomas' United Reformed Church in Watford, Hertfordshire, closed in 2015 with the initial plan to demolish and rebuild it - but it has now been purchased by the local Ar-Rahmah Trust.

Denise now runs her own nutrition coaching company to help other people with their diet

A German nuclear fusion startup called Proxima Fusion has unveiled its "Stellaris" fusion power plant designed to operate reliably and continuously without the instabilities of tokamaks. It's backed by $65 million in funding, with plans to build a fully operational fusion reactor by 2031. TechCrunch reports: Tokamaks and stellarators are types of fusion reactors that use electromagnets to contain fusion plasma. Tokamaks rely on external magnets and an induced plasma current but are known for instability. Stellarators, by contrast, use only external magnets, which, in theory, enable better stability and continuous operation. However, according to Dr. Francesco Sciortino, co-founder and CEO of Proxima Fusion, Proxima's "Stellaris" design is the first peer-reviewed fusion power plant concept that demonstrates it can operate reliably and continuously, without the instabilities and disruptions seen in tokamaks and other approaches. Proxima published its findings in Fusion Engineering and Design, choosing to share this information publicly to support open-source science. "Our American friends can see it. Our Chinese friends can see it. Our claim is that we can execute on this faster than anyone else, and we do that by creating a framework for integrated physics, engineering, and economics. So we're not a science project anymore," Sciortino told TechCrunch over a call. "We started out as a group of founders saying it's going to take us two years to get to the Stellaris design ... We actually finished after one year. So we've accelerated by a year," he added.

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Brad Sigmon, 67, was found guilty of murdering both of his ex-girlfriend's parents by beating them with a baseball bat in 2001.

Teddi Mellencamp shared the emotional moment a nurse took her surgical staples out, two weeks after her brain tumor surgery.

Mellencamp posted a statement to her Instagram Stories with an update on how the procedure went - in addition to thanking all those who supported her during the ordeal.

Jocelynn Rojo Carranza, 11, who according to her family, took her own life over fears her family would be deported, was bullied by another student and it was 'not a one-time occurrence.'

Kirill writes:

I've worked in this small company for a year, and on a daily basis I've come across things that make my eyes sink back into their sockets in fear, but mostly I've been too busy fixing them to post anything. It being my last day however, here's a classic

We'll take this one in parts. First, every element of the UI the user can navigate to is marked with an enum, defined thus:

enum UiItem { SectionA, SectionB, SectionC,...SectionG }

These names are not anonymized, so already I hate it. But it's the next enum that starts my skin crawling:

enum SecurityUiItem { SectionA = UiItem.SectionA, SectionB = UiItem.SectionB, ... SectionG = UiItem.SectionG }

A SecurityUiItem is a different type, but the values are identical to UiItem.

These enums are used when trying to evaluate role-based permissions for access, and that code looks like this:

if ((currentAccess.ContainsKey(SecurityUiItem.SectionA) && currentAccess[SecurityUiItem.SectionA] != AccessLevel.NoAccess)) return UiItem.SectionA; else if (!currentAccess.ContainsKey(SecurityUiItem.SectionB) || (currentAccess.ContainsKey(SecurityUiItem.SectionB) && currentAccess[SecurityUiItem.SectionB] != AccessLevel.NoAccess)) return UiItem.SectionB; else if (!currentAccess.ContainsKey(SecurityUiItem.SectionC) || (currentAccess.ContainsKey(SecurityUiItem.SectionC) && currentAccess[SecurityUiItem.SectionC] != AccessLevel.NoAccess)) return UiItem.SectionC; ..... else if (!currentAccess.ContainsKey(SecurityUiItem.SectionG) || (currentAccess.ContainsKey(SecurityUiItem.SectionG) && currentAccess[SecurityUiItem.SectionG] != AccessLevel.NoAccess)) return UiItem.SectionG; else return UiItem.Unknown;

Honestly, I don't hate the idea of having one data type representing the actual UI objects and a separate data type which represents permissions, and having a function which can map between these two things. But this is a perfect example of a good idea executed poorly.

I also have to wonder about the fall-through pattern. If I have access to SectionA, I only seem to get SectionA out of this function. Are these permissions hierarchical? I have no idea, but I suspect there's a WTF underpinning this whole thing.

Congratulations on Kirill's last day.

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I switched LPG supplier more than two years ago and have no idea why the gas turned up. I don't think I should pay as I didn't order it. Do I have to?

When I used to think of auction houses, images of stuffy men in tweed jackets, monocles and dusty antiques sprung to mind.

Worrying new research has found that one in seven drivers are ignoring MOT advisories even though they could be dangerous.

Households that control their central heating more economically will cut costs, but there's another simpler way that might save you over £100 a year.

The 22 most common terms used by youngsters have been decoded - meaning you'll finally be able to understand your teen.

Former Atomic Kitten Kerry Katona said serial fraudster David Williams once worked as her accountant - and was the reason she went into bankruptcy.

Essex RSPCA centres and Danaher Animal Home have plenty of pets that are looking to find new owners

A “rogue handyman” from Braintree made headlines in South Wales when he took almost £42,000 from more than eight households and left the work incomplete.

A “rogue handyman” from Braintree made headlines in South Wales when he took almost £42,000 from more than eight households and left work incomplete.