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EXCLUSIVE: Raffi Starkowitz was diagnosed in April with large cell anaplastic medulloblastoma, a rare subtype of a malignant brain tumour found in children.

Westminster, which in medieval days was a mud-bound eyot called Thorney Island, has become the world's greatest symbol of parliamentary stability.

Get a group of women in their mid-thirties or beyond together, throw in a few glasses of wine, and at some point the conversation will likely turn to sex. Specifically, the lack of it.

alternative_right shares a report from ScienceAlert: A new study from researchers in Australia reveals that the people who never forget faces look "smarter, not harder." In other words, they naturally focus on a person's most distinguishing facial features. "Their skill isn't something you can learn like a trick," explains lead author James Dunn, a psychology researcher at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) Sydney. "It's an automatic, dynamic way of picking up what makes each face unique." To see what super-recognizers see, Dunn and his colleagues used eye-tracking technology to reconstruct how people surveyed new faces. They did this with 37 super-recognizers and 68 people with ordinary facial recognition skills, noting where and for how long participants looked at pictures of faces displayed on a computer screen. The researchers then fed the data into machine learning algorithms trained to recognize faces. The algorithms, a type known as deep neural networks, were tasked with deciding if two faces belonged to the same person. "These findings suggest that the perceptual foundations of individual differences in face recognition ability may originate at the earliest stages of visual processing -- at the level of retinal encoding," Dunn and colleagues write in their paper. The findings have been published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences.

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Despite Sullivan having a 9pm court-imposed curfew, the pair shared footage of themselves going wild inside the venue before being promptly asked to leave.

Since 1875, London 's High Court has occupied a central place in British legal life. But amid its archive of rulings, few have caused as much outrage as a judgment upheld here last week.

The Home Secretary was accused of 'stoking division' as she unveiled her controversial plan, which came under fire from many within her own party.

Like clockwork, the cold weather sets in and you feel hungrier. Suddenly, a salad isn't appealing. What you really want is warm, comforting dishes, such as lasagne, mashed potato and gooey chocolate puds.

Told he had liver cancer, Roger Jackson feared the worst. 'I thought, "Here we go, I'm going to die",' says the 80-year-old great-grandfather and retired sales manager.

Researchers from Rutgers University in New Jersey asked nearly 1,300 professors from more than 50 American institutions to rate the same application materials.

Researchers in the US placed electrodes in the brain of a patient on the drug to study its impact on the region that is associated with pleasure, motivation and reward.

Weight loss drugs as well as a range of illicit and lifestyle drugs are being smuggled behind bars with drones, the chief inspector of prisons Charlie Taylor has said.

The couple, who were revealed by the Daily Mail to be Philip Ostermann and Melissa Rein Lively, left the country before the British Transport Police published its appeal last week.

The reality star, 38, became the seventh celeb booted from the show on Saturday, missing a place in this weeks Blackpool special.

I'm A Celebrity ... Get Me Out Of Here! was thrown into chaos on Monday after a technical glitch left hosts Ant McPartlin and Declan Donnelly looking bewildered.

Reality star Jack, 40, entered the ITV jungle camp last night alongside the likes of Kelly Brook, Martin Kemp and Aitch.

The red heart emoji is about to prompt the latest round in the feud that seems to be wrecking Adam Peaty and Holly Ramsay's wedding plans.

Vogue Williams is preparing for an extended period apart from her husband Spencer Matthews, who will not be joining her in Australia during her stint on I'm A Celeb.

Paula Ivers, 47, from Denton in Tameside, Greater Manchester, was found by her young daugher collapsed on the floor of her bedroom at the family home on March 8, 2024.

Chinese automakers are rapidly expanding across South America, boosted by the new Chinese-built Port of Chancay, aggressive pricing, local partnerships, and growing regional demand. Reuters reports: China has been ramping up sales since the opening last year of the Port of Chancay, north of Lima. The Chinese-built megaport has halved trans-Pacific shipping times just as Chinese manufacturers face rising barriers to entry in the United States and greater trade restrictions in Europe. BYD, which makes EVs, plug-in hybrids and combustion engine cars, plans to open a fourth dealership in Lima by the end of this year, while Chery and Geely have more than a dozen in total in Peru. Chinese carmakers face a profit-destroying price war at home and a growing surplus of new cars rolling out of Chinese factory lines. Much of this excess is being shipped overseas to the Middle East, Central Asia and Latin America, according to global automotive analyst Felipe Munoz at JATO Dynamics. The Chinese have "carved out space," across both electric and petrol-powered cars, said Martin Bresciani, president of Chile's automotive business chamber, CAVEM. "The Chinese have already demonstrated that they match global standards in quality." Chinese brands reached 29.6% of all new passenger car sales in Chile in the first quarter of this year. [...] Part of China's success has been partnering with trusted local importers to offer more affordable models tailored to regional tastes, according to seven dealerships Reuters spoke to in Peru, Chile, Uruguay and Argentina.

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