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Dame Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall trilogy, which has been dubbed a 'landmark in historical fiction,' depicts the life of Thomas Cromwell as the chief minister of Henry VIII.

The 26-year-old Euphoria actress, who is a transgender woman, expressed her shock at the move in a video shared on social media.

Data from the UK defence intelligence already estimates that Putin's forces have lost 860,000 soldiers to death or injury at an average of 1,500 servicemen a day since November.

Sir Keir Starmer is set to announce a new package of support for Ukraine days after Donald Trump branded the Ukrainian president a 'dictator'.

The journalist, 59, was forced to defend himself in court against Felicity Jane Lowde after she brought wild claims against him in an apparent bid for a payout.

Plumbing engineer Mason Lowe, 28, and trainee barber Morgan Heeley, 26, - both fathers to two children - joined in mob violence during an attack on a Holiday Inn Express in Rotherham on August 4.

Four Just Stop Oil activists have been found guilty of plotting to break into Manchester Airport .

The disgraced BBC news presenter, who is yet to pay back any of the £200,000 the broadcaster paid him after his arrest, was pictured walking down a street in Swansea, Wales, on February 15.

The three men were arrested by police earlier this evening near the embassy but not inside the diplomatic mission, Swedish police confirmed.

Primark says they are "designed to be dressed up or dressed down"

It was only three months into his new presidency on August 12 2000 that the nation's prized nuke-equipped sub, Kursk, exploded, making it the deadliest naval incident in post-Soviet Russia.

Not much surprises Ash Jenner in his line of work, but even the young lifeguard was stunned when a pregnant tiger shark washed up on his local beach.

Tom Brady has reportedly rekindled his romance with Russian supermodel Irina Shayk.

The Bolton comic vowed to turn over a new leaf last night after booting out three hecklers in Manchester, making light of the situation and promising not to remove anyone from the crowd.

The TV presenter, 53, hosts the general knowledge quiz show on Channel 4 where contestants only have to answer a single question to win the six-figure sum.

Microsoft's announcement of a breakthrough in quantum computing faces skepticism from physicists, who say evidence supporting the company's claims remains insufficient. The tech giant reported creating Majorana particles - a development it says could revolutionize quantum computing - but the accompanying peer-reviewed paper in Nature does not conclusively demonstrate this achievement, according to multiple quantum physics experts who reviewed the research. Microsoft's corporate vice president for quantum hardware, Chetan Nayak, acknowledged the Nature paper wasn't meant to prove the particles' existence, though he claimed measurements suggested "95% likelihood" of topological activity. The company plans to publish additional findings. The announcement has drawn particular scrutiny given the field's history of retracted claims. Two previous Nature papers on similar discoveries were withdrawn in 2017 and 2018, while a 2020 paper in Science involving Microsoft researchers remains under review. "This is where you cross over from the realm of science to advertising," said Jay Sau, a theoretical physicist at the University of Maryland who sometimes consults for Microsoft but wasn't involved in the current research.

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It woz The Reg wot won it ... or maybe just common sense prevailed among management

HP Inc today abruptly ditched the mandatory 15-minute wait time that it imposed on customers dialling up its telephone-based support team due to "initial feedback."…

IAN HERBERT: When Moyes finally sits down to compose the story of his football life, the afternoon he took Manchester United to Everton will surely feature, because it was his very worst of times.

Well, folks, it has been a bad few days for the truth. But we have reached clinical levels of insanity. Apparently we can no longer ascribe the tragedy to 'Russian aggression'. Oh really?

It is a very chic bag