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Stocks are back in the red and oil is climbing above $107 again, as hopes for a swift end to the war were dashed overnight.

Jack Louis, who has run his salon for nine years, said 'whoever shouts the loudest gets seen and heard'

Speaking on the latest Alas Vine & Hitchens podcast, the longstanding Mail on Sunday columnist said it was 'absurd and pathetic' that King Charles was being asked to 'endure' the US President.

The Parisian eatery was heralded when it finally brought its signature gluten-free bakes to the streets of London's Covent Garden.

Ever since the war began, the Islamic Republic has enforced the de facto closure of the vital waterway through which a fifth of the world's daily oil and liquefied natural gas (LNG) supply passes.

Iranian drone strikes appear to have destroyed important US military assets and caused massive damage to vital energy infrastucture, the Daily Mail's Photo Evidence has revealed. 

Train services between London Liverpool Street and Stansted Airport via Tottenham Hale may be cancelled or revised.

Elisio Melendez, 26, was charged with second-degree attempted murder after police obtained the harrowing surveillance footage.

Majazy Latif, 28, and Youcef Aliouat, 32, were spotted stealing a laptop at a bar on Cannon Street, east London, as the victims stood blissfully unaware nearby.

War in the Middle East has made the British public aware as never before that the government's Net Zero policy is not just nonsensical but deeply dangerous.

The Prime Minister said tackling the fallout from the conflict in the Middle East, which has fractured the UK's relationship with the US, 'requires closer partnership with our allies in Europe'.

President Donald Trump claimed near-victory in the Iran war during a low-energy address Wednesday night in the White House's Cross Hall.

While chatting with host Jimmy Fallon, the pair also joked about a superhero rivalry between Pattinson's Batman and Spider-Man, played by Zendaya's rumored husband Tom Holland.

Scientists say extreme March heat caused an unusually rapid collapse of snowpack across the American West that's leaving major basins at record or near-record lows. "This year is on a whole other level," said Dr Russ Schumacher, a Colorado State University climatologist. "Seeing this year so far below any of the other years we have data for is very concerning." The Guardian reports: [...] The issue is extremely widespread. Data from a branch of the US Department of Agriculture (USDA), which logs averages based on levels between 1991 and 2020, shows states across the south-west and intermountain west with eye-popping lows. The Great Basin had only 16% of average on Monday and the lower Colorado region, which includes most of Arizona and parts of Nevada, was at 10%. The Rio Grande, which covers parts of New Mexico, Texas and Colorado, was at 8%. "This year has the potential of being way worse than any of the years we have analogues for in the past," Schumacher said. Even with near-normal precipitation across most of the west, every major river basin across the region was grappling with snow drought when March began, according to federal analysts. Roughly 91% of stations reported below-median snow water equivalent, according to the last federal snow drought update compiled on March 8. Water managers and climate experts had been hopeful for a March miracle -- a strong cold storm that could set the region on the right track. Instead, a blistering heatwave unlike any recorded for this time of year baked the region and spurred a rapid melt-off. "March is often a big month for snowstorms," Schumacher said. "Instead of getting snow we would normally expect we got this unprecedented, way-off-the-scale warmth." More than 1,500 monthly high temperature records were broken in March and hundreds more tied. The event was "likely among the most statistically anomalous extreme heat events ever observed in the American south-west," climate scientist Daniel Swain said in an analysis posted this week. "Beyond the conspicuous 'weirdness' of it all," Swain added, "the most consequential impact of our record-shattering March heat will likely be the decimation of the water year 2025-26 snowpack across nearly all of the American west." Calling the toll left by the heat "nothing short of shocking," Swain noted that California was tied for its worst mountain snowpack value on record. While the highest elevations are still coated in white, "lower slopes are now completely bare nearly statewide."

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The great search for KitKats continues, with the company asking fans to get involved with their newest invention.

The president's 20-minute address from the Cross Hall at the White House drew mixed reviews and saw oil prices spike as Trump outlined what the next few weeks of battle would entail.

Nate Richert portrayed the love interest of Melissa Joan Hart's character, and stole hearts with his charming personality and handsome looks. But now, decades on, Richert, 47, looks very different.

I feel like we've gotten a few SQL case statement abuses recently, but a properly bad one continues to tickle me. Ken C sends us one that, well:

SELECT CASE h.DOCUMENTTYPE WHEN 2 THEN 3 WHEN 3 THEN 4 WHEN 4 THEN 5 WHEN 5 THEN 6 WHEN 6 THEN 7 WHEN 7 THEN 8 ELSE h.DOCUMENTTYPE END AS DocumentType, h.DOCNMBR AS DocNmbr, h.FULLPOLICY AS FullPolicy, h.BATCHID AS BatchId, h.OrigBatchId, h.UPDATEDDATE AS UpdatedDate, h.CUSTOMERNO AS CustomerNo, h.PROJECTID AS ProjectID, h.AMOUNT AS Amount

On one hand, I can't say "just add one", because clearly sometimes they don't want to add one. On the other hand, there's an element of looking at this and knowing: well, something absolutely stupid has happened here. Maybe it was two disjoint databases getting merged. Maybe it was just once upon a time, when this database was a spreadsheet, the user responsible did a weird thing. Maybe some directive changed the document type numbering. Hell, maybe that ELSE clause never gets triggered, and we actually could just do arithmetic.

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Graham did an apartment tour on YouTuber Caleb Simpson's channel.