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The daughter of Michael Jackson was among the stars who jetted to Venice Film Festival for the premiere of the Guillermo del Toro remake on Saturday.

Ahmed al-Rahawi was killed along with a number of ministers in a villa in Beit Baws, in southern Sanaa on Thursday. He was the most senior Houthi official killed in the Israeli-U.S. campaign

The actor, 35, shielded his move star good looks behind a huge bushy beard and dark shades, while his hair was worn in curls.

When it comes to nuclear fusion energy, "How do we advance fusion as fast as possible?" asks the CEO of Commonwealth Fusion Systems. They've just raised $863 million from Nvidia, Google, the BIll Gates-founded Breakthrough Energy Ventures and nearly two dozen more investors, which "may prove helpful as the company develops its supply chain and searches for partners to build its power plants and buy electricity," reports TechCrunch. Commonwealth's CEO/co-founder Bob Mumgaard says "This round of capital isn't just about fusion just generally as a concept... It's about how do we go to make fusion into a commercial industrial endeavor." The Massachusetts-based company has raised nearly $3 billion to date, the most of any fusion startup. Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS) previously raised a $1.8 billion round in 2021... CFS is currently building a prototype reactor called Sparc in a Boston suburb. The company expects to turn that device on later next year and achieve scientific breakeven in 2027, a milestone in which the fusion reaction produces more energy than was required to ignite it. Though Sparc isn't designed to sell power to the grid, it's still vital to CFS's success. "There are parts of the modeling and the physics that we don't yet understand," Saskia Mordijck, an associate professor of physics at the College of William and Mary, told TechCrunch. "It's always an open question when you turn on a completely new device that it might go into plasma regimes we've never been into, that maybe we uncover things that we just did not expect." Assuming Sparc doesn't reveal any major problems, CFS expects to begin construction on Arc, its commercial-scale power plant, in Virginia starting in 2027 or 2028... "We know that this kind of idea should work," Mordijck said. "The question is naturally, how will it perform?" Investors appear to like what they've seen so far. The list of participants in the Series B2 round is lengthy. No single investor led the round, and a number of existing investors increased their stakes, said Ally Yost, CFS's senior vice president of corporate development... The new round will help CFS make progress on Sparc, but it will not be enough to build Arc, which will likely cost several billion dollars, Mumgaard said. "As advances in computing and AI have quickened the pace of research and development, the sector has become a hotbed of startup and investor activity," the article points out. And CEO Mumgaard told TechCrunch that their Sparc prototype will prove the soundness of the science — but it's also important to learn "the capabilities that you need to be able to deliver it. It's also to have the receipts, know what these things cost!"

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On Saturday, the number of councils promising to fight back against the Court of Appeal's decision surrounding The Bell Hotel in Epping continued to grow.

The Metropolitan Police said a group of masked men attempted to enter the Crowne Hotel via the rear entrance.

Glamorous Russian tennis star Anna Kalinskaya angrily hit out at her American rivals after losing a doubles match at the US Open on Friday night.

The singer-dancer, 28, who is the daughter of Queen of Pop Madonna, took to the stage at beach restaurant and bar El Silencio in Cala Molí, Ibiza, on Saturday.

Samia Longchambon turned heads as she enjoyed a sun-soaked boat day in Corfu with her husband, Sylvain on Friday. 

Widely renowned as one of the world's most successful authors with a career spanning nearly 60 years, Mr King has made millions of dollars from his popular stories filled with 'dread and wonder'.

Panellist Stacey Solomon showed off her six-month fitness milestone in an impressive new workout video shared with her followers on Instagram

1000-Lb Sisters star Tammy Slaton opened up on social media Friday for the first time since mourning the loss of her cousin Katie Slaton, who tragically passed away at 37.

Diana tragically passed away in Pont de l'Alma Tunnel in Paris, France on August 31, 1997. That afternoon, she and Dodi Fayed had made their way to the Ritz Hotel where she called William.

The Mysterious Girl singer, 52, has seen his long-running feud dragged back into the spotlight with former glamour model Katie, 47.

The post on X, which had over 200k views within half an hour claimed: 'An attempted mass shooter has been arrested near Stamford Bridge after the Chelsea game.'

By exploiting two-color beams, researchers "can generate ordered chains and lattices," reports ScienceDaily, "with tunable topology — potentially revolutionizing data storage, communications, and photonic processing." An internationally joint research group between Singapore and Japan has unveiled a blueprint for arranging exotic, knot-like patterns of light into repeatable crystals that extend across both space and time. The work lays out how to build and control "hopfion" lattices using structured beams.. three-dimensional topological textures whose internal "spin" patterns weave into closed, interlinked loops. They have been observed or theorized in magnets and light fields, but previously they were mainly produced as isolated objects. The authors show how to assemble them into ordered arrays that repeat periodically, much like atoms in a crystal, only here the pattern repeats in time as well as in space. The key is a two-color, or bichromatic, light field whose electric vector traces a changing polarization state over time. By carefully superimposing beams with different spatial modes and opposite circular polarizations, the team defines a "pseudospin" that evolves in a controlled rhythm. When the two colors are set to a simple ratio, the field beats with a fixed period, creating a chain of hopfions that recur every cycle. Starting from this one-dimensional chain, the researchers then describe how to sculpt higher-order versions whose topological strength can be dialed up or down... Topological textures like skyrmions have already reshaped ideas for dense, low-error data storage and signal routing. Extending that toolkit to hopfion crystals in light could unlock high-dimensional encoding schemes, resilient communications, atom trapping strategies, and new light-matter interactions. "The birth of space-time hopfion crystals," the authors write, opens a path to condensed, robust topological information processing across optical, terahertz, and microwave domains.

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A Labour MP has publicly condemned Angela Rayner over her controversial property dealings. 

The Sussexes made headlines at the Time100 summit earlier this year after Meghan said she was the 'happiest' she had ever been, just weeks after her Netflix series was panned by critics.

It's a very quaint looking pub

Mylie (pictured) was last seen in the market town of Bridgwater, Somerset, at around 7pm that day.