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The UK government has barred Israeli officials from attending the country's biggest arms fair over growing concern about the war in Gaza. 

UK-based TikTok creator Ebony Wood, described as a 'self-proclaimed benefits queen' has angered social media users after insulting people who have jobs.

The criminal was a 'loose cannon' who broke the code of Liverpool's underworld, where even hardened criminals were 'wary' of the 'incredibly twisted' man, a top cop has revealed.

Lottie Tomlinson flashed her abs in a skimpy pink bikini as she soaked up the sun in Marbella with her fiancé Lewis Burton on Friday.

It's a rather affluent area - and its clear to see why

The bombardment of 537 drones and 45 missiles unleashed by Russian forces caused yet more death and destruction as civilians and energy and rail facilities were targeted.

A researcher from Imperial College London has revealed a new AI stephoscope that can detect three common heart conditions in just 15 seconds by picking up sounds humans can't hear.

The couple demanded to know if the nurse, who has worked for the NHS for 12 years, 'came here on a rubber boat' and hurled water at her her during the assault at a park in Halifax on Thursday.

The 87-year-old broadcasting icon covered 10 World Cups and 17 Olympic Games and is the last surviving commentator from England's victorious campaign in 1966.

"From a side project in Amsterdam to powering AI at the world's biggest companies — this is the story of Python," says the description of a new 84-minute documentary. Long-time Slashdot reader destinyland writes: It traces Python all the way back to its origins in Amsterdam back in 1991. (Although the first time Guido van Rossum showed his new language to a co-worker, they'd typed one line of code just to prove they could crash Python's first interpreter.) The language slowly spread after van Rossum released it on Usenet — split across 21 separate posts — and Robin Friedrich, a NASA aerospace engineer, remembers using Python to build flight simulations for the Space Shuttle. (Friedrich says in the documentary he also attended Guido's first in-person U.S. workshop in 1994, and "I still have the t-shirt...") Dropbox's CEO/founder Drew Houston describes what it was like being one of the first companies to use Python to build a company reaching millions of users. (Another success story was YouTube, which was built by a small team using Python before being acquired by Google). Anaconda co-founder Travis Oliphant remembers Python's popularity increasing even more thanks to the data science/macine learning community. But the documentary also includes the controversial move to Python 3 (which broke compatability with earlier versions). Though ironically, one of the people slogging through a massive code migration ended up being van Rossum himself at his new job at Dropbox. The documentary also includes van Rossum's resignation as "Benevolent Dictator for Life" after approving the walrus operator. (In van Rossum's words, he essentially "rage-quit over this issue.") But the focus is on Python's community. At one point, various interviewees even take turns reciting passages from the "Zen of Python" — which to this day is still hidden in Python as an import-able library as a kind of Easter Egg. "It was a massive undertaking", the documentary's director explains in a new interview, describing a full year of interviews. (The article features screenshots from the documentary — including a young Guido van Rossum and the original 1991 email that announced Python to the world.) [Director Bechtle] is part of a group that's filmed documentaries on everything from Kubernetes and Prometheus to Angular, Node.js, and Ruby on Rails... Originally part of the job platform Honeypot, the documentary-makers relaunched in April as Cult.Repo, promising they were "100% independent and more committed than ever to telling the human stories behind technology." Honeypot's founder Emma Tracey bought back its 272,000-subscriber YouTube channel from Honeypot's new owners, New Work SE, and Cult.Repo now bills itself as "The home of Open Source documentaries." Over in a thread at Python.org, language creator Guido van Rossum has identified the Python community members in the film's Monty Python-esque poster art. And core developer Hugo van Kemenade notes there's also a video from EuroPython with a 55-minute Q&A about the documentary.

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But the commuter town in Surrey is hiding a financial crisis - so deep that its council is £2 billion under and has the highest levels of debt per person in Britain.

Now based in Montecito, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex lead a different life compared to what they used to enjoy in Harry's native England after they fled in 2020.

Businessman Wang Ning, 38, has seen his net worth skyrocket since the start of the year thanks to the runaway success of Labubu toys, making him one of the youngest billionaires in China.

A state media pundit has declared that the boy is 'Russian' and demanded the Putin regime should 'do everything possible' to 'protect the mother's right' to be with the child.

The vehicle caught fire on the southbound carriageway as two crews from the West Midlands Fire Service scrambled to the scene just after 10am

Immediately after the news hit the web, fans took to X to share their thoughts - and while some were overjoyed by the classic story getting a new take, others were not so excited.

Professor Joan Taylor, Professor of Christian Origins and Second Temple Judaism at King's College London, has revealed what Mary Magdalene looked like as a historical woman.

Ardal O'Hanlon is hitting the road for his first stand-up tour in five years

Edmond Kallmi, 50, lowered an imitation firearm at the woman on a street in the small Welsh mining town of Ferndale, before telling her: 'How's about I f****** shoot you, you b****?'.

The horror unfolded in the town of Evreux in the northern French region of Normandy at around 4.00am on Saturday (2.00am GMT).