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Wethersfield Asylum Reception Centre is set to remain in operation beyond 2027 and expand by 55 per cent, the Home Office has confirmed.

Wethersfield Asylum Reception Centre is set to remain in operation beyond 2027 and expand by 55 per cent, the Home Office has confirmed.

The building was struck by lightning, which caused a fire earlier this week

Dua Lipa and Callum Turner couldn't keep their hands off each other once again as they continued their PDA-packed tour of Italy on their honeymoon.

Diet has long been linked to dementia risk, but new research suggests that it's never too late to start eating better to stave off the disease

Horrifying aerial photos showed the depth of destruction after earthquakes struck Venezuela, as over 200 are left dead and thousands feared missing.

There are many schools in Essex that are either closed or planning to close early today due to the 'extreme heat'

The killing of a British man by an influencer in Dubai is yet another tragedy for his devastated family - after his father was murdered by his own brother and two nephews.

Researchers say they detected the first gravitational-wave "fingerprints" of a black hole's event horizon by analyzing the final moments of the powerful GW250114 merger. The findings support Einstein's general relativity and may eventually help probe frame dragging and quantum fluctuations near black holes. Phys.org reports: For the new research published in Nature, an international team of researchers analyzed data from the strongest gravitational wave ever recorded, known as GW250114, detected by the LIGO observatory in January 2025. By isolating the last burst of waves -- known as "direct waves" -- from this black hole merger, the scientists said they were able to extract information from closer to an event horizon than ever before. "This black hole horizon concept normally appears in science fiction," lead study author Sizheng Ma of the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Canada told AFP. "But now we are really able to touch the region around the horizon with gravitational data," he added. "Sometimes I cannot believe this is really happening." The last stage of two black holes merging is like a spoon stirring a glass of water, Ma explained. The resulting swirl in space creates the ripple of gravitational waves that travel at the speed of light in all directions. If the metaphorical spoon is stirring close enough to the black hole's event horizon, "this offers us a chance to decode the physics around that region," Ma said. By supporting the theory of general relativity, the results "proved that Einstein was correct again," he added. The scientists emphasized that more research was needed to decipher what can be gleaned about event horizons using this method. But they did detect information about how black holes twist space around themselves as they rotate -- a phenomenon known as "frame dragging." "This is similar to pushing a glass into a table and twisting it, so that the tablecloth winds up around it," Maximiliano Isi, a gravitational wave astrophysicist at Columbia University, told AFP. In the future, the scientists hope to find signs of tiny changes known as quantum fluctuations. "In this way, we can really probe this near-horizon region to look for new physics," including searching for a deviation from general relativity, Ma said.

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The singer, 27, made a surprise appearance at the group match which saw Ecuador narrowly scrape through to the knockout stages after winning 2-1 in euphoric scenes.

She had no visible problems until suffering a 30-minute seizure on the day of her first birthday party

Several schools and businesses are closed today and trains are cancelled as heat disruption across Essex continues.

Several schools and businesses are closed today and trains are cancelled as heat disruption across Essex continues.

I have spent the past 15 years longing for a reunion with my mother. Two months ago, I finally got what I'd been dreaming of - only not quite as expected.

First up this week is a little story about a fifafail. I do wonder if this was a failure of the television station, or whether there was something more to it than that.

Hercules wrote to alert us to these World Cup shenanigans, explaing "At least the flags were correct. And yes, this was live TV. The host got the country names correctly, and even called out that the written text was wrong"

"I'm very open in my job search but I did limit it to France. The search has been working well for months, but this morning I got a bevy of new interesting propositions. It seems France is much bigger than it was yesterday." Apparently WorkerNumber29200 is surprised by the expansionist nature of an imperialist coloniser. Plus ça change, Worker.

We have a couple of wtfs from Github. First Hans K. "would love to find a, so I could fix this GitHub Dependabot issue."

And Peter S. figures that "GitHub has trouble doing basic math -- or they have an unpublished proof that 0=1"

Finally Michele has just encountered one of the most maddening phenomena on Amazon recently. "Searching for a cheap USB-C fast charger. Got a list of expensive CDs of obscure artists." All of them AI-generated, like the 100000 Whys books?

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One rule for the workers, another for execs

As she walked to school on a bone-chilling January morning in 1993, the then 13-year-old Vickie Robertson saw something that stopped her in her tracks.

From Beauty of Joseon and COSRX to Medicube and Aestura, these are the Korean beauty products I genuinely recommend shopping in the Amazon Prime Day sale.

An enraged tourist scolded a group of deaf Chinese selfie-snappers for taking too long at a popular photo spot at the famed Paris Opera House in France.

When former bank worker Kate Wright joined The Only Way Is Essex in 2015, she was refreshingly comfortable embarrassing herself on TV. But it all changed when she caught the eye of Rio Ferdinand.