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Free trade deals are meant to provide a boon to consumers, enrich the economy - and be fair to both sides.

A dripping tap need cost no more than a couple of pence to fix. But 72-year-old widow Linda Gresham was charged more than £200 by British Gas.

The Mark Hotel has become the go-to for celebrities attending the Met Gala who splash out big bucks on luxury suites and fly in glam squads to prep them for the first Monday in May. 

Kanye West stormed out during a dramatic interview with Piers Morgan, with the broadcaster branding the rapper 'a big baby' over his behaviour.

With iOS 18.5, Apple is bringing carrier-based satellite connectivity to the entire iPhone 13 lineup, allowing users with compatible carrier plans (like T-Mobile's Starlink-powered service) to access satellite features in areas without traditional coverage. The update is expected to launch next week. 9to5Mac reports: It's important to note that this update does not bring Apple's Emergency SOS via satellite to the iPhone 13 series. That feature relies on specialized hardware found only in iPhone 14 and later and functions independently of carrier networks. It also doesn't "install Starlink" on every iPhone, just support for carrier-provided satellite features like Starlink. By contrast, carrier-provided satellite services behave more like conventional cellular connections and require a participating plan to work.

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As far as her colleagues were concerned, Mary Durso was a successful career woman, a wife and mother, who juggled a demanding six-figure-salary job with raising her adorable daughter.

Gwyneth Paltrow, 52, revealed in a tell-all interview that she ditched her first Goop CEO, Seb Bishop, after his mother was diagnosed with cancer.

It come as the relationship between the U.S. and its neighbor has been undermined by the president's tariffs and talk of annexing Canada as the '51st state.'

A study by think-tank Policy Exchange warned that more jail space is required to protect the public.

The World Cup will be held across America, Canada and Mexico with the first game in Mexico City on June 11. The final will be held in New York City on July 19.

In a sneak preview of the video for Sam's latest single Little Bit Closer posted to his Instagram on Tuesday, the teenage actor could be seen staring into the distance as the song played over the clip.

Too much hot air brings down Manchester Uni based neural network project

Exclusive  The brain-inspired SpiNNaker machine at Manchester University in England suffered an overheating incident over the Easter weekend that will send a chill down the spines of datacenter administrators.…

Stacey Solomon and Joe Swash have been married since 2022 and the couple have documented their busy family life in the BBC One series Stacey & Joe

An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Google on Tuesday announced the launch of Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview (I/O edition), an updated version of its flagship Gemini 2.5 Pro AI model that the company claims tops a number of widely used benchmarks. Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview (I/O edition) is available via the Gemini API and Google's Vertex AI and AI Studio platforms, and is priced the same as the Gemini 2.5 Pro model it effectively replaces. It's also in Google's Gemini chatbot app for the web and for mobile devices. The model's release comes ahead of Google's annual I/O developer conference (hence the "I/O edition" designation), where Google is expected to unveil a host of models, as well as AI-powered tools and platforms. [...] According to Google, Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview (I/O edition) has "significantly" improved capabilities for coding and building interactive web apps. The model is also better at tasks like code transformation -- that is, modifying a piece of code to achieve a specific goal -- and code editing, the company says. Google says the Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview (I/O edition) leads the WebDev Arena Leaderboard, a benchmark measuring a model's ability to create aesthetically pleasing and functional web apps. It also achieved a score of 84.8% on VideoMME, a popular benchmark designed to evaluate the video analysis capabilities of multi-modal large language models.

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Social media star Sophie Rain has been swept up in pregnancy rumors - despite claiming to be a virgin.

The man in his 30s was using Lloyds's services on St Peters Street on Tuesday afternoon when he was violently assaulted.

MATTHEW LAMBWELL IN ROME: It sometimes feels as though ever since the 2021 US Open, Emma Raducanu has been trying to recapture the spirit of that schoolgirl who swept to the title.

Robert Heyes had been using his phone while driving a work van when he ploughed into Keith Brady, 41, along Chorley New Road in October 2022.

The Duchess of Sussex, 43, took to her official Instagram page to share a touching tribute to her son as she celebrated his milestone.

The unnamed couple were intercepted by police while passing through security at Jose Maria Cordova Airport in Rionegro on Saturday.