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Distraught families who lost loved ones to terrorists that will now be freed from Israeli prisons have said 'no other country would pay such a price for peace'.

The incident was first reported at around 1pm

More than 1,000 outage reports were logged on tracking site Downdetector within an hour, with most complaints flooding in just before 10am.

Clara Wilson, from Huthwaite, Notts, was arrested at Barcelona's El Prat airport after travelling from Thailand with more than 34 kilos of cannabis in her suitcase.

As A Place In The Sun celebrates its 25th anniversary this month, our fascination with people pursuing the sun-kissed Mediterranean dream shows no signs of slowing down.

The man deceived his victim, who believed he was a taxi driver

An anonymous reader quotes a report from CBC News: The study by a team from Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children (also known as Sick Kids) and St. Michael's Hospital was published in the Journal of the American Medical Association. It found that children who spent more time on screens before age eight scored lower on standardized tests. Child psychiatry researchers say handing kids digital devices, like iPads, every time they have a tantrum could lead to future issues. One new study links too much screen time to emotional and anger management problems. The study followed more than 3,000 kids in Ontario over a 15 year span from 2008 to 2023, tracking how much time they spent watching TV or DVDs, playing video games, using the computer or playing on handheld devices like iPads, as reported by their parents. That data was compared to their EQAO standardized test scores, which are used to assess the reading and math skills of kids across Ontario in grades 3 and 6. The findings point to a "significant association," between screen use and lower test scores, according to Dr. Catherine Birken, a pediatrician and senior scientist at Sick Kids and lead author of the study. "For each additional hour of screen use, there was approximately a 10 percent lower odds of meeting standards in both reading and mathematics ... in Grade 3 and mathematics in Grade 6," said Dr. Catherine Birken, a pediatrician and senior scientist at Sick Kids and lead author of the study, in an interview with CBC News. The study didn't differentiate between different types of screen time -- for example, whether a child was playing a game on their iPad versus FaceTiming a relative in another city, or watching an educational video. It was also an observational study that relied on parents answering questionnaires about how much time their kids spent in front of screens. The study authors note that this means the research can't be taken as definitive proof that screen time causes lower grades, just that the two things tend to go hand in hand.

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If you can put noise aside - this might be a dream for commuters

The brewery James Watt started in an Aberdeenshire garage had become a global enterprise. Now he planned a new empire - one blanketed with carbon capturing trees.

Denise Amber Lee, 21, should have been at home with her two young sons. When her husband returned, his children were alone and his wife was missing.

The couple were crowned 'Humanitarians of the Year' during Project Healthy Minds' World Mental Health Day Gala which took place on Thursday.

Passengers were told to expect delays of up to 45 minutes

The ghost town of Centralia offers a stark contrast to Pennsylvania's greenery. A fire that started hundreds of feet underground in 1962 still burns today.

Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink is now strutting his stuff under the Strictly Come Dancing disco ball but glitz, glamour and the football stardom he rose to are are far cry from his early life of crime. 

The Prince of Wales was overcome with emotion during the visit to the home of Rhian Mannings (pictured together) in a deeply moving conversation to mark World Mental Health Day.

A week on from that surprise appearance at Paris Fashion Week, and sources close to Meghan and Prince Harry remain agog. And in some ways it was a triumph for Meghan.

Hundreds of thousands of pro-Palestinian protesters are expected to march through central London today, even though a ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas has come into effect.

Eight-year-old Olivia-Grace Huxter passed away in hospital after a 'freak accident' at the 99-pupil Penrhys Primary School in Ferndale, Rhondda, on Wednesday.

Dr Asad Khan, a respiratory consultant from Manchester, posted on Instagram and Facebook casting doubt on the motive for the terror attack.

Novak Djokovic has explained why he will never be friends with fellow tennis great Rafael Nadal, despite admitting there is 'great respect' between them.