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Harriet Sime, checks into Kompsos Villa in the north of Crete, and reveals why this small but beautiful island is just the spot for a multi-generation trip.

ESSEX is set to bake in record-breaking temperatures which could soar to 37C as extreme heat warnings and health alerts have been issued this week.

ESSEX is set to bake in record-breaking temperatures which could soar to 37C as extreme heat warnings and health alerts have been issued this week.

Lopez and Affleck's blended family unit has remained solid following the February 2025 finalizing of their divorce.

Firefighters said the fire was now under control but is still warning locals to keep doors and windows shut

The Olympian asserted that he did nothing wrong and told the Daily Mail that the Trump administration is trying to pin the blame of the Reflecting Pool's condition on vandals.

A private tutor who charged money to take dozens of exams for students and submit coursework for them "has been jailed for three years," reports the BBC, "after his scam earned him £300,000." Shahid Adnan completed assignments and online tests for more than 120 students at Liverpool John Moore's University, the Crown Prosecution Service said. The 43-year-old, of Lysander Close, Liverpool, was caught in February 2023 after a student handed in a USB drive containing suspicious coursework to Dr Tom Berry of the university's school of computer science and mathematics. Berry's checks revealed the drive was used by Adnan with documents linked to a company he set up called Study Sharp Ltd. Excel spreadsheets containing details of other students, their study modules, coursework due dates, and their personal login credentials were also found. Further checks confirmed suspicions that Adnan was accessing the university's network to submit fraudulent work and sit examinations on behalf of students... [I]nvestigations led police to believe Adnan may have been doing work for 124 students at universities all over the world. The BBC also interviewed detective sergeant Adam Dagnall from Merseyside Police's cybercrime unit, who said Adnan was living a lavish lifestyle "well beyond" his stated occupations as a private tutor and Amazon delivery driver. His bank accounts held more than £2m ($2,645,100 USD).

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'I think you have to really sit down and listen to your heart and go: "Is this bringing me joy? Is the idea of this path really exciting to me?'

Mick Laws was just 55 when he was found slumped on the floor

One of Britain's leading hoteliers has warned Labour that 'policy after policy is threatening job creation and investment' - with the young bearing the brunt of the pain.

According to the New York Police Department, officers responded to urgent reports of a fall inside the arena and found the man unconscious and unresponsive at 9.51pm.

A British mother has claimed doctors 'wrongly removed her appendix during a holiday to Egypt. 

Belgium were denied by a string of impressive saves by goalkeeper Alireza Beiranvand and had defender Nathan Ngoy sent off in a disappointing outing.

Callum's dad is Laurence Coles who moved to Australia when the star was a toddler, married a businesswoman - and had two more children, Callum's half-siblings.

From today, councils across England will gain the power to issue hefty penalties for serious hazards in private renters' homes.

Johnny Depp's ex Amber Heard offered a rare glimpse at her five-year-old daughter Oonagh after completing a 10k in Madrid over the weekend.

The actor and comedian (pictured) said he had been too 'consumed' by his feelings for the pop singer - to whom his stormy marriage lasted 14 months - for the allegations to be true.

The former Duke of York enjoyed what has been described as a relaxing weekend break in rural Brittany as the VIP guest of a horse breeding tycoon from the UAE.

Police guidelines on dealing with incidents involving race 'need to be revisited' to end 'two-tier' policing accusations, one of Britain's most senior officers has urged.

Lillith was integrating some new tools into an existing Ruby on Rails API. The existing API allowed you to send a dry_run flag along with the request, so that you could have the service calculate its changes without applying them.

The problem was, the new tool Lillith was integrating could send, in the body of the request, {"dry_run": false}, but the service would see it as true. Consistently.

The helper method which checked for "true" parameters looked like this:

def param_true?(param_name) param_value = params[param_name] params.key?(param_name) && (!param_value || param_value.to_s.downcase == 'true') end

The purpose of this function is to handle stringy or nil inputs gracefully. And there's one thing I can say about the function: it will always identify a true value correctly. If your false value is a string, "false", it also works. But that pesky !param_value mean that any actual boolean false value will be seen as true.

This function has been in wide use through the application. Lillith's best guess is that up to this point, no one had set the dry run flag on anything but GET requests, where everything was strings. On POST/PATCH/PUT requests, where the data was passed in the body as JSON, it got parsed into actual boolean values, and thus failed.

That's the WTF, certainly, that this function was lurking and waiting to cause this confusion. But the annoying thing in this function is that it fetches the value from the associative array, then calls params.key? to see if the key exists. That's fine, since Ruby just returns a nil if a key doesn't exist, it's just annoying. I hate to see it. This is, admittedly, more of a "me" problem, but I hate it.

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