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The Algarve in Portugal has been the most searched-for overseas destination for potential buyers and online browsers in Britain this summer, Rightmove said.

Extraordinary CCTV footage shows medics grabbing hold of the operating table and shielding the patient as the room shakes violently around them at a hospital in Kumamoto, Japan.

The situation in Sandway, which is made up of just 17 houses, is emblematic of that facing rural communities across Britain.

Behind every great man, there is a woman, and for Jamie Oliver that has been his wife of 26 years, Jools.

In footage captured on a Ring camera, an 83-year-old woman can be seen sleeping in her bed at her home in Hayes, west London, when four balaclava-clad men burst in.

The President's endorsement could potentially clear the field for the sitting Vice President, given rumored top rival Marco Rubio has said he would not contest Vance if he ran.

Researchers in China have developed a living mycelium textile that can self-clean, renew its surface, and partially repair holes when treated with a nutrient solution and fresh fungus. The material can also gain added properties such as blue pigmentation or UV resistance by co-culturing it with yeast or other fungi. Dezeen reports: The breakthrough from the researchers at the Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology is a type of engineered living material (ELM) -- a material built off living organisms that stay active even after they're fabricated into their final form. [...] By working with living but dormant cordyceps militaris fungus instead, the researchers have been able to take advantage of its biological functions. The result is a material that is self-renewing and responsive to its environment, in ways that could one day transform architecture and clothing -- as seen in a prototype dress created together with material innovation company Peelshere. It can also be adapted by mixing in other fungi or yeast, lead researcher Ke Li and her team detail in a paper in the peer-reviewed journal Science Advances. In it, they describe a "programmable fungal platform" where mycelium is treated like a modular system, with the sheet material forming a base structure and extra biological abilities, such as colour and UV resistance, becoming "plug-and-play" add-ons via other organisms. This gets their textile closer to the self-repair, environmental responsiveness and controllable functionality that is the promise of engineered living materials, they argue. The ELM's self-renewing and semi-repairing functionality comes from the mycelium base structure. Following drying at 45 degrees, the material is not quite living and not quite dead, but instead in a "low-metabolic, dormant-like state", Li told Dezeen, meaning it is not actively growing. However, new growth can be triggered by applying a nutrient solution of potato water, leading the dormant mycelium to germinate, send out new fungal filaments and renew the material's surface. When this nutrient solution is applied over a hole, along with a small patch of fresh fungus, it triggers the living cells to grow across the gap, seamlessly repairing the surface without any adhesives or stitching. The material is also naturally self-cleaning, as it is hydrophobic. "Its distinctive surface texture, biological colouring, controlled repair and biodegradability may be particularly useful in applications where visual expression and a defined product lifetime are important," said Li. "Further improvements in durability, moisture resistance, safety and manufacturing consistency would be needed before it could be considered for routine clothing or permanent architectural use."

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Meredith Kercher's sister has called for an Edinburgh Fringe show by Amanda Knox (pictured), who was twice convicted and acquitted of her murder, to be cancelled.

Brits deemed it too hot to shop last month as soaring temperatures led to shopper footfall tumbling.

The alarming scene at Seaford Head in East Sussex follows warnings about the risks of standing on the brink of the cliff, from which huge sections regularly plunge to the shore.

Looked to the past for some time-traveling entries to round out a themed post. They're 25% fresh.

Robert apparently got a notification of a planned past delivery. It could be just a case of two systems that don't report different time zones, but even so, that's a wtf. Says he: "I just received an email from OnePlus this morning letting me know they have updated the planned delivery date for my order to Yesterday. I guess the delivery driver is going to time travel to get there on time since it still hasn't arrived. "

Kinkster Ypsilon Omega was really turned on by a time-traveling hottie who posted a photo an hour before joining. "(Heavily redacted screenshot.) Either Fetlife (a kink community website) is very welcoming to time travelers, or allows new members to upload their profile picture. Because time handling code surely never fails..."

ERIC P. shared a photo from 2023. "My 2008 Ford has suddenly time-warped 1024 weeks into the past. GPS date roll-over bug. No updated firmware available. No way to set the calendar manually. No way to turn off the date display."

Marc Würth "... just added a new RSS feed to my Netvibes dashboard (great tool otherwise, by the way). While it was still fetching the feed, it showed these peculiar crawling stats. Once fully loaded, it showed sane info, though." I'm curious about the specificity of 261 years.

Quite recently, an anonymous slightly flexed "Not only did I receive two parcels prior to the Roman conquest of Britain, but the date calculation for the combined notification has then failed and returned the Unix epoch." For those who missed the flex, dig Wikipedia: "Wardian London is considered to be the most expensive residential development in East London." I guess they can afford professional time travelers.

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What an idiot

Firefighters from Witham and Braintree rescued five kittens from a home on Virgil Road in Witham, after a blaze broke out, forcing residents to evacuate.

He and his wife had arrived at court holding hands

Mohamad Agha, 51, was wanted in Romania to serve a four-year jail sentence for attempted murder and was funded by the British taxpayer for much of his time evading justice.

Plans have been submitted to build up to 675 new homes

Geri Halliwell left fans stunned as she revealed her very unlikely friendship with Hollywood royalty Meryl Streep on Thursday.

A broad smile played across Kidman's face as she strolled onto the vessel and enjoyed the sea breeze amid the fever-pitch speculation about her love life.

Beijing’s not saying why, which is just what happened when it investigated Micron

With the success of Spider-Man: Brand New Day, we have looked back at when the star was in Essex filming in 2018 for Spider-Man: Far From Home.