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Though few of us dare ask, we all want to know: 'Am I good in bed?' You might think you would know straight away if the answer was 'no', but in fact it's rare for people to share negative feedback.

Some six million visitors descend upon Germany's most famous cathedral - a Gothic masterpiece that took 632 years to complete - but they now face paying to glimpse its interiors.

Along with more than 100,000 other Brits, I have witnessed my much-needed break become a living nightmare. One week on from the start of this terrible conflict, I am still trapped here.

Kristi Noem was mid-sentence praising Donald Trump's border triumphs at a conference in Nashville when the news flashed across the country Thursday: the President had just fired her.

The limited series sees Rachel, 55, star as M, who has a growing obsession with her younger colleague Vladimir, played by One Day actor Leo Woodall.

The quaint community of Bampton in Oxfordshire served as an outdoor location for the fictional ITV show.

Zack Polanski's leftwing outfit says it has been signing people up at the rate of 2,000 a day since it won in Gorton and Denton, sparking a crisis for Keir Starmer.

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Samuel Fodil, 34, was blissfully unaware that he had left his £50,000 car unlocked as he lay asleep at his home on the busy North Road, Cardiff, in the early hours of Saturday February 21.

Essex County Council has announced the launch of a major project to try and fix roads across Essex after poor weather conditions.

Demonstrators gathered in Limassol in recent days calling for the removal of British bases after the suspected Iranian-made drone hit the base earlier this week.

Although the chances of a direct attack on British soil remain low, experts warn that Iran's drones could strike without warning. Now, scientists have revealed what you need in your emergency kit.

Back in May 2025, ITV revealed Lorraine and Loose Women were set to be axed for half the year and Lorraine's runtime was going to be slashed by 30 minutes.

The 52-year-old is on life support in critical condition with catastrophic skull injuries after a fellow inmate left him 'ripped apart like a rat', a woman who visited the prison previously said.

Iran launched new retaliatory attacks at the end of a full week of bombardment, which US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth warned was 'about to surge dramatically'.

Zara Ferns, 26, from Runcorn, Cheshire, left the infant with his grandmother whilst she snorted the drug at a friend's house.

BrianFagioli shares a report from NERDS.xyz: An international team of scientists has done something chemistry has never seen before. IBM, working alongside researchers from the University of Manchester, Oxford University, ETH Zurich, EPFL, and the University of Regensburg, has created and characterized a molecule whose electrons travel through its structure in a corkscrew-like pattern, fundamentally altering its chemical behavior. The findings were published today in Science. The molecule, known as C13Cl2, is the first experimental observation of what scientists call a half-Mobius electronic topology in a single molecule. To the researchers' knowledge, nothing like it has ever been synthesized, observed, or even formally predicted. And proving why it behaves the way it does required something equally extraordinary -- a quantum computer. The whole thing started at IBM, where the molecule was assembled atom by atom from a custom precursor synthesized at Oxford. Working under ultra-high vacuum at near-absolute-zero temperatures, researchers used precisely calibrated voltage pulses to remove individual atoms one at a time. The result is an electronic structure that undergoes a 90-degree twist with each circuit through the molecule, requiring four complete loops to return to its starting phase. That is a topological property that has no counterpart anywhere in chemistry's existing record. What makes it even more interesting to folks who follow materials science is that this topology can be switched. The molecule can move reversibly between clockwise-twisted, counterclockwise-twisted, and untwisted states. That means electronic topology is not just a curiosity to be stumbled upon in nature -- it can be deliberately engineered. That is a big deal. The quantum computing angle here is not just a supporting role. Electrons within C13Cl2 interact in deeply entangled ways, each influencing the others simultaneously. Modeling that requires tracking every possible configuration of those interactions at once -- something that causes computational demands to grow exponentially and can quickly overwhelm classical machines. A decade ago, researchers could exactly model 16 electrons classically. Today that number has crept to 18. Using IBM's quantum computer, the team was able to explore 32 electrons. Quantum computers can represent these systems directly rather than approximate them, because they operate according to the same quantum mechanical laws that govern electrons in molecules. In this case, that capability helped reveal helical molecular orbitals for electron attachment -- a fingerprint of the half-Mobius topology -- and exposed the mechanism behind the unusual structure: a helical pseudo-Jahn-Teller effect.

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Princess Andre has revealed she is 'relieved' to no longer feel 'caught in the middle' of her parents' long-running feud following a truce between Katie Price and Peter Andre.

Paul Fenton, 61, has been accused of wrecking a wildlife haven and being 'wholly selfish' after he began hoarding waste at his unofficial scrapyard in Flowton, Suffolk.

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