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A New Zealand OnlyFans star has revealed more horrific details about a Brazilian Butt Lift procedure she had in Turkey that left her 'vomiting blood'.

For months locals in the Downs area of Bristol have been complaining about dozens of caravans parked up on public roads and have accused the council of not taking action fast enough.

The shortfall - equivalent to a third of the country's daily use - is being blamed on climate change , population growth and more demand from businesses.

Andrew is entitled to a partial rebate on his outgoings if given the order of the boot at the end of his first 25 years of his lease.

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Minnesota lawmaker Melissa Hortman's beloved golden retriever Gilbert (pictured with Hortman in 2022) had to be euthanized after being shot by suspected assassin Vance Boelter.

Journalist Tucker Carlson traveled to Washington, DC on Monday, publicly urging the president away from an escalating war in the Middle East.

alternative_right shares a report from ScienceDaily: When the brain is under pressure, certain neural signals begin to move in sync -- much like a well-rehearsed orchestra. A new study from Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) is the first to show how flexibly this neural synchrony adjusts to different situations and that this dynamic coordination is closely linked to cognitive abilities. "Specific signals in the midfrontal brain region are better synchronized in people with higher cognitive ability -- especially during demanding phases of reasoning," explained Professor Anna-Lena Schubert from JGU's Institute of Psychology, lead author of the study recently published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. The researchers focused on the midfrontal area of the brain and the measurable coordination of the so-called theta waves. These brainwaves oscillate between four and eight hertz and belong to the group of slower neural frequencies. "They tend to appear when the brain is particularly challenged such as during focused thinking or when we need to consciously control our behavior," said Schubert, who heads the Analysis and Modeling of Complex Data Lab at JGU. The 148 participants in the study, aged between 18 and 60, first completed tests assessing memory and intelligence before their brain activity was recorded using electroencephalography (EEG). [...] As a result, individuals with higher cognitive abilities showed especially strong synchronization of theta waves during crucial moments, particularly when making decisions. Their brains were better at sustaining purposeful thought when it mattered most. "People with stronger midfrontal theta connectivity are often better at maintaining focus and tuning out distractions, be it that your phone buzzes while you're working or that you intend to read a book in a busy train station," explained Schubert. The findings have been published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology.

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Geri Horner wowed in white as she and husband Christian Horner attended the world premiere of F1 The Movie on Monday.

Data has revealed that the majority of cancer patients in some parts of the country are being forced to endure life threatening delays to start treatment for the disease.

Captain Sumeet Sabharwal and First Officer Clive Kunder placed a mayday call, but they had little over a minute after takeoff before the fatal crash occurred

The singer, 40, and actor, 39, were pictured cosying up to one another as they watched Charli's show in the capital, before heading to a backstage compound to party with the singer.

Body language expert Judi James said the moment, which was captured by cameras from around the world, created an image that could prove hard to shake.

'Such good quality and it fits really well'

At the age of 96, he became the oldest prisoner to have a parole hearing, during which he was denied freedom or the opportunity to move to an open prison.

The Loose Women presenter, 46, and former Chelsea footballer, also 46, jetted off to Lake Como for a family holiday.

The  former party girl, 40, and straight laced actor, 39, looked cosy as they watched Charli XCX perform at Lido Festival in London, after meeting on exclusive celebrity dating app Raya .

Over the weekend, the Duchess of Sussex shared a sweet Father's Day tribute to her husband Prince Harry , featuring numerous snapshots of their children Prince Archie, six, and Lili, four.

Google Cloud has attributed last week's widespread outage to a flawed code update in its Service Control system that triggered a global crash loop due to missing error handling and lack of feature flag protection. The Register reports: Google's explanation of the incident opens by informing readers that its APIs, and Google Cloud's, are served through our Google API management and control planes." Those two planes are distributed regionally and "are responsible for ensuring each API request that comes in is authorized, has the policy and appropriate checks (like quota) to meet their endpoints." The core binary that is part of this policy check system is known as "Service Control." On May 29, Google added a new feature to Service Control, to enable "additional quota policy checks." "This code change and binary release went through our region by region rollout, but the code path that failed was never exercised during this rollout due to needing a policy change that would trigger the code," Google's incident report explains. The search monopolist appears to have had concerns about this change as it "came with a red-button to turn off that particular policy serving path." But the change "did not have appropriate error handling nor was it feature flag protected. Without the appropriate error handling, the null pointer caused the binary to crash." Google uses feature flags to catch issues in its code. "If this had been flag protected, the issue would have been caught in staging." That unprotected code ran inside Google until June 12th, when the company changed a policy that contained "unintended blank fields." Here's what happened next: "Service Control, then regionally exercised quota checks on policies in each regional datastore. This pulled in blank fields for this respective policy change and exercised the code path that hit the null pointer causing the binaries to go into a crash loop. This occurred globally given each regional deployment." Google's post states that its Site Reliability Engineering team saw and started triaging the incident within two minutes, identified the root cause within 10 minutes, and was able to commence recovery within 40 minutes. But in some larger Google Cloud regions, "as Service Control tasks restarted, it created a herd effect on the underlying infrastructure it depends on ... overloading the infrastructure." Service Control wasn't built to handle this, which is why it took almost three hours to resolve the issue in its larger regions. The teams running Google products that went down due to this mess then had to perform their own recovery chores. Going forward, Google has promised a couple of operational changes to prevent this mistake from happening again: "We will improve our external communications, both automated and human, so our customers get the information they need asap to react to issues, manage their systems and help their customers. We'll ensure our monitoring and communication infrastructure remains operational to serve customers even when Google Cloud and our primary monitoring products are down, ensuring business continuity."

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Belinda Taylor, from Totnes in Devon, fell to her death alongside instructor Adam Harrison in a 'tragic accident' at Dunkeswell Airfield, in Devon.