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Amy Jackson took to her Instagram Story on Wednesday to share a glimpse into her sun-soaked family getaway to Capri, Italy. 

A Lebanese influencer has gone viral for sharing videos of herself cooking enormous meals and then feeding them to the hungry in response to wasteful social media stars.

Francis Ford Coppola, the legendary American director behind The Godfather trilogy and Apocalypse Now, shared a health update after being hospitalized in Italy on Tuesday.

Two fundamentally different methods for measuring the universe's expansion rate continue to produce incompatible results -- with direct observations of receding galaxies yielding approximately 73 kilometers per second per megaparsec and cosmic microwave background radiation analysis producing closer to 67 km/s/mpc. The discrepancy, known as the Hubble tension, has strengthened annually for the past decadem, according to Duke University astronomer Dan Scolnic. The persistent disagreement prevents calculation of the universe's precise age or size. The Lambda-CDM model, which holds that dark energy and dark matter comprise 95% of the universe while visible matter constitutes just 5%, assumes dark energy's nature has remained constant since the Big Bang. Some theorists propose dark energy's potency changes over time, while others suggest the Milky Way sits within a comparatively empty region of space. A June study using gravitational lensing of quasar light, bypassing traditional distance measurements, matched the higher value. New telescopes including the Vera Rubin Observatory and Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope may provide additional data. Past improvements in measurement precision have only reinforced rather than resolved the tension.

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When the new couple returned to Buckingham Palace for the balcony appearance, a crowd of 250,000 people chanted, 'We want a kiss.' The young girl had her prince. The fairy tale came true.

But strife and criticism continue

Regional internet registry the African Network Information Centre (AFRINIC) is now the subject of an investigation ordered by the government of its home country, Mauritius.…

The Long Island fire chief hurled obscenities at a 10-year-old girl after the child's family called emergency services to help calm her down because she had become emotionally overwhelmed.

Millionaire ranch trader Asher Watkins, 52, was out on safari with a professional hunter and an animal tracker on the trail of a prized 1.3-ton specimen bull last Sunday.

Brad Pitt's mother has died aged 84.

Peter Andre shared his allegiance with daughter Princess alongside a pointed post about 'great family times' amid her 'rift' with mum Katie Price on Instagram on Wednesday. 

Researchers believe megastructures beneath a vast lake could rewrite the timeline of the Noah's Ark story, potentially reshaping biblical history.

A new War of the Worlds adaptation starring Ice Cube has achieved a 0% critical rating on Rotten Tomatoes after arriving on Prime Video in late July. The science fiction film, produced by Universal Pictures during the 2020 pandemic using actors filming separately through video calls, features alien tripods emerging from meteors to attack Earth. The movie sat unreleased for approximately five years before streaming debut. Critics cite poor visual effects that "wouldn't pass muster on a whimsical Snickers ad" and performances where actors appear to be "performing in a Zoom-style vacuum." The film was shot using screenlife format with most action unfolding on computer screens.

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gpt-oss-20b can't seem to decide who won the election, but tried to convince us that it was Biden

If you're still struggling to come to terms with the results of the 2024 US presidential election, you're not alone. OpenAI's new open-weight language model is also a bit confused.…

A good deal, like beauty, is in the ISP of the beholder, after all - at least if you want BEAD funding

US states that want to make use of rural broadband deployment funds had better not require ISPs to offer what they consider affordable service. According to the Trump Administration, "affordable" is for the ISP alone to define. …

The newly single star hung out with godfather Macaulay Culkin and his fiance Brenda Song at Cara Delevingne's birthday bash at the Chateau Marmont.

Councillors will meet to discuss the proposals

Google says total organic click volume from its search engine to websites has remained ""relatively stable year-over-year" despite the introduction of AI Overviews, contradicting third-party reports of dramatic traffic declines. The company reports average click quality has increased, with users less likely to immediately return to search results after clicking through to websites. Google attributes stable traffic patterns to users conducting more searches and asking longer, more complex questions since AI features launched, while AI Overviews display more links per page than traditional results.

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Nissan revealed its new all-electric Micra in May but now the Japanese brand has divulged how much it'll cost. The Micra EV will start from £22,995 making it as cheap as its Renault 5 rival.

Lieutenant Colonel Simon Barry lashed out over Sir Keir Starmer's decision to hire Jonathan Powell in a scathing letter lambasting Labour's plan to scrap the Northern Ireland Legacy Act.

Train services across Essex are experinecing delays following a defective track.