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Josh Widdicombe has revealed he is suffering from 'stomach problems' as he admitted the first week of Strictly has left him 'so tired.' 

Margot Robbie looked every inch the retro bombshell as she joined a shirtless Bradley Cooper to shoot beach scenes on the French Riviera on Monday.

Noah Woods, 3, was reported missing after he became separated from a relative at a playground

You've saved hard for decades, funnelled away every spare pound, and now it's finally time to put your feet up for a well-earned retirement...

Although they are bad for you in every possible way, I fell in love over a cigarette. There is just something romantic about smoking.

Firefox 156 is the second release since Mozilla moved to a twice-monthly release schedule, and the blog OMG Ubuntu notes it has faster start-up times for its built-in PDF viewer and also lower CPU usage when viewing large JPEG images: In Firefox 156, the browser now uses libjpeg-turbo's IDCT scaling to reduce images during decoding, rather than loading a full-size image into memory and then shrinking it. Benchmarks from the bug report show up to 20x less memory used during very large image loading, and decoding is up to twice as fast. Since these speeds were quite fast already, there's no perceptible difference to users. Behind the scenes, it's more efficient. Firefox's built-in PDF viewer starts up to 45% faster in this release. The browser now loads the background PDF.js worker sooner, rather than launching it only when needed. Sponsored suggestions in the address bar are live for users in France, Germany and Italy (Ouais!, Juhu!, etc). These are already available in some other locales. Don't want them? Disable them via Settings > Search > Firefox Suggest > Suggestions from Sponsors. Besides that, the rest of this release is primarily bug fixes — worthwhile and welcome as always. And in about two weeks Firefox 157 will be released, reports PC World. "That update should add support for JPEG XL (JXL), a modern image format that offers the same quality as JPEG at a significantly smaller size. Although JPEG XL was launched in 2021, Safari is the only browser to support it yet. For a short period, Chrome also supported it, but that ended in 2022." Also, a recent Firefox blog post emphasized that it supports whatever level of AI engagement "is right for you... Because the only person telling you how much AI you need should be you." Opting out of upcoming and current AI features on your browser should not require endless navigation through multiple Settings pages. That's why Firefox offers an AI controls section within its General Settings panel. A single, easily located place where you can block current and future AI features and related pop-ups with the swipe of a toggle... For the many people who sit in the middle of the AI usage spectrum, we made sure you can opt in and out of specific features in line with your preferences. Capabilities like AI translations, image alt text in Firefox PDF viewer, tab group suggestions, and key points in link previews can all be individually switched on and off, ensuring you can enjoy such offerings on a case by case basis as it suits your needs... Smart Window is Firefox's most integrated AI experience, but that doesn't mean it compromises our commitment to choice, privacy, and transparency. Our newest window type, which we've been polishing and testing in beta, uses only the context you share with it to help you move work forward and across the finish line. When permitted by you, its built-in, AI-powered assistant can work directly with your open tabs and browsing history to connect the dots. This means comparing information, generating recommendations, summarizing pages, and planning projects without having to feed every crumb of context from your previous and current browsing activity each time you enter a new prompt. And if you want to block Google's AI Overviews, there's over 100 extensions to choose from.

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The memoir - Swan Song: Diana, My Sister - includes revelations about Diana's deeply unhappy marriage with the then Prince of Wales.

A video showing the moment a police officer brutally slapped a handcuffed woman across the face while she was being arrested has sparked fury in Belgium. 

Barratt Redrow said it expected higher mortgage rates and affordability pressures to continue to impact customer confidence in the housing market in the year ahead.

The aircraft came down near the intersection of Northoff Street and DeSoto Avenue in Chatsworth on Tuesday night, near where an SUV crashed into a bus earlier in the night.

The London flat market continues to suffer with inner city apartments now £71,000 cheaper than they were four years ago, official data shows.

Flight test 14 angling for 10 hours in space and a splashdown in the Pacific

The ID.3 GTI will also be one of the quickest VW hot hatches. It can accelerate from 0-62mph in 5.6 seconds, which is 0.3 quicker than the petrol Golf GTI.

Noah Woods, 3, was last seen at 3pm on Tuesday when he became separated from a relative after visiting the playground in Brantham, as Suffolk Police release CCTV footage

For more than 2,000 years, it has been claimed that the Parthenon's famous curves were designed to correct an optical illusion, making the temple appear straight.

ITV aired the first installment of 70 Up on Tuesday, the final episodes of the world's longest-running documentary series 7 Up.

CHARLOTTE DALY: Verstappen will start at the back of a 101-kart field at Silverstone later today and attempt to overtake 100 rivals in a unique event.

Strictly's Shirley Ballas, 66, is reportedly 'growing close' to dancer Giuseppe Nonnis, 36.

Andy Burnham pointed the finger at Middle East chaos as he insisted the UK economy remained 'resilient'.

Iranian strikes overwhelmed regional redundancy in Bahrain and left one UAE Availability Zone inaccessible