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News broke on Tuesday that FIFA boss Infantino was considering selling parts of the tournament to private investors and forming a new company in a deal that could be worth around £15billion.

If approved in a planning meeting today, the 66-bed facility would be the eighth nursing home in the tiny Norfolk town of Diss, in addition to 23 residential care homes.

For more than two years, Cameron and Sue Evans carved out an idyllic life as expat retirees in the tiny rural hamlet of Fuente del Albarico, 230 miles east of Malaga in southern Spain.

alternative_right shares a report from ScienceAlert: [I]n a new study published in the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, researchers from Georgetown University Medical Center in the U.S. have revealed that we can put certain tasks on autopilot in a way that enables something closer to true multitasking. Driving is the perfect example: When you take your test, your entire mental and physical energy is concentrated on executing the right combinations of movements and thoughts. After a decade behind the wheel, the brain is no longer consciously thinking everything through in great detail. In the new study, the researchers found that after extensive practice, the brain can effectively reroute some tasks around the brain's main computing center -- like a bypass road around a city -- to reduce mental overload and improve multitasking capability. "We have another stepping stone in our understanding of how the brain learns," says neuroscientist Maximilian Riesenhuber, senior author of the study. "The encouraging part is that you really can learn to multitask. There is actually a way to remodel your brain architecture and use other parts of your brain." [...] "Previous studies have shown that parts of the temporal cortex can be activated by particular object categories in experienced observers -- birds, cars, even Pokemon -- but a limitation of all of those studies is that they only looked after people became experts," says psychologist Patrick Cox, first author of the study. "We measure before and after training, so we can see that extensive training essentially put a category-selective area in the temporal lobe that was not there before." The study culminated in a dual-task experiment, in which the participants were asked to identify cars and take on another challenge. The individuals whose brains had offloaded more car-sorting work to the temporal cortex did better at the second task.

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Fire crews were last night called to the scene of a blaze in Colchester after reports from residents of an explosion.

Fire crews were last night called to the scene of a blaze in Colchester after reports from residents of an explosion.

Named Simon and Garfunkel, the tiny crested gecko hatched unexpectedly at Rockstar Geckos, a breeding business based in north-eastern Pennsylvania.

Tulisa has reportedly split from her billionaire cannabis mogul boyfriend Maxmillion White after 11 months. 

A woman has been charged with the murder of her eight-month-old daughter in Harlow after her death was deemed 'suspicious'.

A woman has been charged with the murder of her eight-month-old daughter in Harlow after her death was deemed 'suspicious'.

Essex Police said tests have deemed the baby's death to be suspicious

Haggling leaves most of us feeling uncomfortable and awkward. So it's little wonder that few of us would dream of trying it at the supermarket or on the high street.

Splitting up responsibility for digital transformation and procurement while AI gets a seat at Cabinet risks incoherency

There are miles of delays on a major Essex road, the A12 between Witham and Witham North due to a crash.

There are miles of delays on a major Essex road, the A12 between Witham and Witham North due to a crash.

Rick Edwards shared he's 'absolutely loved' his five-year stint as the host of BBC Radio 5 Live's Breakfast show, after Naga Munchetty was announced as the new host.

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The force says it is "worried" about him

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Essex Police have launched an appeal to find missing 46-year-old Richard Munns, who is missing from the Harlow area.