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My wife is losing her voice. Her GP says that it's silent reflux but the prescription medicines aren't helping. Could there be another cause? Dr Ellie replies to a reader's concerns.

The Great British Bake Off judge has unveiled freshly-baked plans for his 18th-century countryside retreat after falling foul of town hall planners last October.

DI Ben Coogan, 49, was sacked for gross misconduct following a hearing in April after he was found to have saved five sexual pictures of a female colleague he was romantically involved with.

The actress, 70, has said she feels 'really glad' she had children in her late forties as she reflected on ageing and her turbulent love life in a new interview.

Iran's team has spent nearly three weeks at a training camp in Antalya, using their time in Turkey to apply for visas to travel to Mexico, Canada and the United States.

Yesterday 2026's International Obfuscated C Code Contest concluded, with 22 new winners announced in a special three-hour livestreamed ceremony! Started 42 years ago, it's been described as the internet's longest-running contest, with entrants concocting convoluted programs glorying in the C programming language's subtleties, all while having some fun. And "For IOCCC29, the volume and quality of submissions were at near-historic heights," explains its home page. There's a "Tetris-optimized" GameBoy emulator with source code that looks like a GameBoy, as well as a quasi-Rogue-like game voted "most likely to teleport." Awards were also given for the best imaginary emulator (a virtual machine in 366 bytes of C) and the best fractional emulator (a maze generator for the Commodore 64). But every one of the 22 winning programs seems wildly creative... Quine Pong. "Running the program produces the source code to generate the next frame, formatted to display the current frame. By repeatedly compiling and running each successive frame, you can play the game. To move, pass either "w" (up) or "e" (down) as an argument..." A winning Taiwanese programmer formatted their source code in the shape of a Tardis from Doctor Who — code that displays an intricate ASCII animation of Doctor Who's 1963 opening title sequence. One winning entry emulates an IBM 7040 mainframe, first converting a program (encoded in whitespace) into ASCII-character drawings of punchcards for a FORTRAN program — and then executing that program to calculate the light visible to an observer looking at black hole, ultimately creating an image. It's all recreating what astrophysicist Jean-Pierre Luminet had to do in 1978 to generate the first-ever simulated photograph of a black hole (on an IBM 7040 mainframe). "The entry can also run other FORTRAN programs — but "they must be provided as a deck of punch cards... Tools have been provided to convert to/from decks and to interpret..." "We have added fun challenges to this year's winning entries competition..." the web site notes. "After you figure out what a given winning entry does, we encourage you to attempt the fun challenge!" Thanks to long-time Slashdot reader achowe for bringing the news (who has submitted winning entries in four different decades, starting in 1991 and continuing through 2025) — and who won again this year for a program simulating the Space Invaders-like game from Casio's 1980 MG-880 calculator. Follow the IOCCC on Mastodon.

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Newlyweds Dua Lipa and Callum Turner emerged on their hotel balcony after partying until 6am at their £1.5m Sicily wedding.

Beaming newlyweds Bettina and Don Trump Jr step out at the Monaco Grand Prix as their honeymoon period kicks off to a sunny start.

The disorder broke out on Tuesday evening after the release of police body-worn camera footage showing 18-year-old Henry Nowak being handcuffed by officers.

Princess Anne's son, 48, and his NHS nurse bride, 45, left All Saints Church in the luxurious Phantom IV - one of 18 made by Rolls-Royce between 1950 and 1956 exclusively for royalty or heads of state.

Molly-Mae Hague and Tommy Fury have enjoyed a family weekend at home in Cheshire days after welcoming their second child.

It shockingly emerged that Vickrum Digwa asked his mother Kiran Kaur - who is being held on remand for assisting an offender - to take the weapon away from the murder scene.

TAMARA PRENN AT QUEEN'S CLUB: Serena Williams began her comeback by insisting that that winning is no longer important to her.

The new James Bond-themed videogame 007 First Light had a budget of 1.3 billion Danish krone — a little more than USD $202 million, reports IGN, citing a report from Denmark's public service broadcaster. "Denmark's TV 2 said that makes 007 First Light the most expensive entertainment product in the country's history" — and the game "still has some way to go before breaking even." 007 First Light is estimated to have sold 2.2 million copies, generating $150 million in revenue... [Saturday IGM reported sales had jumped to 3 million copies.] The only official sales data we have comes from developer IO Interactive, which said that 007 First Light had become the fastest-selling game in the company's history, shifting 1.5 million copies in its first 24 hours... The impressive sales milestone was achieved without the aid of the Nintendo Switch 2 version, which is due out this summer. The James Bond adventure is also the highest rated IOI game ever, with an 87 on Metacritic... The developer has said it wants to make a trilogy of James Bond games. Game-tracking company Alinea Analytics tweeted their estimates that 55.1% of sales were on PS5, 33.1% on Steam, and 11.8% on Xbox (Xbox console, Windows, and cloud combined). And Polygon reports that new downloadable game content was announced Friday.

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The new James Bond-themed videogame 007 First Light had a budget of 1.3 billion Danish krone — a little more than USD $202 million, reports IGN, citing a report from Denmark's public service broadcaster. "Denmark's TV 2 said that makes 007 First Light the most expensive entertainment product in the country's history" — and the game "still has some way to go before breaking even." 007 First Light is estimated to have sold 2.2 million copies, generating $150 million in revenue... The only official sales data we have comes from developer IO Interactive, which said that 007 First Light had become the fastest-selling game in the company's history, shifting 1.5 million copies in its first 24 hours... The impressive sales milestone was achieved without the aid of the Nintendo Switch 2 version, which is due out this summer. The James Bond adventure is also the highest rated IOI game ever, with an 87 on Metacritic... The developer has said it wants to make a trilogy of James Bond games. Game-tracking company Alinea Analytics tweeted their estimates that 55.1% of sales were on PS5, 33.1% on Steam, and 11.8% on Xbox (Xbox console, Windows, and cloud combined). And Polygon reports that new downloadable game content was announced Friday.

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An international footballer allegedly tried to lure a 14-year-old British girl behind a hedge for a 'cuddle' after approaching her at a five-star resort in Turkey.

President Donald Trump has revealed that he is not ruling out sending American troops to Iran.

Tyrice Fletcher, 28, was arrested after a high-speed police chase ended in a wreck. A four-month-old was ejected from the car and three other young kids were inside.

The former glamour model, 48, returned home from Dubai earlier this week after it was thought she had accepted her marriage to Lee is over, but she has since made a surprise U-turn.

Mr Burkey, who works for the East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust, had previously been diagnosed with stage two melanoma at age 14.