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Kieran Tierney and Kenny McLean struck two stoppage-time goals as Scotland beat Denmark 4-2 to clinch top spot in Group C and qualify for the World Cup.

An unattended candle left a flat in Essex seriously damaged as firefighters share safety advice ahead of the festive season.

A Chinese man who cryogenically preserved his wife after her death has sparked a heated online debate after it emerged he began dating a new partner in 2020. Some argue it's natural for him to move on, while others say he's being selfish or disrespectful to both his late wife and his current partner. The BBC reports: As a sign of his devotion, Gui Junmin decided to freeze his wife Zhan Wenlian's body after she died from lung cancer in 2017, aged 49, making her China's first cryogenically preserved person. But after a November interview revealed he had been dating a different partner since 2020, Chinese social media has been torn on Mr Junmin's predicament. Whilst some asked why the 57-year-old didn't just "let go" another commenter remarked he appeared to be "most devoted to himself." After Zhan Wenlian was given months to live by doctors, Gui Junmin decided to use cryonics - which is scientifically unproven - to preserve her body once she died. Following her death, he signed a 30-year agreement to preserve his wife's frozen body with the Shandong Yinfeng Life Science Research Institute. Since then, Zhan's body has been stored in a 2,000-litre container at the institute in a vat of -190C liquid nitrogen. Chinese newspaper Southern Weekly revealed that although Mr Junmin lived alone for two years after the procedure, in 2020 he began dating again, despite his wife remaining in cryopreservation. He told the newspaper that a severe gout attack which left him unable to move for two days began to change his mind about the benefits of living alone. Soon after, he started seeing his current partner Wang Chunxia, although Mr Junmin suggested to the paper the love was only "utilitarian" and that she hadn't "entered" his heart.

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Andy Murray led jubilant reaction to Scotland's last gasp 4-2 win against Denmark which secured the side's automatic qualification to the 2026 World Cup in North America. 

Today's representative line comes from Capybara James (most recently previously). It's representative, not just of the code base, but of Goodhart's Law: when a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure. Or, "you get what you measure".

If, for example, you decide that code coverage metrics are how you're going to judge developers, then your developers are going to ensure that the code coverage looks great. If you measure code coverage, then you will get code coverage- and nothing else.

That's how you get tests like this:

Mockito.verify(exportRequest, VerificationModeFactory.atLeast(0)).failedRequest(any(), any(), any());

This test passes if the function exportRequest.failedRequest is called at least zero times, with any input parameters.

Which, as you might imagine, is a somewhat useless thing to test. But what's important is that there is a test. The standards for code coverage are met, the metric is satisfied, and Goodhart marks up another win on the board.

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Campaigners claim it 'could lead to severe congestion and service breakdown'

In a move that makes a 'mockery' of Labour 's attempts to cosy up to the hostile state, MI5 took the unusual step of naming two female recruiters.

The display of national flags on Britain's streets has become a 'tool of division' and 'intimidation', a policing leader said yesterday.

Six years after her 'Bye Sister' video, Westbrook's celebrity that has now faded - with the 43-year-old having suffered a series of blows.

The council issued over 4,000 fines for people parking in disabled parking bays without a valid Blue Badge

It marked the soccer star's first public appearance on US soil since being accused of rape by an American teacher in 2017. Trump namechecked Ronaldo during his speech.

MI5 sounds the alarm about attempts to source sensitive information

Chinese spies are using social media and fake recruitment agents to recruit sources with access to sensitive information in the UK.…

Passenger left disappointed with compensation offered to him by Ryanair after finding bag looked like it had been 'mauled by tiger'.

A family has talked about the devastation of losing a loved one in a road traffic collision for Road Safety Week.

Roads experts have said that the A120 has been a “concern for many years” and has been categorised as a “high risk” route.

Roads experts have said that the A120 has been a “concern for many years” and has been categorised as a “high risk” route.

A family has talked about the devastation of losing a loved one in a road traffic collision for Road Safety Week.

The developer has said its plan will provide homes of a variety of different sizes

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