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Drinking filtered coffee rather than instant could slow down ageing, a new study suggests.

Whistleblowers have told The Mail on Sunday that safety breaches are routine, and a catastrophic blackout is an 'engineering certainty'.

Drinking water with a meal may actually make you eat more, according to a new study.

Last year's Love Island winner Cach Mercer and Chris Appleton, hairdresser to American reality star and influencer Kim Kardashian, are among the Gen Z names signed on to the show.

Adam Ramsay-Peaty kissed pregnant wife Holly as he missed out on his 33rd major gold medal as he finished in third place in the 100m breaststroke final at the Commonwealth Games on Saturday.

Margot Robbie was spotted out and about with her mother Sarie Kessler in Paris, France, on a shopping trip on Saturday afternoon.

There was a feeling in April, ahead of the annual White House Correspondents' Association dinner, that President Donald Trump wanted to use it to be conciliatory.

French police launched an investigation after a body was found on Terminus Beach, in the popular seaside resort of Berck-sur-Mer.

Lucie Donlan couldn't contain her smile as she ran into the ocean in her wedding dress with husband Luke Mabbott. 

His post was the biggest surprise of last week's Cabinet reshuffle following days of predictions.

Drug mafias are tightening their grip on Europe, terrorising communities, threatening public officials and transforming Belgium into a major gateway for cannabis flowing into the continent.

US intelligence agencies believe that Iran's new Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, is significantly more open to pursuing a nuclear weapon than his late father.

Tommy Fury has reportedly been quietly healing his family rift with Molly-Mae Hague's sister Zoe after their bitter fall out. 

Politico reports that in the Virginia area alone there's dozens of data center projects "that altogether need 70 gigawatts of power — equivalent to 70 nuclear plants" — currently seeking connection to their grid. But there's also concerns about a Virginia data center powered with natural gas and backup diesel generators: When Virginia's top environmental regulator received an analysis warning of data center pollution, it took him less than five minutes to forward it to seven people on his staff... Internal emails obtained by POLITICO through a public records request paint a portrait of an agency that moved quickly to defend the only data center in Virginia that is powering itself — in what former officials and environmental health advocates described as an unusual effort to shape the debate around an industry whose global epicenter is in the state. The agency's pushback focused on the report's findings that the facility in Loudoun County could release harmful amounts of air pollution through eight bus-sized natural gas turbines — as allowed by permits granted by the Department of Environmental Quality [DEQ] itself... The request comes as data centers are devising new ways to produce their own power as a way to temper growing public discord over rising electricity prices amid the AI construction boom. Virginia has more than 600 data centers. The report [commissioned by Virginia's 54-year-old environmental nonprofit Piedmont Environmental Council] raised concerns that the data center's on-site power system, which also includes dozens of backup diesel generators, could cause tens of millions of dollars in health damages to people living around the facility, owned by Vantage Data Centers... [The analysis also argued the pollution could lead to 3.4 to 6.5 premature deaths annually.] People living near the Vantage facility in Sterling say its natural gas turbines produce constant noise and air pollution. The permits for Vantage issued by DEQ in 2023 allow cumulative emissions of seven different pollutants, including 95 tons per year of nitrogen oxides and more than 56 tons of soot. Both contribute to asthma and heart attacks. Those figures are in line with other state permits for minor sources of pollution, but DEQ's permits for Vantage have sparked local concerns because of the facility's location in a residential area... [Viriginia environmental quality officials] raised questions about whether the report wrongly described the facility's potential air pollution as dangerous, when soot levels in Loudoun County are deemed acceptable by America's Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Health experts, including former EPA air quality official Michael Korber, told POLITICO that soot pollution can negatively affect human health even at EPA-approved levels. The World Health Organization's standard for ambient soot pollution is nearly half of what EPA suggests is safe. Some current and former staffers on Virginia's Department of Environmental Quality believe it's inappropriate for the agency to issue aggressive statements on the healthfulness of the data centers, with one former department leader saying Virginia's DEQ "is not the health department."

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Freddy Brazier has shared his devastation that his dog will be taken away after leaving a hole in his arm as he declared 'he's like my son'.

A cross-party group of MPs is urging Ministers to abandon a potential 2034 deadline to move to internet-only access to TV channels and instead opt for a 2044 switch-over.

The disappointment had its benefits because it spurred him to write the Oscar-winning 1997 film Good Will Hunting with his pal Ben Affleck.

Perry took to X to issue a stern statement in response, and later reposted the memo via Instagram Stories.

Having reached a breaking point due to UK tax laws, Richard Ng-Zeederberg, 39, left his high-flying toys behind in Worcestershire to drive trucks for a living - with zero plans to head back to the UK.

"In many parts of the world, lakes are drying out at a scale so massive that scientists are warning they may be emitting enough greenhouse gases to rival our fossil fuel habit," reports ScienceAlert: In a new study published in Science, scientists say the Aral Sea — the world's largest desiccated lake — has emitted a whopping 204 megatons (~225 million US tons) of carbon dioxide since it was drained in the 1960s... The study estimates that between 1960 and 2022, the evaporating sea has released 204 megatons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, based on site surveys and core samples collected from across the dry lakebed... The new study suggests that rehydrating the entire basin could come with enormous benefits to the environment, not just within the sea itself, but at a global level. "There is a hidden carbon treasure beneath the Aral Sea," says biochemist Rafael Marcé from the Spanish National Research Council. "If these sediments remain exposed, carbon will continue to be released into the atmosphere. If the sea is re-flooded, that same carbon could shift from being a source of emissions to becoming part of the climate solution." According to the researchers' calculations, re-flooding the lakebed could prevent the release of the estimated 165 megatons of carbon that remain. The study also revealed that nearly one-fifth of the Aral Sea's carbon emissions are actually being released as wind blows away sediment on the lakebed, a factor that researchers had not accounted for in the past. Thanks to Slashdot reader schwit1 for sharing the article.

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