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For the first time, scientists have managed to spot a lonely black hole drifting through space thanks to its gravity distorting the light from a patch of stars.

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EXCLUSIVE: This is thought to be the first time experts have observed the launch of a genuine digital coin by a British street gang.

Queen Mary and King Frederik X's eldest daughter Princess Isabella has debuted her first ever tiara.The Royal Danish household have revealed who gifted it to her and its special significance.

Kanye West and wife Bianca Censori put on a united front on Monday, following his shock claim that he took part in incestuous acts with his male cousin as a child.

The East of England Ambulance Service Trust, which operates ambulances in Suffolk, spent more than £9million on overtime wages for crews last year.

The East of England Ambulance Service Trust, which operates ambulances in Suffolk, spent more than £9million on overtime wages for crews last year.

A senior Army commander was suspended after the Wisconsin fort she ran failed to post photos of Donald Trump, JD Vance and Pete Hegseth on her base's chain-of-command board.

Aldo Ciarrocchi, who now enjoys a very middle class lifestyle, was a key member of the mob which planned to steal the Millennium Star diamond in 2000 in the doomed raid.

Travellers have been fined thousands of pounds under a little known and increasingly controversial scheme designed to crackdown on the floods of migrants sneaking into Britain.

NASA's oldest active astronaut, Don Pettit, celebrated his 70th birthday by returning to Earth after a seven-month mission aboard the ISS. The Guardian reports: A Soyuz capsule carrying the American and two Russian cosmonauts landed in Kazakhstan on Sunday, Pettit's birthday. "Today at 0420 Moscow time (0120 GMT), the Soyuz MS-26 landing craft with Alexei Ovchinin, Ivan Vagner and Donald (Don) Pettit aboard landed near the Kazakh town of Zhezkazgan," Russia's space agency Roscosmos said. Spending 220 days in space, Pettit, Ovchinin and Vagner orbited the Earth 3,520 times and completed a journey of 93.3m miles over the course of their mission. It was the fourth spaceflight for Pettit, who has logged more than 18 months in orbit during his 29-year career. Nasa said in a statement that Pettit was "doing well and in the range of what is expected for him following return to Earth." A recording of the touchdown can be viewed here. Earlier this year, Pettit managed to take one of the best photos ever captured from space. "When I first saw it, I was dazzled by its beauty," wrote Ars Technica's Eric Berger. "But when I looked further into the image, there were just so many amazing details to be found." "In this image, one can see the core of the Milky Way galaxy, zodiacal light (sunlight diffused by interplanetary dust), streaks of SpaceX Starlink satellites, individual stars, an edge-on view of the atmosphere that appears in burnt umber due to hydroxide emissions, a near-sunrise just over the horizon, and nighttime cities appearing as streaks."

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The closure is impacting traffic on major Essex routes

Tilly Dowler, from Castle Donington, Derbyshire, was diagnosed with Stargardt disease, a rare genetic eye condition that causes loss of central vision when she was 15-years-old.

A seven-year-old's answer to a question on his maths homework has left hundreds scratching their heads. The teacher marked the boy's answer wrong however his dad thinks he's in the right.

Drunk passengers are putting designated drivers at huge risk, Direct Line has found. A third of designated drivers had an issue with drunk passengers in the last year.

The only way Ukraine has been able to keep taking the fight to Russia is because of billions of dollars' worth of military aid from the West flowing into Ukrainian coffers.

Pope Francis's final testament has tonight been revealed just hours after his death by a stroke and heart failure at the age of 88. The pontiff 'passed away peacefully' at the Saint Martha residence.

Which is one reason US regulators just sued the rideshare and delivery giant

The USA’s Federal Trade Commission on Monday launched a lawsuit against Uber, alleging the rideshare giant ripped off customers by enrolling them in its “Uber One” membership scheme without permission, failing to deliver promised savings, and making it devilishly difficult to opt out.…

When Steve's employer went hunting for a new customer relationship management system (CRM), they had some requirements. A lot of them were around the kind of vendor support they'd get. Their sales team weren't the most technical people, and the company wanted to push as much routine support off to the vendor as possible.

But they also needed a system that was extensible. Steve's company had many custom workflows they wanted to be able to execute, and automated marketing messages they wanted to construct, and so wanted a CRM that had an easy to use API.

"No worries," the vendor sales rep said, "we've had a RESTful API in our system for years. It's well tested and reliable. It's JSON based."

The purchasing department ground their way through the purchase order and eventually they started migrating to the new CRM system. And it fell to Steve to start learning the JSON-based, RESTful API.

"JSON"-based was a more accurate description.

For example, an API endpoint might have a schema like:

DeliveryId: int // the ID of the created delivery Errors: xml // Collection of errors encountered

This example schema is representative. Many "JSON" documents contained strings of XML inside of them.

Often, this is done when an existing XML-based API is "modernized", but in this case, the root cause is a little dumber than that. The system uses SQL Server as its back end, and XML is one of the native types. They just have a stored procedure build an XML object and then return it as an output parameter.

You'll be surprised to learn that the vendor's support team had a similar level of care: they officially did what you asked, but sometimes it felt like malicious compliance.

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