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It's the hit Netflix drama in which an obscure American politician is catapulted into the White House after a bombing wipes out the president and his entire cabinet.

Research has long linked an imbalance in the gut's microbiome - the collection of bacteria responsible for breaking down food - with worse breast cancer outcomes.

The colourful displays of blooms are increasingly being scrapped because of a growing trend towards hardier perennials which help protect insect species and improve soil health.

France's regulatory authority for licensed gambling/betting games "announced this week that it ordered ISPs to block access to Polymarket," reports Engadget. Anyone caught advertising an unauthorized betting site "could be fined up to 100,000 euros, or around $114,000." (The article notes this follows a previous regulatory action from November placing a geoblock on financial transactions from French residents on Polymarket's site.) In May Spain blocked access to Polymarket and Kalshi while it launched a gambling license investigation.

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MPs voted against a proposed law change that would have required ministers to publish a plan to deliver the long-promised rollout of specialist osteoporosis clinics across England.

The lessons, devised by education charity No Outsiders - criticised by the authors of the SEEN In Publishing report - introduced children to picture books such as Julian Is A Mermaid.

After their heartbreaking semi-final defeat to Argentina, England were hoping to end the tournament on a positive note by earning a bronze medal.

The print by David Hockney was found by a volunteer at a Salvation Army shop in Norwich, tucked inside the pages of a donated copy of the artist's Paper Pools book some 46 years later.

The singer said she and Frederic Thiebaud 'found each other' as they struggled to come to terms with the betrayal of their partners.

Jodie Tedder, now 62, claims she saw her father, James Steele, attack and murder 35-year-old Lyn Babcock in a Washington state hotel room back in 1968.

Thor Björgólfsson, known as the Nordic country's first billionaire, changed his tax residency over the last year - and has also moved his investment firm Novator from London to Zurich.

Backed by a former children's laureate, the report identifies more than 60 books from major publishing houses which feature children 'born in the wrong body'.

The average strength of a can of beer or bottle of wine has dropped by around one per cent, with a sharp increase in the number of beers sold which contain less than 3.5 per cent alcohol.

LEO MCKINSTRY: Nostalgia for that troubled, turbulent decade will shortly be a central theme of our country's governance.

If you happen to be a Kremlin-linked oligarch, say, or a Hollywood A-lister or even just a common-or-garden billionaire, then chances are you've docked your superyacht in Porto Montenegro.

The rock and roll singer known for songs including Tallahassee Lassie and Palisades Park passed away on Friday after a short battle with cancer.

Johnny Boden, of the posh clothing company that bears his surname, has paid Winkleman's stylist a hefty sum to design a range inspired by the star.

This week Slashdot reader joshuark found the story of exactly how in 2025 ProPublica reporter Renee Dudley confirmed Microsoft was running tech support for the U.S. Defense Department through China, America's biggest cybersecurity adversary — and how that investigation ultimately changed U.S. government policy. The reporter first found an ad offering $18 to $28 to hire Americans as "digital escorts" for China-based tech support, then just searched LinkedIn for people who apparently had answered the ad. They discovered that at the time "Behind the scenes, unseen by the users at the U.S. government, it's not just one person who responds," explains ProPublica's podcast. "It's two people... The China-based engineer is the one who knows how to fix the problem. On their end, they produce a block of code to solve it and send it over to the digital escort in the U.S. The digital escort then just copy-pastes it... All of this so that they can follow the government's rule: that you have to be a U.S. citizen or permanent resident to handle sensitive data." But amazingly to confirm it, ProPublica's researcher just had to input "Microsoft" and "escort" into the U.S. Patent Office search bar, and actually found patents related to digital escorts — along with names of the current and former Microsoft employees listed as inventors. Had the government signed off on the practice? "I could see what Microsoft actually told the government," the reporter says on the podcast, "And there was no mention of foreign engineers being used, and definitely no mention of China." ProPublic's story was published on a Tuesday, according to the podcast, and by Friday "Microsoft said it had stopped using China-based engineers to support Defense Department cloud systems." And America's Defense Department "also opened up an investigation, looking into whether any of Microsoft's China-based engineers had compromised the government's national security.

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'This is the final insult,' one politician said before New Jersey hosts Sunday's World Cup final between Argentina and Spain at the 80,000-seater stadium near New York City.

She was the picture of polished chic when she stepped out at Wimbledon earlier this month with her Danish actor boyfriend.