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The teenager, 14, reported being attacked in Swaythling, Southampton, and detectives are now hunting the 'rapist'.

The original cast of Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory first hit screens over five decades ago.

Beard passed away last week at age 77 and the band decided to move forward with shows scheduled at Austin City Limits Live, a venue which held a special place in Beard's heart.

The One Show presenter Lindsey Russell has revealed she is expecting her first child with her husband Fred Haig in a new Instagram post.

Emily Atack tied the knot with her partner Alistair Garner in an intimate UK ceremony this weekend surrounded by 'close family and friends'.

The Prime Minister's trip is designed to signal the UK's continued support for the country's battle against Russia.

The photograph of Benjamin Disraeli is one of more than 65 works which House of Commons authorities are looking for, along with a 19th-century print of William Wilberforce.

The body of the 84-year-old man, who has not been named, was discovered in Tomares near Seville in southwest Spain as temperatures reached a high of 32C (90F).

Jacob Matusiak, 23, was among seven people who died in the early hours of Saturday when a car travelling the wrong way down the A66 near Middlesbrough.

KATHRYN PORTER: The truth is that the national grid is more fragile than at any time since privatisation in 1987.

Hannah Waddingham - the West End star who was catapulted to superstardom after appearing on Ted Lasso - looks just as youthful at 52 years old as she did at the age of 25.

Residents in canal-side Brewood, Staffordshire, say their community has been left in a sorry state - by a nine-month bridge closure which has split the village in two.

If you've struggled and grumbled through this summer's heatwaves, I promise you - it could be far worse.

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Victims of impersonation scams lost £3,516 on average in the past year - a 10 per cent increase on a year earlier, according to the latest data.

It's "radically different from other quantum computers" reports Phys.org. The Helios system uses trapped ions — charged atoms suspended in free space using electromagnetic fields. But it operates with 98 qubits — making it the largest trapped-ion quantum computer built so far. Quantinuum, the company behind the device, is based in Cambridge, U.K., and Broomfield, Colorado. It demonstrated earlier machines operating on 32 qubits in 2023 and 56 qubits in 2025... It relies on two major advances — one in hardware and one in software. First, the four-way X junction lets the system handle several tasks at once rather than one at a time, which is much faster. That was impossible in earlier QCCD [quantum charge-coupled device] machines, which could only move data back and forth in a single line or loop. Second, judicious use of the freedom offered by the two dimensions of the X junction relies on new classical control software called Helios runtime, which plans the smartest, fastest route for moving and processing the data. Together, these represent a substantial advance in the engineering of quantum computers. An important consequence is that Helios can perform computations that cannot be performed even on the largest supercomputers using known methods within reasonable amounts of time and power consumption. This demonstrates the ability of this device and its successors to surpass the computational prowess of classical computers — although their algorithms and hardware are rapidly advancing, too. Having said that, Helios' computations have just been random benchmark tests, so the practical importance of this leap forward is still limited. To perform quantum computations of practical importance in science and commerce, even the most optimistic estimates suggest that quantum computers must be enormously bigger and better — of the order of a million qubits.

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The proportion of reported spiking offences where the victim was male has risen steadily since 2021, from around 23 per cent to a third last year.

Appeals court upholds decision the case is dead, but Xinuos is trying for a long-shot re-hearing

Iran dismissed Donald Trump's threats as 'empty talk' as Washington prepares to ramp up economic pressure on Tehran.

Officials logged one meeting almost every two working days on average with just five companies - Google, Apple, Amazon, Meta and Microsoft.