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Enraged drivers have faced gargantuan queues as nationwide fuel shortages continue after Ukraine's attacks on the country's oil refineries and tanker ships.

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His presence has often been a bad omen for the teams he supports. But Sir Mick Jagger got plenty of satisfaction watching England march into the World Cup semi-finals.

When I was 13 and at boarding school, a friend wrote me a note saying that she couldn't be my pal any more. The reason? She was jealous of me and felt this was bringing out the worst in her.

Thames Valley Police received reports that the victim had been assaulted by an unknown man at Padworth Common Nature Reserve, south-west of Reading, at around 6.30pm on July 9.

Joey Gregory, 19, died after suffering brain injuries 'too catastrophic for him to survive', his mother said.

The woman was admitted to Torrecardenas University Hospital in Almería in the early hours of Friday morning with 20 per cent burns across her body.

Festival organisers said paramedics, who arrived around 1.45am, did 'everything they could' to treat her.

Both men were brought out of the water by the RNLI crew and were treated immediately.

The bitter row began not long after they purchased their rural estate in Stoney Stoke, Somerset, for £3million in 2018 and began a huge overhaul - much to the anger of local residents.

Le Pen had her conviction for embezzling millions from the European Parliament upheld in Paris last week, a decision many expected to lead to her abandoning a fourth bid for the Elysee Palace.

It plays an integral role in the dominant trends of the modern world. That means prices are likely to rise and the companies that mine this critical metal should deliver robust rewards to shareholders.

California drew more than $335 billion in venture capital funding this year, reports the Los Angeles Times, citing data released Thursday by PitchBook on private market funding: Its next biggest competitor, New York, raised less than a tenth of California's total. Texas raised 1/40th of the amount... Although a campaign for a new tax on billionaires has convinced some ultra-rich residents to shift to other states and businesses often complain that high property and energy costs and an anti-business regulatory regime make it too tough to make money in the state, the inability of the top talent, companies and investors in AI to set up elsewhere shows California's enduring attraction. The state's economy grew 5% last year to a record $4.25 trillion, making it larger than every country other than the U.S., China and Germany. It is home to nearly 400 billion-dollar startups — more than any other state, according to CB Insights... Among metropolitan regions, Los Angeles ranked behind only Silicon Valley and New York, which attracted $98 billion and $11.5 billion in venture investment, respectively... Investors poured in nearly $8 billion across 207 deals in the Los Angeles, Long Beach, and Santa Ana metro areas, up 28% from a year earlier, according to PitchBook... Nearly 90% of invested dollars [in California] went to AI firms, up from last year, when around 65% of new funds were allocated to AI. "If you're a tech company and you're not an AI company, you have a very, very difficult opportunity ahead of you to raise capital," Stanford said.

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Former junior Foreign Office minister Tobias Ellwood had to think on his feet when he unexpectedly found himself alone with Russian despot Vladimir Putin for 15 minutes...

When was the last time you saw a stuffed bear in a pub? Not so long ago, hundreds of country inns had one, usually by the door, paws raised, like a bouncer ready for some argy-bargy.

When Julie took her first steps of freedom into her new home at an British ran elephant sanctuary based in southern Portugal her forty years living and working in a circus were finally at an end.

The state-of-the-art technology, provided by the UK taxpayer, is helping authorities in Bosnia and Herzegovina monitor remote terrain, including mine-infested forest.

NHS ambulance trust sparks fury among female employees by saying staff are free to use facilities that match their gender identity rather than their biological sex.

Police were called to the scene in Epping Road, Ongar, at around 4.20pm on Friday, where a 48-year-old man from Derbyshire was arrested on suspicion of causing serious injuries.

Little would have prepared these officers for the one that crawled into their patrol car while out on a job.