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Taking your phone to the toilet may keep you entertained while you do your business - but it poses a horrifying health risk, a scientist explains.

A European city has rental accommodation kitted out exactly like Monica Geller's iconic Manhattan apartment and a coffeshop that's a replica of Rachel Green's workplace, Central Perk.

Less than 4,000 tourists make their way to this tiny island - which could soon disappear due to rising sea levels - in the Pacific Ocean, which lies 1,000km north of Fiji.

Seven people including tech tycoon Mike Lynch, 59, and his daughter Hannah, 18, died when the 183ft yacht sank after being hit by a superstorm last summer.

Scientists in Michigan trapped a bear who was forced to wander with a lid stuck on its neck for years.

The Harry Potter author, 59, who has been vocal on the subject of trans people and what she calls 'sex-based rights' for several years, has praised the journalist (pictured), 56, for it on social media.

Johnny Depp had some harsh words for himself in newly published comments about his former relationship with Amber Heard.

One of the top five tournaments in the polo world, the Royal Windsor Cup used to be presented by the late Queen Elizabeth II. However, it is now Zara, 44, who awards the trophy.

It has emerged the woman, named locally as Mary Gavin, has been rescued adrift by a ferry covering the Ibiza to Valencia route.

We've all heard about the 'food noise' roaring back, the intense hunger cravings, the uncontrollable weight gain. It's enough to scare anyone off putting down 'the pen'.

alternative_right writes: We certainly weren't looking for it. What we have confirmed is that metals have their own intrinsic, natural ability to heal themselves, at least in the case of fatigue damage at the nanoscale.' While the observation is unprecedented, it's not wholly unexpected. In 2013, Texas A&M University materials scientist Michael Demkowicz worked on a study predicting that this kind of nanocrack healing could happen, driven by the tiny crystalline grains inside metals essentially shifting their boundaries in response to stress... That the automatic mending process happened at room temperature is another promising aspect of the research. Metal usually requires lots of heat to shift its form, but the experiment was carried out in a vacuum; it remains to be seen whether the same process will happen in conventional metals in a typical environment. A possible explanation involves a process known as cold welding, which occurs under ambient temperatures whenever metal surfaces come close enough together for their respective atoms to tangle together. Typically, thin layers of air or contaminants interfere with the process; in environments like the vacuum of space, pure metals can be forced close enough together to literally stick.

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GRAPHIC: How the B-2 Spirit Stealth Bomber delivered 14 bunker-penetrating GBU-57 Massive Ordnance Penetrator to Iranian nuclear sites

President Donald Trump last night ordered B-2 stealth bombers to drop a dozen 30,000-pound 'bunker buster' bombs on the base deep inside a mountain in Fordo, 80 miles south of Tehran.

The Planning Inspectorate ruled this week that Valentine London can only sell its four new luxury apartments (pictured) in Salcombe, Devon, to people planning to live there full-time.

Paul Trickett, 66, and his wife Virginia , 50, had sought to bring a fully licensed premises called Christchurch Harbour Kitchen to the waters of the idyllic Mudeford Spit in Bournemouth.

EXCLUSIVE: The youngster, who lives in north-west England, said he was persuaded into joining the gang by an older boy he considered his 'best mate'.

Lady Violet Manners, daughter of The Duke and Duchess of Rutland, wed Scot - and fellow aristocrat - Viscount Garnock in a traditional church ceremony on Saturday.

Helen and her ex have sold the first home they bought in January 2020 for £500,000 after it was listed on the market for offers over £895,000.

She shot to fame as a teenager as the lead singer of a girl group that came up in Los Angeles but achieved its greatest fame abroad.

The thing that worries me most about inflation, even more than the economic costs, is the social damage it causes.