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Which? named it as one of the worst seaside towns in the UK - but it still attracts hundreds of thousands of visitors each year

Late last month the Ahwatukee restaurant, owned by Patrick Larson, appeared on Fox's newest show ' Gordon Ramsay 's Secret Service'.

For a long time, all of Apple's products were branded with the letter 'i.' Whether it be the iPod, the iPhone, the iMac, or the iPad , it became an iconic symbol for the company.

The horrifying crash (pictured) happened today in the country's southern state of Santa Catarina, in its Praia Grande region - a well-known hot air ballooning location.

An infuriating Reddit brain-teaser forced participants to come face to face with one of life's age old predicaments: finding something in a messy room.

It's not dark matter, writes Space.com. But astronomers have discovered "a vast tendril of hot gas linking four galaxy clusters and stretching out for 23 million light-years, 230 times the length of our galaxy. "With 10 times the mass of the Milky Way, this filamentary structure accounts for much of the universe's 'missing matter,' the search for which has baffled scientists for decades...." [I]t is "ordinary matter" made up of atoms, composed of electrons, protons, and neutrons (collectively called baryons) which make up stars, planets, moons, and our bodies. For decades, our best models of the universe have suggested that a third of the baryonic matter that should be out there in the cosmos is missing. This discovery of that missing matter suggests our best models of the universe were right all along. It could also reveal more about the "Cosmic Web," the vast structure along which entire galaxies grew and gathered during the earlier epochs of our 13.8 billion-year-old universe.... The newly observed filament isn't just extraordinary in terms of its mass and size; it also has a temperature of a staggering 18 million degrees Fahrenheit (10 million degrees Celsius). That's around 1,800 times hotter than the surface of the sun... The team's research was published on Thursday (June 19) in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics. Models of the cosmos (including the standard model of cosmology) "have long posited the idea that the missing baryonic matter of the universe is locked up in vast filaments of gas stretching between the densest pockets of space..." the article points out. But now thanks to Suzaku, a Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) satellite, and the European Space Agency's XMM-Newton, "a team of astronomers has for the first time been able to determine the properties of one of these filaments, which links four galactic clusters in the local universe." Team leader Konstantinos Migkas (of the Netherlands' Leiden Observatory) explained the significance of their finding. "For the first time, our results closely match what we see in our leading model of the cosmos — something that's not happened before." "It seems that the simulations were right all along."

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Wayne Price, 40, was cleared in just 30 minutes after CCTV showed he acted in self-defence - but Worcester BID, who had employed him to tackle crime, refused to give him his job back.

The short clip from the bizarre confrontation sees the woman cop telling the evangelists 'it's so loud'.

King Charles was pictured beaming and waving at crowds as he arrived at Royal Ascot on Saturday, for the Berkshire event's fifth and final day.

The doomed superyacht Bayesian was today finally fully out of the water for the first time since she sank with the loss of seven lives in a torrential storm last August.

The area fell into a state of decay 100 years ago - but has since been revived

Yamal has taken the time to enjoy some downtime - he is currently in Rio de Janeiro with 'idol' Neymar , having previously jetted off on holiday with another woman 12 years his senior.

Rod Stewart and his wife Penny Lancaster soaked up the sun in Italy on Saturday as they went on a shopping spree. Sir Rod, 80, and Penny, 54, have been celebrating their 18th wedding anniversary.

ScienceDaily reports: Researchers from MIT and Scripps have unveiled a promising new HIV vaccine approach that generates a powerful immune response with just one dose. By combining two immune-boosting adjuvants alum and SMNP the vaccine lingers in lymph nodes for nearly a month, encouraging the body to produce a vast array of antibodies. This one-shot strategy could revolutionize how we fight not just HIV, but many infectious diseases. It mimics the natural infection process and opens the door to broadly neutralizing antibody responses, a holy grail in vaccine design. And best of all, it's built on components already known to medicine. Thanks to Slashdot reader alternative_right for sharing the news.

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Are we ruled by some sort of death cult? In just one week, our Parliament has voted for the even more ruthless destruction of unborn babies, and to begin the abortion of the inconvenient old and ill.

On the surface, she seemed like any hard-working single mum holding down a full-time job while caring for her children. But employers soon found out it was not all as it seemed.

I'm struggling to reconcile the woman I thought I was grieving with the one I've uncovered. I haven't told anyone, not our children together or my daughter from my first marriage. I'm simply too ashamed.

Kiwi Adventure - which follows the former Deal Or No Deal presenter, 76, at his New Zealand home - hit our television screens on Friday June 20.

Fans of classic television were in for a treat this week when one of the most iconic sitcom stars of the 1970s was spotted out and about in Los Angeles on Wednesday.

In an increasingly fraught world, threats to the security of our finances are coming from all sides. Here,experts share their essential checklist for protecting your finances.