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The 61-year-old single mother joined Instagram one month ago and this is the first time she's posted her teenage son Louis and daughter Laila

Orthopaedic surgeon Zsolt Hegedus - a former NHS doctor tipped as one of the rising stars of Hungary's new government - erupted into a frenzy of air guitar, high kicks and wild arm-waving.

Rescue dog Patsy dragged new owners Christine and Leslie Reading almost a mile through Herefordshire countryside to the litter she gave birth to during six weeks on the run.

Police spotted a suspected stolen motorbike while on patrol in Bradford at 5.03pm and gave chase.

A masterful interpreter of Shakespeare, Pennington was nevertheless perhaps best known for his role as Moff Jerjerrod in George Lucas' 1983 sci-fi classic Star Wars: Return of the Jedi.

WARNING GRAPHIC CONTENT: Tommy Colm Witty and Alexander Lee Anderson faced sentences of up to 10 years if convicted over the incident.

In Polymarket's prediction market, "most people end up losing money," reports the Washington Post — typically a few bucks. "Since Polymarket launched in 2022, a few thousand people have lost the bulk of the money... and an even smaller group — .05 percent of users — has gone home with most of the overall profits, according to a new analysis from finance researcher Pat Akey and colleagues." A lot of users aren't that good at predicting the future. They're losing money at roughly the same rate as online gamblers betting on sports and other real-life events at traditional sportsbooks, according to the U.K. gambling regulator's analysis of 2024 data. On Polymarket, the odds of making a profit are slightly higher on weather and tech markets — and a little lower on sports... On Polymarket, just 1,200 people took more than half the profits — $591 million, or more than $100,000 each. ["The top 1% of users capture 76.5% of all trading gains," the researchers write.] When you dabble in prediction markets, you're competing against these sophisticated players who consistently win. Most of those 1,200 big winners didn't place just a few smart bets. They appear to be pros making thousands of trades, mostly in the past year and a half, that were probably automated. One user made $3 million since January on more than a million trades about the Oscars, according to TRM Labs... The most profitable participants are also just good at picking what to bet on, Akey found, winning so often it was statistically unlikely to be dumb luck. They had some sort of edge — expertise, deep research or, perhaps, inside knowledge. "Our results suggest that the informational benefits of prediction markets come at a cost to unsophisticated participants," the researchers conclude.

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The 'old style' No1 jacket typically worn on ceremonial occasions is set to be replaced as the buttons on the current uniform are placed in the same positions as nipples.

Under the Labour Party's rulebook, if there is no current vacancy for party leader, nominations may be sought by potential challengers.

Millie Mackintosh showed off her jaw-dropping abs as she reunited with fellow former Made In Chelsea star Louise Thompson at the TV BAFTAs on Sunday night.

His wife had been fighting 'tooth and nail' with NT authorities to grant Wright an early release date so he'd make it to the birth.

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Universities are failing in their moral duty as academics 'foster, legitimise and actively participate' in the marginalisation of Jewish students, a report claims.

The bodies of Polish national Monika Kubasiewicz, 33, and her daughter were discovered in the bathroom at around 1pm on Friday.

The iconic BBC Children in Need mascot will appear in a short film, 'Pudsey Finds His Voice', alongside 11-year-old actor Dexter Sol Ansell during Mental Health Awareness Week.

Open-source PS3 emulator RPCS3 "has been around since 2011," Kotaku notes, and has made 70% of the PlayStation 3's library fully playable, "bolstered in part by the many users who contribute to its GitHub page." But their dev team "took to X today to very kindly and civilly request that users 'stop submitting AI slop code pull requests' to its GitHub page." Then they immediately proceeded to tell the AI-brain-rotted tech bros attempting to justify their vibe-coding nonsense to kick rocks in the replies, which is somewhat less civil but far more entertaining to read... My favorite one was when someone asked how the team was certain they weren't rejecting human-written code, to which RPCS3 replied: "You can't possibly handwrite the type of shit AI slop we have been seeing."

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The Soham killer's family are believed to have declined the Ministry of Justice's (MoJ) offer of a £3,000 funeral as a show of respect to the families of his victims.

The young tourist was travelling alone in Majorca and claims she was targeted by two men on a night out on Friday, May 1.

Amazon delivery man Babak Fordaliah, 34, sits on the floor, head in hands, after being busted for driving an illegal and potentially dangerous electric bicycle. The motor has been doctored.

'I'm hearing the name Hugh and the word son. Hugh's son? I can hear Swan Lake. I was watching a TV programme yesterday and there were ballerinas…'