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Despite recently being hailed as a 'comedy icon' in Amandaland series two, leading star Lucy Punch was among the 'snubs' at the BAFTA TV Awards on Sunday night.

An anonymous reader shared this report from Electrek: A newly revealed Honda patent shows the company developing a simulated electronic clutch system for electric motorcycles, complete with torque-boost launches and even haptic feedback designed to mimic the feel of a combustion engine.... Instead of using a traditional mechanical clutch, the system uses electronics to alter how the motor responds based on clutch lever position. Pull the clutch halfway in, and the system proportionally reduces motor output. Pull it fully, and power is cut entirely, regardless of throttle position. But the more interesting part is how Honda intends to recreate the behavior riders actually use clutches for. According to the patent as reported by AMCN, riders could preload the throttle while holding in the clutch lever, then rapidly release the lever to trigger a burst of torque — essentially simulating the hard launches motocross riders rely on with gas bikes. Honda believes that could be useful in competitive riding situations where precise power modulation matters, especially on loose terrain or during aggressive starts. Honda also appears to be working on recreating the feel of a gas bike, not just the control inputs. The patent describes multiple vibration motors placed in the handlebars and near the clutch lever to provide haptic feedback that simulates engine vibration and even the "bite point" sensation of a clutch engaging. In other words, Honda may be trying to make an electric dirt bike feel mechanically alive, or at least the old-school idea of what a breathing dirt bike used to feel like.

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Police rushed to the property in Selston, Nottinghamshire at 7.18pm on Saturday and found the victim's body among the wreckage. Locals were evacuated from their homes.

One detail about the worst night of Sarah Adams's life, 20 years ago, could never be repeated today. But the appalling fact is that everything else might be taken from 2026's headlines.

Tony Lovell was searching for trinkets along Crimdon Beach in Hartlepool, County Durham when he came across the seemingly unremarkable item near the shore.

Just weeks ago Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood gave France £662million of UK taxpayer money to stop the flow of asylum seekers risking their lives to reach Britain's shores.

Kemi Badenoch 's party vowed to quit the ECHR, triple stop-and-search and restart drilling in the North Sea under an agenda presented in their 'alternative King's Speech'.

Campaigners have jumped on the findings, being presented at the European Congress on Obesity, in Istanbul, to call on ministers to introduce a four-day working week.

The British-Albanian pop star, 30, accused the electronics giant of using her face on cardboard TV boxes as part of a 'mass marketing campaign' without her knowledge.

For every award-winning look on a red carpet, a fashion fail will often follow behind. 

Claudia Winkleman made a rare appearance with her husband Kris Thykier following  a chaotic dash from Celebrity Traitors filming to attend the TV BAFTAs on Sunday.

Geordie Shore star Charlotte Crosby has complained that Celebrity Traitors bosses have banned reality TV stars from the hit BBC series. 

Major American cloud companies with data centers in the Persian Gulf "are channeling data out of the war zone through fiber-optic cables that an Iraqi telecom has strung alongside crude-oil pipelines," reports RestofWorld.org: The data centers serve customers in more than 190 countries, processing transactions, storing files, and running applications for businesses and individuals from Latin America to South Asia. When Iranian drones struck Amazon's facilities in the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain on March 1, the effects spread across the region. Apps of major banks in the UAE, including Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank, stopped working. Payment and delivery platforms went offline. Snowflake, a U.S. enterprise software company used by thousands of businesses globally, reported Middle East service disruptions tied directly to the Amazon Web Services outage. Amazon told its customers to migrate their workloads out of the Middle East... [Data from] banking, payment, and enterprise platforms normally travels to Europe through cables running under the Red Sea and the Strait of Hormuz, then connects onward to users across the world. The war has put those cables at risk. The overland route through Iraq is meant to serve as a backup if the sea cables are disabled. The overland route through Iraq is meant to serve as a backup if the sea cables are disabled... [Martin Frank, strategic adviser for IQ Networks, the company that built the network, told Rest of World this overland route is already carrying live traffic.] The company, based in Iraq's Kurdistan region, runs fiber from the southern tip of Iraq to the Turkish border. It is now extending the network through gas-pipeline corridors across Turkey to the European border, with the first link expected early next year, Frank said. When that extension is complete, cloud providers will — for the first time — have the option of an unbroken land-based fiber path from the Gulf into the European network, connecting onward to Frankfurt, Amsterdam, London, and Marseille, from where their data connects back to U.S. users. The advantage of this alternative route is that oil and gas pipelines come with their own security perimeters, access roads, and maintenance corridors already built around them, allowing a telecom company to lay fiber without digging new trenches through difficult terrain. Iraq avoided the fate of earlier overland routes that collapsed because of a sustained period of stability, and because existing pipeline infrastructure provided ready-made corridors for laying fiber, Doug Madory, director of internet analysis at network intelligence firm Kentik, told Rest of World... IQ Networks' route, called the Silk Route Transit, has been running since November 2023. The network currently carries enough data to stream about 400,000 high-definition videos simultaneously, Frank said. The land route is faster. Data traveling through submarine cables from the Gulf to Europe takes about 150 milliseconds. The Iraqi terrestrial route cuts that to roughly 70 milliseconds — a difference that matters for video calls, financial transactions, and applications that run on artificial intelligence, according to IQ Networks.

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One of Starmer's achingly cool TikTok advisers has put together a film of him showing world leaders around No 10. But did anyone do their due diligence on the lyrics on the background music?

A cruise ship hit with a deadly hantavirus outbreak arrived in Spain's Canary Islands Sunday, where most of the nearly 150 people on board will be evacuated.

Victoria and David Beckham flouted their estranged son Brooklyn's requests to be distanced from their family by including him in their Mother's Day celebrations. 

The dramatic moment an NYPD officer reached over the edge of a skyscraper to grab hold of a 41-year-old has been captured on bodycam.

Savannah Guthrie's husband, Michael Feldman, shared a touching post about his wife on Sunday for Mother's Day as her own mother, Nancy, remains missing.

RECAP: Union leaders are piling in on Sir Keir Starmer as a Labour mutiny gathers pace after this week's local elections disaster.

Those with 'hidden disabilities' are posting online about their supposed perks, showing themselves sitting in VIP lounges sipping Champagne.