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Lidl said the move would 'level the playing field' and help people who have been out of work for longer periods.

There's no I in team, but there is one in insurance fraud

A school has been closed after a lightning strike caused a fire and led to an environmental clean of an area containing asbestos.

A school has been closed after a lightning strike caused a fire and led to an environmental clean of an area containing asbestos.

Simon Cooper has spent 20 years keenly observing the wildlife around the Corn Mill in Nether Wallop.

Rachel Brookes has confirmed she has quit her role as a reporter for Sky Sports, days after revealing 'horrific' abuse she received following an interview with Max Verstappen.

Footage of the confrontation, believed to be at Harrow and Wealdstone station, showed the man refusing to move out of the elderly woman's way as he filmed her on the stairs.

Bastian Schweinsteiger has been called 'racist' by Ivory Coast manager Emerse Fae after describing the country's style of football as 'African' and 'wild'.

Here our England experts give their verdict on the starting XI Tuchel ought to pick against Panama. Do you agree? Make your case in the comments!

Alex Ursell filmed himself purchasing the Buzz Lightyear buckets from Cineworld in Leeds and Wakefield on June 19 - leaving a child behind him 'devastated.'

Wethersfield Asylum Reception Centre is set to remain in operation beyond 2027 and expand by 55 per cent, the Home Office has confirmed.

Wethersfield Asylum Reception Centre is set to remain in operation beyond 2027 and expand by 55 per cent, the Home Office has confirmed.

The building was struck by lightning, which caused a fire earlier this week

Dua Lipa and Callum Turner couldn't keep their hands off each other once again as they continued their PDA-packed tour of Italy on their honeymoon.

Diet has long been linked to dementia risk, but new research suggests that it's never too late to start eating better to stave off the disease

Horrifying aerial photos showed the depth of destruction after earthquakes struck Venezuela, as over 200 are left dead and thousands feared missing.

There are many schools in Essex that are either closed or planning to close early today due to the 'extreme heat'

The killing of a British man by an influencer in Dubai is yet another tragedy for his devastated family - after his father was murdered by his own brother and two nephews.

Researchers say they detected the first gravitational-wave "fingerprints" of a black hole's event horizon by analyzing the final moments of the powerful GW250114 merger. The findings support Einstein's general relativity and may eventually help probe frame dragging and quantum fluctuations near black holes. Phys.org reports: For the new research published in Nature, an international team of researchers analyzed data from the strongest gravitational wave ever recorded, known as GW250114, detected by the LIGO observatory in January 2025. By isolating the last burst of waves -- known as "direct waves" -- from this black hole merger, the scientists said they were able to extract information from closer to an event horizon than ever before. "This black hole horizon concept normally appears in science fiction," lead study author Sizheng Ma of the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Canada told AFP. "But now we are really able to touch the region around the horizon with gravitational data," he added. "Sometimes I cannot believe this is really happening." The last stage of two black holes merging is like a spoon stirring a glass of water, Ma explained. The resulting swirl in space creates the ripple of gravitational waves that travel at the speed of light in all directions. If the metaphorical spoon is stirring close enough to the black hole's event horizon, "this offers us a chance to decode the physics around that region," Ma said. By supporting the theory of general relativity, the results "proved that Einstein was correct again," he added. The scientists emphasized that more research was needed to decipher what can be gleaned about event horizons using this method. But they did detect information about how black holes twist space around themselves as they rotate -- a phenomenon known as "frame dragging." "This is similar to pushing a glass into a table and twisting it, so that the tablecloth winds up around it," Maximiliano Isi, a gravitational wave astrophysicist at Columbia University, told AFP. In the future, the scientists hope to find signs of tiny changes known as quantum fluctuations. "In this way, we can really probe this near-horizon region to look for new physics," including searching for a deviation from general relativity, Ma said.

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The singer, 27, made a surprise appearance at the group match which saw Ecuador narrowly scrape through to the knockout stages after winning 2-1 in euphoric scenes.