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According to Professor Liz Stephens, Professor in Climate Risks and Resilience at University of Reading, a 'complex chain of hazards' is likely to blame.

A woman left completely blind after a car accident underwent a first-of-its-kind procedure and regained her sight.

Candidates across England, Scotland and Wales, will get to go behind the scenes in its stores and meet staff from various departments such as tech, logistics and food.

Meta has agreed to pay up to $18 billion and make major changes to Facebook and Instagram to settle claims from most U.S. states that the platforms were designed to addict children and misled users about their safety. For the next decade, teens will be limited to two hours a day and blocked from using the apps between midnight and 6 a.m. without parental consent. Meta will, however, still be allowed to use personalized recommendations and targeted advertising. Reuters reports: The settlements include more than $17.6 billion of payments to 48 U.S. states, Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico, American Samoa and the Northern Mariana Islands. Meta will also pay $459 million to resolve states' privacy claims related to the Cambridge Analytica scandal, where the British consulting firm collected personal data of millions of Facebook users. California would receive the highest payout, $2.2 billion, and New York and Texas would each receive more than $1 billion. Some of the payout is contingent on whether Alphabet's YouTube and ByteDance's TikTok impose similar protections for children. [...] The settlement requires approval by U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers, who oversaw the trial that began on August 18. Gonzalez Rogers still oversees thousands of lawsuits by individuals, school districts, and state and local governments accusing social media companies of harming children. Meta itself still faces thousands of lawsuits by individuals, school districts and municipalities. The next trials are slated for October in Los Angeles.

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The organisation's assets are also set to be frozen, including property and bank accounts, while US citizens would be prevented from doing business with them.

From offering a peaceful place to sit away from the busy airport to a disappointing menu - here are the best and worst airport lounges in the UK.

The US has halted all immigrant visa applications as the Trump administration moves to tighten restrictions and stop people arriving who will need public benefits. 

Katie Price has revealed she is seeing a medical specialist after leaving her family concerned by her unexplained weight loss. 

After the drought, the deluge? There are plenty of great ways to escape the wet weather this bank holiday - here we take a lot at some of the best.

Zuckercorp ties $5.3B of its payout to rivals playing along

Sally Phillips has criticised the BBC for only using a 'heinous' amount of female comedy writers. 

The late singer passed away aged 80 yesterday after a battle with cancer, triggering an outpouring of shocked tributes from across the world.

Emmet Moynihan, 31, insisted on using the toilet as the plane remained grounded at Heathrow due to delays on August 6.

Rising costs of new kit due to soaring memory prices likely to feed into cloud service bills

Despite never wearing her political beliefs on her sleeve, and repeatedly dodging reporters' questions about the president, Donald Trump swears that Dolly Parton' really liked' him.

The rap icon, 53, spoke about the impact Parton - who had been battling cancer - had on him, despite them never meeting.

Urfan Sharif, who is serving a life sentence for murdering his daufghter, was seriously injured in his cell at Belmarsh Prison after allegedly being attacked by two fellow inmates.

Dolly Parton recorded more than 1000 songs but she also gifted fans hundreds of iconic quotes on life, love and work.

Dawson's Creek star Busy Philipps has revealed she has been diagnosed with a rare brain tumour. The actress, 47, was diagnosed in February after undergoing a full-body MRI scan.

UK-based dating coach Kate Mansfield added that while 'none of this advice was written to help women feel good', a few of these ideas contain a 'decent instinct buried under a pile of shame'.