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Peter Hahn rises with the sun, bakes his own bread, works all day on his 25-acre vineyard in the Loire - mostly bent double with a pair of secateurs in his hands - and never, ever, takes a holiday.

Health Secretary Wes Streeting said last August that he wanted the political parties to 'try and work together on long-term reform' of the thorny issue.

The International Civil Aviation Organization plans to eliminate boarding passes and check-ins within three years through a new "digital travel credential" system. Passengers will store passport data on their phones and use facial recognition to move through airports, while airlines will automatically detect arrivals via biometric scanning. The system will dynamically update "journey passes" for flight changes and delays, potentially streamlining connections. "The last upgrade of great scale was the adoption of e-ticketing in the early 2000s," said Valerie Viale from travel technology company Amadeus, who noted passenger data will be deleted within 15 seconds at each checkpoint to address privacy concerns.

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Arron Banks was watching a cricket match in South Africa when Nigel Farage called to ask if he would be prepared to stand as Reform's candidate for mayor of the West of England.

Paramedics were called at 10.26am to reports a pedestrian had been critically injured after being run down near Aston Wood Golf Club, north of Birmingham.

Sean Johnson, 36, had recently moved to New York to begin his aviation career.

Maya Jama's romance with Manchester City defender Ruben Dias has turned up a notch after the couple took another major step forward, according to a report.

Multiple earthquakes have struck near a colossal 11,000-foot-tall volcano that experts have warned is 'moving closer to an eruption.' Emergency planning has been elevated in a nearby city.

Models get bulkier, burnier, bank-breakier

AI continues to improve – at least according to benchmarks. But the promised benefits have largely yet to materialize while models are increasing in size and becoming more computationally demanding, and greenhouse gas emissions from AI training continue to rise.…

Fedora has proposed a major change for its upcoming version 43 release that aims to achieve 99% package reproducibility, addressing growing concerns about supply-chain security. According to the change proposal announced March 31, Fedora has already reached 90% reproducibility through infrastructure changes including "clamping" file modification times and implementing a Rust-based "add-determinism" tool that standardizes metadata. The remaining 10% will require individual package maintainer involvement, treating reproducibility failures as bugs. The effort will use a public instance of rebuilderd to independently verify that binary packages can be reproduced from source code. Unlike Debian's bit-by-bit reproducibility definition, Fedora allows differences in package signatures and some metadata while requiring identical payloads. The initiative follows similar efforts by Debian and openSUSE, and comes amid heightened focus on supply-chain security after the recent XZ backdoor incident.

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The former White House staffer Anthony Scaramucci, who spent an infamous 11 days in Trump's first administration spoke to the Welcome to MAGAland podcast on Friday. Listen now.

The 67-year-old national treasure said prostate cancer was 'tragically' often detected too late. He joined celebrities who have battled the disease in backing the Mail's screening campaign.

Shaedra Byrd from Texas said that the weight loss became so noticeable, that friends and family started complimenting her and she enjoyed the praise.

The White House moved a portrait of President Barack Obama and installed a painting of President Donald Trump shouting 'fight, fight, fight' after being nearly assassinated in its place.

Joanne Roney, who is the managing director of the council, jetted off to the French Riviera for an investment conference in the same week bin workers began an all-out strike last month.

Germany will get a new "super-high-tech ministry" responsible for research, technology, and aerospace, according to the coalition agreement published by the incoming government this week. From a report: The announcement is one of several nods to science in the 144-page agreement, unveiled on 9 April following weeks of negotiations between the center-right Christian Democrats (CDU) and its sister party, the Christian Social Union in Bavaria (CSU) -- who together won the most seats in February's federal elections -- and the center-left Social Democrats. The agreement is expected to be formally approved by the three parties by early May, paving the way for CDU leader Friedrich Merz to be elected chancellor. [...] The new agreement lists a number of scientific priorities for the new government, including support for artificial intelligence, quantum technologies, biotechnology, microchip development and production, and fusion energy. "Our goal is that the world's first fusion reactor should be realized in Germany," the text states. It also mentions personalized medicine, oceans research, and sustainability research as "strategic" areas. But the agreement does not include any budget estimates, and observers caution it is unclear where the money for new programs would come from. The agreement does affirm current commitments to increase the budgets of the country's main research organizations by 3% per year through 2030.

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Experts believe brands are trying to attract younger shoppers who want flavoured, textured and colourful chocolates like those promoted by social media influencers.

Devon and Cornwall Police, with Metropolitan Police, arrested six men in their 20s at a number of addresses in Central London yesterday. A woman in her 30s was then arrested in Plymouth.

I can disclose that the author's daughter, Emily, who lives 20 or so miles from Jilly's manor house in the Cotswolds, is now on her own, following the departure of her husband, Adam Tarrant.

Sir Jim Mackey's mid-afternoon snoozeathon is embarrassing for him and for the NHS he helps to lead.