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The first Monday in May is upon us which means that it's officially time for the Met Gala 2026.

Ombeline Daragon Ferreira, 27, originally from Bordeaux, France, sold everything she owned, including her apartment, rehomed her cat, left France and never looked back in 2021.

The TV personality, 61, admitted last month that she was worried about her mortgage payments after Loose Women bore the brunt of the ITV's brutal budget cuts.

TOWIE season 37 has been riddled with drama, but the latest instalment saw Harry Derbidge, Joe Blackman and Junaid Ahmed share an awkward exchange

While stars including Kim Kardashian spend months prepping for fashion's biggest night, a notable stellar list of celebrities are happy to pass up the chance.

With the help of an unprecedented £20million donation from an anonymous benefactor the new facility will replace the zoo's original 1950s veterinary hospital.

New analysis of Government data shows 281 primary pupils were permanently excluded in the spring term of 2025 due to physical assault against adults.

The Devil Wears Prada 2 is everything we hoped for and more. But back in the real world, fashion editors are not wearing Prada.

The figures, published by the Danish government, have piled pressure on Labour to stop withholding equivalent data. Pictured: Immigrants on a boat approaching England.

Katharine Birbalsingh said she was due to attend the event on Thursday to discuss the motion: 'This house believes that being British is a birthright, not a choice.'

A startup south of Austin is using robots to build homes out of clay pulled directly from the ground, reports a local news station: The materials are gathered on site, mixed, and placed on a build plate. From there, a robot lowers from above, picks up the clay with a claw, carries it to the wall and drops it into place. Later, the same robot switches tools, using a hammer attachment to pound the material into shape. "It's kind of trying to replicate how a human might build an adobe house," said software engineer Anastasia Nikoulina... Using machine learning, the system constantly evaluates the wall, adjusting how it builds to create a flat, solid surface... The project is underway at Proto-Town, a ranch between Lockhart and Luling where startups test new technologies, from anti-drone systems to nuclear reactors. The company plans to build their next home on the property, with hopes to do more than 20 homes over the next year.

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The mountain of shredded waste has caused the area around Cave's Inn Pits near Shawell, which has a population of around 200 people, to 'stink' despite there being a tip ten minutes' drive away.

The woman, said to be in her 50s, was approached by a man in Hardwick Green Park, Stockton-on-Tees at approximately 1.40pm on Sunday.

Police responded to a report that a woman was raped in an alleyway off The Tything in Worcester on Saturday morning.

Dawn Piper had to quit her job at RentoKil Initial Ltd after bosses refused to change a new scheme which threatened to take away her commissions that were the vast majority of her income.

The couple (pictured) have long spoken about wanting to up sticks and leave the smoke behind, but they have now swapped leafy Chiswick near the Thames for an even leafier alternative in Surrey.

In a provocative move, Zia Yusuf said facilities designed to hold 24,000 people would be placed in areas where the public had backed a party committed to 'a world without borders'.

A 1999 press release bragged "Jeeves" answered 92.3 million questions in just three months. "In the digital wilds of Y2K, we came to him with our most probing questions," remembers the New York Times — whether it was Britney Spears or tamagotchis: We asked, and he answered: Jeeves, the digital butler of information, the online valet who led us into the depths of cyberspace. Now, like so many other relics of yesterday's internet, Jeeves — and his home, Ask.com — are no more. After almost 30 years, the question-and-answer service and former search engine shuttered on Friday. "To you — the millions of users who turned to us for answers in a rapidly changing world — thank you for your endless curiosity, your loyalty, and your trust," the company said in a notice posted on its now-defunct website... Created in Berkeley, Calif., in the days of the dot-com gold rush, Ask Jeeves first appeared on computer screens in 1996.... Their mascot, Jeeves, was modeled on the clever English butler character from the famed P.G. Wodehouse book series. Its search function was simple — type in a question, get an answer. But the quality of its responses was uneven, and the website was quickly eclipsed by Google and Yahoo as the world's go-to search engines. The site was bought by InterActive Corp. for more than $1 billion in 2005, and was given an injection of cash to help it compete as a search engine. It rebranded as Ask.com and as part of the reimagining, the site also ditched the character of Jeeves in 2006. Scrappy but inventive, the site was one of the first to introduce hyperlocal map overlays to its searches and incorporate thumbnails of webpages. "They are doing a lot of clever and interesting things," a Google executive noted of Ask.com at the time. Still, Ask.com struggled to compete and returned in 2010 to its bread and butter: question-and-answer style prompts. Even then, it faltered against newer, crowdsourced iterations like Quora and Google's unyielding march to the internet fore — the platform now dominates search traffic, and the world's general experience of the internet. A statement at Ask.com ends "by thanking its millions of users, and saying, 'Jeeves' spirit endures'," notes this article from Engadget: As sad as it is to see a relic of the early Internet days fade into obscurity, we still have Ask Jeeves to thank for why some users still punch in full questions when querying Google. On top of that, Jeeves was built to provide detailed answers in natural language, which could have arguably acted as a precursor to today's AI chatbots like ChatGPT. "Now, Ask.com joins the Internet graveyard that includes competitors like AltaVista, which shut down in 2013," the article points out. "With Ask.com gone, alongside AIM and AOL dial-up services also sunsetting, we're truly coming to an end of a specific era of the Internet." And the New York Times argues the memory of Jeeves now rests somewhere between Limewire and Beanie Babies... Slashdot reader BrianFagioli calls it "a quiet reminder of how quickly the web moves, and how even widely recognized names can drift into obscurity once the underlying technology leaves them behind."

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A photo of the alleged attacker brandishing the weapon he used on his victim emerged overnight as police confirmed they had made an arrest.

Filming for the latest adaptation of JK Rowling 's novels began earlier this year and the show is due to air next year.