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The UK will be plunged into brief darkness during the rare celestial event on the afternoon of Wednesday August 12, as the moon passes directly between the Earth and the sun.

According to the Conservatives, immigration will cost UK staff a total of £89.8 billion in suppressed wages over the next five years, with the average worker £2,521 a year worse off.

A fresh controversy has engulfed the amateur cricket club at the centre of the 'Clicky Ponting' cheating scandal after footage appeared to show another player deploying the same trick.

A constant need for praise, zero empathy, and a deep urge to run everything are big red flags of a narcissist, says psychologist Dr. Carmen Harra - but what are the remaining warning signs?

At one point, the smitten actress shared a sweet kiss with her hypnotist partner as they enjoyed their romantic getaway.

Getting repeated colds and fevers may make children more likely to develop eczema, according to a study.

Scientists at the Royal Horticultural Society have found that those with green fingers are drawn overwhelmingly to vivid, saturated flower colours, with red topping the list.

Regularly sleeping more than eight and a half hours each night could be linked to early Alzheimer's-related brain changes, research suggests.

It was not the troubled, tossing-and-turning kind of not sleeping, nor the sweaty half-sleep of the heatwave. Just no sleep at all. After two nights of this I had a thought.

Holly Willoughby became visibly emotional as she speaks to Ellen Roome, whose 14-year-old son Jools Sweeney died in April 2022.

Sir Christopher Nolan has become a hate figure among Gen Z after the release of his latest blockbuster The Odyssey - standing accused of being sexist by self-appointed moral arbiters.

While the frenzy around weight-loss drugs is booming, the ongoing cost of the weekly jabs can, for some, be too high.

Comedian Ellie Taylor has been lined up to be the new Strictly: It Takes Two host, a new report claims.

Andrew Cornish was dismissed as chief executive of Middlesex County Cricket Club after an investigation upheld a complaint of 'engaging in unwanted physical contact with a female employee'.

"An itch.io game bundle put together by Necrosoft Games and The United Videogame Workers-CWA union is a new way gamers can show their support for developers who have been let go amidst the ongoing video game industry labor crisis," writes Kotaku. Launched Thursday, it's already raised $57,859 from 3,984 contributors. (Average contribution size: $14.52) The bundle is pay-what-you-want with a minimum purchase price of $10, offering DRM-free PC versions of games including A Short Hike, SkateBIRD, and my favorite game in the pack, Arranger: A Role-Puzzling Adventure ... The bundle will be available through August 13. The gaming blog Rock Paper Shotgun shares more details, starting with this quote from the bundle's page on itch.io: "Reports say 33% of the industry lost their jobs in the last two years, and the jobs they could fill are disappearing as CEOs try to replace them with AI. It's hard for companies to adjust to the new shape of the game industry, but even harder for the people they should be employing... To address this in some small way, we have created a bundle with almost 150 games. The proceeds of this bundle will go toward a hardship fund for those experiencing layoffs." Games industry workers currently out of work or under-employed can apply to this fund, which is distributed by the United Videogame Workers, to help out with basic necessities like food and rent. As a note, this is only available to US and Canada-based devs, but there's an FAQ explaining who can apply for the fund.

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Leopold Aschenbrenner's honey-gold hair and distinctive monochrome turtle necks bolstered his image as the reclusive 'Nostradamus of AI' - but this came crashing down this week.

Tommy Fury has revealed that his partner Molly-Mae Hague has never paid for a dinner during their relationship despite her millionaire status.

Spain star Marc Cucurella thrilled his local postman after the World Cup winner offered him the medal he won Stateside last month to wear after dropping off his deliveries. 

NASA's Curiosity rover has sent back images of honeycomb-like textures called polygonal fractures, each one about 1.5 to 3 inches (4 to 8 centimeters) across. NASA reports: The mission has spotted small patches of these geometric shapes several times before, but nothing at the scale discovered in Valle Grande. In a 360-degree panorama that the rover captured on June 19 and 20, the 4,930th and 4,931st Martian days, or sols, of the mission, the polygonal shapes spread in all directions for as far as the rover can see... "[T]his sea of polygons took our breath away," said the mission's project scientist, Ashwin Vasavada of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California... Some of the polygons that the mission has spotted in the past clearly formed as mud cracks, though a variety of processes can contribute to their honeycomb textures, including cycles of warm and cold temperatures or compression that squeezed water out of the sediment when the surface was buried. These newly discovered polygons are among the many surprises Curiosity has trundled across since landing on Mars 14 years ago, on Aug. 5, 2012. Besides sulfur crystals, shiny meteorites, and other interesting geologic features, the rover has made major discoveries about the ancient Martian environment — most importantly, that it had the water, chemistry, and nutrients to support microbial life. Billions of years ago, lakes and streams dappled the lower foothills of Mount Sharp, a 3-mile-tall (5-kilometer-tall) mountain that Curiosity has been ascending since 2014. The rover has previously uncovered chemistry left over from Mars' watery history, including carbon-based molecules believed to be precursors to RNA and DNA, two nucleic acids that carry genetic information. Scientists have no way of knowing whether these organic molecules were created by biologic or geologic processes — either path is possible — but their discovery reconfirmed that ancient Mars had the right chemistry to support life. Dark, pebble-sized rocks also litter the area, NASA writes in a blog post, saying it's a "still-to-be-resolved question" as to whether they're bits of Mars that "floated" down from higher in the sediment layers, or "were ejected from distant impacts outside of Gale crater, or are meteorites from beyond Mars altogether."

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Emergency services were hoping cooler temperatures forecast for many parts of the UK might ease pressure on firefighters, after crews were called to hundreds of grassland fires recently.