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Monika Rubacha, the 44-year-old Florida mom accused of murdering her two children, Josh James, 14, and Emma James, 11, before killing herself, was from a 'picture perfect' family.

The former TOWIE star, 34, has revealed she slept in the basement of her Dubai home with her children as missile strikes hit the city on Saturday night.

The ceremony traditionally opens with monologues from several of the assembled stars, who tell stories about their time in their profession.

The Oscar nominated actress, 63, made her grand entrance in a stunning gown by Schiaparelli, a strapless black dress featuring a crocodile print.

Bell is serving as mistress of ceremonies for the third time, after hosting the then-SAG Awards last year and then before that in 2018.

A Republican US senator branded it 'pathetic', while an Israeli minister said the UK was now a 'nation in decline' due to the Prime Minister's early inaction.

The 16-year-old became the youngest individual winner in the history of the ceremony, breaking the record previously held by Kate Winslet .

Benicio Del Toro had the sweetest date on his arm at the 2026 Actor Awards - his teenage daughter.

Only Fools And Horses star Tessa Peake-Jones has admitted filming the comedy was anything but a barrel of laughs as she looks back ahead of its 45th anniversary. 

Cormac Sale, 22, is seen slumped in the back of an ambulance as he is asked by paramedics if he had taken drugs or alcohol.

A Texas gunman, identified by sources as Ndiaga Diagne, 53, opened fire on a bar in Austin and killed two people.

Hollywood's biggest stars descended upon the Shrine Auditorium & Expo Hall in Los Angeles on Sunday for the 32nd Annual Actor Awards, formerly known as the SAG Awards.

The Kalispell, Montana native, 45, was on hand at the Shrine Auditorium and Expo Hall, clad in a pink Prada gown as she posed on the red carpet with her spouse, director Thomas Kail, 49.

Essex Police believe that he is travelling on foot

This tiny Italian town boasts sweeping countryside views - but it's a 43cm-wide alley that's stopping visitors in their tracks.

Python is (in)famous for its "batteries included" approach to a standard library, but it's not that notable that it has plenty of standard data structures, like dicts. Nor is in surprising that dicts have all sorts of useful methods, like pop, which removes a key from the dict and returns its value.

Because you're here, reading this site, you'll also be unsurprised that this doesn't stop developers from re-implementing that built-in function, badly. Karen sends us this:

def parse_message(message): def pop(key): if key in data: result = data[key] del data[key] return result return '' data = json.loads(message) some_value = pop("some_key") # <snip>...multiple uses of pop()...</snip>

Here, they create an inner method, and they exploit variable hoisting. While pop appears in the code before data is declared, all variable declarations are "hoisted" to the top. When pop references data, it's getting that from the enclosing scope. Which while this isn't a global variable, it's still letting a variable cross between two scopes, which is always messy.

Also, this pop returns a default value, which is also something the built-in method can do. It's just the built-in version requires you to explicitly pass the value, e.g.: some_value = data.pop("some_key", "")

Karen briefly wondered if this was a result of the Python 2 to 3 conversion, but no, pop has been part of dict for a long time. I wondered if this was just an exercise in code golf, writing a shorthand function, but even then- you could just wrap the built-in pop with your shorthand version (not that I'd recommend such a thing). No, I think the developer responsible simply didn't know the function was there, and just reimplemented a built-in method badly, as so often happens.

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After the US air strikes on Tehran, and Iran's suicide-drone revenge attacks on tourist hot-spots including Dubai , 94,000 British citizens have registered their contact details with the Foreign Office.

Catherine O'Hara left Hollywood in tears at the 2026 Actor Awards as her posthumous win for The Studio was accepted by co-star Seth Rogen.

You can still see parts of the former line within the nature reserve today

As the Mobile World Conference begins in Spain, Lenovo brought a new attachable accessory for their laptops — an AI agent. CNET reports: The little circular module perches on the top of your Lenovo laptop display, attached via the magnetic Magic Bay on the rear. The module is home to an adorable animated companion called Tiko, who you can interact with via text or voice... [I]t can start and stop your music, open a web page for you or answer a question. You can also interact with it by using emoji. Give it a book emoji, for example, and it will pop on its glasses and sit reading with you while you work... The company wants to sell the Magic Bay accessory later this year — although it doesn't know exactly when, or how much it will cost. It even comes with a timer (for working in Pomodoro-style intervals) — but Lenovo has also created another "concept" AI companion that CNET describes as "a kind of stationary tabletop robot, not dissimilar to the Pixar lamp, but with an orb for a head." With a combination of cameras, microphones and projectors, the AI Workmate can undertake a variety of tasks, including helping you generate and display presentations or turn your written work or art into a digital asset... It's robotic head swivelled around and projected the slides onto the wall next to me. Lenovo created a video to show this "next-generation AI work companion" — with animated eyes — "designed to transform how modern professionals interact with their workspace." It bridges the physical and digital worlds — capturing handwritten notes, recognizing gestures, summarizing tasks, and proactively helping you stay ahead of your day. The moment you sit down, Lenovo AI Workmate greets you, surfaces priority tasks, and keeps your work organized without switching apps or losing context. From turning sketches into presentations to projecting information for instant collaboration, [it] brings on-device AI intelligence directly to your desk — secure, responsive, and always ready... It's not just software. It's a smarter way to work. It looks like Lenovo once considered naming it "AI Sphere" (since that name still appears in its description on YouTube). Lenovo also showed another "concept" laptop idea that PC Magazine called "futuristic": The ThinkBook Modular AI PC looks like a traditional laptop at first glance, but a second, removable screen fastens onto the lid. You can swap that screen onto the keyboard deck (in place of the keyboard, which can then be used wirelessly), or use it alongside the laptop as a portable monitor, attached via an included cable.... While Lenovo is still working on this device, and it's very much in the concept phase, it feels like one of its best-thought-out prototypes, one likely to make it to store shelves at some point. Another "concept" laptop is Lenovo's Yoga Book Pro 3D Concept, ofering directional backlight and eye-tracking technology for the illusion of 3D (playing slightly different images to each of your eyes). It offers gesture control for 3D models, two OLED displays, and some magical "snap-on pads" which, when laid on the display — make the GUI appear on the screen for a new control menu to "provide quick-access shortcuts for adjusting lighting, viewing angle, and tone".

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