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Italian ryegrass - which affects cereals including wheat, one of the UK's most important crops - has been found at a farm in Kent to have become resistant to glyphosate.

Visitors were asked to leave the area as events unfolded

Zara Tindall was the picture of elegance on Saturday when she stepped out on the Gold Coast for the Magic Millions Race Day.

Officers gathered information to tackle hare coursing in the Braintree area. 

A family in Horspath, Oxfordshire have been given 12 months to find a new home after the local council were told they were living in a log cabin which was built without planning permission.

Rory Callum Sykes, 32, died when his cottage on his mother's estate in Malibu burned down on Thursday.

Wikipedia's massive dataset helped researchers identify three styles of curiosity -- "busybody," "hunter," and "dancer" -- based on how users navigate its pages (see: wiki rabbit hole). These curiosity styles reflect broader social trends and highlight curiosity's role in connecting information rather than merely acquiring it. Scientific American reports: In this lexicon, a busybody traces a zigzagging route through many often distantly related topics. A hunter, in contrast, searches with sustained focus, moving among a relatively small number of closely related articles. A dancer links together highly disparate topics to try to synthesize new ideas. "Curiosity actually works by connecting pieces of information, not just acquiring them," says University of Pennsylvania network scientist Dani Bassett, cosenior author on a recent study of these curiosity types in Science Advances. "It's not as if we go through the world and pick up a piece of information and put it in our pockets like a stone. Instead we gather information and connect it to stuff that we already know." The team tracked more than 482,000 people using Wikipedia's mobile app in 50 countries or territories and 14 languages. The researchers charted these users' paths using "knowledge networks" of connected information, which depict how closely one search topic (a node in the network) is related to another. Beyond just mapping the connections, they linked curiosity styles to location-based indicators of well-being, inequality, and other measures. In countries with higher education levels and greater gender equality, people browsed more like busybodies. In countries with lower scores on these variables, people browsed like hunters. Bassett hypothesizes that "in countries that have more structures of oppression or patriarchal forces, there may be a constraining of knowledge production that pushes people more toward this hyperfocus." The researchers also analyzed topics of interest, ranging from physics to visual arts, for busybodies compared with hunters (graphic). Dancer patterns, more recently confirmed, were excluded. Editor note: This article was published on December 24, 2024, based on a study published in October, 2024.

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Last year, the comedian, 48, exclusively confirmed to MailOnline that he's back on the market after his reported split from toyboy boyfriend Callum Heslop, 28.

I'm vegan, so I contacted John Lewis customer services to ask if I could swap it for a vegan item of similar value - but was surprised that it said no.

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The Kardashians have all evacuated their Hidden Hills and Calabasas mansions amid the LA fires.

Instead of perusing a career in acting like his famous sister, Haley decided to step back from Hollywood after often finding it 'aggressive, predatory and relentless'.

'Contaminated fuel' from a major UK petrol station chain has left motorists and businesses reeling after its use reportedly led to tens of vehicles breaking down.

An X Factor star looked almost unrecognisable as he rang in the New Year with his partner - 16 years after soaring to fame on the talent show,

As HBO finally confirms the release date of The Last of Us season two, scientists say the show's premise could soon be a reality - and disasters like the California wildfires could be to blame.

In a video posted to the WhichUK Instagram, the British consumer champion group explained that though seeming handy, they can actually increase the risk of electrical shock and fire.

Even better use for the Technic range than the Mars Rover – with one big caveat

The original Apollo Lunar Roving Vehicle had the look of something that had been strung together from an oversized Meccano set. It should, therefore, not come as a surprise to find a LEGO variant built from the company's Technic pieces.…

From their impressive lip sync battles to their hilarious Snatch Game impersonations, many Drag Race contestants have left an imprint on viewers' hearts.

King Constantine of Greece shared links with British royals in multiple ways and the two family's had a close relationship that continues today, two years after his death on January 10, 2023.

Jennifer Bentley (pictured), from Liverpool, was grieving her father's death when Raymond Andrews, 57, began abusing her.