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Data from the Department for Education shows the unauthorised absence rate across state schools in England was 3.4 per cent in the week ending December 20 - which was the last week of term.

Researchers believe a simple blood test could flag people who are in the early stages of Alzheimer's, as well as spotting cancer seven years before it would otherwise be diagnosed.

CAROLINE GRAHAM: I entered Pacific Palisades and drove into what felt eerily like the set of a Hollywood horror film.

The figures provide the latest evidence of how firms are scrambling to respond to the tax hike and as the boss of Marks & Spencer said it would be a challenge.

Love Island: All Stars' Marcel Somerville opened up about a potential reunion with his ex Gabby Allen in the wake of her admitting she's 'open' to the prospect of a shock reconciliation with him.

The model, 26, who goes by Livi in the show, could not contain her emotions when her bestie Tyler Smith was made to leave after receiving the most number of votes.

The couple were seen playing in the water in front of the five-star Fairmont Royal Pavilion hotel on the western coast of the Caribbean island.

Readers, I watched through my fingers. Sandi Toksvig , 66-years-old and unsteady on her pins after a bout of bronchial pneumonia , should not be wielding a chainsaw.

In the sneak peek pictures, the crew can be seen standing on the icy lake with a car stuck headfirst in to the ice.

Jeff Bridges has lost his family's Malibu home to the wildfires that have been ravaging Los Angeles.  The property was passed down to Jeff, brother Beau Bridges, and sister Cindy Bridges.

The Met Police said it has 'no choice' but to use its powers to prevent the National Demonstration for Palestine from setting off just yards away from Central Synagogue in Fitzrovia, next Saturday.

Furious residents had blasted Bass for traveling to Ghana while the city burns, despite a warning for 'critical' weather conditions in the days prior.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said quantum computers won't be very useful for another 20 years, causing stocks in this emerging sector to plunge more than 40% for a total market value loss of over $8 billion. "If you kind of said 15 years for very useful quantum computers, that'd probably be on the early side. If you said 30, is probably on the late side. But if you picked 20, I think a whole bunch of us would believe it," Huang said during a Q&A with analysts. PCMag reports: The field of quantum computing hasn't gotten nearly as much hype as generative AI and the tech giants promoting it in the past few years. Right now, part of the reason quantum computers aren't currently that helpful is because of their error rates. Nord Quantique CEO Julien Lemyre previously told PCMag that quantum error correction is the future of the field, and his firm is working on a solution. The errors that qubits, the basic unit of information in a quantum machine, currently make result in quantum computers being largely unhelpful. It's an essential hurdle to overcomeâ"but we don't currently know if or when quantum errors will be eliminated. Chris Erven, CEO and co-founder of Kets Quantum, believes quantum computers will eventually pose a significant threat to cybersecurity. "China is making some of the largest investments in quantum computing, pumping in billions of dollars into research and development in the hope of being the first to create a large-scale, cryptographically relevant machine," Erven tells PCMag in a statement. "Although they may be a few years away from being fully operational, we know a quantum computer will be capable of breaking all traditional cyber defenses we currently use. So they, and others, are actively harvesting now, to decrypt later." "The 15 to 20-year timeline seems very realistic," said Ivana Delevska, investment chief of Spear Invest, which holds Rigetti and IonQ shares in an actively managed ETF. "That is roughly what it took Nvidia to develop accelerated computing."

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The Polish government has vowed to allow Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu to freely visit the nation for the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenhau

The museum's successful efforts to keep the fire at bay begs the question: why didn't Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass use similar tactics to protect homes and land?

Alice Feeney answers our burning questions, what is she reading, what book would she take to a desert island, what gave her the reading bug, what left her cold?

Barry Turner reviews the best Classic Crime books out now.

Monty Don and Derry Moore bring us the most beautiful gardens of Spain.

Anthony Cummins reviews the best Literary Fiction out now.

Jane Shilling reviews the best non-fiction paperbacks out now.