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The TV presenter, 47, sparked concern among her fans after revealing her five-year-old had been taken to hospital and did not give any further details of his condition.

He has shared an insight into his next role

JPL's sky crane tech or private vendor to get $5-7B contract, before hitching lift back to Earth with ESA

NASA says it needs until 2026 before making a final decision on how the Mars Sample Return (MSR) mission will work.…

An anonymous reader shares a report: As music sales and streaming revenue reaches a high of $3 billion -- the highest since 2001, not accounting for significant inflation -- the UK video game market, which has grown almost continually for decades, has shrunk by 4.4%. The most significant decline was in boxed video game sales, down 35%. Data from Digital Entertainment and Retail Association (ERA) puts the total worth of the UK video game market in 2024 at $5.7 billion, double the music market and behind TV and movies at $6.2 billion. The numbers show a shift in players' purchasing habits that has been ongoing for years, from physical games to digital downloads and in-game purchases in popular, established games such as Fortnite and Roblox. Boxed games now account for 27.7% of new game sales in the UK, according to ERA data.

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Kris Jenner shared her concern for the wildfires sweeping across Los Angeles. Kris lives in Calabasas, which is not yet affect by the fire that is driven by winds with gusts of 80 to 100mph.

Third-gen Xiangshan may be close to performance of Arm’s made-for-HPC Neoverse 2

A key figure in in China’s drive to develop processors based on the RISC-V instruction set architecture has said the project will deliver in 2025, perhaps with a design that could be a datacenter contender.…

Germany has joined France in warning Donald Trump against threatening the European Union's 'sovereign borders' after the president-elect refused to rule out military action to take control of Greenland.

The Spaniard was relieved of his duties following a poor run of form culminating in a  4-1 defeat by Manchester City at the Etihad on Saturday which followed a 5-0 drubbing by Liverpool.

Sabrina Lyttle, from Blackpool, who struggled with drink and drugs, was freed from jail just days before dying at the age of 47 - found at a restaurant in Blackpool.

'We're going to catch less bad stuff,' Facebook tycoon admits, but it's worth it to get Trump off his back

Updated  Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has announced a whole bunch of changes designed to "get back to our roots around free expression" that, among other things, include ditching fact-checking moderators, and loosening content policies to allow previously restricted speech to proliferate. …

Metropolitan Police officers swarmed the iconic Mayfair street and cordoned it off along with the nearby New Burlington Street whilst they investigated the potential threat.

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Fitness app Garmin Connect got knocked down but got up again, after an unexplained outage that left fitness extroverts flummoxed.…

A later video showed him sitting in front of a fire during the break with his Brazilian-German songwriter girlfriend, with the caption: 'I am in no way built for this cold.'

Microsoft will begin enforcing storage limits on unlicensed OneDrive accounts from January 27, 2025, ending a loophole that allowed organizations to retain departed employees' data without cost. Data from accounts unlicensed for over 93 days will move to recycle bins for another 93 days before permanent deletion, unless under retention policies. Archived data retrieval will cost $0.60 per gigabyte plus $0.05 monthly per gigabyte. Organizations must either retrieve data, add licenses, or risk losing access, Microsoft has warned.

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The veteran rocker has gathered his big, blended family for a 10-day celebratory bash ahead of his milestone 80th birthday on Friday - and he's footing the bill for everything.

WARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT. Shocking photos show Peanut, a lurcher, in such a bad way that every bone on her body is visible.

Originally built in the 16th century, the property in Wiltshire was then given by Henry VIII to Edward Seymour, the brother of his third wife, Jane Seymour.

Alex Belfield, a former BBC local radio presenter, was jailed for five years in September 2022 for stalking several broadcasters, including the Channel 5 and BBC Radio 2 presenter.

The crisis, driven by flu norovirus, RSV and Covid has already led to a dozen hospitals declaring critical incidents meaning they are struggling to provide safe care to patients.

The comments from Pedro Sanchez comes after fellow EU leaders Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz accused Musk of intervening in European affairs.