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I have been reporting on migrants in Calais for some 20 years. But I have never seen more of them here than in recent days - each and every one planning to get to England.

Now the charming cottage next door to vicar Geraldine Granger's house in the show is on the market - with bids starting at £375,000.

Earlier this year, Andrew Lloyd Webber made the confession of his life: he was an alcoholic.

Demonstrations will be held across France, with attacks likely on public buildings and state symbols as well as 'opportunistic lootings'.

Locals were outraged after the rural site on Townsend Avenue in Merseyside was dramatically transformed by the travellers a week after the August Bank Holiday.

It's being billing as the most accomplished Range Rover. And so it should be, given its elevated starting price of £154,070. I've been among the first to drive it extensively on and off road.

Shopkeepers and terrified civilians are arming themselves in Paris ahead of fresh protests scheduled for this weekend. 

First Lady Melania Trump has brokered a localized ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine to help the predominantly elderly population of the Ukrainian city of Oleshky

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Researchers at the National University of Singapore have developed a machine-washable electronic fabric that can turn clothing into an interactive graphical user interface. The prototype reportedly survived 50 gentle machine washes and 1,000 bending cycles, though it still relies on external batteries and controllers. The Register reports: The development could lead - at some point - to a "future in which clothing functions as a pervasive, multimodal human-computer interface," according to the study published in peer-reviewed science journal Nature this week. The paper shows someone interacting with computing devices using the sleeve of a wool sweater (no jokes about the Windows ugly sweater please, this is serious). The researchers, led by Singapore National University research engineer Fu Heng, claim this is a big leap forward. "This fiber-centric approach shifts wearable electronics from flexible panels toward truly textile-native architectures, laying the groundwork for fabrics that visualize, sense, communicate and compute as naturally as the garments they inhabit," the paper says. The researchers claim to have developed a scalable process to make millimeter-thick fibers. Using lasers to strip the insulation from specific spots on the thin copper wires, they attached light-emitting chips to the exposed sections, creating electrical connections to the chips. Thousands of chips were connected to the wires with extreme precision using this process. The fibers were then fed into a transparent plastic tube, and made pressure-sensitive by adding two strips of a compressible, conductive polymer into a second longitudinal channel in the tube. The paper says they could make fibers 10 meters long using this method, and that they are thin and flexible enough to be woven into or attached to fabrics. The researchers were also able to add "peripherals" such as a microphone, a speaker, a temperature sensor and a light sensor.

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The fashion mogul exuded glamour as she strutted out of the Bulgari Hotel in Rome on Friday night.

A 'sexually obsessed' killer who drove 100 miles to murder his teenage stepdaughter at her university accommodation has been jailed for life.

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Lee Henley had worked for Thurrock Council in Essex for 35 years when he was told restructuring plans within the authority meant he would be let go.

Andrew Tate, 39, is reportedly 'very sick' inside a notorious Miami federal prison, with his lawyer claiming repeated requests for medical treatment have been ignored.

The Commanding Officer of the Special Air Service was targeted by military police following the legitimate killing of an ISIS terrorist, the Mail can reveal.

True to form, Melanie Chisholm will put the Strictly Come Dancing professionals through their paces in Sunday's results show.

History could be made at the Royal Courts of Justice next month. I hear the ex-wife of a Russian billionaire is demanding £150million in what would be Britain's biggest divorce settlement.

Events have prompted the New York-based Anti-Defamation League, which campaigns against bigotry and racism, to warn that anti-Semitism in the country was a 'disaster waiting to happen'.

Frustrated by intrusive ads, sluggish interfaces, and data tracking, smart TV owners are using AI coding tools and open-source projects to strip unwanted software from their televisions and build customized home screens. The Verge reports: Several vibe-coded TV-debloating projects exploded in popularity over the weekend. Cleanyourtv (known as tv-vibehack until the 19th), tv-detox, and dumbtv all claim to accomplish similar things -- remove sponsored ads, debloat the TV so it runs faster, and block unwanted data collection that tracks what you're watching -- without hacking, or rooting, the TV. By default, they all also replace the TV's built-in app launcher with simpler ones. Many users are going a step further and vibe-coding their own replacement launchers, like the Pokemon one below. Most of the projects we've seen so far focus on TVs that run on Android and Google TV operating systems (such as TCL, Hisense, Sony, and older Amazon Fire products), using existing developer modes and the Android Debug Bridge (ADB) to tweak settings and apply (and remove) packages. According to the GitHub pages, they can also work with some Fire TV products that use a custom fork of Android (although likely not on the new Vega-based Fire TV Sticks). Because they use built-in developer tools, they don't require root access or firmware hacking, and they're reversible. Even projects that totally change the look of the interface just use Android's ability to install custom launchers -- in many cases with an assist from Claude Code or a similar tool to create the new launcher, too.

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