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Markdown has been around for more than 20 years, but native support in LibreOffice might suddenly help to make it viable for more people.…

Marie Potter, 75, is locked in a £300,000 court battle with Kirsten McGowan - following Ms Potter's eviction from the property in April 2023.

Wearing the silk tracksuits, former jockeys Ruby Walsh and Mick Fitzgerald strutted down the catwalk in the French capital alongside some of the nation's top models.

Jahvine Kwamba, 21, from Doncaster, pleaded guilty to misconduct in a public office by engaging in the fling with the unnamed prisoner at HMP Fosse Way, Leicester, between February and June 2024.

Mojtaba, 56, the second son of the late Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was announced as his successor after being appointed by the regime's 88-person assembly.

It's going to potentially impact millions of people each year

An anonymous reader quotes a report from CBS News: Tonight, we have details of a classified U.S. intelligence mission that has obtained a previously unknown weapon that may finally unlock a mystery. Since at least 2016, U.S. diplomats, spies and military officers have suffered crippling brain injuries. They've told of being hit by an overwhelming force, damaging their vision, hearing, sense of balance and cognition. but the government has doubted their stories. They've been called delusional. Well now, 60 Minutes has learned that a weapon that can inflict these injuries was obtained overseas and secretly tested on animals on a U.S. military base. We've investigated this mystery for nine years. This is our fourth story called, "Targeting Americans." Despite official government doubt, we never stopped reporting because of the haunting stories we heard [...]. 60 Minutes interviewed Dr. David Relman, a scientific expert and professor from Stanford University who was tasked by the government to lead two investigations into the Havana Syndrome cases. What he and his panel of doctors, physicists, engineers and others found was that "the most plausible explanation for a subset of these cases was a form of radiofrequency or microwave energy," the report says. According to confidential sources cited in the report, undercover Homeland Security agents bought a miniaturized microwave weapon from a Russian criminal network in 2024 and tested it on animals at a U.S. military lab. The injuries reportedly matched those seen in the human cases. "Our confidential sources tell us the still classified weapon has been tested in a U.S. military lab for more than a year," says Dr. Relman. "Tests on rats and sheep show injuries consistent with those seen in humans." He continues: "Also, as a separate part of the investigation, security camera videos have been collected that show Americans being hit. The videos are classified but they were described to us. In one, a camera in a restaurant in Istanbul captured two FBI agents on vacation sitting at a table with their families. A man with a backpack walks in and suddenly everyone at the table grabs their head as if in pain. Our sources say another video comes from a stairwell in the U.S. embassy in Vienna. The stairs lead to a secure facility. In the video, two people on the stairs suddenly collapse. Those videos and the weapon were among the reasons the Biden administration summoned about half a dozen victims to the White House with about two months left in the president's term." Former intelligence officials and researchers claim elements of the U.S. government downplayed or dismissed the theory for years, possibly to avoid political consequences of accusing a foreign state like Russia of conducting attacks on American personnel.

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This year's Paris Fashion Week has attracted its usual array of glittering A-listers, all dressed to the nines for the lavish event. However, there were several stars who seemed to miss the fashion mark.

Since it hit the box in 2004, it has been plagued with a series of scandals.

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Its aim is wide, covering everything from social networks to GenAI

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Former policy boss Nick Clegg joins Cheryl Sandberg and one-time Yahoo prez Susan Decker

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Fellow educator Laura Hughes said the prankster students and her husband, Jason Hughes, loved each other despite the joke-gone-wrong that killed her husband on Thursday.

I once had outer space described to me as a cacophony of noisy activity as stars burn, space junk whizzes by and asteroids explode. On most days I feel this echoes the activity inside my head.