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Rail passengers are continuing to face major disruption between Essex and London after a crash at London Liverpool Street Station.

Travel chiefs are urging the EU to extend the suspension of its new fingerprint and facial recognition border checks into 2027.

An investigation found a Reform UK staff member admitting: 'The philosophy is generally like, 'Are they a f***ing lunatic?' You know what I mean? Is it going to cause problems with the Press?'

Drivers on the M11 near Stansted Airport are this morning facing severe disruption due to a crash.

'Get down!' the Ukrainian commander bellows, as a high-speed drone armed with a 105kg warhead hurtles across the field.

A Vienna neighbourhood has introduced new rules that tell dog owners to wash their pets' urine from trees. 

Using a sunbed has long been known as a sure-fire way to drastically increase the risk of deadly skin cancer. But experts say not everyone who has used one will develop the disease.

At the far end of the soulless, rectangular room, a witness related corporate tensions from 15 years ago

Press secretary Katie Zacharia blamed being 'distracted' by her marriage as the reason she failed the California bar exam and a surprise pregnancy as the cause for never taking it again.

School staff seemed to be trying to get ransomware – for a second time

The Sherlock star, 55, quietly married the French star earlier this year, with the couple debuting their wedding bands during a joint red carpet appearance on Wednesday.

Lucy Powell, Education Secretary, gave a speech about the importance of clear communication. She was as clear as public-lavatory glass.

Alisha Samuels was found with serious injuries following reports of a disturbance on Dorking Avenue in Newton Heath at around 2am on Thursday.

Timekeepers have officially voted to eliminate the leap second, allowing Coordinated Universal Time to drift as much as one hour from Earth's rotation before a correction is needed. The change ends decades of occasionally adding or subtracting seconds and replaces it with a hypothetical "leap hour" that likely wouldn't be necessary for hundreds or even thousands of years. Smithsonian Magazine reports: "It's kind of a philosophical discussion, because if a leap hour happens, it won't be for a very, very long time," Christian Bizouard, director of the IERS Earth Orientation Center in France, tells the Guardian's Ian Sample. "What we are doing is pushing back the decision." The move caps off 30 years of debate, as the leap second has been highly controversial in the world of timekeeping. Leap seconds aren't nearly as smooth of a fix as leap years are, and they can cause computer and website issues. Reddit famously crashed when a leap second was added on June 30, 2012. It's "always been a problem," Judah Levine, a former researcher at the NIST's Time and Frequency Division, tells Scientific American's Emma Gometz. Instead of adding the entire second all at once, companies such as Google and Meta add the extra time in smaller segments in a tactic called "smearing," according to the Conversation. It's not a simple task, however, and companies that employ smearing have long lobbied to get rid of the leap second. What's more, with Earth's recent spin acceleration, timekeepers around the world were facing the possibility of the world's first negative leap second, in which a second would be subtracted from UTC. This sparked fears, akin to those surrounding Y2K, that our modern technologies wouldn't be able to handle such a change. "It's never happened before, and therefore the software for that has never been tested," Darryl Veitch, a researcher who leads the Timing Lab at the University of Technology Sydney, tells the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's Ellen Phiddian. But others argued that it wouldn't be much of a problem. The vote means that in the future, UTC will be allowed to diverge from astronomical time more than ever before.

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These spectacular ski resorts boast breathtaking mountain scenery, world-class runs and luxurious Alpine hideaways.

There are severe delays on the M25 at the QE2 Dartford crossing after a crash.

Dr. Doom...scroller titled this one "Scrollbar-ception". Said he "Screenshot of the TikTok webpage (i.e. in a desktop browser) while not logged in. I swear this wasn't a NSFW TikTok video, instead it was a montage of some live show from some singer. Anyway... Back on the topic of the actual publishable snarky comments: Social media is known for doom-scrolling. Well, these are scrollbars of doom. Or doom-scrollbars."

An anonymous reader clarified "I was reorganizing the document by drag-and-dropping a bunch of table cells a bit too far for Word's comfort and it's telling me what I did wrong." Clearly.

B.J. H. reported a crisis. "First Southwest made me question the existence of my bags: I saw them scanned but the bag tracking system said there were no scans. Then the next page made me question my own existence as well." B.J. who?

Adam R. reported a new way of formatting numbers. "Stripe has decided "You know what, I'll put the +/- sign for the transaction amount on the *previous* line instead of the same line, just for funsies." Less snarkily: line break algorithms are fickle, and they forgot to put a non-breaking space in there."

Peter S. proposed "I was trying to sell my Peleton equipment on their official "Repowered" site, and I was shown this nice list of yes/no buttons. I am not sure if I feel like gambling today with these answers." I want to know if Peter is unloading all his equipment because he reached his goals, or if he just gave up.

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A grieving Cindy Crawford was spotted as she checked in with her daughter Kaia Gerber on Thursday, more than three weeks after the tragic death of her son Presley Gerber at 27.

With cash usage down drastically in the past decade it appears many small businesses are on a mission to keep it alive.

He thought his colleague was 'spreading a rumour about him'