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Speedy suppers, delicious desserts and, if you have the appetite for it, Eleanor Steafel has the recipe for a perfect night in with your mates

Patients who take up walking after surgery can significantly reduce the risk of complications and being readmitted to hospital, research suggests.

I'm not talking about making the important choice between pizza or a curry; rather, this is the sort of vocabulary you might hear during a long Zoom meeting.

RECAP: Follow the results from the UK local elections across England, Scotland and Wales in the biggest test of public opinion since Labour's landslide win in the 2024 election.

A huge female celebrity's alleged affair with a top sports star has seemingly been exposed after 'thousands of intimate messages and pictures leaked online'.

If your love life is lacking, there's good news - consuming ginger can spice things up in the bedroom. However, the scientists who made the discovery say that it works only for women.

Christine McGuinness 'shared a kiss' with DJ Roxxxan in her Land Rover Defender in London on Saturday. 

TOWIE's Jake Hall's ex Misse Beqiri has shared a devastating tribute on Instagram, following his death aged 35.

The TV presenter, 41, posed for photos in a sheer gown while smiling alongside the Love Island narrator, 38, at Broadwick Soho.

They will be transferred to Arrowe Park Hospital on The Wirral, Merseyside, the centre used to isolate travellers returning from Wuhan in China at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic.

To upgrade its grid for data centers, PJM Interconnection (which serves 13 states) plans to spend $22 billion — and charge nearly $2 billion of that to customers in Maryland, argues Maryland's Office of People's Counsel. The money "will be recovered in rates for decades" and "drive up Maryland customer bills by $1.6 billion over the next ten years alone," they said Friday, announcing an official complaint filed with America's Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. Extra demand is expected from Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Illinois "where demands driven by data centers are projected to grow substantially by 2036," they explain. But that means that Maryland customers "are subsidizing data center-driven transmission buildout by virtue of geographic proximity..." Tom's Hardware explains: That means an extra $823 million for residential (approx. $345 per customer), $146 million for commercial (approx. $673 per customer), and $629 million for industrial customers (approx. $15,074 per customer)... "Maryland customers have neither caused the need for these billions in new transmission projects nor will they meaningfully benefit from them," [according to Maryland People's Counsel David S. Lapp].... This is one of the biggest reasons why many AI hyperscalers are facing pushback from the communities where they intend to place their data centers. At the moment, around 69 jurisdictions have passed some sort of moratorium on projects like these, and a survey has shown that nearly half of Americans do not want a data center in their neighborhood. Debates around these projects are passionate, with a few cases turning violent and even resulting in shootings (thankfully, without any casualties), especially as many feel that the construction of these power-hungry assets is threatening their lifestyles and quality of life. Thanks to long-time Slashdot reader noshellswill for sharing the news.

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The Minack Theatre in Porthcurno has recalled its production of Léo Delibes's Lakmé after Rajan Zed labelled the show as a 'shallow exoticism based on prejudice'.

The Tory leader hopes to follow the precedent set by Boris Johnson , whose success in 2008 presaged a revival for the party as a whole.

Research presented at this year's European Congress on Obesity in Istanbul, Turkey, suggests that walking roughly 8,500 steps a day may help people maintain weight loss after dieting.

A Frontier Airlines plane collided with a pedestrian on the runway of Denver International Airport on Friday night killing the person and sparking a fire onboard.

Trossard is enjoying success on the field, with Arsenal chasing a Premier League and Champions League double for the first time. But, off the field, his personal life is up in the air.

Exam board Pearson Edexcel's decision to make language lessons more 'inclusive' has been branded 'absurd'.

It's the presence of four super-keen young women, each clutching their mobile phone and bounding along the corridors with trays heaving with snacks.

NASA's $500 million Neil Gehrels Swift space observatory was launched in 2004. But it's now "at risk of falling back through the atmosphere and burning up without intervention," reports Spaceflight Now. Fortunately, a mission to prevent that "just passed a notable prelaunch testing milestone." On Friday, NASA announced that the Link spacecraft, manufactured by Katalyst Space Technologies to intervene before Swift's fate is sealed, completed its slate of environmental testing at the agency's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland... "Swift will likely re-enter the atmosphere sometime later this year if we don't attempt to lift it to a higher altitude, [said John Van Eepoel, Swift's mission director at NASA Goddard, in a NASA press release]. "Katalyst has gotten to this point in just eight months, and we're glad they were able to use NASA's facilities to test Link and draw on our expertise to help tackle questions that popped up along the way...." "Given how quickly Swift's orbit is decaying, we are in a race against the clock, but by leveraging commercial technologies that are already in development, we are meeting this challenge head-on," said Shawn Domagal-Goldman, acting director, Astrophysics Division, NASA Headquarters, at the time... Attempting an orbit boost is both more affordable than replacing Swift's capabilities with a new mission, and beneficial to the nation — expanding the use of satellite servicing to a new and broader class of spacecraft...." Swift is in an orbit inclined 20.6 degrees from the equator, which is why Katalyst selected Northrop Grumman's Pegasus XL air-launched rocket in November to fly the mission. "The versatility offered by Pegasus' unique air-launch capability provides customers with a space launch solution that can be rapidly deployed anywhere on Earth to reach any orbit," said Kurt Eberly, Director of Space Launch for Northrop Grumman. The mission is set to launch in June.

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Historians have been swooping on the site of a former bowling alley in Weymouth, Dorset, which is known to contain the remains of three 13th Century houses and plots.