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Greenwich Council had claimed the Trafalgar Tavern's tables on the Thames Path were 'visual clutter' after it had received complaints.

The plane passenger has been left outraged after paying an extra £26 (€30) for seating with more legroom - only for a family to brazenly occupy the space throughout the flight. 

Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones celebrated their joint birthdays on Thursday.

More than 750 barbers opened in the UK last year despite a broader High Street downturn - with police saying some of them are being used for money laundering.

Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy said he will 'sleep in prison with my head held high', after he was sentenced to five years in jail on Thursday. 

Ever since Meghan Markle accused unnamed senior members of the Royal Family of racism in her interview with Oprah Winfrey in 2021, the Prince and Princess of Wales have bitten their tongues.

It will have inclusive accessibility features, too

Kim Kardashian had the perfect models for her NikeSKIMS launch event on Wednesday.

Shatner, 94, who is beloved by Trekkies as the show's lead character Captain Kirk, is said to have experienced the health downturn while at his home in Los Angeles.

Mountain View gripes over slow-moving regulators while Redmond rakes it in

Google is like a dog with a bone over Microsoft's cloud licensing policies, not letting Euro regulators forget about what it sees as anti-competitive practices that penalize those wanting to run Windows software on rival cloud platforms.…

The former Made In Chelsea star, 36, took to social media to show off the new abode as fans rushed compliment the pair.

Muhammad Usman, who owns the Phone Hub in Shirley, was almost brought to tears after enduring months of physical and mental abuse at the hands of the brazen teen girls.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Conversation: Twenty-one years after Facebook's launch, Australia's top 25 news outlets now have a combined 27.6 million followers on the platform. They rely on Facebook's reach more than ever, posting far more stories there than in the past. With access to Meta's Content Library (Meta is the owner of Facebook), our big data study analysed more than three million posts from 25 Australian news publishers. We wanted to understand how content is distributed, how audiences engage with news topics, and the nature of misinformation spread. The study enabled us to track de-identified Facebook comments and take a closer look at examples of how misinformation spreads. These included cases about election integrity, the environment (floods) and health misinformation such as hydroxychloroquine promotion during the COVID pandemic. The data reveal misinformation's real-world impact: it isn't just a digital issue, it's linked to poor health outcomes, falling public trust, and significant societal harm. [...] Our study has lessons for public figures and institutions. They, especially politicians, must lead in curbing misinformation, as their misleading statements are quickly amplified by the public. Social media and mainstream media also play an important role in limiting the circulation of misinformation. As Australians increasingly rely on social media for news, mainstream media can provide credible information and counter misinformation through their online story posts. Digital platforms can also curb algorithmic spread and remove dangerous content that leads to real-world harms. The study offers evidence of a change over time in audiences' news consumption patterns. Whether this is due to news avoidance or changes in algorithmic promotion is unclear. But it is clear that from 2016 to 2024, online audiences increasingly engaged with arts, lifestyle and celebrity news over politics, leading media outlets to prioritize posting stories that entertain rather than inform. This shift may pose a challenge to mitigating misinformation with hard news facts. Finally, the study shows that fact-checking, while valuable, is not a silver bullet. Combating misinformation requires a multi-pronged approach, including counter-messaging by trusted civic leaders, media and digital literacy campaigns, and public restraint in sharing unverified content.

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Kyle, 37, and Aleha Wheeler, 33, bought the property last year for $205,000.

Sarah who is American and has since relocated back to the States with their children, shared a message, describing her sense of having found her happy place.

March 16, 2020. That day is in my diary as the day I started to hear buzzing in my ears. And that buzzing has never gone away.

Mark Baker, 53, groomed the female student while he was teaching at the £10,680-a-year River School in Worcester.

In a statement, the marathon organisers wrote: 'She felt unwell during a training session and was taken to the hospital, where her life could not be saved.'

Ballooning leverage and shaky customer funding could strain Big Red's balance sheet

Oracle has raised $18 billion in debt, which could help fund massive datacenter investments aimed at meeting surging demand from AI model builders and enterprise customers.…

Poland is looking to pass a law that will allow its military to down Russian drones over Ukraine without needing approval from NATO or the European Union.