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President Donald Trump announced on Saturday evening that the US had killed Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.

The Etihad Airways plane landed at Heathrow Terminal 4 at 7.16pm - two days after the US and Israel struck Iran, killing Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and prompting a furious Iranian response.

The Princess of Wales recycled a red houndstooth dress for a video message filmed with Prince William to mark St David's Day.

Here we are again. The leaky old British rowing boat bobbing along behind a huge American aircraft carrier into another war in the Middle East.

Council set to consider possible rise in fees for drivers

A new study has revealed Colchester as one of the hardest places in the county to pass a driving theory test, seeing a pass rate of less than 50 per cent.

A huge dome has been installed at a landfill in Wiltshire which will trap the gas generated from waste to grow fruit and vegetables, including avocados.

The Prime Minister was accused of undermining the Special Relationship by banning American bombers from using British bases to launch Saturday's assault on Tehran.

Donald Trump said retaliation is coming after the US embassy in Saudi Arabia was struck by Iranian drones as explosions were heard and smoke seen in Riyadh.

The works will impact Greater Anglia, c2c and Elizabeth line services

Donald Trump's top general has revealed the minute-by-minute account of the President's 'Operation Epic Fury' killing Iran's Ayatollah and crippling the country's military.

Upstairs sat Attorney General Lord Hermer, true leader of our government. International law's plump magnifico perched silently in the peers' gallery, something feline in his precise posture.

The billionaire heiress, 31, took to her Instagram to flaunt her slender physique as she snapped a sideways shot of herself in the mirror, clad in only a pair of white semi-sheer tights.

Residents living in a premium community on the south coast have become incensed by a long line of campervans parked directly outside their homes.

As Grace Bell felt her newborn son's tiny head snuggled on her chest for the first time, tears ran down her face: 'I love you so much,' she told him. 'I have been waiting for you for so long.'

It took place in the early hours of Saturday morning

alternative_right shares a report from ScienceAlert: According to a study of 38 adult human brains donated to science, superagers -- people who retain exceptional memory as they age -- have roughly twice as many immature neurons as their peers who age more typically. Moreover, people with Alzheimer's disease show a marked reduction in neurogenesis compared to a normal baseline. [...] Led by researchers at the University of Illinois Chicago, the team set out to examine a variety of postmortem hippocampal tissue samples to see if they could identify markers of neurogenesis -- and if different groups had any notable differences. The brain samples were donated from five groups: eight healthy young adults, aged between 20 and 40; eight healthy agers, aged between 60 and 93; six superagers, aged between 86 and 100; six individuals with preclinical Alzheimer's pathology, aged between 80 and 94; and 10 individuals with an Alzheimer's diagnosis, aged between 70 and 93. The young healthy adult brain tissue was first analyzed to establish the neurogenesis pathways in the adult brain. Then, they analyzed 355,997 individual cell nuclei isolated from the hippocampus, searching for three different stages of cell development: Stem cells, which can develop into neurons; neuroblasts, which are stem cells in the process of that development; and immature neurons, on the verge of functionality. The results were striking. "Superagers had twice the neurogenesis of the other healthy older adults," [says neuroscientist Orly Lazarov of the University of Illinois Chicago]. "Something in their brains enables them to maintain a superior memory. I believe hippocampal neurogenesis is the secret ingredient, and the data support that." That's an interesting result on its own, but the data from the individuals with preclinical Alzheimer's pathology and Alzheimer's diagnoses is where the real meat of the study sits. In the preclinical group, subtle molecular changes hinted that the system supporting new neuron growth was beginning to falter. In the Alzheimer's group, a clear drop in immature neurons was evident. A genetic analysis of the nuclei also showed that superager neural cells have increased gene activity linked to stronger synaptic connections, greater plasticity, and brain-derived neurotrophic factor, a critical protein for neural survival, growth, and maintenance. Taken together, these three things can be interpreted as resilience. The research has been published in the journal Nature.

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Some Essex towns have more than one practice which does not meet the standard

A 66-million-year-old triceratops skeleton known as 'Trey,' long displayed at Wyoming's Dinosaur Center, is headed to auction on Pharrell Williams' platform Joopiter with an estimate of $5.5m.

The 55-year-old looked ready to command a room, dressed in a dark gray skirt-suit which featured a tailored three-button blazer with pockets, and a matching pencil skirt that sat just below the knee.