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British by-elections have long been a political spectator sport. A boisterous ritual - but the result soon ­forgotten and rarely of much long‑term significance. Not Gorton and Denton...

Settling the future of Warner Bros should be good for the Hollywood studio system, and there is enormous political and British creative interest in the transaction.

Musk says that 'it is time to go forth, be out there among the stars, expand the scope and scale of human consciousness.' His latest deal may inspire investors to follow his call.

The seizure and killing of Mexican drug lord El Mencho on February 22 was the result of a terrible blunder on behalf of the late kingpin.

Keen astronomers will be in for a treat tonight as a rare 'planetary parade' of six planets lights up the night sky.

Historic tensions could go back as far as childhood for the Prince of Wales, with Andrew making 'disrespectful' remarks about William's mother Diana shortly after her death

Senior confirmed takeover chatter and said it had received two offers and discussions were 'ongoing'.

Julian Valente Pereira, a 32-year-old Brazilian national, staged a protest at the secret services central London base at Thames House a day after he had been told he would be kicked out of the UK.

The feared New York-based activist investor, which is led by billionaire Paul Singer, went public for the first time since it emerged that it has taken a stake in LSEG.

Analysts point to a lack of profit guidance and fears over potentially higher fuel prices as possible factors for the 7.4 per cent drop.

Sporting Lisbon fans were brought a touch of stardust to their Friday night, with acting superstar Sydney Sweeney showing off her ball skills on the pitch.

Car makers hope ministers will row back on strict, but unachievable, sales targets for EVs called the 'ZEV Mandate'.

Nearly a third of customers want staff to be honest about imperfections, a study by the Motors & Cazoo consumer insight panel shows.

I was seduced into a so-called 'great value' online estate agent contract, which required me to pay after 10 months.

In the most perilous moment yet of his premiership, Labour 's defeat at the Gorton and Denton by-election shows the party has entered an 'electoral Valley of Death'.

The Metropolitan Police said Caspar San Giorgio, of no fixed address, was arrested shortly after 4am on Friday.

On February 24th, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory activated its automated alert system, sending out roughly 800,000 real-time notifications flagging asteroids, supernovae, flaring black holes and "other transient celestial events," reports Scientific American. And this is only the beginning -- that number is projected to climb into the millions as it continues scanning the ever-changing sky. From the report: The astronomical observatory equipped with world's largest camera hit a key milestone on February 24, when a complex data-processing system pushed hundreds of thousands of alerts out to scientists eager to pore over its most exciting sightings. The Vera C. Rubin Observatory began operations last year, capturing stunning, panoramic time-lapse views of the cosmos with ease. Rubin's first images, based on just 10 hours of observations, let space fans zoom seemingly forever into an overwhelmingly starry sky. But watchful astronomers were always awaiting the next step: the system that would automatically alert them to the most promising activity in the overhead sky amid the 1,000 or so enormous images that Rubin's telescope captures every night. "We can detect everything that changes, moves and appears," said Yusra AlSayyad, an astronomer at Princeton University and Rubin's deputy associate director for data management, to Scientific American last summer. "It's way too much for one person to manually sift through and filter and monitor themselves." So even as they were designing and building the Rubin Observatory itself, scientists were also designing an alert system to help astronomers navigate the flood of data. As soon as the telescope began observations, the team started constructing a static reference image of the entire sky in impeccable detail. Now the data processing systems that support the observatory are starting to automatically compare every new Rubin image to the corresponding section of that background template. The systems identify all of the differences, each of which is individually flagged. The algorithms can also distinguish between a potential supernova and a possible newfound asteroid, for example. Alerting the scientific community is the final, crucial step. Astronomers -- as well as members of the public -- can sign up for notifications based on the type of sighting they're interested in and the brightness of the observation in question. And now that the alerts system has gone live, users receive a tiny, fuzzy image with some astronomical metadata of each observation that fits their criteria -- all just a couple of minutes after Rubin captures the original image.

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President Joe Biden was confronted over the death of children in Gaza on a flight Friday as he traveled to Columbia, South Carolina for a political event.

In her 2018 memoir, Lily included details of a booze-fuelled tryst with Oasis Liam Gallagher after the pair boarded a flight to Japan.

ROBERT HARDMAN: For a moment, I could be listening to a young Margaret Thatcher - with a Mancunian lilt.