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Andy Burnham was invited to form a Government at an audience in Buckingham Palace this afternoon.

Dark matter is already one of the strangest substances in the universe, but a new study suggests this elusive material could be even weirder than we thought.

Richard Harrison, pharmacist at Asda, has revealed his top advice for treating different insect bites - and how to tell them apart.

But soon after the coverage came to an end, the pair joined Gary Lineker in the Rest is Football studio in New York to record their final episode of the tournament, before enjoying a party.

The former This Morning presenter previously revealed that despite her showbiz contacts, none of her kids wanted to follow in her footsteps.

'Women online call it the "divorce drug". After one conversation with my husband, I started to understand why.'

Speaking to the Daily Mail, expert Nigel Bearman of Daily Poppins, who has more than 29 years' experience, revealed the the interiors items to avoid if you want a fuss-free clean.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from XDA Developers: One of the founding members of The Document Foundation and handler of LibreOffice's PR and media relations, Italo Vignoli, took to the LibreOffice blog to call out Microsoft's practices with its Office application. The last time we saw Vignoli take to the stage, we saw him accusing Euro-Office of being just as bad as Microsoft with its practices. Vignoli's new post focuses entirely on Microsoft's strategy. He says that "the dominant format for office documents" is owned by Microsoft Office, particularly the DOCX, XLSX, and PPTX formats. The problem with these formats, Vignoli states, is that they "belong to Microsoft, are controlled by Microsoft and serve Microsoft's interest." This makes it difficult for other formats to take hold. Vignoli explains his point by stating that open document formats don't hide anything. People developing their own apps can use the format to both read and write the document format with perfection. Meanwhile, proprietary formats such as Microsoft's "contain undocumented features, private extensions or behaviors" that developers can't fully adapt to. That means that a presentation that looks great in the source software comes out strange when rebuilt in a third-party app. This, Vignoli says, is a huge issue [...]. Vignoli claims this creates a huge issue with document preservation. If a Word document was saved in one version of Office, will it still be readable in 20 years? Microsoft has added legacy support to its software before, but the company can one day decide that it's not worth the effort anymore and cut it out. When that happens, you have old documents that are either jumbled or unable to be opened at all.

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Malware hides commands in appointments set for 2050 and uses Redmond's own cloud to phone home

The terrified common marmoset was discovered last Friday at 11.43am on board the 302 bus, travelling between Mill Hill Broadway Station and Kensal Rise.

Spain is back in the spotlight after its World Cup victory. Skip the packed resorts and discover the country's best crowd-free escapes.

Moon landing conspiracies have been reignited online once again, as NASA celebrates the 57th anniversary of Apollo 11.

A vet said it was "one of the worst" environments they had seen cats kept in

The Little Mix star has been campaigning for the introduction of screening for Spinal Muscular Atrophy Type 1, after her 14-month-old twins Ocean and Story were diagnosed with the rare condition.

Megan Pickford has revealed she was forced to endure '24 hours of airport hell' after her flight home from the World Cup was cancelled.

A naturist, identified only as Mo, was taking part in a naked bike ride in Chelmsford when he was assaulted by two men on an e-scooter.

A naturist, identified only as Mo, was taking part in a naked bike ride in Chelmsford when he was assaulted by two men on an e-scooter.

Argentina's media have praised the conduct of their World Cup finalists despite the ugly scenes that occurred at full-time on Sunday.

Former construction firm boss James Desborough, 40, killed inmate Steven Kempster, 65, in his bed at HMP Exeter in Devon in September last year.