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Dozens of tornadoes have been leveling towns, throughout the Midwest since Friday, and it's been revealed that at least four people have died in Holdenville, Oklahoma as a result of a twister that hit.

Dr Jordan Wagner (pictured), also known as Doctor ER, treats everything from gunshot traumas to burns. Here he reveals his top tips for staying healthy on holiday...

An Antiques Roadshow guest was left aghast by the value of a medieval stone head she found in her drain during Sunday's episode.

Linda McGarry, who starred on the hit Channel 4 show with her son, said the 40-year-old dad of one rang her hours before he fell through the plastic skylight of a warehouse roof.

Tatiana Soroka claimed she was let down when the company, Payne Hicks Beach, allegedly missed chances to have her former husband Farkhad Akhmedov's ten-deck Luna seized in Miami.

The Prime Minister said ensuring Britain can defend itself was his 'first responsibility' and his pledge to invest tens of billions more pounds was needed 'to keep the country safe'.

The tragic incident led to most services out of the busy railway station either being cancelled or delayed.

For years, the record for the highest freefall parachute jump was held by U.S. Air Force Captain Joseph Kittinger.

She told parliamentary authorities that the cash, which followed a £2,000 donation before the 2019 general election, was to support her office.

Long-time Slashdot reader lee1 shares "an interesting essay on the history of orthodoxy in quantum mechanics," published this week in Nature. Its title? "'Shut up and calculate': how Einstein lost the battle to explain quantum reality." [T]he views of Danish physicist Niels Bohr came to dominate. Albert Einstein famously disagreed with him and, in the 1920s and 1930s, the two locked horns in debate. A persistent myth was created that suggests Bohr won the argument by browbeating the stubborn and increasingly isolated Einstein into submission. Acting like some fanatical priesthood, physicists of Bohr's 'church' sought to shut down further debate. They established the 'Copenhagen interpretation', named after the location of Bohr's institute, as a dogmatic orthodoxy. My latest book Quantum Drama, co-written with science historian John Heilbron, explores the origins of this myth and its role in motivating the singular personalities that would go on to challenge it. Their persistence in the face of widespread indifference paid off, because they helped to lay the foundations for a quantum-computing industry expected to be worth tens of billions by 2040... The Einstein-Bohr dispute raised larger issues, according to the article. "What is the purpose of physics? Is its main goal to gain ever-more-detailed descriptions and control of phenomena, regardless of whether physicists can understand these descriptions? Or, rather, is it a continuing search for deeper and deeper insights into the nature of physical reality? "Einstein preferred the second answer," the articcle notes — and concluded that quantum mechanics was incomplete: Unlike Bohr, Einstein had established no school of his own. He had rather retreated into his own mind, in vain pursuit of a theory that would unify electromagnetism and gravity, and so eliminate the need for quantum mechanics altogether. He referred to himself as a "lone traveler". In 1948, U.S. theoretical physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer remarked to a reporter at Time magazine that the older Einstein had become "a landmark, but not a beacon". Subsequent readings of this period in quantum history promoted a persistent and widespread suggestion that the Copenhagen interpretation had been established as the orthodox view... When learning quantum mechanics as a graduate student at Harvard University in the 1950s, US physicist N. David Mermin recalled vivid memories of the responses that his conceptual enquiries elicited from his professors, whom he viewed as 'agents of Copenhagen'. "You'll never get a PhD if you allow yourself to be distracted by such frivolities," they advised him, "so get back to serious business and produce some results. Shut up, in other words, and calculate." The book argues that actually the physics world suffered from "a subtly different kind of orthodoxy" — an indifference to "foundational questions" outside the mainstream — but that the "myth" motivated projects and experiments. "Although the wider physics community still considered testing quantum mechanics to be a fringe science and mostly a waste of time, exposing a hitherto unsuspected phenomenon — quantum entanglement and non-locality — was not..."

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The Duke of Sussex will fly to the west African country to join Meghan just days after his return to Britain for the Invictus Games 10th anniversary.

Police have launched a probe into an alleged anti-Semitic hate crime after footage posted online showed the man appearing to be targeted by the group in Stamford Hill.

The open-air museum, which commemorates Germany's defeat in the Second World War , has been transformed into a glorification of Russia's invasion of Ukraine .

Viewers of The 1% Club were left baffled by a question that seemed to have more than one answer on Saturday.

The actor, 61, has been spotted up and down the UK in recent months as production for the high-octane and iconic film franchise gets underway.

Charles will return to public duties this week with the blessing of his doctors, attending a cancer treatment clinic with Queen Camilla on Tuesday.

Kamala Harris says when people make fun of her laugh it is part of the adjustment for Americans getting used to the first woman vice president and implied it is a form of sexism.

The courier in Torquay, Devon, hurled the packages, which are a range of sizes, in front of photographer Maciej Olszewski, who was worried one of the items could be his new camera.

EastEnders actress Cheryl Fergison has revealed her secret womb cancer battle in a candid new interview.

Tim Loughton MP (pictured) believes his expulsion from Djibouti earlier this month was directly related to his prior criticism of the Chinese government.