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Guy LambertCulture reporter Getty Images London Fashion Week comes to a close on Monday after showcasing the best of British design and beyond. This autumn’s festival of style has seen the brand Dreaming Eli’s debut show held inside St Cyprian’s Church, as well as H&M making a return and Oxfam …

David LumbBirmingham and Oprah FlashWest Midlands Unite Unions from across the country came to Birmingham to support striking bin workers Thousands of people have gathered in Birmingham in support of striking bin workers. Union members from across the country took part in a march across the city centre on Saturday …

Richard Williams and Chloee FrenchCoventry and Clare LissamanWest Midlands Listen on BBC Sounds to this episode of Secret Coventry: Amy Davis (pictured at a wedding) was known as “very firm but fair” by customers at the Ring O Bells pub in Coventry As Coventry emerged badly bombed but resilient from …

This is Optimizer, a weekly newsletter sent every Friday from Verge senior reviewer Victoria Song that dissects and discusses the latest phones, smartwatches, apps, and other gizmos that swear they’re going to change your life. Optimizer arrives in our subscribers’ inboxes at 10AM ET. Opt in for Optimizer here. There’s …

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Behind the tiaras and trumpets of a royal state visit, there are sometimes eyebrow-raising moments being served. In July, Buckingham Palace announced that President Trump and his wife, First Lady Melania Trump, would pay a state visit to the U.K. from Sept. …

An Australian doctor who raised the alarm about Erin Patterson has been sanctioned by the medical regulator over disparaging comments made about the triple murderer. Chris Webster was a key witness in Patterson’s trial, at which a jury found her guilty of killing three relatives and attempting to kill another …

Victoria GillScience correspondent, BBC News Getty Images Scientists have for the first time located the “mileage clock” inside a brain – by recording the brain activity of running rats. Letting them loose inside a small, rat-sized arena, the researchers recorded from a part of their brains that is known to …

Merseyside Police have issued an appeal in a bid to locate two children who have been missing for 11 days. Sienna Mann, nine, and her seven-year-old brother Brody were last seen in a hotel in Southport on Sunday 7 September. Merseyside Police said the siblings, originally from Essex, are believed …

Mallory Moench, Visual Journalism team, Simon Jackbusiness editor and Sean Coughlanroyal correspondent PA Beneath gilded portraits and suits of armour in Windsor Castle, 160 guests wined and dined at a lavish banquet to fete US President Donald Trump’s unprecedented second state visit to the UK on Wednesday evening. Along with …

A meeting between Donald Trump and Sir Keir Starmer will dominate the second day of the US president’s state visit. While the first day of the visit was about pomp and pageantry with the royal family, today will mark the “business end of this trip”, Sky News’ international affairs editor …

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! President Donald Trump’s long-standing admiration for the British royal family goes back decades. On Wednesday, the 79-year-old president and first lady Melania Trump were greeted by Prince William and Kate Middleton, along with military honor guards and mounted troops at Windsor Castle. …

Luke Deal/BBC The exterior of the building looks like a log cabin and includes a large swing A man who built what he describes as a “tropical steampunk shed” said it had not yet sunk in that he won a national award for it. Ash Robertson, 42, from Ipswich, built …

Anoushka Mutanda-Dougherty, Melanie Stewart-Smith and Victoria FarncombeFame Under Fire podcast Getty Images Emmanuel Macron and his wife, Brigitte, are planning to present photographic and scientific evidence to a US court to prove Mrs Macron is a woman. Their lawyer says the French president and Mrs Macron will present the documentation …

When the Oakley Meta HSTN arrived earlier this year, it wasn’t what I thought Oakley-branded smart glasses would be. Sure, they had Oakley’s famous PRIZM lenses, but where was the wraparound design? Where were the athlete-focused features like stronger water and sweat resistance? Confusingly, it felt like the HSTN glasses …

I want to preface this hands-on by saying that I’ve been a smart glasses skeptic for many years. In 2019, I even made a two-part mini documentary with a thesis that consumer smart glasses couldn’t happen without massive societal and technological shifts. Well, color me pink and let me find …

At its Connect keynote on Wednesday, Meta officially introduced the $799.99 Meta Ray-Ban Display, also known as Hypernova. The brand’s new, high-end smart glasses feature an in-lens display you can control with wrist-based gestures via the new Meta Neural Band that’s included. The display pairs with your phone and allows …

The state banquet is the spectacular showstopper of a state visit, a glittering feast with speeches, royal toasts, trumpet fanfares and fancy food and wine. It’s diplomacy served up with fine dining. A cut-glass shock-and-awe approach to hospitality designed to make a visiting leader like President Trump feel special. The …

Business moguls, politicians and members of the royal family made up the guests list for the state banquet to honour Donald Trump. The glitzy event at Windsor Castle wraps up the first day of the US president’s visit to the UK, which has already seen pageantry, pomp and parades. Trump …

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Kate Middleton stuns in a glittering tiara moment at Windsor Castle. The Princess of Wales made heads turn as she arrived alongside her husband Prince William. President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump kicked off their state visit to the U.K. …

Jonathan HolmesWest of England BBC Birnbeck Pier, in Weston-super-Mare, has become increasingly rundown in recent years On Tuesday, councillors looked set to cancel the restoration of a crumbling Victorian pier when news broke of some 11th hour funding from the National Lottery Heritage fund. More than 30 years after it …