The Meta boss has embraced masculinity and abandoned fact-checking and decorum. Is this the future of the tech industry?Years ago the Economist magazine had a striking cover in which Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook, was portrayed as a languid clone of the Roman emperor Augustus. This was inspired by stories that Zuck was fascinated by Gus. On honeymoon in Rome in 2012, for example, he took so many photos of the emperor’s sculptures that his wife joked it was as if there were three people on the holiday. The couple even named their second daughter August.Explaining his fascination for Rome’s first emperor, Zuckerberg told the New Yorker that “basically, through a really harsh approach, he established 200 years of world peace What are the trade-offs in that? On the one hand, world peace is a long-term goal that people talk about today [but] that didn’t come for free, and he had to do certain things.” Continue reading...

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The Irish actor, 64, who is best known for playing Jim McDonald on the ITV soap, revealed that 2024 was his worst ever year in the entertainment industry.

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Helen Flanagan claimed she is 'really struggling financially' and cannot even afford a £10 taxi to take her son to nursery, but was banned from driving at Wirral Magistrates' Court.

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Arguably the club's favourite son since the King of Kings, Kyogo's days could be numbered at Parkhead

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Barney Walsh, the son of popular TV presenter Bradley Walsh, has also starred in Casualty

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The Masked Singer fans notice that Snail has an Irish accent

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My son would dearly love to have some records of our family memories, as would I. But what can I do?

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The late Tony Slattery, who has died aged 65, spoke about his struggles with addiction and mental health in an interview in 2016, as well as looking back on his Irish roots

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Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman's son Connor Cruise celebrated his 30th birthday on Friday.

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Not long after six-year-old Timmothy Pitzen was dropped off at school, his mum, Amy picked him up never to be seen again - her body was later found in a motel alongside a harrowing note

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Phil Hammond, the former chairman of the Hillsborough Family Support Group, was remembered as a “very kind, fair, honest and humble man”

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A man has shared a video showing how to pronounce the names of various animals in Welsh, and people are in hysterics. The clip has now gone viral with hundreds of people commenting

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The 52-year-old actor shares Fin, 16, as well as his daughter Violet, 19, and son Samuel, 12, with his amicable first ex-wife Jennifer Garner.

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For much of her life, Lynsey Chalmers, 30, couldn't bear to be beside the seaside. Aquariums, too, were off limits, as were ponds. A goldfish bowl would trigger cold sweats.

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'His role in the fight for truth and justice over the Hillsborough disaster will never be forgotten'

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Christoforos Nicolaou, 15, was blackmailed through an online gaming forum. Now his parents are fighting to protect others from the same fate

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Theresa Cave found her son Chris, who was about to become a dad, slumped on a stairwell as paramedics in Redcar, North Yorkshire, tried to save his life following the knife attack

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An eagle-eyed expert has spotted a sweet tribute from Meghan to her young son Archie in the trailer for her upcoming lifestyle show on Netflix, With Love, Meghan

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I could hardly believe my eyes when I opened my Daily Mail on Wednesday to see my neighbour and friend Becks being embraced by the Princess of Wales at London's Royal Marsden Hospital.

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Poignant photographs of the Princess of Wales' emotional embrace with Rebecca Mendlesohn at London's Royal Marsden Hospital have been shared widely across the media

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The Buddies have been without the Northern Irish winger for a month with his return yet to be determined.

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Jayden Kearns was playing outside his home in New Rough Hey in Preston with other children when a man ran him over.

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Lauren Saldana, 38, is believed to have been killed by her ex-boyfriend Roman Romanovskiy after she was found dead in his home by police, with the suspect present at the scene

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The son of Oasis star Liam Gallagher and Patsy Kensit, 25, opted for a beige corduroy jacket and loose-fitting denim  shirt underneath as he attended the prestigious event.

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Clint Eastwood's son Scott has given an emotional update on his acting icon father six months after the death of his longtime partner Christina Sandera .

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Football presenter Paul Merson thought he lost a tooth while munching on a baguette and so he popped it in milk to preserve the root - but he didn't need to for one reason

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Jake Fahri, then 19, was given a life sentence in 2009 with a minimum term of 14 years for killing schoolboy Jimmy Mizen, 16.

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Ex-South Jersey teacher Laura Caron, 34, is facing a multitude of charges after the alleged victim's father is said to have 'figured out' Caron had a baby was his teenage son

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The Strictly judge has said her son Mark Ballas and his family have fled to Palm Springs to escape the California wildfires

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Drake is understandably vexed about lyrics framing him as a ‘certified paedophile’ – but diss tracks are a deliberately lurid part of rapThere were people who thought Drake v Kendrick was the greatest hip-hop beef of all time, attracting a wider level of public interest and proceeding at a more dizzying velocity than any previous feud: the parties involved released 10 tracks in the space of six weeks, more if you count J Cole’s withdrawn 7 Minute Drill and producer Metro Boomin’s BBL Drizzy, released as a contest to see which member of the public could add the best insult of Drake to the instrumental beat.On the other hand, there were high-profile naysayers, among them rapper Macklemore, who complained that the feud was distracting attention from the war in Palestine; and Roots drummer, DJ and hip-hop historian Ahmir ‘Questlove’ Thompson, who called it “wrestling match level mudslinging and takedown by any means necessary” for an “audience wanting blood [that] will soon put up RIP p...

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‘Jimmy Mizen's family deserve better than to see their son's murderer shamelessly boasting about his violent crime’ - Probation Service

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If Prince William broke a longstanding royal tradition when it comes to his son and heir to the throne, Prince George, one royal expert would be 'stunned'

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Olivier Grondeau was arrested in 2022 and has accused Iran of using him for ‘political blackmail’ against FranceThe mother of a French traveller detained in Iran for two years has said authorities “know he is innocent” but continue to hold him in the country’s notorious Evin prison.Olivier Grondeau, 33, was arrested from his hotel room in Shiraz, in the south of Iran, on 12 October 2022, just weeks into the Woman, Life, Freedom anti-government protests that engulfed the country. The writer, poet and bookseller was in the country as part of a world tour. Continue reading...

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Other shabby-chic items enjoying a revival include farmhouse sinks (42 per cent), butter dishes (31 per cent), French doors (31 per cent), range-style ovens (26 per cent) and stone floors (20 per cent).

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