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Facebook is a social media and social networking service owned by the American technology conglomerate Meta. Created in 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg with four other Harvard College students and roommates, Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz, and Chris Hughes, its name derives from the face book directories often given to American university students. Membership was initially limited to Harvard students, gradually expanding to other North American universities. Since 2006, Facebook allows everyone to register from 13 years old, except in the case of a handful of nations, where the age requirement is 14 years. As of December 2023, Facebook claimed almost 3.07 billion monthly active users worldwide. As of November 2024, Facebook ranked as the third-most-visited website in the world, with 23% of its traffic coming from the United States. It was the most downloaded mobile app of the 2010s.

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The Studio Cast Share Filming Fails & Favourite Episodes [Video]

The Studio Cast Share Filming Fails & Favourite Episodes

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Birmingham bin strikes: Council declares major incident [Video]

Birmingham bin strikes: Council declares major incident

Bin workers in Birmingham say they will carry on striking over pay for months, if necessary, as the city council declared a major incident. It comes after talks between the council and Unite the Union..

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Sir Ed Davey: Donald Trump tariffs are outrageous [Video]

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Liberal Democrats leader Sir Ed Davey condemns Donald Trump's tariffs on goods, saying “I think what he is doing is outrageous; it needs to be called out”. Report by Ajagbef. Like us on Facebook..

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Andrew accuser Giuffre says she has ‘four days to live’ [Video]

Andrew accuser Giuffre says she has ‘four days to live’

Prince Andrew’s accuser Virginia Giuffre says she has gone into “kidney renal failure”, and that doctors have given her “four days to live” following a car crash in Western Australia. She..

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Badenoch: US-UK trade deal needs to be agreed soon [Video]

Badenoch: US-UK trade deal needs to be agreed soon

Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch calls on the government to agree a trade deal with the US as soon as possible, saying “now is the time for us to kickstart that and move at speed”. Report by..

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Reynolds: Trade between the UK and US is fair and balanced [Video]

Reynolds: Trade between the UK and US is fair and balanced

Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds says no other country is better placed to negotiate a trade deal on tariffs with the US than Britain as the relationship between the UK and the US is a “fair,..

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Con: Trump tariffs will be the biggest failure of trade poli [Video]

Con: Trump tariffs will be the biggest failure of trade poli

Shadow Business Secretary Andrew Griffith says if tariffs are applied to the UK it will be “the biggest failure of trade policy for a generation”. He continues saying, “the government, in my..

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Ministers dodge questions on National Living Wage rise [Video]

Ministers dodge questions on National Living Wage rise

Ministers avoid questions about the increase in the National Living Wage as they arrive in Downing Street for a Cabinet meeting with the prime minister, Sir Keir Starmer. Report by Ajagbef. Like us..

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Starmer announces increase in National Living Wage [Video]

Starmer announces increase in National Living Wage

Sir Keir Starmer announces an increase in the National Living Wage, calling it a “boost” for everybody subject to it. The Labour leader says the change will make a “significant difference”...

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Cooper: Immigration rules haven't been respected [Video]

Cooper: Immigration rules haven't been respected

Yvette Cooper says the rules around illegal immigration and people-smuggling haven't been respected "for far too long". The home secretary, who hosted 40 foreign counterparts at the Border Security..

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‘Angry’ Starmer holds summit over illegal migration [Video]

‘Angry’ Starmer holds summit over illegal migration

People smugglers were given an "open invitation" to send migrants to the UK because the police and intelligence agencies were not working together, Sir Keir Starmer has said. The prime minister said he..

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Finnish president tells Starmer 'UK is back in the game' [Video]

Finnish president tells Starmer 'UK is back in the game'

Sir Keir Starmer has held bilateral talks with the Finnish president at Downing Street. Alexander Stubb said he "hit it off" with the UK prime minister "straight off the bat" and added that the UK is..

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Starmer: TV series Adolescence hard to watch as a dad [Video]

Starmer: TV series Adolescence hard to watch as a dad

The prime minister has hosted a roundtable with the creators of TV series Adolescence, to discuss how to stop young people from being influenced by toxic content online. Sitting next to Jack Thorne,..

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Philp: PM's pledge to smash smuggling gangs is in tatters [Video]

Philp: PM's pledge to smash smuggling gangs is in tatters

The shadow home secretary says Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has "lost control of our borders", and that his "complete failure" on immigration will lose Labour voters. Chris Philp adds, "his pledge..

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Jenrick: Two-tier sentencing is unfair against white men [Video]

Jenrick: Two-tier sentencing is unfair against white men

Robert Jenrick says the justice secretary's decision to override independent guidance on how ethnic minorities should be sentenced is "unfair" and "discriminatory". The shadow justice secretary adds,..

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Ministers take family photo at Border Security Summit [Video]

Ministers take family photo at Border Security Summit

Home Secretary Yvette Cooper and her foreign counterparts take a family photo at the Border Security Summit in London. Report by Brooksl. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow..

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Sir Ed Davey horses around to launch local election campaign [Video]

Sir Ed Davey horses around to launch local election campaign

Sir Ed Davey has ridden a hobby horse over jumps at a gold course in Oxfordshire to launch the Liberal Democrats' local election campaign. The party leader said, "It's official, it's a two-horse race",..

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Summit aims to tackle 'vile trade' of people-smuggling [Video]

Summit aims to tackle 'vile trade' of people-smuggling

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has held a roundtable at the Border Security Summit as he brings foreign delegates together to help end the "vile" trade of organised immigration crime. Report by..

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Home Sec: Govts not gangs should decide who enters country [Video]

Home Sec: Govts not gangs should decide who enters country

The home secretary says "new and serious patterns" have emerged in illegal migration, causing "major challenges" for national security. Yvette Cooper adds that smuggling gangs are using drones "to spot..

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PM: We have deported more than 24,000 illegal immigrants [Video]

PM: We have deported more than 24,000 illegal immigrants

Sir Keir Starmer says since Labour came into government they have deported more than 24,000 people "that have no right to be here". Speaking at the Border Security Summit in London, the prime minister..

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Govt welcomes foreign ministers to Border Security Summit [Video]

Govt welcomes foreign ministers to Border Security Summit

The government has welcomed delegates from more than 40 countries to London for the Border Security Summit. Home Secretary Yvette Cooper greeted counterparts from France, Germany, Italy and Spain, as..

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Royal British Legion Announces VE Day 80th Anniversary Event [Video]

Royal British Legion Announces VE Day 80th Anniversary Event

The Royal British Legion has announced a special tea party at the National Memorial Arboretum on 8th May to mark the 80th anniversary of VE Day. WW2 veterans share their memories of the historic day..

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Yvette Cooper disappointed by US trade tariffs [Video]

Yvette Cooper disappointed by US trade tariffs

Home Secretary Yvette Cooper says the UK is disappointed with new US trade tariffs but remains committed to reducing trade barriers. Report by Etemadil. Like us on Facebook at..

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Tougher Checks on Illegal Working Introduced [Video]

Tougher Checks on Illegal Working Introduced

Home Secretary Yvette Cooper announces new measures to crack down on illegal working in the gig economy, aiming to protect legitimate businesses and local workers from rogue employers. Report by..

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Conservatives call for urgent US trade talks [Video]

Conservatives call for urgent US trade talks

Alex Burghart, the shadow Cabinet Office minister, warns that looming US tariffs on UK-made cars could hurt jobs and the economy, calling on the government to negotiate a trade deal with the US before..

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