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"As long as you guys pay your rent on time, you guys can build your Googly thing here," Susan Wojcicki recalled telling Larry Page and Sergey Brin in 1998.

See what Google’s original office looked like when it started in Susan Wojcicki’s garage

She told us years ago we'd abandon TV for short-form video on our phones. And she was the woman who rented her garage to the founders of Google.

Susan Wojcicki perfectly predicted the media world we now live in—twice

The Guardian

Chief executive of YouTube caught up in a series of controversies over extreme content and misinformation

Susan Wojcicki obituary

Susan Wojcicki, the former CEO of YouTube who resigned last year in order to focus more on her family and health, died this week at the age of 56. Her death was confirmed late Friday evening by her husband, Dennis Troper, and subsequently announced by Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai in a post on the social media platform X (formerly Twitter).

Former YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki dies from cancer

The family of the late soul singer Isaac Hayes has ordered Donald Trump to stop playing the star's song Hold On, I'm Coming at his campaign rallies. A letter sent to Trump and his team, and shared by Hayes' son on social media, threatens to sue the former US President if he does not comply by 16 August.

Isaac Hayes' family threaten to sue Trump for $3m

After delivering her own baby, Mrs Bennett said: "I just thought thank God the contractions had stopped." The couple said that staff rushed to their aid when they finally arrived at the hospital. "I approached the hospital, stopped right in front of the door, rang the buzzer and said: "My...

"She put pulled out a baby, just right there and then as I was driving along," he said.

The Opt-Out scheme in Nottingham has already found a number of previously undiagnosed cases.

Hundreds tested for HIV and hepatitis in new scheme

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Herbie J Pilato

It's been 21 years since actress/singer Nell Carter, best known for the 1980s NBC sitcom, Gimme a Break!, died of natural causes at only 54. This is her story. Nell Carter was born September 13, 1948, in Birmingham, Alabama. After initially finding fame on and off-Broadway, and via a brief role in 1977 on the TV datime drama, Ryan's Hope, Carter took the lead in Ain't Misbehavin'!, a live stage revue of the works of composer Fats Waller.

The Brief Life & Tragic Death of Nell Carter ('Gimme A Break' & 'Ain't Misbehavin'): 21 Years Later

For 149 years, a Lake District town has played host to a Christian convention that has grown from a small affair in a vicar's garden to a big annual gathering, drawing crowds from all over the world. Keswick Convention now takes place over three weeks in the summer and this...

'Wrong time' for Christian convention as trade hit

The families of Valdo Calocane's victims say the report "demonstrates gross, systematic failures".

Review of killer's care finds 'a series of errors'

A £70,000 treatment gone wrong left the 49-year-old with years of treatment and mobility issues.

I had surgery to lengthen my legs and then it went horribly wrong

The partner of a mother killed while saving her baby from a stabbing rampage in a busy Sydney shopping centre has spoken out for the first time, saying the day she died will "never make sense". Ashlee Good, 38, was among six people killed by Joel Cauchi at Westfield Bondi...

Family of mum who died saving baby in Bondi attack speaks

Officers say she was approached by a man who then assaulted her a short time later.

Police appeal after woman assaulted in churchyard

Holly Newton was stabbed multiple times by a 16-year-old boy in a town centre in January 2023.

Teen killer 'probably' hid from girl before attack

A man killed his uncle by “smashing” his head twice into his own living room wall, a court has heard. Terry Ricketts, 53, died of a brain injury shortly after midnight on 25 February after spending the evening with his wife Sarah and her sister’s son Grant Walker, 32, from Faringdon Road, Swindon.

Man ‘smashed’ uncle's head into wall, court hears

Nathan Murdoch says seeing the city come together has "made me proud".

'Life experiences changed my racist opinions'

A boat hand-crafted to look like a great white shark has been vandalised just five days after its maiden voyage. Fin Bowron, from Boulmer, had attached a fibreglass shark head and fins to a 1970s jet boat frame and installed an engine. He first envisioned his aquatic dream 15 years...

Shark speedboat broken in engine theft

Matt Richards returns to Droitwich, his hometown, after securing a gold and silver medal in Paris.

Hundreds give Olympian surprise homecoming welcome

Zamira Hajiyeva agrees to give up properties after a six-year National Crime Agency investigation.

Jailed banker's wife forfeits golf course and £14m home

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Shortly before 3 AM, people in the Chicago area may have felt their houses shake as a 3.4-magnitude earthquake occurred about 60 miles west of the city. (CHICAGO) The United States Geological Survey (USGS) reported a 3.4-magnitude earthquake around Somonauk, IL. Somonauk is in DeKalb and LaSalle Counties, 64 miles west of Chicago.

Did You Feel the Earthquake?

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YouTube's former chief Susan Wojcicki dies aged 56

Susan Wojcicki, the former boss of YouTube and one of Google's earliest employees, has died aged 56. Google's chief executive Sundar Pichai announced that Ms Wojcicki...

YouTube's former chief Susan Wojcicki dies aged 56

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