All news for 2024-07-25

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OpenAI tests new search engine called SearchGPT amid AI arms race
Prototype, initially launching with select publishers and users, set to challenge Google’s dominance of online search
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Woman charged after eight-month-old baby killed by car outside hospital
A woman has been charged after a baby was hit and killed by a car outside a hospital while strapped into her pram.
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Protesters block Manchester tram lines after police officer kicked man in the head
Protestors block the tram tracks, during a demonstration in the wake of a video showing a police officer kicking a man as he was being detained at Manchester Airport (Picture: Getty Images Europe)
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Rapist drugged himself after victim swapped drinks upon noticing him spike hers
A rapist ended up inadvertently drugging himself when his victim clocked his plan to spike her and swapped their drinks around.
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Bloody tyrant Putin ‘harvesting organs of dead Ukrainian prisoners’ after mutilated corpses are returned by Russia
The Russian despot has also been sending hundreds of thousands of his own troops to the meatgrinder
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Anglo American incurs additional £1.2bn writedown on Yorkshire fertiliser mine
Production at Woodsmith site near Whitby set back to 2030 as firm plans to pause work during overhaul
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Courts place UK’s post-Brexit scheme for EU citizens at risk, experts warn
Lawyers criticise what they consider inconsistencies in the handling of individual foreign nationals’ cases
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CrowdStrike faces backlash as ‘thank you’ gift cards are blocked
$10 UberEats vouchers sent to people who helped after global IT outage are flagged as potential fraud
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Racism played part in police kick incident at Manchester airport, says former senior officer
Former Met chief superintendent Dal Babu says footage of man being kicked in face by officer is ‘totally appalling’
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Bosnian-American biofuel fraud case advances in Belgium
Two Bosnian-Americans accused of being “ringleaders” in a US$3.4-million biofuel fraud case should be released on bail set at 50,000 euro (US$54,245) each, a court in Antwerp ruled on Tuesday.
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Soldier stabbed in Kent barracks attack named
Police were called on Tuesday to reports of a serious assault in Gillingham which saw the victim, named locally as Lieutenant Colonel Mark Teeton, airlifted from the scene and taken to hospital
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‘One goal is to destroy Ukrainian identity’: the haunting images of Russia’s prisoners of war
Since Russia invaded Ukraine in 2014, its forces have detained and tortured thousands of fighters and civilians. Here, photojournalist Zoya Shu recounts five years of documenting their stories
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Police officer at Manchester Airport suspended after video of men being kicked
A police officer has been suspended from all duties after a video emerged showing a man being kicked as he lay on the floor at Manchester Airport.
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Undercover investigation suggests super-rich are being advised on how to evade Labour’s tax clampdown
Wealthy being pitched offshore products said to shelter fortunes from inheritance tax and capital gains tax
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How Gina Rinehart and her supporters pressured the NGA to remove her portrait
National Gallery of Australia director sent a warning to federal arts minister that mining billionaire was ‘rallying’ influential friends, documents reveal
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Bland Samaritans: The modern-day descendants of the people that sparked the Arab-Israeli conflict
The ongoing war in Gaza has become yet another episode in the never-ending sequence of battles for the Holy Land.
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Documents reveal details of Adani Group’s controversial bid to operate Kenya’s largest airport
Last week, a whistleblower sparked outrage in Kenya after he claimed in a social media post that the country’s main airport would be leased to one of India’s largest conglomerates, Adani Group.
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Armenian deputy minister might have a conflict of interest in ski resort project
The wife of Armenia’s Deputy Minister of the Economy received in 2023 a salary from a company that plans to develop a ski resort on the country’s tallest mountain.
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British tourist dies at Spanish airport after collapsing while waiting to board Ryanair flight back to UK
The airport has seen a number of other tragic deaths in recent years
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’Human organs were found inside a container’ at Rosehill Park
A heavy police presence remains in place within the cordoned off area as investigations continue
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Soldier stabbing suspect, 24, charged after serviceman ’repeatedly knifed’ in front of wife
The soldier was repeatedly stabbed near Brompton Barracks in Gillingham on Tuesday as Prime Minister Keir Starmer said he was ’shocked and appalled’ by the attack
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Sainsbury’s customers ’score £441 worth of shopping for £6’ using TikTok voucher ’hack’
Sainsbury’s say they have launched a crackdown on ’fraudulently generated’ coupons after gleeful TikTok users posted videos of themselves reusing a voucher to get free groceries