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Meta to proceed with plan to use UK Facebook and Instagram posts for AI training
Move to use shared posts follows information commissioner concerns and sets collision course with EU over privacy
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Metropolitan Police officer sentenced for stealing cash from actor who died after collapsing
A former Metropolitan Police officer has been jailed for 16 months after he admitted stealing money from a man who died after collapsing.
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Square meters on Palm Jumeirah: How the Karić family allocates their earnings from Belarus
Minsk. Spiral towers of glass and concrete surround a 35-floor skyscraper. On man-made canals, gondolas float slowly.
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Apple Intelligence: How Apple developed a new AI system that knows everything and nothing about its users
Apple wants to know as little as possible about its users, but its new AI tools require the iPhone to understand them deeply.
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Umar Mahmood: Teenager featured in Freddie Flintoff’s ’Field of Dreams’ cricket documentary dies in car crash
Umar Mahmood, 18, died in hospital on Friday morning after the Audi he was driving crashed in Preston on Tuesday evening, Lancashire Police say.
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One in six children sexually abused in Jesus Army cult
A scheme to compensate members of a defunct religious cult known as the Jesus Army has identified 539 alleged perpetrators of abuse, and revealed about one in six children had been sexually abused.
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Russia accuses six British diplomats of espionage
Russia has revoked the accreditation of six British diplomats it has accused of spying.
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Three people found dead in apartment block
A teenager has been arrested after three people died in a flat in Luton on Friday morning.
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EuroMillions winner scooped a life-changing jackpot with a last-minute Lucky Dip
Ray Bowen, 61, nearly forgot to buy his EuroMillions ticket but remembered at the last moment, and the next day discovered he had won more than £100,000 in the jackpot
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Latvian mansion of former Uzbek Interpol chief to be converted into a kindergarten
The Ropazi District Council in Latvia plans to convert a luxury mansion confiscated in 2018 from the ex-chief of Interpol’s Uzbek chapter into a kindergarten.
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High Court halts plans for UK’s first new deep coalmine in 30 years in Cumbria
Court rules against West Cumbria Mining’s fossil fuel development in Whitehaven
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Ig Nobel prize awarded to researchers who discovered that mammals can breathe through their anuses
Scientific research on pigeon missiles and dead trout also win at awards for amusing studies with serious implications
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Banksy’s iconic artwork Girl with Balloon stolen from art gallery
Two men have been charged with burglary after Banksy’s Girl with Baloon artwork was stolen from a London gallery.
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Putin says UK and US will be ‘at war’ with Russia if Ukraine gets western missiles
Vladimir Putin has now directly threatened Nato and the US with war if the west were to let Ukraine use long-range missiles.
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How did Jared Isaacman, the billionaire behind the first private spacewalk, build his wealth?
SpaceX is set to conduct the world’s first-ever privately-funded spacewalk today, led by billionaire Jared Isaacman.
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Disgraced Tory donor Frank Hester contributed £5 million to the party just days before the election
Donation came after Rishi Sunak condemned businessman’s remark that Diane Abbott made you ‘want to hate all black women’
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The three changes that need to happen to save the NHS
The Prime Minister has laid out the vital need for radical reform in the NHS following a report into the ‘critical condition’ of the health service.
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Watch live as billionaire embarks on the first ever private spacewalk
The world’s first commercial spacewalk is officially underway, headed by billionaire Jared Isaacman.
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Plans to convert part of Dalston’s Ridley Road shopping village into ’slum’ flats spark outcry
Proposals put forward by an offshore private developer for seven flats seen as ‘slums of the future’ by locals
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Finucane’s campaign for a public inquiry described as ’a long journey’
An independent public inquiry has been ordered into the murder of Belfast solicitor Pat Finucane in 1989.
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Harland and Wolff finance chief resigns
Another board member has resigned from Harland and Wolff, the troubled Belfast shipbuilder.
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Chelsea star Enzo Fernandez fined £3,020 and banned from driving
Enzo Fernandez joined Chelsea in a then-British transfer record £106.8 million deal
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Lucy Letby described as ’the elephant in the room’ at hospital with spike in baby deaths, inquiry reveals
The Thirlwall Inquiry heard that doctors did not discuss neonatal mortality or concerns raised about Letby until the new year following a pivotal board meeting in 2016
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Queen’s statue criticized for resembling Mrs. Doubtfire
Mockery and indignation follow unveiling of sculpture of late monarch at Antrim Castle Gardens in Northern Ireland
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Additional violations revealed in Steinhoff scandal
Investigators in South Africa are finalising a second report on the multinational holding company Steinhoff, which was embroiled in an accounting scandal that led to criminal charges against former executive Markus Jooste and ultimately resulted in the company’s liquidation.