74 minutes ago AI to revolutionise fundamental physics and ‘could show how universe will end’

Exclusive: Cern’s next director general Mark Thomson says AI is paving the way for huge advances in particle physicsAdvanced artificial intelligence is to revolutionise fundamental physics and could open a window on to the fate of the universe, according to Cern’s next director general.Prof Mark Thomson, the British physicist who will assume leadership of Cern on 1 January 2026, says machine learning is paving the way for advances in particle physics that promise to be comparable to the AI-powered prediction of protein structures that earned Google DeepMind scientists a Nobel prize in October. Continue reading...

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74 minutes ago UK Foreign Office confirms everything Spanish airports demand from British tourists

As the country’s targeted tourism regulations continue to roll out, make sure you are up to date on Spain's entry rules before you get to the airport

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25 hours ago Sanctioned Russian billionaire files London bankruptcy petition against former associate

Andrey Guryev brings action against Alexander Gorbachev over legal costs stemming from High Court dispute

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14 hours ago Martin Bakole reveals Anthony Joshua bout agreed as Airdrie boxer set for Rumble in the Jungle

Adopted Scot Bakole believes that everything has been arranged to fight long-term rival Anthony Joshua in the Congo

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2 hours ago Inside doomed medevac jet before it crashed in Philadelphia killing seven

Chilling photos captured the interior of a medical jet before it crashed in Philadelphia Friday night, killing seven people and injuring 22 others.

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74 minutes ago First patients seen at NHS clinic in Liverpool tackling teenage vaping

Alder Hey children’s hospital opens its vaping cessation service for nicotine-dependent 11- to 15-year-oldsThe NHS has set up a stop-vaping clinic for teenagers in an attempt to curb the rise in e-cigarette use among young people.Alder Hey children’s hospital in Liverpool saw the first teenage patients at its new vaping cessation service in January. Continue reading...

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3 hours ago Keir Starmer forced to scrap his personal email account after it was allegedly hacked by Russians, book claims

Sir Keir Starmer had to change his 'dangerously obvious' email address after a suspected Russian hack shortly after the invasion of Ukraine, a new book has claimed.

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10 hours ago How OnlyFans made its secretive owner a billionaire despite site being just 8

American-Ukrainian businessman Leonid Radvinsky has received £1 billion from the site while the average annual earnings for an OnlyFans 'creator' was just £1,291 last year

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4 hours ago DOMINIC LAWSON: The 'father of assisted dying' helped three of his relatives kill themselves. His sinister life story highlights the flaws at the heart of today's Bill

Our legislators should be campaigning for more resources to be devoted to the hospice movement, not the sinister cause to which Derek Humphry devoted his long life.

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4 hours ago Ukraine war briefing: Ukraine dismisses Trump envoy suggestion that both sides will make concessions

Adviser to Volodymyr Zelenskyy calls Keith Kellogg’s plan a failure after US envoy says he thinks both sides ‘will give a little bit’; British PM says Putin ‘rattled’ by Trump threats. What we know on day 1,076See all our Ukraine war coverageDonald Trump’s Ukraine envoy hinted that both sides would have to make concessions to end the war – which could include Kyiv giving up land occupied by Russia. After recently returning from a visit to Ukraine, Keith Kellogg told Fox News that “both sides will give a little bit”. Zelenskyy “has already indicated he will soften his position on land,” the retired lieutenant general said, adding that Putin “is going to have to soften his positions as well”. But the Ukrainian president’s communications adviser dismissed Kellogg’s intervention. “We haven’t seen Mr Kellogg’s full interview But if his plan is just a ceasefire and elections, it is a failed plan – Putin won’t be intimidated by just those two things,” Dmytro Lytvyn told journalists.Trump’s...

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4 hours ago Revealed: From gushing 'love bombs' to legal threats... Five years of emails and texts behind the bitter Blake Lively vs Justin Baldoni feud

It's the latest twist in the fight between Ms Lively, 37, and her husband, the actor Ryan Reynolds - two of the most powerful players in Hollywood - and the until-now obscure Baldoni.

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6 hours ago Ewan McGregor's daughter reveals distinctly English accents she and sisters had before their life in America

Now, McGregor's daughter Clara has shared a family video she says captures the last time she and her sisters had 'British accents'.

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4 hours ago Killer drill rapper manages to make money by recording song behind bars

Kammar Henry-Richards had been locked up for just a matter of hours when the song was posted at 7.30pm on January 14.

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7 hours ago Starmer calls on European leaders to put more economic pressure on Russia

PM wants to ‘see all allies stepping up’, saying Donald Trump’s threat of sanctions has rattled Vladimir PutinKeir Starmer has called on European leaders to put more economic pressure on Russia, saying Donald Trump’s threat of sanctions has left Vladimir Putin “rattled”.Before a meeting in Brussels on Monday, the prime minister said it was necessary to “see all allies stepping up – particularly in Europe” when it comes to inflicting economic harm on Russia, and argued it would help bring about peace by ending the Ukraine war sooner. Continue reading...

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7 hours ago Keir Starmer gives key update on 'rattled' Putin after Donald Trump threats

Keir Starmer will call for European leaders to turn the screw on Vladimir Putin's war machine after Donald Trump threatened new sanctions if the Ukraine war does not end

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4 hours ago British student, 21, survives capsizing and multiple injuries to become first woman

Zara Lachlan, 21, from Cambridge, set off from Lagos on the Portuguese Algarve on October 27 last year and 97 days later reached French Guiana after a 3,600 nautical-mile journey.

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11 hours ago What Mikel Arteta got right as Arsenal smash Man City and send Liverpool message

Arsenal hammered Manchester City at the Emirates 5-1 as Mikel Arteta continues the fight against Liverpool for the Premier League title

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5 hours ago Charli XCX puts on a VERY leggy display in a dramatic ruffled gown with racy thigh

The singer, 32, who is nominated for a whopping eights awards, ensured all eyes were on her as she hit the red carpet in a very dramatic and racy gown.

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14 hours ago UK's Starmer welcomes German leader to his country estate as he touts 'reset' with the EU

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has welcomed German Chancellor Olaf Scholz to his country estate as he repeated his aim to improve relations with the European Union

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6 hours ago Stephen Graham criticises the portrayal of working class families in British dramas as he admits they are made to look 'miserable'

The actor, 51, who claims to have a working class background, feels it is often misinterpreted in TV shows.

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14 hours ago The sliding doors decision Luke Littler's father forced him to make aged nine that put him on the path to greatness

Luke Littler was just nine years old when his father, Anthony Buckley, gently redirected his son's focus away from football and towards darts. Now the teenage prodigy has the world at his feet

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6 hours ago First picture of talented basketball players who died in horror crash that killed two others

Four university students died when their car collided with a second hand shop shortly before 4.40am on Saturday.

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14 hours ago Why peace talks between Ukraine and Russia are not as simple as Trump makes out

The US president says he will use financial leverage to force Russia to accept a deal to end the invasion of Ukraine

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7 hours ago Luke Humphries in 7th heaven as Cool Hand survives Jonny Clayton fightback to claim Winmau World Darts Masters

Humphries claimed his seventh major title in Milton Keynes but had to fight off the ferret in an epic Final battle

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16 hours ago Fungus named after David Attenborough turning Irish spiders into 'zombies’

Findings point to hidden diversity of this class of fungi in British Isles, researchers say

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7 hours ago Friends say Army captain killed in midair collision was a 'brilliant and fearless' patriot

A U.S. Army captain who died in Wednesday’s midair collision of a Black Hawk helicopter and an American Airlines jet was “brilliant and fearless” and “meticulous in everything she did,” friends and fellow soldiers said

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17 hours ago As a surgeon in Gaza, I witnessed hell visited on children. It shames me that Britain played a part in it | Nizam Mamode

I saw them killed by sniper fire and drones. Why doesn’t Labour condemn it? Why do arms keep flowing in Israel’s direction?I had never imagined, when working as a professor of transplant surgery at a large teaching hospital in London, that one day I would find myself operating on an eight-year-old child who was bleeding to death, only to be told by the scrub nurse that there were no more gauze swabs available. But I found myself in that situation last August while operating at Nasser hospital in Gaza as a volunteer with Medical Aid for Palestinians (Map). Reduced to scooping out the blood with my hands, I felt an overwhelming wave of nausea – I was anxious that the child would not survive. Luckily she did, although many others did not.Having retired from the NHS, I decided to go to Gaza because it had become clear that there was a desperate need for surgical help, and I had the skills to contribute. Life as a transplant surgeon in London had been tough but hugely rewarding, and as a...

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7 hours ago EU must shoulder military burden: Keir Starmer tells European allies to step up the fight against Russian aggression

Sir Keir Starmer will tell his European allies to shoulder more of the burden in the fight against Russian aggression when he travels to Brussels today.

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18 hours ago Strictly's Nadiya reveals special code she uses for ex BBC partner Dan Walker

Channel 5 star Dan Walker was paired up with Ukrainian Strictly Come Dancing pro Nadiya on the BBC dance competition's 2021 series and the pair still enjoy a close friendship

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7 hours ago Philadelphia plane crash latest updates: All crew and passengers in medical jet crash identified as crews search for voice recorder

Air ambulance flight crashed near Roosevelt Mall about 30 seconds after taking off from Northeast Philadelphia Airport, killing seven

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19 hours ago Wrecking ball: Trump’s war on ‘woke’ marks US society’s plunge into ‘dark times’

President’s ‘culture war’ crusade targets DEI and LGBTQ+ rights in bid to spread rightwing agenda, experts sayDonald Trump didn’t need to wait for the black box flight recorder. He knew what caused the mid-air collision of a passenger plane and army helicopter that killed 67 people. Or he thought he did.“They actually came out with a directive – ‘too white’,” the US president told reporters on Thursday, seeking to blame former presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden for including Black and Latino people in the federal workforce. “We want the people that are competent.” Continue reading...

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7 hours ago Pictured: Talented basketball players killed in horror crash as tributes are paid after deaths of four students 'on their way home from night out'

The four University of Essex students all died at the scene of the suspected high speed crash in Colchester on Saturday.

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20 hours ago How America turned its back on Prince Harry and Meghan Markle: After Vanity Fair's recent expose, we look at the previously pro

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle 's undisguised loathing for the British Press always played a role in their decision to move to the US.

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7 hours ago Girl, 11, killed in Philadelphia air ambulance crash after vital treatment pictured

Valentina Guzman Murillo, 11, and her mother Lizeth Murillo Ozuna, 31, from Mexico, were named as the parent and child who died in the shock Philadelphia crash which killed seven

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20 hours ago Orlando Bloom weighs in on Keira Knightley’s Pirates of the Caribbean criticisms

‘It feels almost like another lifetime now,’ British actor said

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8 hours ago Pictured: Pediatric patient and mom killed in Philadelphia plane crash

A young patient who had just completed life-saving hospital treatment and her devoted mother have been identified as victims of the devastating Philadelphia air ambulance crash that claimed seven lives. 

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21 hours ago Gen Z is in thrall to TikTok’s Pied Piper of populism. We must fight to break the spell | Alison Phillips

A survey found that young people admitted finding democracy dull against the toxic glamour of strongman politics‘DYOR.” That’s what they say. That’s Do Your Own Research, for those of us not quite meeting the 13- to 28-year-old gen Z age bracket. It’s a common refrain when one of them finds their truth challenged.So I set out on some DYOR regarding the report last week that most gen Zers were in favour of the UK becoming a dictatorship. The study, commissioned by Channel 4, has been described broadly as “shocking”, “worrying” and “bleak”. Yet for anyone with daily interaction with that generation, it would probably be better described as – “fairly predictable”. Continue reading...

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8 hours ago Man killed five people after neighbor complained gunfire was keeping baby awake

Francisco Oropeza has pleaded guilty to murder charges and will serve a life sentence without parole

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22 hours ago Potter goes back to Chelsea with point to prove in calmer West Ham waters

A win against Fulham and draw at Villa are early signs of a better fit at West Ham on manager’s return to his old clubGraham Potter’s return to Chelsea coming on deadline day feels symbolic. West Ham’s head coach does not look back fondly at the extravaganza of player trading when he was in charge at Stamford Bridge in January 2023. It was a time of chaos and unreasonable pressure. The new owners were spending like there was no tomorrow and by the time window closed it was left to Potter to make sense of a squad so bloated there was not enough space for everyone in the first-team dressing room.Good luck with that. Chelsea had crowed after beating Arsenal to Mykhaylo Mudryk. Negotiations with Benfica led to a British transfer record for Enzo Fernández. Noni Madueke, David Datro Fofana and Benoît Badiashile joined. A deal for Malo Gusto was confirmed for the summer. João Félix arrived on loan. Jorginho took his experience and nous to Arsenal. Hakim Ziyech’s loan to Paris Saint-Germain...

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8 hours ago Man is charged with attempted murder after teenager suffered horrifying bloody injury when he was stabbed in broad daylight

Onlookers can be heard saying 'oh my god' as an individual apparently armed with a long weapon casually leaves the scene on Blackstock Road in Finsbury Park.

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23 hours ago Pregnant teenage wife dissolved in bath of acid by jealous and controlling husband

Arnima Hayat had ambitions of becoming a surgeon, but while at medical school in Austrlia, she met the man who would cut her life short before dissolving her body in a bath of acid

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8 hours ago Foreign Office warning for British tourists as tremors spark alert on Greek holiday islands

More than 200 tremors have been detected near the island of Santorini

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24 hours ago David Benavidez dominates David Morrell to unify light heavyweight title

‘Mexican Monster’ beats Morrell by unanimous decisionBenavidez improves to 30-0 with one-sided victoryStephen Fulton wins WBC featherweight belt in co-mainDavid Benavidez unified the light heavyweight championship by earning a unanimous decision over challenger David Morrell on Saturday night to keep his interim WBC belt and win the WBA title.Judges Patricia Morse Jarman and Steve Weisfeld both scored the fight 115-111 while Tim Cheatham scored it 118-108. Continue reading...

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8 hours ago Basketball players killed in Colchester car crash pictured as tributes pour in

Basketball players Anthony Hibbert and Daljang Wol, as well as Makyle Bayley and Eva Darold-Tchikaya, tragically died in the horrific car crash in Colchester this weekend

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