2 h. ago A floating football pitch and a train evacuation: photos of the day – Friday

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42 h. ago Sheriff investigates burglary at late Nascar driver Greg Biffle’s home

Cash, guns and memorabilia reported stolenHome last secure day before burglary reportMemorial service set for Friday in CharlotteSheriff’s deputies are investigating an alleged break-in and theft last week at the North Carolina home of retired Nascar driver Greg Biffle, one of seven people who died in a plane crash last month.The alleged burglary and forcible entry into the Biffle home in Mooresville was reported on 8 January, according to an incident report from the Iredell County Sheriff’s Office. Continue reading...

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47 h. ago Liz Kendall’s response to X ‘nudification’ is good – but not enough to solve the problem | Nana Nwachukwu

Big tech companies cannot be trusted. It is not enough that they remove harm when they find it – the law must make their systems prevent harmOn X, a woman posts a photo in a sari, and within minutes, various users are underneath the post tagging Grok to strip her down to a bikini. It is a shocking violation of privacy, but now a familiar and commonplace practice. Between June 2025 and January 2026, I documented 565 instances of users requesting Grok to create nonconsensual intimate imagery. Of these, 389 were requested in just one day.Last Friday, after a backlash against the platform’s ability to create such nonconsensual sexual images, X announced that Grok’s AI image generation feature would only be available to subscribers. Reports suggest that the bot now no longer responds to prompts to generate images of women in bikinis (although apparently will still do so for requests about men).Nana Nwachukwu is an AI governance expert and a PhD researcher at Trinity College Dublin Contin...

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4 d. ago Sky unveils 14p a day TV deal as streaming and broadband falls to Black Friday prices

Sky's January sale includes deals across TV, Netflix and broadband packages, with one that's less than £5 per month.

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6 d. ago Labour to spend £200million on preparing troops for Ukraine as Russia unleashes terrifying nuclear

John Healey was speaking after a one-day visit to Kyiv on Friday, where he discussed plans for the Multinational Force Ukraine with President Volodymyr Zelensky.

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6 d. ago The Guardian view on living more creatively: a daily dose of art | Editorial

It can make us healthier, happier and live longer. Engaging in culture should be encouraged like good diet and exerciseThe second Friday in January has been dubbed “Quitter’s Day”, when we are most likely to give up our new year resolutions. Instead of denying ourselves pleasures, suggests a new batch of books, a more successful route may be adding to them – nourishing our minds and souls by making creativity as much a daily habit as eating vegetables and exercising. Rather than the familiar exhortations to stop drinking, diet, take up yoga or running, there is an overwhelming body of evidence to suggest that joining a choir, going to an art gallery or learning to dance should be added to the new year list.Art Cure by Daisy Fancourt, professor of psychobiology and epidemiology at University College London, brings together numerous research projects confirming what we have always suspected – art is good for us. It helps us enjoy happier, healthier and longer lives. One study fou...

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7 d. ago Trevi fountain coins and a Melbourne heatwave: photos of the day

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7 d. ago Brutal snow and 100mph icy winds see Brits fleeing the country as Storm Goretti roars in

Tenerife, Egypt and Lanzarote are some of the hotspots Brits are escaping too - with the busiest travel day of the year expected in airports this Friday as holiday experts forecast a mass exodus

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8 d. ago ‘Pack what’s precious’: Victorians bracing for catastrophic fire danger hunker down with caravans, kelpies and litres of water

The black summer bushfires cast a dark shadow as people seek shelter at the Seymour disaster relief centreGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastWhen 82-year-old Jan Sporry and her husband had to pack up and leave their home in regional Victoria – possibly for the last time – they struggled to choose what to take with them.On Thursday, the couple and their kelpie Ruby moved to a disaster relief centre in Seymour as firefighters fought blazes in the worst heatwave since the 2019-20 black summer bushfire season and the state braced for a day of catastrophic fire danger on Friday. Continue reading...

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1 week ago ITV Red Eye viewers fume 'it's nonsense' as they slam 'holes' in plot

ITV's Red Eye returned for a second series on New Year's Day, but some viewers were unimpressed after episode two aired on Friday

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2 w. ago Snow in Wales, flooding in Gaza and a wolf supermoon: photos of the day – Friday

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2 w. ago Revellers braced for cold New Year's Eve fireworks as Arctic freeze plunges towards Britain

The Met Office has issued a 42-hour yellow warning for heavy snow showers, ice and gale force winds in Scotland from 6am on New Year's Day until the end of Friday.

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2 w. ago Met Office issues snow warning as New Year brings Arctic freeze that has sent temperatures plummeting to

The Met Office has issued a 42-hour yellow warning for heavy snow showers and gale-force winds in Scotland from 6am on New Year's Day until the end of Friday.

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2 w. ago ITV Emmerdale Kev Townsend's future revealed and it's bad news

Emmerdale aired more worrying scenes involving John Sugden and Kev Townsend on Friday's Boxing Day episode

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2 w. ago Reuben and Chloe in Emmerdale explained as Mackenzie receives update on son

Emmerdale fans were moved as Mackenzie Boyd received photos and updates about his son Reuben during Friday's Boxing Day episode

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2 w. ago Who is Reuben and Chloe on Emmerdale as Mack gets huge update

Emmerdale's Mackenzie Boyd was left overjoyed after getting an update about his son Reuben on Friday's Boxing Day episode

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2 w. ago Emmerdale's Chloe Harris star now as she releases debut novel after soap exit

Emmerdale's Chloe Harris was mentioned on Friday's Boxing Day episode of the ITV soap

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3 w. ago Emmerdale issue huge update on 'forgotten' character as fans left emotional

Emmerdale took a trip down memory lane on Friday's Boxing Day episode

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3 w. ago An icy vlogger and Boxing Day dips: photos of the day – Friday

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3 w. ago BBC Breakfast's Naga Munchetty hosts Boxing Day show solo in huge shake

BBC Breakfast presenter Naga Munchetty returned to screens on Friday to host the Boxing Day morning show alone, with viewers quick to react

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