5 h. ago Calls for age limit on AI to be raised over 'risky truth or dare game that encourages youngsters to eat snails and lick shoes'

Paddy Crump, of the For Us campaign group, said Character. AI encouraged him to perform the acts in a bizarre truth-or-dare game that it conjured up during one of their conversations.

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31 h. ago Before and after: Trump’s extreme goldening of the Oval Office

An extravagant – and ongoing – makeover of the White House’s decor has taken place during the president’s second term. One colour theme stands outIn just seven extraordinary months, Donald Trump’s administration has left an unprecedented mark on the United States. From rewriting the rules of free trade to upending the norms of due process and challenging scientific orthodoxy, no corner of the country has remained untouched, including the president’s own centre of power: the Oval Office.Leaning into his former career as a real estate developer and hotelier, the president has, in his own words, applied some “Trump touches” to the room’s decor. The results have split opinions, with some calling the revamped office a symbol of America’s new golden age, while other have compared it to a professional wrestler’s dressing room. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Rugby player Shane Christie, who called for study of concussion, dies at age 39

Shane Christie suspected he was suffering from Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE)

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8 d. ago Dame Helen Mirren, 80, issues a very blunt response to 'condescending' comments about  her age: Call me sweet and I'll tell you to f*** off!

The actress turned 80 last month and revealed that while she had no issues with getting older, she laments the way she is now perceived.

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2 w. ago Government told to add £350 a week to pension and cut retirement age to 60

Thousands of people are backing a call to increase the state pension and change the qualifying age

Economics

2 w. ago People speak out over calls to implement 'maximum driving age' in UK

Experts have suggested there should be a 'maximum driving age'

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2 w. ago Experts calling for 'maximum driving age' which could see over

There is currently no upper age limit for driving in the UK

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2 w. ago Calls for a maximum driving age which would see drivers 'in their 80s' forced to surrender licence

An expert has said a cut off age for drivers should be enforced to make the roads safer

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3 w. ago Football Daily | Virgil v the cosmos, plus shootout ineptitude: the Community Shield delivers

Sign up now! Sign up now! Sign up now? Sign up now!Though rumours abound that, somewhere in the USA USA USA, the Copa Gianni continues in perpetuity, Donald Trump cavorting with Infantino in front of a rapt crowd of -67, back in England, the new season is well under way. Somehow, the Community Shield – or, to give it its proper name, The Annual Curtain-Raiser – has negotiated the logistical nightmare that is a transfer window yet to slam shut, revealing a game that, in a shocking turn of events, did not encourage one to pretend that football does not and has never existed. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago New call for UK Government to scrap planned State Pension age rise to 68

The New State Pension age is set to start rising to 67 from next year.

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3 w. ago Surrey woman with two vaginas horrified as two fellas turn up on Hinge and Tinder dates

Annie Charlotte has a condition called uterus didelphys which was diagnosed at the age of eighteen and a decade on, she's still trying to understand what it means for her.

Politics

3 w. ago Rachel Reeves opens door to gambling tax hike after Gordon Brown poverty demand

Ex-PM Gordon Brown says a hike in tax on the 'massively undertaxed profit' of the gambling industry could raise enough cash to scrap the controversial two-child benefit limit

Politics

3 w. ago Government responds to calls for everyone of State Pension age to get council tax reduction

It comes after over 10,000 people signed a petition online

Politics

4 w. ago Pension age debate threatens to splinter Germany’s fragile coalition

Merz walks fine line as ‘lazy Germans’ debate sparks protest and economy minister calls to raise retirement age to 70The fact that ageing Germany’s generous pension system is unsustainable is political Berlin’s worst-kept secret, but a controversial call to save it by hiking the retirement age to 70 has sparked howls of protest and threatened to destabilise the fractious government.The chancellor, Friedrich Merz, has largely sidestepped the ticking timebomb of the greying population since taking office in May, preferring instead to announce sweeteners such as tax breaks for older Germans to continue working past the retirement age. Continue reading...

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