40 h. ago ‘DeepSeek is humane. Doctors are more like machines’: my mother’s worrying reliance on AI for health advice

Tired of a two-day commute to see her overworked doctor, my mother turned to tech for help with her kidney disease. She bonded with the bot so much I was scared she would refuse to see a real medicThis essay was originally published on Rest of worldEvery few months, my mother, a 57-year-old kidney transplant patient who lives in a small city in eastern China, embarks on a two-day journey to see her doctor. She fills her backpack with a change of clothes, a stack of medical reports and a few boiled eggs to snack on. Then, she takes a 90-minute ride on a high-speed train and checks into a hotel in the eastern metropolis of Hangzhou.At 7am the next day, she lines up with hundreds of others to get her blood taken in a long hospital hall that buzzes like a crowded marketplace. In the afternoon, when the lab results arrive, she makes her way to a specialist’s clinic. She gets about three minutes with the doctor. Maybe five, if she’s lucky. He skims the lab reports and quickly types a new ...

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3 d. ago Dad stabs mother of kids to death in courtroom with 'outrageous violence'

Paul Gary Turner produced a knife during a mediation hearing with his ex-partner Sarah Thomas and stabbed her six times, with one of the blows severing her carotid artery

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5 d. ago Racing sensation tipped for F1 stardom admits to stabbing his dad to death after father ‘brandished machete’

FORMER motorsport prodigy Antolin Gonzalez has admitted stabbing his own dad to death. Gonzalez confessed to the killing of his father - 56-year-old Antolin Gonzalez Sr - during a confrontation which took a violent turn. The alleged incident took place at the Gonzalez family's warehouse in Aranda de Duero, Spain, in early July. Local businessman...

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5 d. ago Strictly Come Dancing star stabbed in stomach by his own dad

Strictly Come Dancing professional Anton Du Beke has shared some harrowing experiences from his childhood, including being stabbed by his own father.

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5 d. ago Strictly Come Dancing star stabbed in horror attack by own dad

Strictly Come Dancing judge Anton Du Beke has opened up about his traumatic upbringing

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5 d. ago Strictly Come Dancing's Anton Du Beke stabbed by his father in horror attack

Strictly Come Dancing professional Anton Du Beke has opened up about his violent father in a new episode of ITV's Life Stories, revealing he was once stabbed by his dad

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7 d. ago Teenager hugs dad as he's convicted of attempted murder after stabbing boy 11 times

The victim's girlfriend, aged only 14, was also knifed in the chest

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7 d. ago Boy, 15, hugs dad as he's found guilty of attempted murder after double stabbing

The victim's girlfriend, aged only 14, was also knifed in the chest during the incident on Whitefield Drive in Kirkby - a 15-year-old boy said 'I'm going to die' after being stabbed 11 times

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9 d. ago The Uncool by Cameron Crowe review – inside rock’s wildest decade

From shadowing a cocaine-addled David Bowie to winning over Joni Mitchell, deliciously readable tales from the director of Almost FamousCameron Crowe spent his youth being in the right place at the right time. In 1964, aged seven, he was taken by his mother to see “a kid named Bob Dylan” play a local college gym. By the age of 14, living in San Diego, he was writing record reviews for a local underground magazine whose main aim was to bring down Richard Nixon. Shortly after that, he started interviewing the bands of the day as they came through California – first Humble Pie for Creem, and then the Eagles, the Allman Brothers Band and Led Zeppelin for Rolling Stone.Crowe previously fictionalised his story in the 2000 film Almost Famous, which he wrote and directed. His lyrical and compulsively readable memoir The Uncool is bookended by the opening of a musical version, which coincides with the death of Crowe’s mother Alice whose aphorisms, including “Put some goodness in the world be...

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1 week ago 'Devoted' dad Sanchini Thompson named as Catford stabbing victim

'Devoted' dad Sanchini Thompson named as Catford stabbing victim  BBC

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1 week ago Oxford Union faces financial ruin after free speech row over Charlie Kirk leaves debating society in 'utter turmoil'

George Abaraonye (pictured), 20, who debated Mr Kirk prior to his death, sparked outrage by posting a WhatsApp message appearing to celebrate the violence against the US influencer.

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1 week ago Dramatic moment dad who stabbed love rival to death is arrested while hiding in shed

Michael James split up with long-term girlfriend Zara Tolley and became jealous of her new boyfriend Bradley Hollis, so stabbed the 35-year-old to death in a jealous rage

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2 w. ago Heartbroken Dad makes desperate plea on TikTok after son stabbed to death

His sister Eloise also reveals the devastating moment she heard her brother's heart stop

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2 w. ago Mum takes her young children to countries with HIGH terrorism alerts

A mother who has taken her kids to countries with high terrorism alerts has shared why she feels they are actually safer than the UK.

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2 w. ago Dad's desperate plea after teen son stabbed to death at school end of term party

Martin Cosser made a vow after the death of his son Charlie in a farmhouse.

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2 w. ago Dad's heartbreaking TikTok promise to son, 17, after he was stabbed to death at party

Charlie Cosser, 17, was stabbed to death by 16-year-old Yura Varybus at an end-of-term party in a farmhouse in West Sussex. His dad Martin has vowed to get justice

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2 w. ago Dad's desperate plea in new ITV series after son, 17, stabbed to death at party

Charlie Cosser heartbroken dad makes a solemn promise to his tragic son Charlie, while sister Eloise reveals the devastating moment she heard her brother's heart stop

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2 w. ago 'Distraught' dad watched surviving child carried from house where kids stabbed

Staffordshire Police were called to a property at around 7.30am on Sunday.

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2 w. ago Dad and daughter watch in horror as stranger stabs two dogs in brutal attack

WARNING, DISTRESSING CONTENT: Marcus Norton was walking his Mastiff puppy, Chief, and an elderly Staffordshire terrier, Molly, at a park on Friday, October 10 when a stranger stabbed the two dogs

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2 w. ago Why Diane Keaton decided to wait until middle age to raise her two children

She was a doting mother to her daughter Dexter and her son Duke, both now adults, prior to her shocking death at age 79.

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