2 h. ago Cheat the internet: Kylie Jenner blasted for fake police clip, and the rest of the week's viral stories

The stories lighting up social media this week

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3 h. ago The unfulfilled dream of the 'most radical' UK building planned for Cardiff

It was considered the most imaginative decision possible but it didn't materialise and ended up being built thousands of miles away instead

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9 h. ago 'I lay next to my murdered son on his hospital bed and made him a promise'

*WARNING GRAPHIC IMAGES* Grieving mum Claire Throssell has spent years fighting for a change in the law after her sons were murdered by their dad – as she shares her unfathomable pain.

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9 h. ago 'Doctors cut off my son's bandages, his body had been ripped apart

*WARNING GRAPHIC IMAGES* Claire Throssell has spent years fighting for a change in the law after her sons were murdered by their dad – now, she shares her unfathomable pain

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10 h. ago Strictly Come Dancing viewers point out 'best moment of series'

Fans of the BBC dance contest were left stunned as two stars recreated the viral Coldplay kiss cam moment

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10 h. ago Woman, 28, dies after facing 'challenges most could never imagine'

Nicola Down was diagnosed with Neurofibromatosis type 2 (NF2)

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10 h. ago Strictly viewers in stitches as Claudia Winkleman recreates THAT Coldplay 'kiss cam' moment during live show

The host joined musical director Dave Arch to poke fun at the viral moment just before George Clarke took to the floor to dance to Coldplay's hit Viva La Vida.

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11 h. ago BBC Strictly fans stunned as stars recreate Coldplay kiss cam 'scandal'

Strictly Come Dancing poked fun at the viral Coldplay moment leaving viewers very amused

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11 h. ago The moment I knew: she made the life I’d overcomplicated suddenly straightforward

As Air’s Moon Safari played in background, Andrew Stafford watched himself falling in love, in a new way• Find more stories from The moment I knew seriesAlthough it’s now long deleted, my old X account served at least one useful purpose in life. My profile image had me looking up quizzically at a ragdoll kitten on my shoulder. That cat (once mistaken for a parrot by a bone-headed rightwing pundit) is no longer with me – but my other ragdoll, Priscilla, became a minor social media celebrity.In April 2021 I was eight months post open heart surgery, seven months single, about to turn 50, and not about to die wondering. So, I hit Bumble. She didn’t fess up until later but the first woman to message me was one of my X followers – really, one of Priscilla’s. “Oh,” she said to herself, “it’s the man with the cat on Twitter.” And swiped right. Continue reading...

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16 h. ago Woman makes false sex attack claim as she uses AI image of 'suspect' sitting on her sofa

The mum of two, 32, told cops the attacker was a stranger but she was able to take a photo of the suspect as he sat on the couch in her apartment in St. Petersburg, Florida

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17 h. ago Tragic story behind one of the world's most iconic photos of vulture waiting for a starving child to die: How famed photographer killed himself after being tormented by guilt over shocking image

The shocking scene was captured in a picture titled The Vulture and the Little Girl - although the child was later revealed to be a young boy - by South African photographer Kevin Carter in 1993.

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18 h. ago World’s landscapes may soon be ‘devoid of wild animals’, says nature photographer

Margot Raggett, whose latest compilation shows animals scrubbed from natural habitats, calls for rethink on UK accelerated housebuildingMargot Raggett has spent the past decade raising money for conservation efforts around the world but, right now, she feels nervous about the future. “It does feel like we’ve taken a backward step,” she said.The wildlife photographer has raised £1.2m for the cause in the past 10 years through her Remembering Wildlife series, an annual, not-for-profit picture book featuring images of animals from the world’s top nature photographers. The first edition was published in 2015, when the Paris climate agreement was being drafted but, in the years since, efforts to tackle the climate crisis have been rolled back. Continue reading...

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19 h. ago Shorn of title, status and dignity, it’s the new Prince Andrew. A life he was born to replaced by a life he will hate | Stephen Bates

Nothing will ever be the same for the disgraced royal or the other Windsors. He can still live in Royal Lodge, but it’s a terrible blow to his sense of entitlementThe saga of Andrew Windsor, the ex-Duke, who henceforth will only be known as plain old Prince, may have finally reached its end. At least the rest of the Royal family will hope so. But even that is likely to depend on what may further emerge from any more releases of Epstein files, letters, records and emails in the US. His image, such as it remains, may yet be tarnished further.It is the loss of titles that will certainly hurt him most. Andrew has not formally lost them – removal of his dukedom requires an act of parliament, which neither government nor Buckingham Palace will want, taking up as it would embarrassingly public lengths of time – and he can’t shed his princely tag since he indubitably is the son of a monarch.Stephen Bates is a former royal correspondent of the Guardian Continue reading...

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19 h. ago The platform exposing exactly how much copyrighted art is used by AI tools

From 007 to Elsa, Vermillio claims it can trace percentage of AI-generated image drawn from pre-existing materialAsk Google’s AI video tool to create a film of a time-travelling doctor who flies around in a blue British phone booth and the result, unsurprisingly, resembles Doctor Who.And if you ask OpenAI’s technology to do the same, a similar thing happens. What’s wrong with that, you may think? Continue reading...

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20 h. ago ‘Dad taught me not just to look at the world but to really see it’: Ariel Meyerowitz’s best phone picture

The art adviser captured a portrait of her famous father – the photographer Joel Meyerowitz – as he pointed his camera at her during a visit to an exhibitionAs a child, Ariel Meyerowitz would follow her famous father around with a little Olympus XA camera and mimic his work as a photographer. Once home, he’d edit the images on a slide projector, inviting his daughter to sit alongside him. “He loved having a little shadow,” Meyerowitz recalls. “Watching him click through the slides, I learned not just to look at the world but to really see it, to notice the relationship between people and place, the colour of everything, and the humour or poignancy of it all.”To the wider world, that “perpetually creative, present and loving” father is Joel Meyerowitz, the renowned American photographer. He is also the man in this photo, photographing his daughter who is in turn photographing both him and a sculpture on display at Swiss artist Ugo Rondinone’s show The Rainbow Body. Continue reading...

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20 h. ago Bristol Zoo speaks out after 'miserable' gorilla clip goes viral

The zoo hasn't been open to the public since 2022

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20 h. ago 'Freaky' thing happens to viral image when you flip it upside down

Something rather 'freaky' happens to this viral image when you turn it upside down and people on Reddit are going wild for it. So can you see what's really going on here?

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21 h. ago The world's most endangered animals revealed in breathtaking pictures

It's no secret that certain species of animal are under threat on our planet Wildlife photographers have captured poignant images of some of these animals - and the results are breathtaking.

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22 h. ago Indian techie shares peek into life and onboarding at Meta London; video goes viral: ‘Wild mix of work and wander’

Indian techie shares peek into life and onboarding at Meta London; video goes viral: ‘Wild mix of work and wander’  The Indian Express

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22 h. ago People can't stop 'freaking out' after turning viral image upside down

People are blown away after seeing what happens when a simple image of one woman is turned upside down. And it's say to say many Reddit users are 'freaking' out

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