3 h. ago Hero veteran who issued chilling war warning to future generations dies at 98

War hero Ronald Butcher, 98, has passed away months after opening up to The Mirror to urge the world to 'learn from the past'

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13 h. ago To understand how AI will reconfigure humanity, try this German fairytale | Clemens J Setz

Artificial intelligence will replace creativity with something closer to magical wishing. The challenge for future generations will be dealing with the feeling of emptiness that leaves us withIn the German fairytale The Fisherman and His Wife, an old man one day catches a strange fish: a talking flounder. It turns out that an enchanted prince is trapped inside this fish and that it can therefore grant any wish. The man’s wife, Ilsebill, is delighted and wishes for increasingly excessive things. She turns their miserable hut into a castle, but that is not enough; eventually she wants to become the pope and, finally, God. This enrages the elements; the sea turns dark and she is transformed back into her original impoverished state. The moral of the story: don’t wish for anything you’re not entitled to.Several variations of this classic fairytale motif are known. Sometimes, the wishes are not so much excessive or offensive to the divine order of the world, but simply clumsy or contradi...

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4 d. ago King Charles' foundation launches free farming and rural skills course

A new course based at Dumfries House near Cumnock has been launched by the King's Foundation aimed at protecting our countryside for future generations.

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6 d. ago Poland shoots down Putin’s drones and warns it’s ‘closer to conflict than any time since World War 2’

Washington’s ambassador to Nato vowed the US will defend “every inch of Nato territory” as Russia faces worldwide condemnation for drone incursion

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6 d. ago The house that could have sparked WW3: Images reveal inside Polish home hit by Russian drone where owners cheated death as Europe moves 'closest to war since 1945'

The owners survived by sheer luck, but had they been killed, their deaths could have triggered NATO's Article 5.

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6 d. ago UK issues warning to Putin as Poland drone attack raises risk of NATO war

Defence Secretary John Healey said he had ordered armed forces to look at ways of boosting NATO air defence over Poland after Russian drones were shot down

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6 d. ago Royal butler reveals ‘chilling warning’ late Queen Elizabeth II gave him

Paul Burrell, a former royal butler, has revealed the “chilling warning” that Queen Elizabeth II issued to him.

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6 d. ago We're closest to open conflict since World War Two, warns Poland after Russian drone attacks

Poland hits out at ‘act of aggression’ as it shoots down Russian drones for first time since Putin launched full scale invasion of Ukraine

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6 d. ago Poland closest to open conflict since World War Two, warns Polish PM after Russian drone attacks

Poland hits out at ‘act of aggression’ as it shoots down Russian drones for first time since Putin launched full scale invasion of Ukraine

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6 d. ago Russia's 'unprecedented violation' of Poland's air space branded an 'act of war' as Poland plans response and Zelensky issues dire warning

American politicians reacted as Poland said it shot down Russian suicide drones when devices 'repeatedly violated' its airspace during an attack on Ukraine.

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6 d. ago 'Godfather of AI' issues chilling warning about impact of tech on jobs

Nobel prize winning British professor Geoffrey Hinton, 77, has few regrets after helping introduce AI to the world - even though what he created 'will put millions out of work'

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7 d. ago Rapist issues chilling threats to court as he's handed FOURTH life sentence

Rapist David O’Brien, who already had three life imprisonment orders for attempting to murder fellow inmates, was hauled before Manchester Crown Court after the most recent attack

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8 d. ago Good Morning Britain issues 'chilling' news update as viewers all say same thing

Good Morning Britain viewers were left baffled by a recent news update shared on the early morning ITV breakfast show as they gathered online to share their confusion

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9 d. ago Trump gives 'last warning' for 'war to end' as he tells both parties to accept his terms

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9 d. ago The Royal Opera House is accused of 'betrayal' by Ukraine after allowing Russian soprano Anna Netrebko to perform on its world

War hero Valerii Zaluzhnyi, known as the 'Iron General', warns that her appearance at the Royal Opera House on Thursday is 'a test' by Vladimir Putin of Kyiv 's 'closest and most devoted ally'.

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9 d. ago Russian special forces commander issues chilling new threat and it's bad news for Ukraine

Apti Alaudinov — the commander of Russia's “Akhmat” special forces — made a series of chilling comments to Kremlin mouthpiece Evgeny Popov on the Russian state TV show 60 minutes

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1 week ago President Trump warns that Chicago is 'about to find out why it's called the Department of WAR' in incendiary Truth Social post

President Donald Trump, 79, took to his social media platform, Truth Social, on Saturday to post a meme about himself, where he wrote: 'I love the smell of deportations in the morning.

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1 week ago Trump declares 'Chipocalypse now' warning Chicago will find out why it's 'Department of War'

Donald Trump appears to be on the edge of invading Chicago with the newly renamed Department of War as his campaign against 'illegal immigrants' continues to rage across the US

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1 week ago Youssef Chermiti can flip Rangers script as Helicopter Sunday veteran plots Ibrox hero arc

Michael Ball arrived at Ibrox from Everton for a big fee so knows how Chermiti is feeling after £8million move

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1 week ago Swinney accuses Starmer of ‘toadying along behind Farage’ on immigration

The First Minister said the language used by Westminster politicians on the issue in recent months has been ‘chilling’.

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