15 h. ago Woman escapes UK rental market to live in a van with her dog for just £650 a month

Nicole Keefe, 27, from Newcastle, spent years moving around as a child "due to situations out of (her) control" and later because of "things not going right" with partners

Economics

3 d. ago ‘Don’t ask what AI can do for us, ask what it is doing to us’: are ChatGPT and co harming human intelligence?

Recent research suggests our brain power is in decline. Is offloading our cognitive work to AI driving this trend?Imagine for a moment you are a child in 1941, sitting the common entrance exam for public schools with nothing but a pencil and paper. You read the following: “Write, for no more than a quarter of an hour, about a British author.”Today, most of us wouldn’t need 15 minutes to ponder such a question. We’d get the answer instantly by turning to AI tools such as Google Gemini, ChatGPT or Siri. Offloading cognitive effort to artificial intelligence has become second nature, but with mounting evidence that human intelligence is declining, some experts fear this impulse is driving the trend. Continue reading...

Technology

1 week ago Mystery of sacrificial alter found with people buried inside – including sitting child

The discovery of an ancient Mayan altar with bodies inside including that of a child in a seated position has sparked a mystery after archaeologists share their theories on the ruin

Politics

1 week ago Mystery of sacrificial altar found with people buried inside – including sitting child

The discovery of an ancient Mayan altar with bodies inside including that of a child in a seated position has sparked a mystery after archaeologists share their theories on the ruin

Politics

1 week ago Teacher right to let child sit in school toilet for four hours to calm down, panel rules

A child who went into a school toilet at 11am and didn't come out until 3.20pm was safe and came out 'happy and calm', an Education Workforce Council Wales hearing found

Society

1 week ago Birthday girl's last smile: Final photo shows young child excitedly sitting in helicopter cockpit... 16 minutes before plummeting to her death beside her parents and siblings in Hudson River disaster

The family-of-five had just arrived from Barcelona and embarked on their first day touring the Big Apple, taking a scenic trip in the helicopter as a treat for the young girl and her mother Merce.

Events

2 w. ago Where is Malcolm in the Middle's Stevie now? Child star returns to the spotlight 25 years after the hit sitcom ahead of upcoming reboot

Malcolm In The Middle star Craig Lamar Traylor is best known for playing Stevie Kenarban in the American sitcom in the early 2000s. 

Events

2 w. ago Child star from a family sitcom is spotted narrowly avoiding a driving disaster. Can you guess who?

A child actress, who played the youngest daughter of one of the most popular family sitcoms, narrowly avoided a driving disaster before a bystander intervened... can you guess who?

Society

3 w. ago Wrexham school in lockdown after 'threat' sees doors locked with no one allowed in or out

Parents of pupils at Ysgol y Grango in Wrexham received a stern warning from school officials, including the words 'please do not come onto school site or try to contact your child'

Events

3 w. ago Kansas babysitter checking for monsters finds man hiding under bed

Police arrest suspect after sitter shocked to encounter man when trying to show child there was nothing under the bedA babysitter in Kansas who was asked by a child to check for monsters under their bed was stunned to discover a man hiding there, police have said.The shocking incident occurred on 24 March at a property just outside the city of Great Bend, when the sitter was seeking to put the children she was looking after to bed. However, one of them was afraid. Continue reading...

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