2 h. ago Mum killed in India crash was ‘reluctant to go’ and feared leaving her son

Abdhiben Patel, 40, died days after flying to to care for her ill mother – but friends say she was anxious to go and deeply attached to her child

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2 h. ago Jay Slater's friends still being tracked down by police after inquest no

The 19-year-old was found dead after going missing following a night out in Tenerife last June

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3 h. ago How a Pentagon account on X became Pete Hegseth’s personal cheerleader

Department’s rapid response team is weaponizing the social platform to champion defense secretary and attack rivalsWhile it’s true no president or political leader has ever used social media quite as prolifically as Donald Trump, no recent secretary of defense has ever weaponized X or any other platform, quite like former Fox & Friends weekend host, Pete Hegseth.Hegseth is actively reshaping the Pentagon in his own image since taking over, prompting a social media policy that has taken a dramatic turn towards supporting Hegseth’s every move and public appearance. Continue reading...

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3 h. ago Whereabouts of Jay Slater's friends revealed after witness appeal during inquest

Several of the 19-year-old's friends failed to turn up for proceedings.

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6 h. ago Nico Raskin sees Rangers pal publicly demand a new deal as star man told 'sign the contract'

He's arguably the Light Blues' biggest asset and fans are desperate for him to remain beyond 2027 when his deal expires

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6 h. ago Policymakers who think AI can help rescue flagging UK economy should take heed | Heather Stewart

Healthy scepticism is needed because flaw is that large language models remain prone to casually making things upFrom helping consultants diagnose cancer, to aiding teachers in drawing up lesson plans – and flooding social media with derivative slop – generative artificial intelligence is being adopted across the economy at breakneck speed.Yet a growing number of voices are starting to question how much of an asset the technology can be to the UK’s sluggish economy. Not least because there is no escaping a persistent flaw: large language models (LLMs) remain prone to casually making things up. Continue reading...

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6 h. ago ‘Odd things happened when she was around’: the unnerving vision of Muriel Spark

From blackmail to burglary, the events of Spark’s life often uncannily echoed those of her novels – no wonder the author of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie believed she could predict the future“There is a supernatural process going on under the surface and within the substance of all things,” says a priest in Muriel Spark’s 1965 novel The Mandelbaum Gate. Spark believed herself wired into this process. The novelist was aware from the start of “a definite ‘something beyond myself’”, an “access to knowledge that I couldn’t possibly have gained through normal channels”.“Somehow things happened, odd things, when Muriel was around,” recalled her friend Shirley Hazzard. “Everything that happened to Muriel,” according to her American editor Barbara Epler, “had been foreseen”, usually in her books themselves. If Spark wrote about blackmail, she too would be blackmailed; if she wrote about a burglary, she would then be burgled. Thirty years after toying with an idea for The Hoth...

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7 h. ago Made In Chelsea's Alex Mytton pays tribute to close friends killed in tragic Air India plane crash

Made In Chelsea star Alex Mytton has paid tribute to two close friends he fears were killed in the tragic Air India plane crash. 

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7 h. ago Dog owners urged not to do this in heatwave as hidden 'danger hour' revealed by vets

You might think heading outside for fresh air on a hot, stuff day indoors might be the best option for your furry friend but there's a much bigger risk that a hot car when it comes to walkies

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7 h. ago JoJo Siwa postpones all US tour dates as Chris Hughes romance heats up

Dance Moms and Celebrity Big Brother finalist JoJo Siwa has postponed all upcoming dates of her US tour

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8 h. ago Tottenham confirm first signing of Thomas Frank era as permanent deal finalised for Mathys Tel

Spurs announce permanent signing of Tel as club step up summer transfer business

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9 h. ago I'm quitting the UK and moving my kids to the other side of the world

After growing tired of struggling to stay afloat, Clare Fisher, 39, and her family have decided to uproot their lives from Barry, in Wales, to move halfway around the world for a 'better life'.

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10 h. ago Billie Eilish's 'heaven in a bottle' fragrance shoppers swear brings in compliments

Superdrug shoppers have been left raving over a budget-friendly fragrance they claim is 'heaven in a bottle' and has left everyone asking what they're wearing

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10 h. ago Bizarre clause in Mariah Carey and Nick Cannon's divorce settlement

Mariah Carey and Nick Cannon split in 2014 after six years of marriage and have remained close for the sake of their twins, Monroe and Moroccan

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10 h. ago Girl, 14, was with friends but left alone and has now disappeared say police

Lucia, who is from Swansea, was last seen in Cardiff on Saturday evening

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10 h. ago Jack Grealish sends seven word message from holiday after being axed from Man City squad

Jack Grealish was left out of the Manchester City squad that headed to the Club World Cup but he's determined to remain in top shape ahead of a potential transfer

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11 h. ago Will London burn like LA? The tinder is on the ground, and Britain needs a fighter — Lee Cohen

Will London burn like LA? The tinder is on the ground, and Britain needs a fighter — Lee Cohen  GB News

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12 h. ago My unexpected Pride icon: indie breakup songs said all the things I couldn’t say to other boys

From John Lennon’s takedown of Paul McCartney to the Libertines’ Can’t Stand Me Now, songs by straight men about falling out with their friends were strangely romantic to meWhen I was a teenager, in the late 00s in central Scotland, being gay was something I experienced as painful made me feel overwrought. This didn’t match the depiction of gayness I encountered in mainstream culture at the time, which was mostly very cheerful. Almost all of the gay men on my radar were comedians – figures such as Graham Norton and Alan Carr, both of whom I found funny and still admire today, but who were too easy-going and unpretentious to satisfy my desire to see myself as a tortured poet.When I got to university, I found the representation I was looking for – solemn and beautiful – in writers such as Edmund White and James Baldwin, but earlier in my teenage years I had to make do with what was available: romanticising being gay through songs about straight men falling out with their platonic frie...

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12 h. ago Lily Allen’s right– ranking your pals might make you a better friend

In a recent episode of her podcast, the singer joked that she keeps a list of the friendships that she prioritises the most. It might sound a bit corporate, but does Allen actually have the right idea, asks Katie Rosseinsky

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12 h. ago I see cracks in Celtic with transfer fears over four starters so maybe this Rangers claim is a myth –Hugh Keevins

I have a friend who sits in the rear section of the Copland Road stand at Ibrox.

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