75 m. ago 'Scary' shortcut saw people take their lives into their own hands

'It was frightening to say the least'

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80 m. ago People are just realizing clever reason McDonald's logo is yellow and red

When most people pull up under the double aches to order salty fries and a Big Mac, they aren't thinking about the obnoxious color scheme of the iconic restaurant, but it does mean something.

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1 hour ago Tribute paid to boy who died in fire as 14 children arrested

The fire broke out near Fairfield industrial park in the Bill Quay area of Gateshead on Friday evening.

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1 hour ago Inside troubled Peaky Blinders star Paul Anderson’s chaotic life as actor looks unrecognisable

Paul Anderson, best known for his role as the gangster Arthur Shelby in Peaky Blinders has sparked concern from friends and fans over his health and brushes with the law

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2 h. ago Harrowing final moments of man mauled to death by polar bear as friends refused to leave body

The harrowing final moments a hunter was mauled to death by a female polar bear have been retold by friends who watched it happen - and refused to leave his body

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2 h. ago Shell reportedly weighing up merits of making move to buy BP

Such a takeover would be one of biggest deals ever in oil and gas industryShell is talking to advisers about the potential for a takeover of the rival oil producer BP, according to reports.The oil major has been discussing the feasibility and merits of a takeover of BP with its advisers in recent weeks, according to a report from Bloomberg, which cited people familiar with the matter. Continue reading...

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3 h. ago The landscape artist who makes her paint from pearls, crystals and volcanic dust

Su Yu-Xin scours mines and federal lands for materials to carefully craft her own pigments in a Los Angeles workspace that’s part studio, part science labWhile in art school in London, Su Yu-Xin calculated that most painters used one of five brands of high-end oil paint, and that each brand produced only about 60 colors.“That’s really scary,” the Slade graduate said. “It’s like all the top chefs in the world shop from the same grocery store.” Continue reading...

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4 h. ago JoJo Siwa hints at Chris Hughes 'romance' after he makes dramatic Celebs Go Dating U

JoJo Siwa and Chris Hughes are the unlikely partnership to come out of this year's Celebrity Big Brother, but are they more than 'just friends?'

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5 h. ago Do we ever stop feeling anxious, angry or sad about relationships? Not if my older friends are any guide | Emma Beddington

The generations are more segregated than ever. Yet we have so much in commonI’ve always felt a bit pathetic for not having a proper peer group. In dark moments, it feels like a moral failing and an indictment of my social skills. In kinder moments I recognise it’s also partly a product of being sick and sad at university, then successively too pregnant, too preoccupied with babies and too peripatetic to make or maintain ties. In calmer times, I’ve forged slightly more of a social life, but mostly it’s not made up of my gen X peers, but rather people who are occasionally younger, usually significantly older. Now I’m wondering – am I lucky?This thought was prompted by an Atlantic podcast discussing the demographic moment we’re living in – the usual pyramidal population structure is becoming squarer, with similar numbers of older and younger people – and asking whether we’re making the most of it. The conclusion was we probably aren’t. Continue reading...

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5 h. ago Better at everything: how AI could make human beings irrelevant

The end of civilisation might look less like a war, and more like a love story. Can we avoid being willing participants in our own downfall?Right now, most big AI labs have a team figuring out ways that rogue AIs might escape supervision, or secretly collude with each other against humans. But there’s a more mundane way we could lose control of civilisation: we might simply become obsolete. This wouldn’t require any hidden plots – if AI and robotics keep improving, it’s what happens by default.How so? Well, AI developers are firmly on track to build better replacements for humans in almost every role we play: not just economically as workers and decision-makers, but culturally as artists and creators, and even socially as friends and romantic companions. What place will humans have when AI can do everything we do, only better? Continue reading...

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6 h. ago Downfall of the noughties' most notorious love rat: What happened to model James Gooding who BLAMED girlfriend Kylie for his stint in rehab

The model turned-photographer, now 50, admitted to cheating on the star with Sophie Dahl and later branded her a 'self-obsessed, virtually friendless control freak' in a scathing tell-all interview.

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6 h. ago Prince William has 'no incentive' to speak to brother Harry after his BBC outburst

The Duke of Sussex angered his family with comments made in the interview from his Montecito home on Friday, with insiders saying the royals have "major trust issues" with him

Politics

7 h. ago Trump accused of ‘mocking’ Catholics after posting image of himself as pope

US president displays ‘pathological megalomania’ as cardinals gather to elect new leader after death of Pope FrancisDonald Trump has been accused of mocking the election of a new leader of the Catholic church after posting an AI-generated picture of himself as the pope on social media.The image, shared on Friday night on Trump’s Truth Social site and the White House’s official X account, raised eyebrows at the Vatican, which is still in the period of nine days of official mourning after Pope Francis’s funeral on 26 April. Continue reading...

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7 h. ago Geography has given the US unrivaled security. Trump is destroying it | Gil Barndollar and Rajan Menon

The US’s greatest strategic advantage is its friendly neighbors. But its ties to Canada and Mexico are being underminedThe secret to American power and pre-eminence was best summed up more than a century ago.America, observed Jean Jules Jusserand, France’s ambassador to the United States during the first world war, “is blessed among the nations”. To the north and south were friendly and militarily weak neighbors; “on the east, fish, and the west, fish”. The United States was and is both a continental power and, in strategic terms, an island – with all the security those gifts of geography provide. No world power has ever been as fortunate. This unique physical security is the real American exceptionalism.Gil Barndollar is a non-resident fellow at the Defense Priorities Foundation. Rajan Menon is Spitzer professor emeritus of international relations at the Powell School, City College of New York, and a senior research scholar at the Saltzman Institute at Columbia University. Continue...

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7 h. ago Horrifying last moments of man eaten alive by polar bear as pals refused to leave body

Hunter, Darryl Kaunak, 33 was mauled to death by a polar bear protecting her cub but his friends risked their own lives as they refused to leave his body behind

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8 h. ago I tasted coffee from Asda, Tesco and six more supermarkets — one was as good as £7 jar of Néscafe

I tried 10 different coffees to see which one was the best and if any could live up to my favourite — there was a stand-out from the supermarkets

Economics

8 h. ago Teach youngsters about bootleg alcohol in schools... if we'd known the dangers, my friend might still be alive

Simone White, 28, was one of six tourists who died after a mass methanol poisoning at a hostel bar in Vang Vieng, Laos, last November.

Society

9 h. ago 14 kids arrested over boy killed in fire as fundraiser launched to 'help with the stress'

A GoFundMe has been set up for 14-year-old Layton Carr who tragically died in a fire on Friday, with 14 children now having been arrested on suspicion of manslaughter

Events

9 h. ago 14 kids arrested over boy killed in fire as appeal launched to 'help with the stress'

A GoFundMe has been set up for 14-year-old Layton Carr who tragically died in a fire on Friday, with 14 children now having been arrested on suspicion of manslaughter

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9 h. ago Best stylish matching sets from the high street including Karen Millen and Reserved

Co-ords have become a go-to spring/summer staple, and if you're struggling to put an outfit together in the morning, a matching set could be your new best friend

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