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Meghan Markle couldn't hide her surprise as she witnessed a flock of ducks emerge from woodland and swiftly cross the road while she was out in Montecito on Easter Sunday.

Transit police are responding to reports of gunfire neat the Harvard Square MBTA train station, according to an alert.

Detectives in Nottinghamshire launched a murder investigation after the body of a man, 59, was discovered in Bulwell, a market town 4.5 miles north-west of Nottingham.

Eric Chapman, 43, a teacher and head baseball coach at Cortez High School in Phoenix, Arizona, was arrested Wednesday for allegedly having sex with minors.

The Los Angeles 2028 Olympics could be heading for financial meltdown despite its original optimistic logistics as sponsors drop out, executives resign and costs spiral.

TechCrunch looks at Mechanize, an ambitious new startup "whose founder — and the non-profit AI research organization he founded called Epoch — is being skewered on X..." Mechanize was launched on Thursday via a post on X by its founder, famed AI researcher Tamay Besiroglu. The startup's goal, Besiroglu wrote, is "the full automation of all work" and "the full automation of the economy." Does that mean Mechanize is working to replace every human worker with an AI agent bot? Essentially, yes. The startup wants to provide the data, evaluations, and digital environments to make worker automation of any job possible. Besiroglu even calculated Mechanize's total addressable market by aggregating all the wages humans are currently paid. "The market potential here is absurdly large: workers in the US are paid around $18 trillion per year in aggregate. For the entire world, the number is over three times greater, around $60 trillion per year," he wrote. Besiroglu did, however, clarify to TechCrunch that "our immediate focus is indeed on white-collar work" rather than manual labor jobs that would require robotics... Besiroglu argues to the naysayers that having agents do all the work will actually enrich humans, not impoverish them, through "explosive economic growth." He points to a paper he published on the topic. "Completely automating labor could generate vast abundance, much higher standards of living, and new goods and services that we can't even imagine today," he told TechCrunch. TechCrunch wonders how jobless humans will produce goods — and whether wealth will simply concentrate around whoever owns the agents. But they do concede that Besiroglu may be right that "If each human worker has a personal crew of agents which helps them produce more work, economic abundance could follow..."

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A lion has killed a 14-year-old girl outside the capital Nairobi, the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) said on Sunday.

The Radio and TV personality, 51, spoke about the pressures of being famous and how it can be 'very hard' to resurrect your career after 'messing up' on social media.

The landmark Supreme Court hearing ruled that the definition of a woman is based on biological sex, meaning transgender women are no longer considered women in the eyes of the law.

Kelly Lundberg who has lived in Dubai for 22 years after falling in love with the city when she started working as an air hostess, says that those who can't hack life in the UAE are approaching it wrong.

The incident, which reportedly occurred on Friday night, has been laid bare by stunning new footage, and shows the NBA superstar standing over the man as he lays on the floor on his back.

The decision to ditch surgery has preserved some of the most instantly recognisable faces in showbusiness and launched many more to stardom.

The Barbie star, 34, stunned in the pastel-coloured two-piece as she was seen going for a dip in the open Australian waters.

New data unearthed by Vestiaire Collective has revealed the most popular luxury brands... and the items you should be investing that are expected to grow in value.

Sahara Ray has now denied false claims she made against her fiancé during what she described as an 'episode' that has seen her enter hospital.

Rochelle Humes, 36, and husband Marvin, 40, flew out to the Maldives with their kids for a sun-soaked Easter trip, while TOWIE's Ferne McCann celebrated in Mauritius.

"Honeybee colonies are under siege across much of North America..." reported the New York Times last week. [Alternate URL here.] Last winter beekeepers across America "began reporting massive beehive collapses. More than half of the roughly 2.8 million colonies collapsed, costing the industry about $600 million in economic losses..." America's Department of Agriculture says "sublethal exposure" to pesticides remains one of the biggest factors threatening honeybees, according to the article — but it's one of several threats. "Parasites, loss of habitat, climate change and pesticides threaten to wipe out as much as 70% or more of the nation's honeybee colonies this year, potentially the most devastating loss that the nation has ever seen." Some years are worse than others, but there has been a steady decline over time. Scientists have named the phenomenon colony collapse disorder: Bees simply disappear after they fly out to forage for pollen and nectar. Illness disables their radar, preventing them from finding their way home. The queen and her brood, if they survive, remain defenseless. The precise causes remain unknown. Bee colonies have become even more vulnerable because of the increase in extreme weather conditions, including droughts, heat waves, monster hurricanes, explosive wildfires and floods that have damaged or destroyed the bees and the vegetation they pollinate. If that isn't bad enough, parasites — and other creatures researchers refer to as "biotic" threats that prey on bees — proliferate when there is damage to ecosystems. All that means that the U.S. beekeeping industry has contracted by about 2.9% over the past five years, according to data collected by IBISWorld, a research firm. Annual loss rates have been increasing among all beekeepers over the past decade with the most significant colony collapses in commercial operations happening during the past five years. The article notes that "compounding the troubles for the bee industry are recent federal cuts" proposed by DOGE to America's Department of Agriculture, "where researchers were studying ways to protect the nation's honeybees." And while federal policies like tariffs could make farming more expensive, "Beekeepers also often depend on immigrants to manage their hives and to help produce commercial honey..."

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Filmmakers went behind-the-scenes at Lancashire's Royal Blackburn Hospital and filmed patients in need of vital surgery - routinely bumped off the emergency list and rescheduled for the following day.

Weekend two of Coachella is underway, and, as usual, stars and influencers alike are making a splash with some truly bizarre looks.