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Cramming exercise into just one or two days a week is enough to slash the risk of early death, a study suggests.

Twelve children who lived at the hotel had been attending a nearby school

The FBI searched two homes of Indiana University Bloomington data privacy professor Xiaofeng Wang last week, following months of university inquiries into whether he received unreported research funding from China, WIRED reported Wednesday. Wang, who leads the Center for Distributed Confidential Computing established with a $3 million National Science Foundation grant, was terminated on March 28 via email from the university provost. The university had contacted Wang in December regarding a 2017-2018 grant in China that listed him as a researcher, questioning whether he properly disclosed the funding to IU and in applications for U.S. federal research grants. Jason Covert, Wang's attorney, said Wang and his wife Nianli Ma, whose employee profile was also removed, are "safe" and neither has been arrested. The couple's legal team has viewed a search warrant but received no affidavit establishing probable cause.

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Air traffic controllers who sleep at their posts, defy their bosses, and ignore critical safety protocols can avoid punishment thanks to a mind-boggling 'immunity' scheme revealed by DailyMail.com.

The funding will help homeowners improve the energy efficiency of their homes

The broadcaster argued there is an irony in the fact people will 'militantly' call themselves atheists while 'spending large amounts of time and money' on types of spiritual ritual.

The site will be Travelodge's second in Watford when it opens

The plan for the new homes has been passed after the developer agreed to add bollards and a chicane system to calm traffic

Logan Guminski, 27, hung her head in shame as she was perp walked following her arrest for allegedly having sex with her Chihuahua.

If a regular shower is a quick catch-up with your body, an everything shower is a full-blown reunion. We're talking deep conditioning, exfoliating, shaving, double-cleansing.

Val Kilmer maintained a close relationship with his two children, Mercedes and Jack, who he shared with his ex-wife Joanne Whalley, before his shock death at 65.

An AI system has for the first time figured out how to collect diamonds in the hugely popular video game Minecraft -- a difficult task requiring multiple steps -- without being shown how to play. Its creators say the system, called Dreamer, is a step towards machines that can generalize knowledge learned in one domain to new situations, a major goal of AI. From a report: "Dreamer marks a significant step towards general AI systems," says Danijar Hafner, a computer scientist at Google DeepMind in San Francisco, California. "It allows AI to understand its physical environment and also to self-improve over time, without a human having to tell it exactly what to do." Hafner and his colleagues describe Dreamer in a study in Nature published on 2 April. In Minecraft, players explore a virtual 3D world containing a variety of terrains, including forests, mountains, deserts and swamps. Players use the world's resources to create objects, such as chests, fences and swords -- and collect items, among the most prized of which are diamonds. Importantly, says Hafner, no two experiences are the same. Every time you play Minecraft, it's a new, randomly generated world," he says. This makes it useful for challenging an AI system that researchers want to be able to generalize from one situation to the next. "You have to really understand what's in front of you; you can't just memorize a specific strategy," he says.

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Essex Police received 18 per cent more complaints in 2024 than it had in the previous year

A teenage Islamic convert from Kent has pleaded guilty to encouraging terrorism by sharing graphic ISIS videos on TikTok and Telegram, after telling police he did it "for the likes."

The Duchess of Sussex released her line of much-vaunted items, first teased a year ago under a different name, today as she continues to rebrand herself as a 'domestic goddess'.

The victim reported seeing a "small firearm" during the incident

If you've ever argued with a narcissist, you already know that it's nearly impossible.

Kathleen Turner, 70, looked frail and shaky when she made her way along a New York City street to an awaiting vehicle with the help of a walker.

Sally Wynter was travelling on home from work on the Victoria line when she 'felt a punch' and man 'knocked her sideways' into the train's glass window.

A gang of teenage boys charged with raping a woman in a town centre alleyway appeared before a district judge today, after being accompanied into court by their mothers.