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Alesha, 46, is best-known as a singer and TV host, rising to fame in Mis-Teeq before securing presenting gigs on shows including Britain's Got Talent .

Prime Minister Mark Carney announced on Wednesday that Canada will formally recognize the state of Palestine in September as part of a global shift against Israel 's policies in Gaza.

A patch of grassland running alongside the road, where the average property price is around £12million, has been used by homeless people to pitch tents for more than a decade.

Sir Keir Starmer was warned by all sides that his intention to recognise the state of Palestine unless Israel meets his conditions represented gesture politics and risked rewarding Hamas.

Wallace Hunter, 75, was staying at the Pitlochry Hydro in Perthshire, Scotland when he became stuck in the tub. He died from third degree burns to 83 per cent of his body.

IAN HERBERT: There's nothing quite like some vast Saudi generosity to send you skipping around a potential breach of spending rules and into the transfer market.

Five people were rushed to hospital, including two people in a van which smashed through a car park wall in Leeds city centre.

Some Primark shoppers aren't happy with the seasonal change - in July

The famous momager, 69, and her talent manager boyfriend, 44, were caught having a 'visibly tense' exchange at Beyoncé's Cowboy Carter concert in Las Vegas .

Voice actors and industry associations are sounding the alarm over the growing use of AI in dubbing, calling for increased regulations to protect quality, jobs and artists' back catalogues from being used to create future dubbed work. "We need legislation: Just as after the car, which replaced the horse-drawn carriage, we need a highway code," said Boris Rehlinger, a voice actor known as the French voice of Ben Affleck, Joaquin Phoenix, and Puss in Boots. "I feel threatened even though my voice hasn't been replaced by AI yet," he said. Reuters reports: In Germany, 12 well-known dubbing actors went viral on TikTok in March, garnering 8.7 million views, for their campaign saying "Let's protect artistic, not artificial, intelligence." A petition from the VDS voice actors' association calling on German and EU lawmakers to push AI companies to obtain explicit consent when training the technology on artists' voices and fairly compensate them, as well as transparently label AI-generated content, gained more than 75,500 signatures. When intellectual property is no longer protected, no one will produce anything anymore "because they think 'tomorrow it will be stolen from me anyway'," said Cedric Cavatore, a VDS member who has dubbed films and video games including the PlayStation game "Final Fantasy VII Remake." VDS collaborates with United Voice Artists, a global network of over 20,000 voice actors advocating for ethical AI use and fair contracts. In the United States, Hollywood video game voice and motion capture actors this month signed a new contract with video game studios focused on AI that SAG-AFTRA said represented important progress on protections against the tech.

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King Charles, 76, has been wearing a tweed jacket for decades and is now selling a special version created for man's best friend.

More than 200 couples hired Wallflower Weddings, run by Sarah Stanton (pictured) from Kent - only to be left high and dry, with no videos and no refunds.

The case gained national attention after shocking footage of a policeman kicking a teenage suspect in the head as he lay prone on the ground was viewed millions of times.

Google today announced AlphaEarth Foundations, a new AI model that processes terabytes of daily satellite data to track environmental changes across the planet. The system, part of Google's broader Earth AI initiative, uses machine learning to compress satellite imagery into color-coded maps showing material properties, vegetation types, groundwater sources, and human constructions down to 10-meter resolution. The model uses a technique called "embeddings" that reduces storage requirements by 16 times compared to other AI tools Google tested, while delivering 23.9% higher accuracy than similar systems. AlphaEarth has already mapped complex Antarctic terrain and identified variations in Canadian agricultural land use invisible to direct observation. The technology currently powers flood and wildfire alerts in Google Search and Maps. Research organizations including Brazil's MayBiomas and the Global Ecosystems Atlas are using the system to analyze rainforests, deserts, and wetlands. The model integrates with Google Earth Engine, providing agencies like NASA and the Forest Service access to over one trillion annual data points for environmental monitoring and mapping applications.

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A powerful quake off Russia's coast may have set off a chain reaction across the Ring of Fire, raising the risk of an apocalypse across vast swathes of the world.

Apple, Google, AI biggies, and for-profit insurance all eagerly rubbing their hands

The Trump administration and the US Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) have announced plans to begin building a new digital health information system, in collaboration with a growing list of private-sector companies. Dubbed the CMS Digital Health Ecosystem, the new program aims to make it easier for patients to access their own medical records and health data.…

A new report has revealed that male-born athletes have claimed an astonishing amount of medals in women's sporting events.

The noughties band was formed of Paul Cattermole, Tina Barrett, Rachel Stevens, Jo O'Meara, Hannah Spearritt, Bradley McIntosh and Jon Lee.

As news of Cat Deeley's split from Patrick Kielty has emerged, many fans will be unaware that Cat has actually been married before.

A nudist cruise passenger revealed all about what it's like to go on a £3,000 naked cruise.