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Drivers have been urged to avoid the area

Shropshire-based Sarah Rennie, who documents her life as a 'proud' disabled person, was told to visit Pets at Home to be weighed by The Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital.

A strange jellyfish-like phenomenon was spotted streaking across the sky Monday night, and scientists know where it came from.

Google has issued a warning to all Gmail users, saying they will lose access to their accounts if the alert is ignored.

A new study has revealed the UK's most family-friendly beaches by looking at the average sea temperature, water quality, the availability of lifeguards, parking prices and watersport facilities.

The UK's worst airport for flight cancellations has been revealed, as new data by the Civil Aviation Authority shows which major aviation hubs axed the highest and lowest number of flights in 2024.

The world is watching in horror as Israel and Iran continue to exchange brutal strikes as the death toll rises and the risk of all-out war grows by the hour.

Swallow Dell Primary School could benefit from new funding for its nursery

An 'evil' killer has admitted murdering and decapitating his 21-year-old girlfriend before texting her mother pretending to be her.

Tuesday's instalment of This Morning saw co-hosts Ben Shephard and Cat Deeley sit down with guest Jamie-Lee Arrow.

Another man was rushed to hospital with life-threatening injuries

A small market town - home to medieval castle ruins and fantastic cream teas - has left one American woman so charmed that she is considering moving there.

Jeremy Vine has become the latest BBC broadcaster to take aim at colleagues who disregard the corporation's impartiality rules.

The Facebook co-founder hooped out of the striking helicopter in a white T-shirt and turquoise trunks, shielding behind a pair of shades.

A new benchmark assembled by a team of International Olympiad medalists suggests the hype about large language models beating elite human coders is premature. LiveCodeBench Pro, unveiled in a 584-problem study [PDF] drawn from Codeforces, ICPC and IOI contests, shows the best frontier model clears just 53% of medium-difficulty tasks on its first attempt and none of the hard ones, while grandmaster-level humans routinely solve at least some of those highest-tier problems. The researchers measured models and humans on the same Elo scale used by Codeforces and found that OpenAI's o4-mini-high, when stripped of terminal tools and limited to one try per task, lands at an Elo rating of 2,116 -- hundreds of points below the grandmaster cutoff and roughly the 1.5 percentile among human contestants. A granular tag-by-tag autopsy identified implementation-friendly, knowledge-heavy problems -- segment trees, graph templates, classic dynamic programming -- as the models' comfort zone; observation-driven puzzles such as game-theory endgames and trick-greedy constructs remain stubborn roadblocks. Because the dataset is harvested in real time as contests conclude, the authors argue it minimizes training-data leakage and offers a moving target for future systems. The broader takeaway is that impressive leaderboard jumps often reflect tool use, multiple retries or easier benchmarks rather than genuine algorithmic reasoning, leaving a conspicuous gap between today's models and top human problem-solvers.

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Among those which the German 'Bond Club' claims was based on a real person is Moonraker villain Hugo Drax, who is depicted in Fleming's novel as a crazed Nazi bent on revenge.

The BBQ restaurant promises the 'finest grilled meats'

This is the dramatic moment the British man who was the miraculous sole survivor of the Air India plane crash attempted to return to the inferno of the accident to save his brother.

Louise Quaid said Darren Grada left her 'very jumpy' and 'hyper vigilant' after he secretly bugged her vehicle and listened to her conversations

Glamorous racegoers have pulled out all the sartorial stops as they arrived at Royal Ascot in the sunshine today to kick off the annual celebration in style.