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In April 2002, Kate Middleton took part in a charity gala at Fairmont St Andrews Hotel when she decided to wear what was originally a skirt as a mini-dress.

Tom Bower wrote about the relationship between the estranged father and daughter in his 2022 book, Revenge: Meghan, Harry and the War Between the Windsors.

The movie was dogged by controversies, many of them involving the leading lady Rachel Zegler , who came under fire for polarizing public statements including 'free Palestine.'

Nine-month-old Luka had boiling hot coffee poured over him in Brisbane 's Hanlon Park on August 27 last year and the man accused of attacking him is avoiding prosecution in his native China.

The historic venue will be relaunched from August 29

She put on a casual display as she stepped out on Monday to run errands at a local shopping center.

Jacklyn Bezos gave birth to the billionaire Amazon founder at 17 years old and made countless sacrifices over the years to catapult her son's success.

Ex-RAF airman Andy Hill, 60, has spent the last decade trying to regain his pilot licence after the Civil Aviation Authority revoked it following the August 2015 crash.

This "chocolate box" village is just half an hour or so from northern Essex and is worth a visit.

Stuart Murray from Colchester shared his weight loss journey, having lost more than 15 stone through Slimming World.

A small swimming school has reached a new milestone, as it recorded 2,000 students a week.

This "chocolate box" village is just half an hour or so from northern Essex and is worth a visit.

It looks like a peaceful bathroom at first - but there's a hidden pup lying in plain sight. Can you spot the dog in under 30 seconds?

Married influencers Miranda and James Derrick left fans baffled after their Instagram and TikTok accounts were suddenly wiped without explanation.

"As employers and tech companies rush to deploy AI software into workplaces to improve efficiency, labor unions are stepping up work with state lawmakers across the nation to place guardrails on its use..." reports the Washington Post. "Union leaders say they must intervene to protect workers from the potential for AI to cause massive job displacement or infringe on employment rights." In Massachusetts, the Teamsters labor union is backing a proposed state law that would require autonomous vehicles to have a human safety operator who can intervene during the ride, effectively forbidding truly driverless rides. Oregon lawmakers recently passed a bill supported by the Oregon Nurses Association that prohibits AI from using the title "nurse" or any associated abbreviations. The American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations, a federation of 63 national and international labor unions, launched a national task force last month to work with state lawmakers on more laws that regulate automation and AI affecting workers... The AFL-CIO task force plans to help unions take on problematic use of AI in collective bargaining and contracts and in coming months to develop a slate of model legislation available to state leaders, modeled on recently passed and newly proposed legislation in places including California and Massachusetts. The president of the California Federation of Labor Unions also supports a proposed state law "that would prevent employers from primarily relying on AI software to automate decisions like terminations or disciplinary actions," according to the article. "Instead, humans would have to review decisions. The law would also prohibit use of tools that predict workers' behaviors, emotional states and personality."

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A large and unfortunate mistake in the kernel development management process is underway

comment  The first release candidate of Linux 6.17 is out, without any bcachefs changes… but not for any technical reasons. This is bad.…

Labour Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer faced mounting pressure over the housing of illegal immigrants last night after 700 people were involved in angry clashes outside a migrant hotel in Scotland.

The 50-year-old Desperate Housewives star, who now lives between Spain and Mexico , was indulging in a day in the water in Marbella.

Posing in front of a mirror, Brooklyn Beckham looks thoroughly bored while he waits for wife Nicola Peltz to try on clothes at a Los Angeles boutique.

Sunlight becomes energy when plants convert four photons of light. But unfortunately, most attempts at synthetic light-absorbing chemicals can only absorb one photon at a time, write two researchers from the University of Melbourne. "In the Polyzos research group at the School of Chemistry, we have developed a new class of photocatalysts that, like plants, can absorb energy from multiple photons." This breakthrough allows us to harness light energy more effectively, driving challenging and energy-demanding chemical reactions. We have applied this technology to generate carbanions — negatively charged carbon atoms that serve as crucial building blocks in the creation, or synthesis, of carbon- and hydrogen-rich chemicals known as organic chemicals. Carbanions are vital in making drugs, polymers and many other important materials. However, traditional methods to produce carbanions often require lots of energy and dangerous reagents, and generate significant chemical waste, posing environmental and safety challenges... Our new method offers a greener, safer alternative [using visible light and renewable starting materials]... We've used it to synthesize important drug molecules, including antihistamines, in a single step using simple, cheap and commonly available "commodity chemicals" — amines and alkenes. And importantly, the reaction scales well in commercial-scale continuous flow reactors, highlighting its potential for industrial applications. "By learning from the subtle mastery of photosynthesis," the researchers write, their group "is forging a new paradigm for chemical manufacturing — one where sunlight powers sustainable and elegant solutions for the molecules that shape our world."

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