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Man's Best Friend - which eclipses the year's previous best - even tops the Official Vinyl Albums Chart, the most popular record of the week on wax, shifting 85,500 units in its first seven days.

The former Changing Rooms presenter bought the animal park with her ex-husband and the couple's struggle to turn it into a top tourist attraction was documented in the TV series Chaos at The Zoo.

Much of the world favors protecting 30% of the world's land and water for nature by 2030, according to new research that has found overwhelming public support for the goal across eight countries on five continents. The Guardian: Nearly 200 nations agreed in 2022 to set aside 30% of the world's land and 30% of marine areas for nature. But just 17.6% of the world's land and 8.6% of the seas are now under global protection, and more than 100 nations are less than halfway to meeting the target, which was established under the 2022 Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework. Governments will need to implement swift changes if they are to achieve the target within the next five years. But setting aside more space for nature can be a political pitfall. Often it can mean restricting people's access to land, halting resource extraction and relocating human settlements. These issues, along with possible effects on economic growth, are often cited by countries as barriers to expanding protecting areas. Research published last week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, however, suggests that more than 80% of the public across eight sampled countries support the policy.

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A 40-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of murdering Carmenza Trujillo and re-arrested on suspicion of murdering Sheryl Wilkins.

Because handing battlefield ID to an algorithm has never gone wrong before, right?

The US Army is preparing to deploy a new AI product that promises to automatically identify and track potential targets on the battlefield. However, humans will continue to make life and death decisions.…

Essex Police chief constable Ben-Julian Harrington has welcomed 69 new officers to the force as they took the oath at a parade accompanied by some big names.

Essex Police chief constable Ben-Julian Harrington has welcomed 69 new officers to the force as they took the oath at a parade accompanied by some big names.

The Irish comedy writer, 57, is on trial accused of harassing Sophia Brooks, 18, in a series of social media posts last year.

Prince Harry founded the Invictus Games Foundation in 2014 with the help of the Ministry of Defence and the Royal Foundation of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge.

Elise Bayley, 34, thought little of it when her toddler broke out in a familiar red rash - but six months later, the mother-of-two's world turned upside down.

Georgia Tennant has revealed she has a stalker who she claims offered a reward on social media for her murder.

The former glamour model, 47, is trying for another music comeback after her 2017 track I Got U unexpectedly climbed up the iTunes chart last week to number one.

Margaret Thatcher liked people to believe her husband Denis was her first and only love.

Nobel laureate Geoffrey Hinton has warned that AI will concentrate wealth among a small elite while impoverishing most workers. The computer scientist, who pioneered neural network research in the 1980s, told Financial Times that rich people will use AI to replace workers, creating massive unemployment and profit increases. Hinton, who left Google in 2023 after selling his AI startup for $44 million a decade earlier, dismissed universal basic income as insufficient to address human dignity concerns from job losses. The 77-year-old physicist predicts superintelligent AI will arrive within five to twenty years. He blamed capitalism rather than AI technology itself for the coming economic disruption, stating the system ensures AI will primarily benefit the wealthy rather than solve grand problems like hunger or poverty.

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It won't be fully functional for a while, though

video  Europe's first exascale supercomputer has finally lived up to expectations, despite not being fully complete, as its general-purpose compute cluster is not set to be ready before next year at the earliest.…

A heartbroken mother from Cumbria, who lost her teenage son after his father crashed a van during a cocaine-induced seizure is calling for stricter laws regarding killer drivers.

The actor had sex with the girl twice - in a garden and then a toilet - and sexually assaulted her friend, 15. He cried in court, claiming he 'never touched either of them' but was convicted by a jury.

Last month, Abby and Brittany Hensel, 35, from Minnesota, were photographed carrying a little one in a car seat and placing the baby into the back of a black Tesla.

The former Conservative minister, who served in Boris Johnson 's Cabinet, spoke at Reform's conference in Birmingham following her defection to Nigel Farage 's party.

As the countdown to Big Brother 2025 continues, here's a look at where a 2024 fan favourite is now