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Pharmacist Navid Kaleem said the man was 'singing some kind of poems and rhymes' before barging behind the counter at his store in Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent.

The bird - nicknamed Reggie by locals - has been tormenting mute swans in Stratford-upon-Avon for the last nine months.

A high court in India has ruled that legible medical prescriptions are a fundamental right after a judge found a government doctor's report completely incomprehensible. Justice Jasgurpreet Singh Puri of the Punjab and Haryana High Court issued the order while reviewing a bail petition in an unrelated criminal case. The medico-legal report examining an alleged assault victim was written in handwriting that the judge said left not even a single word or letter legible. The court directed India's government to add handwriting instruction to medical school curriculum and mandated a two-year timeline for rolling out digital prescriptions nationwide. Until electronic systems are implemented, all doctors must write prescriptions in capital letters. The Indian Medical Association, representing over 330,000 physicians, told BBC it would help address the issue. Association president Dr Dilip Bhanushali said doctors in Indian cities have largely adopted digital prescriptions but practitioners in rural areas and small towns continue using handwritten notes.

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With the job market stalling, it's harder and harder to find work. Job-hunters are competing for fewer roles, with postings in some sectors attracting hundreds of applicants.

The Emmerdale star, 37, admitted he was stunned when debt collectors turned up on his doorstep and tried to tow his car as he had 10 unpaid parking tickets.

The exuberant mood at Labour's conference that followed the Prime Minister's full-frontal attack on Nigel Farage has been replaced by one of alarm.

Other studies are finding the same thing

Yale researchers say that despite the anxiety about AI taking people's jobs, there's very little evidence of it actually happening.…

The extent of Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban 's mammoth wealth was laid bare in their divorce filing this week - days after their shock split was revealed.

Yoshua Bengio called for a pause on AI model development two years ago to focus on safety standards. Companies instead invested hundreds of billions of dollars into building more advanced models capable of executing long chains of reasoning and taking autonomous action. The A.M. Turing Award winner and Universite de Montreal professor told the Wall Street Journal that his concerns about existential risk have not diminished. Bengio founded the nonprofit research organization LawZero earlier this year to explore how to build truly safe AI models. Recent experiments demonstrate AI systems in some circumstances choose actions that cause human death over abandoning their assigned goals. OpenAI recently insisted that current frontier model frameworks will not eliminate hallucinations. Bengio, however, said even a 1% chance of catastrophic events like extinction or the destruction of democracies is unacceptable. He estimates advanced AI capable of posing such risks could arrive in five to ten years but urged treating three years as the relevant timeframe. The race condition between competing AI companies focused on weekly version releases remains the biggest barrier to adequate safety work, he said.

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The reason why women tend to live longer than men has long eluded scientists, but an international team of researchers now claim to put the debate to bed.

Projected £1.5M running costs balloon to £12M under new contracts

Updated  The UK government is set to see annual spending on a procurement portal designed to help save money increase by more than eight times compared to projected plans.…

Based on Universal Blue, it's akin to Fedora Kinoite with knobs on… A lot of knobs

Aurora, a relatively young distro from Austria, bills itself as "your stable, privacy-respecting and ultimate productivity OS." These are rather bold claims, though many other Linux distros make the same promise.…

Ms Klass, 47, took the stand to tell jurors of her ordeal at the hands of Peter Windsor, 61, who is accused of sending her a note calling her a 'naughty vixen'.

The Surrey-born actress, 90, has only seen her success soar in recent years as the voice of Lady Whistledown in Netflix 's popular Bridgerton series - all while looking as youthful as ever.

Born via surrogate in 2002, Bigi was the baby Michael infamously dangled over a fourth-floor hotel balcony in Berlin to show him off to the fans below.

Only 15% considering deployments and just 7% say it'll replace humans in next four years

Enterprises aren't keen on letting autonomous agents take the wheel amid fears over trust and security as research once again shows that AI hype is crashing against the rocks of reality.…

The trio were spotted on several surveillance cameras wearing their $60,000 haul as they left the Paramount Miami Worldcenter in the city's ritzy downtown last month.

Abdul-Rahman Al-Ahmed, 21, chased his first victim through a town centre in broad daylight before stabbing him several times.

The Wednesday star, 23, made a glamorous appearance in the French capital for the presentation of creations by Dior for the Women Ready-to-wear Spring-Summer 2026 collection.

Judson Althoff gets the job of keeping the biz running

Microsoft boss Satya Nadella told staff on Wednesday that he's appointing Judson Althoff to a new role as CEO of the company's commercial business, so that the big boss can concentrate on Redmond's future plans and strategy.…