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The head of the broadcasting regulator Ofcom has called on the BBC to 'seriously' examine concerns over impartiality - as the whistleblower prepares to give evidence to parliament.

The result completes a rapid ascent for the Queens assemblyman, who once described himself as a 'B-list rapper'.

Nottingham Forest have donated £10,000 to a supporter who took on the Huntingdon train attacker and was stabbed seven times.

An hour’s tablet training and a soldier was sending the bird on autonomous errands

Who needs a drone when you can fly a Black Hawk from a tablet? DARPA's $6 million award to Sikorsky paid off when a National Guard soldier, trained in under an hour, used a handheld tablet to command an optionally piloted Black Hawk through multiple autonomous missions. …

In a bombshell statement last week, Buckingham Palace coldly removed Andrew of all his titles amid growing controversy over his relationship with paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein.

The cellmate of disgraced rapper Sean Diddy Combs describes what really happened during the knife attack at the Metropolitan Detention Center, putting all the rumors to rest.

Solar geoengineering could increase the ferocity of North Atlantic hurricanes, cause the Amazon rainforest to die back and cause drought in parts of Africa if deployed above only some parts of the planet by rogue actors, a report has warned. The Guardian: However, if technology to block the sun was used globally and in a coordinated way for a long period -- decades or even centuries -- there is strong evidence that it would lower the global temperature, the review from the UK's Royal Society concluded. The world is failing to halt the climate crisis and the researchers said that in future, a judgment might need to be made between the risks of geoengineering and the those of continued global heating, which is already costing lives and livelihoods. The logistics of a large-scale geoengineering effort would be daunting, the experts said, but the cost would be small relative to climate action -- billions of dollars a year against trillions. The researchers emphasised that geoengineering only masked the symptoms of the climate crisis, and did not tackle the root cause -- the burning of fossil fuels. Geoengineering could only complement the cutting of emissions, not replace it, they said. If geoengineering was halted abruptly but emissions had not been reduced, there would be a termination shock of rapidly rising temperatures -- 1-2C within a couple of decades -- that would have severe effects on people and ecosystems unable to rapidly adapt.

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The service at Chichester Cathedral in West Sussex heard that Dame Patricia, who died last month at the age of 96, was a 'prodigiously generous philanthropist'.

The Beckham clan were all pictured as they dined at close pal Gordon Ramsay's lavish restaurant in Chelsea, London.

Brigitte Macron has expressed fear that her trousers might bulge in public because that may fuel the ludicrous rumours that she was born a man, according to a close friend.

Prince William has movingly recreated a picture taken by his late mother Diana, Princess of Wales, 34 years ago, at the iconic Christ the Redeemer statue overlooking Rio de Janeiro

In recent years, Denise Van Outen has launched a new career as a DJ. And more than ever appears to be cashing in on her celebrity status.

The reality TV favourite, who joined the E4 series last year, took to the This Morning sofa to open up on his experience of being told he'd need to receive a liver transplant to save his life.

A farce ensued for 15 minutes before a colleague managed to slap one on his right lapel when she thought no one was watching.

Emergency services rushed to the scene on Stratford Road in Sparkhill, Birmingham, following the horrific smash at just before 11.50pm on August 1 this year.

They have picked up a top accolade

Some people (I'll see you in the comments section) think it's unseemly to show your legs past a certain age. But still, I refuse to hide my legs away. At 51 I still want to get my legs out. And so I do.

The social media star, who boasted more than 55,000 followers on Instagram and 344,000 on TikTok, was found dead at a townhouse in Sao Paolo, Brazil, on November 2.

The Education Secretary was savaged in the House of Commons today after announcing all primary school children will get 'citizenship' classes.

Financial Times: Deutsche Bank is exploring ways to hedge its exposure to data centres after extending billions of dollars in debt to the sector to keep up with demand for artificial intelligence and cloud computing. Executives inside the bank have discussed ways to manage its exposure to the booming industry as so-called hyperscalers pour hundreds of billions of dollars into building infrastructure for their AI needs that is increasingly funded by debt. The German lender is looking at options including shorting a basket of AI-related stocks that would help mitigate downside risk by betting against companies in the sector. It is also considering buying default protection on some of the debt using derivatives through a transaction known as synthetic risk transfer (SRT). Deutsche's investment banking business has "bet big" on data centre financing, according to one senior executive. However, the scale of expenditure on AI infrastructure has prompted concerns that a bubble is forming with some likening the enthusiasm to that which preceded the dotcom crash. Sceptics have pointed out that billions of dollars have been deployed in an untested industry with assets that quickly depreciate in value due to the rapid change in technology.

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