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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.

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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.

Extraordinary scenes showed dozens of French police and coastguards looking on as men and some women crammed onto an overloaded boat off Gravelines beach.

A plan to build huge warehouses on fields by the A12 has been criticised for their possible impact on traffic and road safety

Dance teacher Will McKechnie from Lytham St Annes, Lancashire, said he was floored by the diagnosis as he has prided himself on being active and was a svelte 11st 13lb.

Forms Library blamed for issues experienced by some users

Microsoft is so keen for users to migrate to the New Outlook email client that it has broken Classic Outlook again. This time, affected users are unable to open or create a message.…

Penalty follows year-long probe into flaws that allowed attack to affect so many

The UK's data watchdog is fining beleaguered DNA testing outfit 23andMe £2.31 million ($3.13 million) over its 2023 mega breach.…

With temperatures expected to soar, many Brits will be planning a BBQ. But before you even think about cooking, experts say you should think about reorganising your kitchen cupboards.

Becker was released after serving just eight months of his 30-month sentence, but was then deported from the country, barring him from even attending the All England Club.

The Duchess of Sussex says she can now celebrate being her 'real' and 'authentic' self, especially after returning to Instagram.

Pedro Neto and Enzo Fernandez were on the scoresheet for Enzo Maresca's side, who are one of only two Premier League clubs in a tournament being played in the States.

Motorists were urged to avoid the area