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Police and an air ambulance were called to Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother (QEQM) Hospital in Margate, Kent, at around 4pm on Thursday.

A popular Italian city has seen a massive drop in hotel and Airbnb bookings, with one-in-two rooms being left vacant over the summer amid a wave of anti-tourism protests across Europe. 

Duolingo's decision to go "AI-first" sparked backlash from users, but the company's second quarter earnings result tell a different story. Quarterly revenue exceeded expectations, stock surged nearly 30%, and daily active users grew 40% year-over-year. TechCrunch reports: Now the company anticipates making over $1 billion in revenue this year, and daily active users have grown 40% year-over-year. The growth is significant but falls in the lower range of the company's estimates of growing between 40% and 45%, which an investor brought up to [CEO Luis von Ahn] on Wednesday's quarterly earnings call. "The reason we came [in] towards the lower end was because I said some stuff about AI, and I didn't give enough context. Because of that, we got some backlash on social media," von Ahn said. "The most important thing is we wanted to make the sentiment on our social media positive. We stopped posting edgy posts and started posting things that would get our sentiment more positive. That has worked."

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The Trump administration is now offering a $50 million reward to anyone who can provide information leading to the arrest of Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro.

A woman's 'fat belly' that was initially blamed on her overeating turned out to be a 17lb tumour. 

The actress and mixed martial arts veteran, 43, starred as Cara Dune in the Star Wars franchise spin-off.

State officials on the Caribbean island of Grenada, commonly known as the 'Spice Isle', will no longer take the oath to King Charles III or his successors and instead make it to Grenada itself.

Donald Trump last night dismissed the idea that a US-Russia summit will only happen if Vladimir Putin meets Ukraine's president.

Axed Wednesday star Percy Hynes White has a very normal new job almost two years after he was dropped from the hit show amid sexual assault allegations.

Lesley-Ann Jones, filming a documentary about the book for Channel 5 in Switzerland this week, is sticking to her guns ahead of publication on September 5.

Zoe Ball has revealed she was left in tears after discovering her car had been broken into, just moments after appearing on The One Show. 

The mom posted about her experience on TikTok, saying the airline discriminated and humiliated her family during a recent trip. 'No empathy. No compromise. Just refusal.'

The Black Sabbath singer, famously known as the Prince of Darkness, died last month at the age of 76 - just weeks after performing his final concert.

A new biography of the singer's much vilified and exploitative manager 'Colonel' Tom Parker aims to restore his reputation, claiming he was a force for good. Not so says Ray Connolly.

In Freakier Friday, a sequel to the 2003 film again starring Lohan and Curtis, the phenomenon befalls not just one pair of females but two, writes Brian Viner.

A plane has crashed in a residential area outside Kenya's capital killing at least six people.

She was spotted on a boat off Ibiza this week, laughing and hugging her 6ft Australian model boyfriend Chris Dingwall.

Most people follow the airplane mode rule happily, accepting it as a reasonable safety precaution. However one inquisitive passenger wanted to know the reasoning behind it.

Despite dwindling global market share, retreat from key regions like Europe, and halting in-house production, Sony insists its Xperia smartphone line remains "very important" to its business. 9to5Google reports: During Sony's latest financial results presentation this week, Sony CFO Lin Tao addressed the state of its Xperia smartphone brand, saying that Xperia is part of "a very important business for us" as reported by CNET Japan (translated). Tao said that "communication technology is a very important technology that Sony has cultivated for a long time. We also want to continue to value our smartphone business." Though adding that "communication technology is used in areas other than smartphones."

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A man has been arrested after allegedly making lewd comments to children at a park.