Eurostar unveils its new gender-neutral uniform for staff complete with Dr Marten boots and skirts for men to 'empower staff to express their individuality'
The redesign is the first new uniform in over a decade and includes 54 individual items of clothing designed to 'fit all genders, body types and personalities'.
Furious roadside row erupts over woman blocking driver from parking his car so she can 'reserve spot for a friend'
A man attempting to park his black Lexus in the spot gets out of his car to remonstrate with the woman, who is soaking in the sun as she remains calmly in her seat.
UK Once Again Demands Backdoor To Apple's Encrypted Cloud Storage
The UK government has issued a new order to Apple to create a backdoor into its cloud storage service, this time targeting only British users' data, despite US claims that Britain had abandoned all attempts to break the tech giant's encryption. Financial Times: The UK Home Office demanded in early September that Apple create a means to allow officials access to encrypted cloud backups, but stipulated that the order applied only to British citizens' data, according to people briefed on the matter.
A previous technical capability notice (TCN) issued in January sought global access to encrypted user data. That move sparked a diplomatic clash between the UK and US governments and threatened to derail the two nations' efforts to secure a trade agreement.
In February, Apple withdrew its most secure cloud storage service, iCloud Advanced Data Protection, from the UK. "Apple is still unable to offer Advanced Data Protection in the United Kingdom to new users," Apple said on Wednesday. "We are gravely disappointed that the protections provided by ADP are not available to our customers in the UK given the continuing rise of data breaches and other threats to customer privacy." It added: "As we have said many times before, we have never built a back door or master key to any of our products or services and we never will."
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Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban's 'nepo baby' daughter Sunday Rose appears on the Dior catwalk during Paris Fashion Week as rumours swirl about her parents' divorce
The nepo baby, 17, struck a serious expression on the runway as she kept it low key in a grey wrap shirt and loose-fitting black trousers.
Discovery in Egypt offers new evidence for the Bible's story of Moses
A new discovery in Egypt has added new evidence of Moses and the Israelites' route to the Promised Land.
Moment crazed thug 'high on monkey dust' is tackled by hero pharmacist after flying into rage
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.
Black swan is banned from town and exiled 150 miles away after 'terrorising' tourists and birds
The bird - nicknamed Reggie by locals - has been tormenting mute swans in Stratford-upon-Avon for the last nine months.
Indian Court Tells Doctors To Fix Their Handwriting
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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The 30 jobs employers are desperate to fill... and some are offering VERY hefty salaries
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.
Adam Thomas details the dramatic moment bailiffs arrived at his Cheshire mansion and tried to tow his car after he racked up a huge fine
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.
'We can't call everyone racist - I don't care what he tells me to do': The brutal comments Labour MPs and ministers are sharing with me after Keir Starmer's speech... and why it's his final and fatal blunder: DAN HODGES
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.
AI has had zero effect on jobs so far, says Yale study
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.…
Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban's jaw-dropping monthly income revealed after shock divorce filing
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.
A 'Godfather of AI' Remains Concerned as Ever About Human Extinction
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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Scientists reveal the surprising reason why women live longer than men
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.
'Money-saving' UK procurement platform racks up monster tab
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.…
Aurora immutable KDE Plasma workstation: Big, slow, and confusing
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.…
Revealed: Chilling letters sent by 'stalker who 'bombarded Myleene Klass with sexual letters and presents including a pair of handcuffs'
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'.
Revealed: How Julie Andrews looks so good at 90 after overcoming a rough childhood with an alcoholic mother and abusive stepfather
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.
Michael Jackson's son Bigi, 23 - formerly known as Blanket - surfaces in rare sighting in LA
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.