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Delegates taking a step out from their cosseted purpose-built area in Belem, Brazil, where COP30 is taking place, would be left shocked at the scenes of squalor just a few minutes away.

Russia's first AI humanoid robot, Aldol, fell just seconds after its debut at a technology event in Moscow on Tuesday. "The robot was being led on stage to the soundtrack from the film 'Rocky,' before it suddenly lost its balance and fell," reports the BBC. "Assistants could then be seen scrambling to cover it with a cloth -- which ended up tangling in the process." Developers of Aldol blamed poor lighting and calibration issues for the collapse, saying the robot's stereo cameras are sensitive to light and the hall was dark.

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The family headed to the afterparty at 1 Canary Wharf after the 21-year-old took on the leading role of Katniss Everdeen at the Troubadour Theatre.

The singer, 40, looked incredible in a sheer black dress and Louboutin heels as she arrived at the Troubadour Theatre in London's Canary Wharf on Wednesday.

The director-general of the Irish national broadcaster RTE has emerged as the dark horse candidate to replace Tim Davie.

It keeps dog walkers warm and dry

Cash was one of the fittest players on the tour at his peak - and he has stayed dedicated and disciplined.

Body-cam footage captured the moment officers discovered Ashley Lawrence, 37, cowering among the rubbish after he stole £8,000 worth of designer sunglasses from a Nottingham opticians.

Lydia Williams has been described as 'beautiful and fearless' by her friends after she died peacefully in her sleep while holidaying in Madrid.

Starbucks' fortunes appear to be changing, and in September, bosses announced it would be closing 'some stores' in the UK amid global cuts - with details kept firmly under wraps.

The Oscar winner, 64, turned the lens towards his co-star Eve Hewson, snapping away as she graced the star-studded red carpet in LA.

The singer, who welcomed her second child with her husband Oliver Cheshire just two weeks ago, wore a black velvet gown for the event.

Love Is Blind UK is captalising on its ratings success with a new spin off show.

Prime minister Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid al-Maktoum, who is worth a whopping £10.3bn, has submitted a bid to set up a concrete surface on two of his four grass helipads.

The São Paulo State Prosecutor's Office received a complaint about the Through the Wire rapper ahead of his show in the city.

Everyone had a Richard Burton story. The man was a human anecdote machine, generating clouds of them wherever he went, eagerly gathered up and treasured by all who met him.

I was 23 years old when I succeeded in getting a job at the BBC. I was 70 when I resigned, having spent 33 years presenting Woman's Hour, proud to have spent my life working in an organisation I loved.

Gout, a form of arthritis, is heavily linked to heart disease - a major cause of heart attacks - and the pair often come hand-in-hand.

Employment tribunals could be overwhelmed with claims from people seeking more 'flexible' deals unless Labour clarifies its right to WFH, according to a new report.

Slashdot readers Tablizer and fjo3 share news that an AI-generated country song has topped the U.S. sales chart for the first time this week. ABC News reports: The new country tune, "Walk my Walk" by Breaking Rust, recently hit No. 1 on Billboard's Country Digital Song Sales chart, reaching over 3 million streams on Spotify in less than a month. That success has garnered mixed reactions from music fans and artists alike, particularly on TikTok, where hundreds of users have posted videos addressing the tune and others discussing the music in the comments. Billboard has acknowledged Breaking Rust is an AI act and said it is one of at least six to chart in the past few months alone. "Ultimately, this feels like an experiment to see just how far something like this can go and what happens in the future and in other disciplines of art as well," senior entertainment reporter Kelley L. Carter told ABC News. "AI artists won't require things that a real human artist will require, and once companies start considering it and looking at bottom lines, I think that's when artists should rightly be concerned about it," she added.

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