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Thousands of tattoo lovers have showed off their detailed and colourful inkings today as they bared all at one of Britain's largest conventions.

JONATHAN MCEVOY IN BAKU: Chaos in Baku. Six red flags. And then Max Verstappen banged his Red Bull on pole, which is an act filed under 'G' for genius.

Four years ago, Sarm Heslop, 41, vanished from her partner, Ryan Bane's £500,000 catamaran Siren Song in the US Virgin. Now, her mother Brenda Street has called for Donald Trump's help.

The singer, 32, took to social media to share the happy news as he wished his now fiancée a Happy Birthday.

"Betelgeuse may have competition for the most exciting star about to go nova near Earth," writes Space.com. "Astronomers have discovered the secret of a strange star system that has baffled them for years, finding it contains a dead star about to erupt after overfeeding on a stellar companion." The supernova explosion of this cosmic cannibal could be as bright as the moon, making it visible with the naked eye over Earth even in broad daylight. The system in question is the double star V Sagittae located around 10,000 light-years from Earth, containing a white dwarf stellar remnant and its victim companion star, which orbit each other roughly twice every Earth day. The new research and the revelation of this white dwarf's imminent catastrophic fate answer questions about V Sagittae that have lingered for 123 years... White dwarfs represent the final stage of stars with masses around that of the sun, occurring when they run out of fuel for nuclear fusion... [W]hite dwarfs that have a stellar companion can get a second lease on life and a more conclusive and explosive end... [T]he stolen stellar material piles up on the surface of the white dwarf until it pushes this stellar remnant past the so-called Chandrasekhar limit of 1.4 solar masses. This is the mass limit that a stellar remnant has to exceed to trigger a supernova... However, this team found something very different and extraordinary happening with the stellar material being stolen by the white dwarf in V Sagittae... This investigation revealed that there is a giant halo of gas comprised of material stolen from the companion star wrapped around both the cannibal white dwarf and its stellar victim... "The white dwarf cannot consume all the mass being transferred from its hot star twin, so it creates this bright cosmic ring," team member Pasi Hakala from the University of Turku said. "The speed at which this doomed stellar system is lurching wildly, likely due to the extreme brightness, is a frantic sign of its imminent, violent end." "The matter accumulating on the white dwarf is likely to produce a nova outburst in the coming years, during which V Sagittae would become visible with the naked eye," Pablo Rodríguez-Gil from Spain's Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias said. "But when the two stars finally smash into each other and explode, this would be a supernova explosion so bright it'll be visible from Earth even in the daytime." The research was conducted with the Very Large Telescope (four individual telescopes high in the mountains of Chile) — and published last week in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

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In the chaos that descended at a protest in The Netherlands, police used tear gas and a water cannon to disperse some of the protestors as the demonstration threatened to become a riot.

The 'suspicious' individual was carrying a gun and a knife when he was apprehended at State Farm Stadium in Glendale on Friday, according to reports.

Iran's top security body that action by Britain, France and Germany to reimpose UN sanctions will 'effectively suspend' its cooperation with the UN nuclear watchdog.

Mounds of litter have lined Birmingham's streets since members of the Unite union began their now-months-long war with council chiefs, causing an influx of maggots and rodents.

Men bearing their bizarre beards and marvelous mustaches met at a gym in Leogang in a competition which literally put the competitors face-to-face.

After the dog collapsed, a vet discovered she was seriously underweight

Officers from the force helped ensure the safe arrival and departure of the President

Kate Moss looked effortlessly chic as she joined Richard Caring and his wife Patricia at the star-studded Annabel's for the Amazon fundraising gala in London on Friday evening. 

Fast Company ran a contrarian take about AI from entrepreneur/thought leader Faisal Hoque, who argues there's three AI bubbles. The first is a classic speculative bubble, with asset prices soaring above their fundamental values (like the 17th century's Dutch "tulip mania"). "The chances of this not being a bubble are between slim and none..." Second, AI is also arguably in what we might call an infrastructure bubble, with huge amounts being invested in infrastructure without any certainty that it will be used at full capacity in the future. This happened multiple times in the later 1800s, as railroad investors built thousands of miles of unneeded track to serve future demand that never materialized. More recently, it happened in the late '90s with the rollout of huge amount of fiber optic cable in anticipation of internet traffic demand that didn't turn up until decades later. Companies are pouring billions into GPUs, power systems, and cooling infrastructure, betting that demand will eventually justify the capacity. McKinsey analysts talk of a $7 trillion "race to scale data centers" for AI, and just eight projects in 2025 already represent commitments of over $1 trillion in AI infrastructure investment. Will this be like the railroad booms and busts of the late 1800s? It is impossible to say with any kind of certainty, but it is not unreasonable to think so. Third, AI is certainly in a hype bubble, which is where the promise claimed for a new technology exceeds reality, and the discussion around that technology becomes increasingly detached from likely future outcomes. Remember the hype around NFTs? That was a classic hype bubble. And AI has been in a similar moment for a while. All kinds of media — social, print, and web — are filled with AI-related content, while AI boosterism has been the mood music of the corporate world for the last few years. Meanwhile, a recent MIT study reported that 95% of AI pilot projects fail to generate any returns at all. But the article ultimately argues there's lessons in the 1990s dotcom boom: that "a thing can be hyped beyond its actual capabilities while still being important... When valuations correct — and they will — the same pattern will emerge: companies that focus on solving real problems with available technology will extract value before, during, and after the crash." The winners will be companies with systematic approaches to extracting value — adopting mixed portfolios with different time horizons and risk levels, while recognizing organizational friction points for a purposeful (and holistic) integration. "The louder the bubble talk, the more space opens for those willing to take a methodical approach to building value." Thanks to Slashdot reader Tony Isaac for sharing the article.

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SNP ministers have quietly shelved their policy that Scotland should have full powers over immigration, The MoS can reveal.

These days their life consists of camping in woodland between two industrial estates, wearing robes made from recycled curtains and accepting gifts to sustain their unusual existence.

Onlookers on holiday saw her riding in the back of a golf cart in a white dress and sun hat on Thursday, which read 'Mrs Preti' in the village of Sant'Angelo.

The London Fire Brigade descended on the branch of the chain chicken eatery in the O2 Centre (pictured, file photo) in the Hampstead area of north-west London at 10.45am today.

The model, 37, recently revealed she was diagnosed with Raynaud's syndrome by doctors after noticing issues with her hands, including them even seizing up.

Lily James and her Swiped co-star Pierson Fode looked closer than ever on Friday as they took a stroll through New York's Central Park. The star, 36, kept it cool in an oversized white shirt and blue jeans.