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The Manchester United legend is co-owner of the fourth division club alongside former team-mate Neville, and recently revealed he helped save the club from a serious situation.

The historic artefact is set to go on display in London next year for nine months on loan from France, with Emmanuel Macron announcing the loan during his state visit to Britain in June.

Froome, 40, was left with a collapsed lung, five broken ribs, and a broken back and had to be airlifted to a hospital in Toulon after a crash near Saint-Raphael in France.

I have developed red bumps on my upper arms. They feel a bit rough to touch but I have no other symptoms. How can I get rid of them? Dr Ellie Cannon replies...

Micro- and nanoplastic particles "infiltrate all systems of the body, including the brain," notes the University of Rhode Island, "where they can accumulate and trigger Alzheimer's-like conditions, according to a new study by researchers in the University of Rhode Island College of Pharmacy." ScienceDaily shares the announcement: After a previous study that showed how microplastics can infiltrate all systems of the body — including the blood-brain barrier, which protects the brain from harmful substances as small as viruses and bacteria — University of Rhode Island pharmacy assistant professor Jaime Ross expanded the study to determine the brain health impacts of the plastic toxins. Her findings indicate that the accumulation of micro- and nanoplastics in the brain can lead to cognitive decline and even Alzheimer's disease, especially in those who carry genetic risk factors. Ross' latest study, published recently in the journal Environmental Research Communications, examined mice that had been genetically modified to include the naturally occurring gene APOE4, a strong indicator of Alzheimer's risk making people 3.5 times more likely to develop the disease than those who carry the APOE3 variant of the gene that is passed from parents to offspring... Ross and her team exposed two groups of mice — one with the APOE4 variant and one with APOE3 — to micro- and nanoplastics in their drinking water over a period of three weeks. The tiny particles from polystyrene — among the most abundant plastics in the world, found in Styrofoam take-out containers, plastic cups and more — infiltrated the mice' organs, including the brain, as expected... Ross' team then ran the mice through a series of tests to examine their cognitive ability, beginning with an open-field test, in which researchers put a mouse in a chamber and allow it to explore at will for 90 minutes. Ordinarily, a mouse will hug the walls, naturally attempting to hide from potential predators. However, after microplastic exposure, the APOE4 mice — especially the male mice — tended to wander more in the middle of the chamber and spend time in open space, leaving themselves vulnerable to predators... The results are concerning enough to warrant further study into the cognitive decline caused by exposure to micro- and nanoplastics, which are among the most prominent environmental toxins to which people are routinely exposed... Ross is continuing to expand her research into the topic and encourages others to do so, in the hope of leading to better regulation of the toxins.

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Police searching for a British man who went missing on the Costa del Sol last month have found a body believed to be his.

Many residents are concerned about where small children will play is the proposal was successful

An 'extreme security alert' was raised after the suspected devices were discovered in the suspect's checked bag, senior security sources have claimed. Dublin Airport has since reopened.

Tensions flared during a Regional School Unit 67 meeting on Wednesday night when Tim Bodnar, a social media personality, targeted a teacher.

Peter Reynolds, 80, and his wife Barbie, 76, arrived at London Heathrow airport from Qatar, which played a major role in negotiating their release.

The One Direction star had hoped he could transform Doncaster Rovers into a football powerhouse and became the public face of the campaign to find the club a buyer in 2014.

"OpenAI's video generation tool, Sora, can create high-definition clips of just about anything you could ask for..." reports the Washington Post. "But OpenAI has not specified which videos it grabbed to make Sora, saying only that it combined 'publicly available and licensed data'..." With ChatGPT, OpenAI helped popularize the now-standard industry practice of building more capable AI tools by scraping vast quantities of text from the web without consent. With Sora, launched in December, OpenAI staff said they built a pioneering video generator by taking a similar approach. They developed ways to feed the system more online video — in more varied formats — including vertical videos and longer, higher-resolution clips... To explore what content OpenAI may have used, The Washington Post used Sora to create hundreds of videos that show it can closely mimic movies, TV shows and other content... In dozens of tests, The Post found that Sora can create clips that closely resemble Netflix shows such as "Wednesday"; popular video games like "Minecraft"; and beloved cartoon characters, as well as the animated logos for Warner Bros., DreamWorks and other Hollywood studios, movies and TV shows. The publicly available version of Sora can generate only 20-second clips, without audio. In most cases, the look-alike scenes were made by typing basic requests like "universal studios intro." The results also showed that Sora can create AI videos with the logos or watermarks that broadcasters and tech companies use to brand their video content, including those for the National Basketball Association, Chinese-owned social app TikTok and Amazon-owned streaming platform Twitch... Sora's ability to re-create specific imagery and brands suggests a version of the originals appeared in the tool's training data, AI researchers said. "The model is mimicking the training data. There's no magic," said Joanna Materzynska, a PhD researcher at Massachusetts Institute of Technology who has studied datasets used in AI. An AI tool's ability to reproduce proprietary content doesn't necessarily indicate that the original material was copied or obtained from its creators or owners. Content of all kinds is uploaded to video and social platforms, often without the consent of the copyright holder... Materzynska co-authored a study last year that found more than 70 percent of public video datasets commonly used in AI research contained content scraped from YouTube. Netflix and Twitch said they did not have a content partnership for training OpenAI, according to the article (which adds that OpenAI "has yet to face a copyright suit over the data used for Sora.") Two key quotes from the article: "Unauthorized scraping of YouTube content continues to be a violation of our Terms of Service." — YouTube spokesperson Jack Malon "We train on publicly available data consistent with fair use and use industry-leading safeguards to avoid replicating the material they learn from." — OpenAI spokesperson Kayla Wood

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The model, 18, watched from the crowd with step mum Emily as the singer belted out his classic hit Mysterious Girl during Sam Thompson and Pete Wick's Staying Relevant Tour.

Queen Camilla momentarily found herself in an 'awkward' social situation while welcoming Donald and Melania Trump to Windsor Castle for the couple's historic second official state visit.

For £1.45million, buyers will walk away with a state of the art eight-bedroom mansion - or will they?

Kate Ferdinand has shared insight into her family's 'chaotic' new life in Dubai just weeks after relocating with husband Rio and their kids from the UK.

The 30-year-old supermodel marked her daughter Khai Malik's fifth birthday with a series of Instagram Stories posts on Friday.

He is best known for his role as beloved dad Mick in the nation's favourite sitcom Gavin & Stacey. 

A hiker was killed in northern Greece this summer after he fell down a ravine while being charged at by a bear. 

Prince Andrew was photographed in Windsor on Saturday - just days after being criticised over his 'jolly demeanour' at the Duchess of Kent's funeral.