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Baroness Bakewell of Hardington Mandeville told the Lords that people who move from place to place often struggle to access services because they lack a permanent address.

With his election campaign in Clacton seeing him doused with a milkshake and the subject of numerous threats, the protection detail was put in place after he won the seat in July 2024.

The number of people receiving handouts rose by 300,000 during Keir Starmer's first year in office, while the number of face-to-face welfare assessments has halved under Labour.

Sydney Sweeney is adding another raunchy role to her resume. According to reports, the Euphoria actress is set to star in a 'retelling' of Sleepy Hollow.

Richard Gere put on a cozy display with his decades-younger co-star this week as he began filming controversial romance drama, Asymmetry, in New York City.

The incoming Prime Minister has repeatedly backed the introduction of a 'levy on all estates' to fund social care after first proposing the idea as Health Secretary in 2010.

Her star-making series was a workplace comedy that ran eight seasons on NBC, although she herself only featured on the final three.

Cuddly toy company Jellycat is suing Next and Hamleys over claims they made similar products of 'inferior quality' after copying their designs, High Court documents have revealed.

Camilla announced that children in their final year of primary school will get a unique edition of a best-selling book as part of her bid to boost reading.

Olive Farrow (pictured), four, was injured in a collision in Gotham, Nottinghamshire, at 2pm last Sunday.

The BBC Radio 2 presenter, 60, continues to enjoy a hugely successful career, juggling her radio show alongside two popular podcasts.

Pamela Gwinnett, 63, fled to the Spanish island in April 2025 while she was on bail awaiting trial for her crimes against 89-year-old Joan Green, from Chorley, Lancashire.

Want to stop the hot weather playing havoc with your beauty routine? No sweat, says Alice Robertson

"Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak's Woz Ed foundation is partnering with Realbotix, best known for their RealDoll-branded artificial companions, to deploy AI-powered robotic tutors in classrooms," writes Slashdot reader Hentes. "The doll will serve as a sort of artificial teaching assistant, helping students who get stuck or generating lessons. Students will be assigned an ID code, allowing the robot to provide personalized mentoring." NYS Focus reports: "This deployment in a working school district represents a landmark moment for both AI and humanoid robotics," said Andrew Kiguel, CEO of Realbotix, which is currently building the robot. "[Salamanca City Central School District in Western New York] marks the beginning of a new era where humanoid robots and intelligent AI assistants become standard tools in STEM education." The female robot, named Sally, will have a "lifelike appearance" with silicone skin and long brown hair, Kiguel said in an interview with New York Focus. It will be stationary in a seated position but have a wide range of upper-body movements and facial expressions. [...] Salamanca plans to introduce the robot and avatar in its high school AI and robotics courses, which use curriculum developed by Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak to prepare students for high-demand tech jobs. The district plans to expand it to high school students in other classes if the pilot is successful. Realbotix's classroom robot has drawn scrutiny because the company is connected to RealDoll, the longtime maker of hyperrealistic sex dolls and sex robots. Realbotix acquired RealDoll's parent company in 2024 but says the education-focused operation has separate employees, payroll, facilities, and technology, with plans to formally separate the businesses at the ownership level. The "companion robots" are different from sex robots and intended to address what it's described as a "loneliness epidemic." Kiguel has previously said the company's goal is to produce robots and AI that are "indistinguishable from humans."

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The actress, 42, reportedly split from Rory earlier this week, just a month after the pair were pictured sharing a steamy street clinch.

Shocking footage shows motorists unable to see more than a few metres ahead due to the blaze which broke out beside a busy stretch of the motorway this afternoon.

In 1996, during the shoot of the Oscars-sweeping classic, a still unidentified culprit slipped PCP into the seafood chowder being served to the cast and crew.

Last month, Katie sparked concern when it was revealed she'd purchased the male pomsky with Lee, despite coming under fire for her treatment of animals in the past.

Xi Jinping used his first appearance at China's World AI Conference to promote a vision of low-cost, broadly accessible AI and call for international cooperation rather than technological rivalry. "AI development should not be a solo performance by a single country, but a symphony of international cooperation," he said. Bloomberg reports: His presence at the gathering, attended by scores of tech and government leaders, conveys a potent signal of China's ambitions to dominate a technological sphere with the potential to revolutionize industry and economies -- an effort that's shot to the top of the nation's agenda. Chinese models are winning over companies worldwide, with their share of US firms' AI usage nearing a record 60% on the popular marketplace OpenRouter. Behind the rhetoric, Beijing is grappling with the balance between openness and national security as models grow more capable. Chinese officials recently discussed with companies including Alibaba -- developer of the popular Qwen models -- how to mitigate the security risks posed by their increasingly powerful models, people familiar with the matter said. The talks are early, with no enforcement planned, but restricting foreign access to top models was among the options raised, the people said. Reuters previously reported that Beijing was weighing curbs on overseas access. Earlier today, the Beijing-based AI company "Moonshot" released a massive new model that reset the AI race overnight, immediately vaulting into the top tier of global AI, beating Anthropic's Fable 5 and OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol in front-end coding tests.

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FIFA revealed on Friday that it has manufactured 'bespoke championship rings', 30 of which will be presented to either the Spanish or Argentinian squads on Sunday night.