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She balances a busy life as a mum-of-two with running three fast food eateries

Concerns have been raised that estimates by the Treasury's OBR watchdog might be underplaying the challenges posed by life expectancy improvements.

An anonymous reader shares a report: Surveys show that the increasing number of extreme climate events, including floods, wildfires and hurricanes, has not raised awareness of the threats posed by climate change. Instead, people change their idea of what they see as normal. This so-called "boiling frog effect" makes gradual change difficult to spot. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University in Pennsylvania wondered if climate change could be made more obvious by presenting it in binary terms. Local newspaper archives describing ice skating on Lake Carnegie when it froze in winter inspired a simple experiment. Some test subjects were shown temperature graphs of a fictional town's winter conditions; others had a chart showing whether or not a fictional lake froze each year. The result, published in Nature, showed those who receiving the second graphic consistently saw climate change as more real and imminent. Binary data gives a clearer impression of the "before" and "after." The disappearing ice is more vivid and dramatic than a temperature trace, even though the underlying data is the same. "We are literally showing them the same trend, just in different formats," says Rachit Dubey, a co-author of the study. These results should help drive more effective ways of communicating the impact of climate change in future by finding simple binary, black-and-white examples of its effects.

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Upper Castle Park was closed to the public from 8am this morning and Essex Police had set up a cordon in the area.

One person has been arrested during tonight's protest (July 24)

The scolding installment also touched upon the controversial cancellation of Late Night with Stephen Colbert, as well as the Jeffery Epstein list.

So says a study by boffins at Carnegie Mellon University

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have likened today's large language model (LLM) chatbots to "that friend who swears they're great at pool but never makes a shot" - having found that their virtual self-confidence grew, rather than shrank, after getting answers wrong.…

The Indonesian court gave 12-month prison terms to the three British nationals, who had been accused of drug running on the resort island.

Mohammed Fahir Amaaz, 20, had 'fabricated' a claim of self-defence to try to justify his attack on PC Lydia Ward as well as colleagues PC Ellie Cook and PC Zachary Marsden.

Every company in every industry in every geography on Earth is trying to figure out how they are going to train AI models and tune them to help with their particular workloads. …

Financial Services Firms Will Bank On Homegrown AI Training was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

Once reserved for dads in the park or off-duty celebs dodging paps, the humble baseball cap is now a mainstay of the fashion set's wardrobe.

An amateur cyclist who dangerously tried to cross the finish line of the Tour de France moments before the peloton has been taken into custody after being sent to the floor by a security guard.

EXCLUSIVE BY CRAIG HOPE:The striker did not travel with the squad on their pre-season tour of the Far East on Thursday after leaving training with a thigh injury on Monday.

The eldest son of Posh Spice and footballer David, 26, is currently locked in a bitter feud with his parents with him and his wife Nicola Peltz, 31, pitted against the rest of the family.

Traffic is easing along the M25 in Essex this evening (Thursday, July 24). A shed load resulted in a lane closure and long traffic delays.

The co-stars have been on a press run in recent months on behalf of new film Fantastic Four: First Steps, in which they play married couple Reed Richards and Sue Storm.

Massive mobile device tracking data has exposed the interconnected network of Myanmar's expanding scam centers, revealing how trafficked workers circulate between compounds despite February crackdowns. Analysis of 4.9 million location records from 11,930 mobile devices between January 2024 and May 2025 showed five devices visited all three major compounds -- Yatai New City, Apolo Park, and Yulong Bay Park -- plus the raided KK Park and Huanya Park facilities. Workers are forced into romance scams, deceiving victims into believing they're in romantic relationships before extracting money. A South Asian man held six months at KK Park worked 16 hours daily conducting these online deceptions while enduring beatings and electric shocks for poor performance. Nikkei's investigation combined satellite imagery analysis, social media posts from Chinese platform Douyin, and open-source intelligence techniques to document continued construction at eight of 16 suspected sites. Myanmar authorities deported over 66,000 foreign nationals involved in these online fraud operations between October 2023 and June 2025.

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Clearly something unusual happened in the early hours of Boxing Day morning in Rendlesham Forest, near the twin RAF bases of Bentwaters and Woodbridge, that's still being talked about today.

Devon Simmonds, 15, was pronounced dead at the scene after a collision between a car and e-bike in Middleton, Greater Manchester.

Polish company Volonaut has confirmed that the futuristic vehicle was not generated by AI , and is very much real.