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Almost 40-years have passed since Crocodile Dundee turned Paul Hogan into a global star and his roguish titular character into one of Hollywood's most enduring money-spinners.

This week it is legal to shoplift and evade travel fares. It can't be long before GBH joins the list. The police, we're told, have more important things to do. Now we know what these are.

Londoners Aziz Ziriat, 36, and Samuel Harris, 35, were hiking in the Dolomites when they vanished without a trace - sparking a major search operation.

Thursday Anthropic's CEO/cofounder Dario Amodei again warned unemployed could spike 10 to 20% within the next five years as AI potentially eliminated half of all entry-level white-collar jobs. But CNN's senior business writer dismisses that as "all part of the AI hype machine," pointing out that Amodei "didn't cite any research or evidence for that 50% estimate." And that was just one of many of the wild claims he made that are increasingly part of a Silicon Valley script: AI will fix everything, but first it has to ruin everything. Why? Just trust us. In this as-yet fictional world, "cancer is cured, the economy grows at 10% a year, the budget is balanced — and 20% of people don't have jobs," Amodei told Axios, repeating one of the industry's favorite unfalsifiable claims about a disease-free utopia on the horizon, courtesy of AI. But how will the US economy, in particular, grow so robustly when the jobless masses can't afford to buy anything? Amodei didn't say... Anyway. The point is, Amodei is a salesman, and it's in his interest to make his product appear inevitable and so powerful it's scary. Axios framed Amodei's economic prediction as a "white-collar bloodbath." Even some AI optimists were put off by Amodei's stark characterization. "Someone needs to remind the CEO that at one point there were more than (2 million) secretaries. There were also separate employees to do in office dictation," wrote tech entrepreneur Mark Cuban on Bluesky. "They were the original white collar displacements. New companies with new jobs will come from AI and increase TOTAL employment." Little of what Amodei told Axios was new, but it was calibrated to sound just outrageous enough to draw attention to Anthropic's work, days after it released a major model update to its Claude chatbot, one of the top rivals to OpenAI's ChatGPT. Amodei told CNN Thursday this great societal change would be driven by how incredibly fast AI technology is getting better and better — and that the AI boom "is bigger and it's broader and it's moving faster than anything has before...!"

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Taylor Swift enjoyed a night out with her new A-list buddy Dakota Johnson in NYC on Thursday - and fans were quick to notice that a member of Blake Lively's inner circle was also spotted with them.

One of the most enduring mysteries in US history is closer to being solved: who was DB Cooper, the man who hijacked an airplane before parachuting out into the night with $200,000 cash?

Police searching for a nine-year-old girl in the River Thames have found a body, as her brother continues to recover in hospital.

Helen Flanagan looked sensational as she took to Instagram on Saturday with a sizzling new post.

Andy Carroll and his girlfriend Lou Teasdale looked totally smitten as they shared a loved-up snap from their Ibiza getaway on Saturday.

The dancer, 22, and the Love Island star, 32, have formed a close bond since meeting in the Celebrity Big Brother house last month, but have kept it coy when grilled about the status of their relationship.

In her 20 years hosting A Place In The Sun, presenter Jasmine Harman (pictured) has seen her fair share of chaos.

Class A drugs seized at a caravan in an Essex holiday park were linked to a county line.

It's a very well-to-do village with plenty of expensive properties and cars

The luxury car, which belongs to Ameerh Naran, the CEO of Vimana Private Jets, was pictured with the bright yellow fine slapped on its bonnet outside Dishoom, Derry Street in west London .

I had a heart attack in a hotel room. That much my wife knows.She thinks I was away on a work trip, pushed too hard, and my body gave out. The real reason could wreck our marriage.

'I'm the lunatic in this asylum,' says Lisa, 55 - who reveals what drove her to place a vase filled with TADPOLES on the centre of the couple's dining table.

Karen Carter, 65 and a married mother of four, was found dead outside her home in Trémolat, east of Bordeaux, following a night out with friends on April 29th.

"More than 200 climate and weather scientists from across the U.S. are taking part in a marathon livestream on YouTube," according to this report from Space.com. For 100 hours (that started Wednesday) they're sharing their scientific work and answering questions from viewers, "to prove the value of climate science," according to the article. The event is being stated in protest of recent government funding cuts at NASA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the United States Geological Survey, and the National Science Foundation. (The event began with "scientists documenting their last few hours at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies as the office was shuttered.") The marathon stream features mini-lectures, panels and question-and-answer sessions with hundreds of scientists, each speaking in their capacity as private citizens rather than on behalf of any institution. These include talks from former National Weather Service directors, Britney Schmidt, a groundbreaking glacier researcher, and legendary meteorologist John Morales. In its first 30 hours, the stream got over 77,000 views. Ultimately, the goal of the event is to give members of the public the chance to learn more about meteorology and climate science in an informal setting — and for free. "We really felt like the American public deserves to know what we do," Duffy said. However, many of the speakers and organizers also hope the transference of this knowledge will spur people to take action. The event's website features a link to 5 Calls, an organization that makes it easy for folks to contact their representatives in Congress about the importance of funding climate and weather research.

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A plane has crashed into a house in western Germany, killing two people including the pilot, according to local police.

Heavy pre-dawn showers lashed a Nigerian market town on Friday, leaving roofs barely visible and residents waist-deep in water.