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The new Chancellor told the party's conference that Britain could not afford another Left-wing spending spree unless economic growth recovers.

John Healey warned Labour cannot afford a Tony Blair-style spending splurge yesterday as he tried to cool nerves about Budget tax hikes.

He's become somewhat of an unlikely sex symbol and celebrity crush and is regarded as one of Britain's best broadcasters. 

Shane Ertmoed, who was sentenced to life in prison for the sexual assault and murder of ten-year-old Heather Thomas, has been granted permission to leave prison for 60 days.

Billy Joe Saunders, 37, used a bottle to assault people on three occasions when chaos erupted at the celebration.

Influencer parents Chris and Sarah have posted everything from footage of the birth of their son Jace in hospital in 2019, to video tours of their home and vlogs of countless family holidays.

The poll of 2,500 UK-based students from five countries found 59 per cent said fictional British characters were a strong influence on their decision to choose a UK university.

Longtime Slashdot reader schwit1 shares a report from Business Standard: China has expanded overseas travel restrictions for top AI professionals in private firms to include the families of key personnel, further tightening measures designed to prevent the outflow of critical know-how and information to the US. Government agencies have recently begun to share the wider restrictions with affected people, which include prominent startup founders as well as the heads of strategically important companies in AI-related fields, people familiar with the matter said. Direct relatives such as spouses and children of certain AI and chip executives, whose work is considered paramount to state security, are now required to obtain approval from Beijing before going abroad even for short trips, the people said. That marks a broadening of existing curbs on the freedom of movement of China's most influential tech talent -- a category that encompasses entrepreneurs, researchers and executives. While not an outright ban on travel, the new requirement is likely to exert a further chilling effect on a tech sector already facing unprecedented curbs. China has restricted foreign travel for top AI professionals in private firms such as Alibaba Group Holding Ltd and DeepSeek since earlier this year, Bloomberg News reported in May, reflecting Beijing's determination to safeguard its technology as it makes big strides in AI and chipmaking. It's unclear whether all those people's families need to follow the new strictures, the people said. China is also separately implementing rules, which became effective Sept 15, for enforcing exit bans in cases ranging from criminal investigations to potential violations of the country's industrial and technological security. Beijing's plan is to add relevant individuals to the list as time goes by, the people said, asking not to be identified discussing a sensitive issue. Government departments have already notified several people of the need to clear family travel, two of the people said.

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Jane Fonda proved age is just number as she commanded attention in a glitzy red dress on the runway at the L'Oreal catwalk at Paris Fashion Week on Monday night. 

A tool that uses artificial intelligence to scan for changes in speech could be used to diagnose type 2 diabetes in just seconds, a new study has found.

This time the Beeb has gone too far. It's cancelled Santa. A ludicrous accusation? Yes, but not as ridiculous as the BBC's decision to censor the children's show Horrible Histories.

The shocking footage - taken at John F Kennedy International Airport in New York - shows a white refuelling truck moving away from an Air China Boeing 747-8 as it prepares to depart.

Michael Palin has tasted some stomach-churning delicacies on his travels.

Jane Coates travelled more than 4,000 miles to the Collin County District Attorney's Office, where she called for the probe into the shooting of her daughter Lucy Harrison to be reopened.

Charlene White has reflected on losing her father to suicide in an emotional Instagram post one year after his death on Monday. 

The 65-year-old acting veteran and his 61-year-old wife of 17 years left their hotel in New York City together on Sunday as the actor quietly slipped the doorman a $100 bill.

Authorities were called to Stanley Park in Liverpool at around 5.25pm on Friday, 28 August, after a member of the public discovered a black bin bag in the bushes of the walled garden.

Rihanna commanded attention in a garish blood orange co-ord as she arrived at the Matières Fécales show on day one of Paris Fashion Week on Monday.

AI pioneer Fei-Fei Li just co-founded spatial AI research company World Labs in 2024. Now it's joining AMD

AMD has agreed to acquire Fei-Fei Li's World Labs for about $8.2 billion in stock, making it the chipmaker's second-largest acquisition and giving it a major foothold in "world models" that simulate 3D environments for robotics and other physically grounded AI. CNBC reports: AI researchers expect world models will be able to help develop robots and other physically-grounded artificial intelligence applications. AMD plans to keep World Labs separate from its chipmaking business until the transaction closes later this year. The lab's research on next-generation models will allow AMD to plan for what its AI chips need to be capable of years in advance. World Labs was founded by AI researcher Fei-Fei Li, who is widely seen as an AI pioneer as a Stanford professor, and who previously worked for Google leading AI research. Li will become an AMD's chief scientist and an executive vice president at the company. In a demo presented by Li and AMD CEO Lisa Su earlier this year, the two executives showed a World Labs model called Marble creating a three-dimensional scene out of a few images. "Intelligent agents, whether it's robots or vehicles or even tools, can learn inside very-rich physics-aware digital worlds before they even need to be deployed into the real one, making them much safer," Li said at the presentation.

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