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Festival organisers said paramedics, who arrived around 1.45am, did 'everything they could' to treat her.

Both men were brought out of the water by the RNLI crew and were treated immediately.

The bitter row began not long after they purchased their rural estate in Stoney Stoke, Somerset, for £3million in 2018 and began a huge overhaul - much to the anger of local residents.

Le Pen had her conviction for embezzling millions from the European Parliament upheld in Paris last week, a decision many expected to lead to her abandoning a fourth bid for the Elysee Palace.

It plays an integral role in the dominant trends of the modern world. That means prices are likely to rise and the companies that mine this critical metal should deliver robust rewards to shareholders.

California drew more than $335 billion in venture capital funding this year, reports the Los Angeles Times, citing data released Thursday by PitchBook on private market funding: Its next biggest competitor, New York, raised less than a tenth of California's total. Texas raised 1/40th of the amount... Although a campaign for a new tax on billionaires has convinced some ultra-rich residents to shift to other states and businesses often complain that high property and energy costs and an anti-business regulatory regime make it too tough to make money in the state, the inability of the top talent, companies and investors in AI to set up elsewhere shows California's enduring attraction. The state's economy grew 5% last year to a record $4.25 trillion, making it larger than every country other than the U.S., China and Germany. It is home to nearly 400 billion-dollar startups — more than any other state, according to CB Insights... Among metropolitan regions, Los Angeles ranked behind only Silicon Valley and New York, which attracted $98 billion and $11.5 billion in venture investment, respectively... Investors poured in nearly $8 billion across 207 deals in the Los Angeles, Long Beach, and Santa Ana metro areas, up 28% from a year earlier, according to PitchBook... Nearly 90% of invested dollars [in California] went to AI firms, up from last year, when around 65% of new funds were allocated to AI. "If you're a tech company and you're not an AI company, you have a very, very difficult opportunity ahead of you to raise capital," Stanford said.

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Former junior Foreign Office minister Tobias Ellwood had to think on his feet when he unexpectedly found himself alone with Russian despot Vladimir Putin for 15 minutes...

When was the last time you saw a stuffed bear in a pub? Not so long ago, hundreds of country inns had one, usually by the door, paws raised, like a bouncer ready for some argy-bargy.

When Julie took her first steps of freedom into her new home at an British ran elephant sanctuary based in southern Portugal her forty years living and working in a circus were finally at an end.

The state-of-the-art technology, provided by the UK taxpayer, is helping authorities in Bosnia and Herzegovina monitor remote terrain, including mine-infested forest.

NHS ambulance trust sparks fury among female employees by saying staff are free to use facilities that match their gender identity rather than their biological sex.

Police were called to the scene in Epping Road, Ongar, at around 4.20pm on Friday, where a 48-year-old man from Derbyshire was arrested on suspicion of causing serious injuries.

Little would have prepared these officers for the one that crawled into their patrol car while out on a job.

Former top-100 player and host of the GMTV breakfast show, Castle, 62, has been one of the voices of the tournament but the BBC has decided to take their coverage in a new direction.

Meningococcal B can cause serious, life-threatening problems including inflammation of the lining of the brain and sepsis (blood poisoning).

Britain's scorching May and June heatwaves are thought to have claimed more than 2,700 lives, with almost half of those deaths fuelled by climate change.

Which jobs are most threatened by AI? "Programmers, software engineers and other tech industry employees," goes one common answer. "But many economists are more concerned about a different, larger group of white-collar workers," reports the New York Times: customer service reps, bookkeepers, payroll clerks and HR specialists, "who fly under the radar but collectively account for tens of millions of jobs..." They are spread across the country and throughout the economy, working in every industry, in big cities and small towns, at major corporations and mom-and-pop businesses... These jobs typically offer a middle-class salary or a pathway to achieving one — much as manufacturing jobs did for men before decades of globalisation and automation wiped many of them away... For now, such an outcome is a fear, not a forecast. Despite high-profile layoffs in tech and finance, there is little firm evidence that AI has hurt the labour market as a whole. Economists have become increasingly convinced that disruptions are likely, but they say it is too early to know where or how widespread they will be. They remain broadly sceptical of claims that the technology will lead to mass unemployment in the near future. Some AI industry leaders have walked back such predictions in recent weeks. But given the extraordinary pace at which companies are adopting AI — and at which the technology is improving — economists say policymakers need to consider the potential effects on the labour market. And they say they are concerned that the public debate has focused too much on software engineers and a relative handful of other high-status careers — lawyers, consultants, economists — rather than the workers who could be most vulnerable... Economists at Northwestern University recently recalculated measures of AI exposure based on the makeup of the total workforce, not just the people using the technology. Administrative and front-line roles, such as customer service representatives, rose to the top of the list. "The most affected jobs are secretaries, are routine clerks," said Michelle Yin, one of the working paper's authors. "They're not computer scientists or data scientists at all." The article also includes this counterpoint from an economist at the University of Illinois who has studied earlier waves of white-collar automation: that like other disruptive technologies, AI likely will also create new jobs. So the possibility exists AI will make workers more productive and allow them to earn more. "I would be cautious about just focusing on what are we losing as opposed to what are we going to gain on the other side."

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RIATH AL-SAMARRAI AT WIMBLEDON: Across the course of three hours, 46 minutes and four sets, Zverev threw it all at the world No 1. But it, once again, was not quite enough.

There's also no hope of Michelle making another comeback down the line, because her character Zoe has been killed off.

The German branded his side 'lucky' after Bellingham's brace and help from both VAR and a spider camera cable saw them creep past the spirited Scandinavians after extra-time.