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Apple is "actively looking at" revamping the Safari web browser on its devices to focus on AI-powered search engines, a seismic shift for the industry hastened by the potential end of a longtime partnership with Google. From a report: Eddy Cue, Apple's senior vice president of services, made the disclosure Wednesday during his testimony in the US Justice Department's lawsuit against Alphabet. The heart of the dispute is the two companies' estimated $20 billion-a-year deal that makes Google the default offering for queries in Apple's browser. The case could force the tech giants to unwind the pact, upending how the iPhone and other devices have long operated. Cue noted that searches on Safari dipped for the first time last month, which he attributed to people using AI. Cue said he believes that AI search providers, including OpenAI, Perplexity and Anthropic, will eventually replace standard search engines like Alphabet's Google. He said he believes Apple will bring those options to Safari in the future. "We will add them to the list -- they probably won't be the default," he said, indicating that they still need to improve.

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The biggest night in fashion took place at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on Monday but failed to deliver the star power and glamour of years past.

A four-year-old girl was found in her New York home last month after her mother Lisa Cotton, 38, and her brother Nazir Millen, eight, were found dead by Cotton's eldest daughter.

Nearly a two-thirds of adults were overweight, with an extra 260,000 people entering that category last year. More than a quarter - an estimated 14 million people - were obese.

Contracts were originally forecast to cost £4.5billion over a decade from 2019 but are now expected to run to £15.3bn over same period, after the Channel crisis exploded, NAO says

'Passkeys' - already being used in the NHS - are now being rolled out by the government and promoted to the private sector. Experts estimate they will save time signing in and be more secure.

Once inside, they will pledge to maintain secrecy about what's about to transpire and to not allow any interference from outsiders to influence their voting.

The World Health Organisation has long demanded countries take tougher action to combat the scourge of pollution, which is thought to kill 7million people every year.

The 55-year-old woman was pulled over for an active warrant and a suspended license when an officer made the startling discovery.

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A summer drought could be looming in England after the driest start to spring in generations. Lack of rainfall has left reservoir levels dwindling, crops struggling and vegetation parched.

Diljit Dosanjh, 41, wanted to sport the Maharaja of Patiala's necklace to complete his royal-inspired look for his first appearance at the Met Gala in New York, reported the New York Times.

A horrified woman developed gangrene in her foot and was forced to have it amputated after contracting a deadly bacterial infection in hospital.

Lucas Paqueta could miss the rest of West Ham's season with his club worried about their star midfielder's state of mind amid the toll of his prolonged betting case. 

The activist, 55, divorced from the Pride and Prejudice actor, 64, in 2021 after 24 years of marriage having met on the set of a BBC documentary in 1996.

The Drug Enforcement Administration has quietly ended its body camera program barely four years after it began, ProPublica reports, citing an internal email. From the report: On April 2, DEA headquarters emailed employees announcing that the program had been terminated effective the day before. The DEA has not publicly announced the policy change, but by early April, links to pages about body camera policies on the DEA's website were broken. The email said the agency made the change to be "consistent" with a Trump executive order rescinding the 2022 requirement that all federal law enforcement agents use body cameras. But at least two other federal law enforcement agencies within the Justice Department -- the U.S. Marshals Service and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives -- are still requiring body cameras, according to their spokespeople.

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US vice president JD Vance has accused Russia of 'asking for too much' to end its invasion of Ukraine, just days after the US said it would no longer mediate peace talks. 

SIMON JORDAN: We've changed the format this week so I can address some of the questions and observations you've sent in on a vast array of topics, from trophy parades to the transfer market.

The Only Way Is Essex star Pete Wicks has revealed how pal and former Love Island star Olivia Attwood encouraged him to see a specialist after a childhood eye condition returned

The 4ft 7in star, 27, described feeling 'fear and anxiety' when the 15-year-old schoolgirl knocked at her door.