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British buyers pay substantial premiums for period-home appearance

Oxford faces complaints over lecturer’s classroom attire

Thomas Markle released to house arrest after child-abuse-image charge

Kyren Wilson and John Higgins reach International Championship snooker final

Dawn of War 4 developers chose Adeptus Mechanicus for tactical variety

New Zealand and Tonga meet for place in Rugby League World Cup final

Italy face unbeaten South Africa in Turin Nations Championship match

Reports of unsafe AI-toy responses renew calls for child-safety rules

ChatGPT interactive interface feature tested across six custom tools

Juneau food network combines difficult supply routes with deep sharing traditions

Freshways milk-price cut deepens pressure on UK dairy farms

India climbs green-transition ranking after first emissions decline in 25 years

The Good Daughter adapts Karin Slaughter thriller with Rose Byrne and Meghann Fahy

Restored Albanian tower houses anchor new rural tourism trail

China's Xiaomi to invest nearly $7 bn in chips

Chinese tech giant Xiaomi will invest 50 billion yuan ($6.9 billion) in developing high-end smartphone chips, the firm's founder said on Monday.

Women claim spotlight in India's macho movie industry

India's giant movie industry is known for its macho, men-centric storylines, but a wave of women filmmakers is helping to break the mould.

Stocks, dollar drop after US loses last triple-A credit rating

Stocks fell with the dollar Monday after Moody's removed the United States' last gold standard sovereign bond rating, citing the growing debt pile that it warned could balloon further.

Bruno Fernandes: Man Utd's visionary leader

Bruno Fernandes has been Manchester United's shining light in a desperate season. Now he has one more task -- to drag them over the line in the Europa League final.

Europa League golden ticket offers Man Utd, Spurs salvation

Manchester United and Tottenham will slug it out in the Europa League final on Wednesday in Bilbao, with both sides desperately seeking salvation from dismal Premier League campaigns through silverware and a golden ticket into next season's Champions League.

Ryanair annual profit drops 16% as fares fall

Irish no-frills carrier Ryanair on Monday said net profit fell 16 percent in its financial year as it cut ticket prices to boost passenger numbers.

Five things to know about Scarlett Johansson

One of Hollywood's top-grossing actresses, Scarlett Johansson will walk the red carpet twice at Cannes, for her directorial debut with "Eleanor the Great" and for Wes Anderson's film "The Phoenician Scheme", which premieres Monday.

Polar bear biopsies to shed light on Arctic pollutants

With one foot braced on the helicopter's landing skid, a veterinarian lifted his air rifle, took aim and fired a tranquiliser dart at a polar bear.

Nvidia unveils plan for Taiwan's first 'AI supercomputer'

Nvidia boss Jensen Huang announced plans for Taiwan's "first AI supercomputer", as he showcased on Monday the company's latest advances in artificial intelligence.

Kiss to coach Australia-New Zealand combined XV against Lions

Incoming Wallabies coach Les Kiss was named Monday to lead a combined Australia-New Zealand XV against the British and Irish Lions in Adelaide on July 12.

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