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UN members approve talks on treaty protocol against environmental crime

Dolly Parton museum and Nashville hotel open after singer’s death

Family-run West Sussex beach café prepares for first winter season

George and Amal Clooney attend New York political-comedy reading

CT scans reveal health and burial clues from Egypt’s Braided Lady mummy

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

Spotting AI writing: how reliable are the detectors?

Claims that Canadian-Haitian writer Thelyson Orelien used AI tools to write his best-selling debut novel are rocking the French literary world and posing questions about how AI can be detected.

French youth await pope after AI 'paradise of machines' warning

Tens of thousands of French youth waved their hands in the air to Christian pop on Friday as they waited for Pope Leo XIV to lead them in prayer, after he called for peace and warned against losing humanity in an AI-driven "paradise of machines".

Trump's photo of Xi greeting carries signs of AI

Donald Trump shared an image Thursday of Xi Jinping's red-carpet arrival to Washington that appears to have been altered using artificial intelligence, with an unflattering expression captured in live footage of the moment edited out.

Man City found guilty of Premier League charges, set to appeal: reports

Manchester City have been found guilty of all but one of 115 Premier League charges for breaching financial regulations, according to reports on Friday, in a ruling that will send shockwaves through English football.

Six missing after building blast in historic Athens district

Six people including three tourists were missing after an explosion early Friday in a building in Athens' historic Plaka district located just below the Acropolis.

Embolo follows Xhaka out of Swiss squad over fake Covid documents

Switzerland striker Breel Embolo has been left out of the squad for the upcoming Nations League matches after being sanctioned for using forged Covid-19 test certificates during the pandemic.

Millions in US northeast brace for powerful storm

More than 40 million people in the northeastern United States braced Friday for heavy rain and strong winds as an unusually powerful storm for the season was forecast to crash into the region.

Assefa seeks 'better than my best' at Berlin marathon

Ethiopian runner and course record holder Tigst Assefa said she felt ready to run "better than my best" in Sunday's Berlin marathon.

'Bottle Claus': Kipchoge's 'hero' helping runners chase Berlin marathon glory

Hours after helping Eliud Kipchoge break the marathon world record in Berlin in 2018, bottle carrier Claus-Henning Schulke received a phone call from the Kenyan icon.

US court refuses to overturn Pentagon ban on Anthropic

A US appeals court upheld on Friday the Pentagon's decision to exclude Anthropic from its supply chain, a decision taken when the AI startup refused to remove certain safeguards on its Claude model.

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