Yasmin Rufo Culture reporter Getty Images A little less conversation, a little more action please – fans were hoping to see a hologram version of Elvis but instead saw footage of him from the 1968 comeback special concert A number of people who attended a new Elvis immersive experience in London have told the BBC […]
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Russia and Ukraine will hold a new round of peace talks in Istanbul on Wednesday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said. “Today, I discussed with (Ukrainian Security Council chief) Rustem Umerov the preparations for a prisoner exchange and another meeting in Turkey with the Russian side,” Zelensky said in his daily address on Monday. “Umerov
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Gang leaders, corrupt officials and companies selling small boat equipment will be named this week as the first targets of new government sanctions against people-smuggling. The financial action – which the government says is a world-first – is aimed at tackling illegal immigration to the UK and is central to Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer’s
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Koh Ewe BBC News, Singapore Getty Images Many of the victims were students who had just come out of class when a F-7 jet crashed into their school Bangladesh is observing a day of mourning after at least 27 people were killed when a military jet crashed into a school. Many of the victims were
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The government has said it is making “substantial changes” to the compensation scheme for thousands of victims of the infected blood scandal. The announcement was made in Parliament two weeks after a heavily critical report into the payment scheme by the chair of the public inquiry into the disaster. Cabinet Office minister Nick Thomas-Symonds said
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OpenAI, the firm behind ChatGPT, has signed a deal to use artificial intelligence to increase productivity in the UK’s public services, the government has announced. The agreement signed by the firm and the science department could give OpenAI access to government data and see its software used in education, defence, security, and the justice system.
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Cash Murphy BBC News, South East Juliette Parkin/BBC Deputy manager Maggie Rea says Nick Cave’s publicist contacted the Oxfam bookshop to ask if it wanted the donation Nick Cave fans took some of his favourite books into their arms after the singer donated 2,000 from his personal collection to a charity shop in Hove. Cave
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When the preliminary report into the crash of Air India Flight 171 – which killed 260 people in June – was released, many hoped it would bring some measure of closure. Instead, the 15-page report added fuel to a firestorm of speculation. For, despite the measured tone of the report, one detail continues to haunt
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Leigh Boobyer & Emma Hallett BBC News, West of England Albert Alfonso/Flickr Yostin Mosquera (L), Albert Alfonso (M) and Paul Longworth (R) look like they were having the time of their life on holiday The murder of Albert Alfonso and Paul Longworth by Yostin Mosquera revealed a world of extreme sex, dark web videos and
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One of Jeffrey Epstein’s accusers and a key witness in his associate Ghislaine Maxwell’s sex trafficking trial is calling for the government to release information related to him, especially if there is “nothing to hide.” Annie Farmer has watched US President Donald Trump’s recent handling of the case and the ensuing backlash from the MAGA
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