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Future of Notting Hill Carnival in jeopardy without urgent funding, organisers say The carnival's chair Ian Comfort has written to Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy to request extra funding.
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Here are the best streaming service deals available right now
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Here are the best streaming service deals available right now So far, 2025 has been a great year for watching new, must-see TV shows and movies on subscription services. But if you, like many of us, have more concurrent subscriptions than you care to admit, you’ll agree that keeping up ...
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Kate pulls out of Royal Ascot as she looks for right balance of return to... Catherine was due to attend the races with her husband the Prince of Wales and the King and Queen.
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Ancestra actually says a lot about the current state of AI-generated videos
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Ancestra actually says a lot about the current state of AI-generated videos After watching writer / director Eliza McNitt's new short film Ancestra, I can see why a number of Hollywood studios are interested in generative AI. Many of the shots were made and refined solely with prompts, in collaboration with Google's ...
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Temperatures surpass 29C as UK heads for heatwave The nights will also be much warmer from Thursday, with many areas seeing temperatures in the high teens.
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Eleven killed by Israeli fire while seeking aid in Gaza, rescuers say Israel's military says troops in central Gaza fired warning shots at a group posing a potential threat, but that it was unaware of injuries.
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YouTube is plugging Veo 3 AI videos directly into Shorts
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YouTube is plugging Veo 3 AI videos directly into Shorts YouTube is bringing its Veo 3 AI video generation model, which my colleague Allison Johnson recently called “a slop monger’s dream,” to YouTube Shorts later this summer, according to a Cannes Lions keynote from YouTube CEO Neal Mohan.
Shorts creators can ...
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Death Stranding is getting an animated film
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Death Stranding is getting an animated film The strange world of Death Stranding just keeps on expanding. As Deadline reports, Hideo Kojima’s ghostly, post-apocalyptic video game is getting a spinoff in the form of an animated film. While there aren’t a lot of details yet, the animated ...
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'Everything was destroyed': Kyiv residents in despair after deadly Russian attack A cruise missile slammed into an ordinary residential block early on Tuesday, likely travelling at about 500mph.
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Nintendo Switch 2: Which webcams work?
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Nintendo Switch 2: Which webcams work? The Insta360 Link is among the USB-C webcams that don’t work with the new Switch.
The Nintendo Switch 2 is more expensive in practically every way: pricier console, pricier games, an entire Chat button you'll eventually have to pay to use. ...
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'They sang about my family's death': Father's anger exposes divide in Israeli society An Iranian missile killed Kasem's family in an Arab-majority town in Israel. The response shone a light on deep social issues.
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Under-fire NHS trust said patient had eaten breakfast - three days after he died The mental health trust where Alice Figueiredo took her own life faced concerns over 20 other deaths.
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Honda R&D successfully launches and lands reusable rocket prototype from Japan facility
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Honda R&D successfully launches and lands reusable rocket prototype from Japan facility Honda’s experimental reusable rocket has reached an altitude of nearly 300 metres before successfully touching down on its landing site.
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HS2 completion delayed beyond 2033 amid ‘litany of failure’
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HS2 completion delayed beyond 2033 amid ‘litany of failure’ The HS2 railway project will face further delays beyond its expected 2033 completion date because of a “litany of failure”, transport secretary Heidi Alexander has told the Commons.
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'Poor planning’ by grid operator REE blamed for April blackout in Spain and Portugal
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'Poor planning’ by grid operator REE blamed for April blackout in Spain and Portugal The unprecedented blackout across the Iberian peninsula was primarily caused by REE’s failure to manage a surge in voltage, the Spanish government has said.
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Make midwives universally accessible and save millions of lives, WHO urges
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UN News - Global perspective Human stories
Make midwives universally accessible and save millions of lives, WHO urges Almost 4.5 million maternal, stillborn and newborn deaths were recorded in 2023. What if there was a clear path to saving 83 percent of these people? To saving 3.7 million mothers, unborn children and babies annually? 
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UN relief chief calls for solidarity, with humanitarians ‘literally under attack’
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UN News - Global perspective Human stories
UN relief chief calls for solidarity, with humanitarians ‘literally under attack’ With the humanitarian sector “under-funded, overstretched, and literally under attack” as crises continue in Gaza, Sudan and beyond, international support is needed more than ever, the UN’s top aid official said on Wednesday in Geneva. 
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Iran-Israel crisis: UN rights office appeals for urgent de-escalation
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UN News - Global perspective Human stories
Iran-Israel crisis: UN rights office appeals for urgent de-escalation As the Iran-Israel crisis continued into a sixth day on Wednesday, the UN deputy human rights chief Nada Al-Nashif called for urgent talks to end the ongoing missile attacks between Tehran and Tel-Aviv.
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Abandoned coal mines could host 300GW of solar power, says report
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Abandoned coal mines could host 300GW of solar power, says report Repurposing abandoned coal mines as solar energy facilities could add a hefty 15% to the world’s capacity or 300GW in total, a report from the Global Energy Monitor has found.
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