Meta, the owner of Facebook and Instagram, has launched its artificial intelligence assistant in the UK, alongside AI-boosted sunglasses modelled by Mark Zuckerberg. Meta’s AI assistant, which can generate text and images, is now available on its social media platforms in the UK and Brazil, having already been launched in the US and Australia. Regulatory…
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OCHA report: ‘One quarter of Lebanese territory now under Israeli military displacement orders’ The UN office for the coordination of humanitarian affairs (OCHA) has published a flash update about the latest situation in Lebanon. Among its key points are that it finds: 2,083 people killed and 9,869 injured 608,509 persons internally displaced 180,700 people seeking…
Robert Jenrick and Kemi Badenoch are the final two candidates to become Conservative leader after James Cleverly was eliminated in the last round of voting among Tory MPs in a stunning turnaround of fortune. Cleverly had topped the third round of voting, but came third in the one on Wednesday, losing two MPs’ votes to…
What poll/survey evidence suggests will happen when Tory members have to choose between Badenoch and Jenrick Kemi Badenoch is now the favourite. This is what the ConservativeHome survey of Tory members on Sunday suggested would happen if she went head to head with Robert Jenrick in the final ballot – Badenoch winning with a 20-point…
A Turkish Airlines flight from Seattle to Istanbul made an emergency landing at New York’s John F Kennedy airport after its 59-year-old captain died mid-flight. Flight 8JK, an Airbus A350-900, landed around 6am, according to the Federal Aviation Administration, after initial medical intervention to help the man who had lost consciousness onboard proved ineffective. A…
Martin Scorsese has denied he is planning to retire, telling a press conference in Italy that he has “more films to make” after reports surfaced in September that two long-planned projects had been postponed. According to the Hollywood Reporter, Scorsese, 81, was speaking before an award ceremony in Turin and countered rumours he was no…
The privatised English water system has been singled out for criticism by the UN special rapporteur on the human right to clean water. Prof Pedro Arrojo-Agudo said water systems should be managed as a publicly owned service, rather than run by private companies set up to benefit shareholders. In a report Arrojo-Agudo singled out for…
The Tropicana, a landmark hotel and the last true mob-era casino in Las Vegas, was reduced to rubble on Wednesday. The legendary haunt of the Rat Pack and the place James Bond said he had heard was quite comfortable in the 1971 film Diamonds Are Forever, was destroyed in an elaborate implosion accompanied by a…
