When most homeowners move into a new property, they expect to find a few bits and bobs left behind – perhaps a couple of appliances or old cleaning supplies. But most people wouldn’t expect to find a giant 150m model railway track buried in the undergrowth of their new back garden....
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There are only three types of snakes native to the UK - an adder, grass snake and a smooth snake - all of which can be found across the country....
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The European Space Agency’s Mars Express orbiter has spotted “spiders” on the Red Planet’s southern polar region....
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Retired bishop Christopher Saunders has been charged with rape and child abuse in a remote part of Australia’s northwest....
Grindr, the popular gay dating app, is planning to introduce an AI boyfriend feature that can sext and have ongoing relationships with users, trained on previously private messages between users with their consent. The move aims to boost revenue by putting some free features behind a paywall and offering new AI-powered paid...
Police have praised the bravery of a victim who came forward to help them convict a priest of indecent assault three decades after the attack....
SINGAPORE — A father of seven who sexually abused four daughters, raping three of them, and ill-treated a son was sentenced to 33 years, two months jail and 24 strokes of the cane on Friday (18 March)....
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian lawmakers have submitted a draft bill to the State Duma that would rewrite a chapter of history by nullifying the Soviet decision in 1954 to transfer Crimea from Russia to Ukraine....
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EVE is a humanoid robot created by 1X, a Norwegian company. It uses a modified version of GPT-4, the AI behind ChatGPT, to perform a variety of household and workplace tasks....
LONDON (Reuters) -The president of Europe’s human rights court said on Thursday Britain had a legal obligation to comply with its injunctions after Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said he would ignore such orders over his plan to send some asylum seekers to Rwanda....
A former cop who tried to give his stepson advice about playing down his repeated violent attacks against a woman has been put behind bars....
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A Chorley prison officer failed to protect a “mentally unstable” inmate, after ‘leaving him on his own in a dark cell with a makeshift noose’, a court has heard....