A piece of carved wood discovered by chance is more than 6,000 years old – making it the oldest of its kind in the UK, experts say. The decorative markings were made by Late Mesolithic people 2,000 years before Stonehenge was built and 4,500 years before the Romans came to Britain. The metre-long piece of
Month: June 2023
The scandal-hit CBI has secured support in its battle for survival by winning a crunch membership vote on plans aimed at restoring trust in the business lobby group. The UK’s largest employers’ organisation needed a simple majority to win the vote in an extraordinary general meeting in London and won 93% in favour of its
Artificial Intelligence (AI) could have the power to be behind advances that “kill many humans” in just two years’ time, Rishi Sunak’s adviser has warned. Matt Clifford expressed concern over the lack of global regulation for AI producers and said that if left unregulated, they could become “very powerful” and difficult for humans to control,
Arnold Schwarzenegger has apologised for groping women, 20 years after dismissing the allegations as “made-up”. Six women accused the Hollywood star of groping and humiliating them in a Los Angeles Times report in 2003. The investigation was published in the lead-up to the 2003 California governor election. Schwarzenegger, who won the election, labelled the story
Prince Harry has blamed the tabloid press for “inciting hatred and harassment” in his private life, saying he ended up “playing up to a lot of the headlines” when he was cast as a “playboy prince” and a “thicko” as a young royal. Details of Harry‘s accusations against the publisher of the Mirror newspaper have
The number of gonorrhoea and syphilis diagnoses was the highest on record last year, new figures show. Annual figures from the UK’s Health Security Agency (UKHSA) show gonorrhoea diagnoses increased to 82,592 in 2022, an increase of 50.3% compared to 2021 (54,961). This is the highest number of diagnoses in any one year since records
Apple has announced it will upgrade its autocorrect feature so it no longer changes one of the most common expletives to the word “ducking”. “In those moments where you just want to type a ducking word, well, the keyboard will learn it, too,” Apple‘s software chief Craig Federighi said. The autocorrect feature on the iPhone
A dam in the Russian controlled part of southern Ukraine has been damaged by shelling, leading to flooding in the area already hit by months of conflict. Both Ukrainian and Russian officials blamed each other for destroying the Kakhovka dam in the Kherson region. Ukraine’s military said that Russian forces blew up the dam. “The
The government is still being “too slow” to recover taxpayer money lost to fraud and error over the pandemic, MPs have said. The cross-party Public Accounts Committee (PAC) also said Whitehall needs a “step change” in its approach to risk in order to prevent a similar “panic response” in the future. In a wide-ranging report,
In a stroke of legal coincidence, Prince Harry will be the subject of a court case in America on the same day he is due to appear in London’s High Court. Lawyers are due in a federal courtroom in Washington DC to demand the US government release the Duke of Sussex’s US visa application form,
Apple has unveiled a mixed-reality headset called Vision Pro – its first entirely new product in eight years. The US tech giant claims the device is “the most advanced personal electronic device ever”. Resembling a pair of ski goggles, it features a glass 23-million-pixel screen which covers the upper face and is controlled using the
This trial was always going to be explosive and it certainly started with a bang. Not just the testy exchanges about why Prince Harry wasn’t in court, but revelations and claims about phone hacking which started in his childhood. If one sentence from the High Court sums up Harry’s view of press interest in his
The CBI director general Rain Newton-Smith will appeal for members to approve reforms ahead of a finely balanced vote that could decide the future of the scandalised business lobby group. The 59-year-old body, traditionally the voice of big business, faces a potentially existential referendum at an extraordinary general meeting in London, where members will be
Prince Harry is expected to give evidence at the High Court today over alleged unlawful information gathering by journalists working for Mirror Group Newspapers (MGN) – in what will be a landmark appearance in the witness box from a senior royal. Harry, 38, is suing the publisher, attempting to prove that reporters for the Daily
Russian reports that the Ukrainian counteroffensive has begun are being used to distract from Russian losses in Bakhmut, the Ukrainian deputy defence minister has said. The comments from deputy defence minister Hanna Maliar come after Moscow said it had thwarted a major Ukrainian assault in the south of Ukraine‘s Donetsk region. Ukraine war latest: Ukrainian
Former vice-president Mike Pence has declared himself a candidate in the 2024 Republican race for the White House – pitting himself against Donald Trump. Mr Pence‘s campaign filed a declaration of candidacy with the Federal Election Commission. He will formally launch his campaign with a video and a speech in the early nominating state of
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