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• Government emergency alert test 'may endanger domestic abuse victims' - Metro.co.uk

  07-04-2023 21:21 via news.google.com
  Government emergency alert test 'may endanger domestic abuse victims'  Metro.co.uk10 emergency siren alert questions answered - including if you can switch it off  Daily RecordWhen is the National Alarm Test and why is it happening?  Metro.co.ukExact date and time millions of phones across the UK will blast emergency siren – will you be affected?...  The SunView Full coverage on Google News
  
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• Tesla workers shared ‘intimate’ car camera images, ex-employees allege: ‘Massive invasion of privacy’

  07-04-2023 21:11 via theguardian.com
  
  Cameras affixed on cars sent videos of customers and their property to the EV maker’s offices and spread ‘like wildfire’Tesla assures its millions of electric car owners that their privacy “is and will always be enormously important to us”. The cameras it builds into vehicles to assist driving, it notes on its website, are “designed from the ground up to protect your privacy”.But between 2019 and 2022, groups of Tesla employees privately shared via an in
  
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• Bear kills jogger on woodland path in northern Italy

  07-04-2023 21:02 via theguardian.com
  
  Mauled body of Andrea Papi, 26, found overnight after he failed to return from run near his villageA bear attacked and killed a jogger on a woodland path in north-east Italy, the first case of its kind, a source close to the case told AFP on Friday.Andrea Papi, 26, was killed on Wednesday while out running in the mountainous region near his village, Caldes, in the Trentino region. His family raised the alarm when he failed to return and a search team found his body overnight. Continue reading...
  
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• Paul Cattermole: Look back at S Club 7 singer's life

  07-04-2023 20:36 via bbc.co.uk
  
  S Club 7 were one of the biggest acts of the early 2000s and had announced a comeback tour.
  
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• Supermassive black hole births new stars in charge across space - The Times

  07-04-2023 20:00 via news.google.com
  
  Supermassive black hole births new stars in charge across space  The Times'Monster' supermassive black hole is ripping through the universe at huge speeds, warns NASA  The MirrorA supermassive black hole is hurtling away from its home galaxy  New Scientist'Runaway' black hole is tearing through the universe, NASA warns  Daily MailAccidental capture of Hubble shows runaway supermassive black hole  HT TechView Full coverage on Google News
  
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• The Guardian view on regulating AI: it won’t wait, so governments can’t | Editorial

  07-04-2023 19:30 via theguardian.com
  
  With growing concerns inside as well as outside industry, it is clear that counting on developers to police themselves is not sufficientThe horse has not merely bolted; it is halfway down the road and picking up speed – and no one is sure where it’s heading. The potential benefits of artificial intelligence – such as developing lifesaving drugs – are undeniable. But with the launch of hugely powerful text and image generative models such as ChatGPT-4 and Midjourney, the r
  
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• The Guardian view on House of Lords reform: an irresistible case | Ediitorial

  07-04-2023 19:25 via theguardian.com
  
  Britain’s upper house is too big, unworthily appointed, and does not work. Reform has become inevitable, whether the political parties like it or notHaving only been an MP since 2019, Scott Benton has probably not yet set his sights on a peerage. These days, though, who can be sure? Mr Benton has been suspended as a Conservative MP this week after offering to lobby ministers for a fake gambling company. His Commons career hangs in the balance. But he need not give up all hope. Judging by t
  
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• Journalist Evan Gershkovich formally charged with espionage in Russia

  07-04-2023 18:43 via theguardian.com
  
  Wall Street Journal reporter denies charges, while US Senate leaders issue bipartisan call for his release Russian Federal Security Service investigators have formally charged Evan Gershkovich with espionage but the Wall Street Journal reporter denied the charges and said he was working as a journalist, Russian news agencies reported on Friday.Russia’s Federal Security Service, the main successor to the Soviet-era KGB, said on 30 March that it had detained Gershkovich in the Urals city of
  
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• Obesity is a symptom of a society that doesn’t care | Letters

  07-04-2023 18:33 via theguardian.com
  
  John Atkinson says obesity is almost exclusively a disease of poverty, particularly in children, while Kate Halliwell defends the food and drink industries. Plus letters from Fiona Morgan, Julie Box and Alix DearingI read with interest your editorial on the failures in obesity management in the UK (4 April). I would suggest that the problem is wider than the scope addressed. Obesity is not simply correlated with poverty. In children, it is almost exclusively a disease of poverty. We simply do no
  
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• When it comes to rubbish, we can’t let litterers off the hook | Letters

  07-04-2023 18:31 via theguardian.com
  
  Readers respond to Leila Taheri’s article blaming littering on corporations and society rather than individualsLeila Taheri’s article is interesting, and she is right, up to a point (I lead a litter-picking group, but I will always defend litterers. This is why, 3 April). There is certainly far too much single-use rubbish created, and manufacturers should be incentivised to produce less. Since they are motivated to seek the cheapest option (eg disposable versus returnable bottles), i
  
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• Pentagon investigates reported leak of top-secret Ukraine documents

  07-04-2023 17:45 via theguardian.com
  
  Classified papers said to contain details of military aid and battalion strengths before potential Ukrainian counteroffensiveRussia-Ukraine war – latest news updatesThe Pentagon is investigating a security breach in which classified war documents detailing secret American and Nato plans for supplying aid to Ukraine before its prospective offensive against Russia were leaked to social media platforms.The top secret documents were spread on Twitter and Telegram, and reportedly contain charts
  
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• Webb reveals new details in Cassiopeia A - European Space Agency

  07-04-2023 16:01 via news.google.com
  
  Webb reveals new details in Cassiopeia A  European Space AgencyZoom Into Cassiopeia A  HubbleWebbESAWebb Reveals Never-Before-Seen Details in Cassiopeia A  NASANew Webb telescope image reveals secrets of star structure and building blocks of life  Phys.orgJames Webb Space Telescope studies wreckage of titanic cosmic explosion (video, photo)  Space.comView Full coverage on Google News
  
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• ‘A city like a book’: how Lviv’s hippy spirit is surviving Russia’s invasion

  07-04-2023 15:00 via theguardian.com
  
  The Ukrainian city became a refuge for the long-haired rebels under the Soviets. That tradition remains very much alive, says novelist Andrey KurkovTwo dozen cats live and work in the cafe at 1A General Grigorenko Street, in Lviv. They “work” as psychotherapists, bringing relief to customers stressed out by the war. People go there to drink coffee, eat cake and pet the cats. The cafe stays open even when a missile attack has caused power cuts throughout the city. Alik Olisevich somet
  
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• The royal clan: who’s who, what do they do and how much money do they get?

  07-04-2023 14:00 via theguardian.com
  
  The Guardian has calculated what each working royal has received during their working life carrying out official functionsThey include England’s most senior freemason, who is estimated to have received the equivalent of £18m for his royal duties; a princess who is 56th in line to the throne and lives in 1.6 hectares of grounds in Richmond Park – and a grace-and-favour apartment 12 miles away in St James’s Palace; and a duchess who previously lived in a 21-room apartment i
  
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• Climate crisis causing more home runs in baseball, study suggests

  07-04-2023 14:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Data from 100,000 US Major League games reveals higher temperatures lead to more balls hit out of parkSteroids once gave many of baseball’s sluggers a power boost. Now research suggests that today’s home run hitters are seeing their shots turbocharged by the climate crisis.A study by researchers at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire used data from 100,000 Major League Baseball games and 220,000 individually hit balls to show that higher temperatures increase the number of balls hit o
  
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• A field of poppies and mourning police: Friday’s best photos

  07-04-2023 13:49 via theguardian.com
  
  The Guardian’s picture editors select photo highlights from around the world Continue reading...
  
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• NASA releases new images of Uranus which could unravel mystery about planet - Sky News

  07-04-2023 13:29 via news.google.com
  NASA releases new images of Uranus which could unravel mystery about planet  Sky NewsJames Webb Space Telescope captures stunning new image of Uranus  Metro.co.ukIncredible photos of Uranus have been captured  indy100NASA’s James Webb telescope reveals unbelievable image of Uranus  LADbibleNASA's Webb telescope captures new image of Uranus  CGTNView Full coverage on Google News
  
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• ‘I could barely speak. I felt like a ghost inside my own skin’: the month that shook the CBI

  07-04-2023 13:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Since the Guardian first revealed allegations of unchecked misconduct at the business lobbying outfit, current and former female staff have told of their experiencesStaff at the Confederation of British Industry had been working around the clock for weeks and were in need of a break.It was July 2019 and parliament was deadlocked. The Conservative party was trying to secure a Brexit deal that its backbenchers could accept for Northern Ireland, as well as the rest of the UK. Theresa May’s pr
  
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• Cop28 president: world needs business mindset to tackle climate crisis

  07-04-2023 13:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Exclusive: Sultan Al Jaber aims to use UN talks to set out how private sector can limit greenhouse gas emissionsThe world needs a “business mindset” to tackle the climate crisis, the president of the next UN climate summit has said.Sultan Al Jaber, the president-designate of the Cop28 summit to be hosted in the United Arab Emirates later this year, said he aimed to use the UN talks to set out how the private sector can limit greenhouse gas emissions and give businesses and government
  
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• What was that dreadful thud? The sound of Keir Starmer falling off his high horse | Marina Hyde

  07-04-2023 12:38 via theguardian.com
  
  ‘Civility in politics’? Starmer may have to stable that faithful nag after Labour’s awful ‘paedo protector’ attack ad on Rishi SunakEncouraging news for anyone who fears the next election might be some fight for the moral high ground, as Labour releases a new attack ad. Have you seen this one? If not, do try to catch it before they take it down and tacitly blame someone nameless. It depicts a smiling Rishi Sunak next to the inquiry: “Do you think adults convic
  
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• Weather tracker: tornadoes hit US as La Niña comes to end

  07-04-2023 12:31 via theguardian.com
  
  Wave of thunderstorms and tornadoes over the past few weeks resulted in deaths of 63 peopleSevere tornadoes hit the US this week, with at least seven reported on Tuesday in Illinois, while on Wednesday morning a powerful tornado tore through south-eastern Missouri causing widespread damage and at least five deaths in Bollinger County.According to the National Weather Service, the Missouri tornado lasted about 15 minutes with winds reaching peaks of 130mph. A wave of thunderstorms and tornadoes i
  
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• Wordle Answer And Hints - April 8, 2023 Solution #658 - TheGamer

  07-04-2023 12:00 via news.google.com
  
  Wordle Answer And Hints - April 8, 2023 Solution #658  TheGamerToday’s Wordle #657 Hints, Clues And Answer For Friday, April 7th  ForbesWordle hint and answer today: Let's solve #658, April 8  PC GamerWordle 658 answer for April 8: High chance of defeat, but beat it with our hints, solution  HT TechToday’s Wordle Review: April 8, 2023  The New York TimesView Full coverage on Google News
  
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• Labour's Lucy Powell challenged over Rishi Sunak attack ad

  07-04-2023 11:12 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The shadow culture secretary refused to say whether she backed the ad's claim when asked about it on BBC Breakfast.
  
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• Mountains, a lemon and 1930s China at Photofairs Shanghai – in pictures

  07-04-2023 08:00 via theguardian.com
  
  A selection of work going on display at Photofairs Shanghai showcases. Back after a year of Covid hiatus, the fair displays photo-based and digital artworks, placing emerging voices in Chinese contemporary photography alongside globally recognised artists Continue reading...
  
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• Post your questions for Tara Fitzgerald

  07-04-2023 07:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Got something you’d like to ask the flugelhorn-tooting forensic scientist and all-round star of stage and screen? Send it our way and we’ll put it to herYou might think of her as forensic scientist Eve Lockhart from BBC series Waking the Dead, or as Queen Selyse Baratheon in Game of Thrones, but Tara Fitzgerald is a long-termer when it comes to film. Her first big role was in Peter Chelsom’s 1991 nightclub comedy Hear My Song, after which she went on to a couple of roles opposi
  
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• Breaking the news of the Good Friday Agreement

  07-04-2023 05:17 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Former BBC political editor Stephen Grimason recalls breaking the news of a deal on Good Friday 1998.
  
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• ‘Peace babies’ and the birth of the Good Friday agreement - podcast

  07-04-2023 04:00 via theguardian.com
  
  The generation born after the Good Friday agreement, which brought peace to Northern Ireland, are continuing to reckon with their inheritance. Mother and daughter Anne and Kerrie Patterson explain what it means to themOn 10 April 1998, Kerrie Patterson was born in a hospital in Northern Ireland. Her arrival came just minutes after the historic Good Friday agreement was signed in Belfast. The agreement paved the way for peace after decades of conflict between nationalists and unionists, and provi
  
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• The Elms: Whittlesey care home's chaotic final days

  07-04-2023 03:11 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A coroner describes three bereaved families' campaign over poor care as "remarkable".
  
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• Tiny dog causes panic after it scoffed entire Easter egg almost the same size as it

  07-04-2023 02:59 via express.co.uk
  
  Fizz, the chihuahua cross, had to be rushed to the hospital after he nicked an Easter egg from underneath a bed.
  
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• What we can learn from a lonely death in social housing

  07-04-2023 01:11 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Bureaucracy, isolation and government mistakes all led to a woman lying dead in her London flat for two years.
  
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• Terrifying moment Mercedes crashes with van at junction

  07-04-2023 00:47 via express.co.uk
  
  Social media users were left divided over who is to be blamed for the incident.
  
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