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Lloyds Banking Group to shut another 136 UK high street branches
Lloyds Banking Group has revealed plans to shut another 136 branches, weeks after a policy allowing customers to do their in-person banking
across any of its three brands
sparked fears that bosses could close up to a quarter of its high street sites.The move will cut …
Valencia councillor caught shopping online at flood relief meeting
David Sedaris: ‘I’m shocked by people who take selfies in public. I’d sooner masturbate in public’
You just got back from Egypt. What was that like?
There are 6 million cats in Egypt that are kept as pets, and there are 100 million that live on the streets. And they’re all missing an eye, or a part of a paw, or they’re filthy. So …
Inflation data isn’t all sunshine and rainbows for Labor – as Biden and Democrats will attest
Trump asks Musk to bring back two astronauts ‘stranded’ on space station
Donald Trump has asked Elon Musk’s SpaceX to bring back two astronauts “stranded” in space, despite Nasa saying they are not stranded and will return to Earth by the end of March.
Trump said that he had asked Musk and SpaceX to get “the 2 brave astronauts who have been …
What International AI Safety report says on jobs, climate, cyberwar and more
The International AI Safety report is a wide-ranging document that acknowledges an array of challenges posed by a technology that is advancing at dizzying speed.
The document, commissioned after the 2023 global AI safety summit, covers numerous threats from deepfakes to aiding cyberattacks and the use of biological weapons, as …
Peter Mandelson calls past remarks about Trump ‘ill-judged and wrong’
Speaking to Fox News on Wednesday morning, Lord Mandelson said Trump had won “fresh respect” with his “dynamism …
My wife, Victoria Smillie, who has died aged 75, was a force of nature. In 1972, under her earlier married name of Lesley Mitchell, she was one of five women (nicknamed the “Watford Five”) invited by the Women in Media group to take on the task of presenting the “acceptable” …
Chinese firms ‘distilling’ US AI models to create rival products, warns OpenAI
OpenAI has warned that Chinese startups are “constantly” using its technology to develop competing products, amid reports that DeepSeek used the ChatGPT maker’s AI models to create a rival chatbot.
OpenAI and its partner Microsoft – which has invested $13bn in the San Francisco-based AI developer – have been investigating …
No transparency please, we’re the IOC: Coe makes his pitch for world sport’s top job
It sounds like a brain stumper from a particularly fiendish pub quiz. Which major 2025 election is being fought over by several presidents, a vice-president, a prince, a lord, and a politician from Zimbabwe? And, for good measure, could be won for the first time by someone from Britain?
The …