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Tech companies will be allowed to freely use copyrighted material to train artificial intelligence models unless creative professionals and companies opt out of the process, under UK government proposals.

The proposed changes are seeking to resolve a standoff between AI firms and creatives.

Sir Paul McCartney has …

It is still in there somewhere. The kernel of a great competition, albeit visible only in fleeting glimpses. The shimmering class of Toulouse’s Antoine Dupont, a gripping win for Northampton in Pretoria, the celebrations at the final whistle in Italy after Benetton had downed the English league leaders Bath, the …

The International Boxing Association is still taking sponsorship money from the Russian state energy supplier Gazprom but could still play a role in the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics, its chief executive has said.

Chris Roberts, the former British army officer who has led the IBA since September last year, said …

The Police Service of Northern Ireland and the Metropolitan police unlawfully spied on two investigative journalists, a tribunal has found.

The investigatory powers tribunal ruled that the PSNI must pay £4,000 each in damages to Trevor Birney and Barry McCaffrey, who were arrested in 2018 after they produced No Stone …

The Chinese embassy in London has accused some UK parliamentarians of having a “twisted mentality towards China”, after the identity of a businessman accused of being a spy was revealed on Monday.

A Chinese embassy spokesperson said on Tuesday that “anti-China clamours” were an attempt to “smear China, target against …

Humza Yousaf, Scotland’s former first minister, has announced he is to quit frontline politics at the next Scottish elections as he criticised Elon Musk’s interference in the US election and his potential role in the next UK election.

Yousaf, 39, who last year became the first Asian and first Muslim …

Keir Starmer’s plan to bring down UK net migration by improving domestic training and skills is not guaranteed to work, the government’s independent advisers have concluded.

The migration advisory committee also said that the average migrant who comes to the UK on a skilled worker visa contributes 20 times more …

Earlier this month, Mike Tomlin was asked what he had learned about his receivers in the absence of the group’s star, George Pickens, through injury. It was not the first time Tomlin’s team had been questioned this season, and it will probably not be the last. As ever though, the …

Campaigners gathered outside the high court in London on Tuesday calling for judges to block a financial bailout of struggling Thames Water.

MPs, activists and members of the public were protesting outside the court where the privatised water company was seeking a £3bn financial lifeline.

The company is trying to …

A senior Russian general has died after an explosive device hidden in an electric scooter detonated outside an apartment building in Moscow, in an attack claimed by Ukraine that marks one of the boldest targeted assassinations of a senior military official since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

Lt Gen Igor …