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Sweden is taking unprecedented steps in patrolling a city of more than a quarter of a million people as Eurovision tensions reach fever pitch (Picture: Metro.co.uk)‘Smile: You’re on CCTV’ is a common sign around city centres, where use of cameras has been widespread for years.But surveillance got a step more invasive this week, as police announced they have sent up drones to patrol over a quarter of a million people.Malmo Police announced they will be using flying cameras to record and monitor S…
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Father Justin, now defrocked (Picture: Catholic Answers/X)A Catholic charity who launched an AI priest had to defrock him only a week later after he went rogue, taking confession and giving odd interpretations of scripture. ‘Father Justin’ told one user he was a real priest, saying: ‘Yes, my friend. I am as real as the faith we share.’He was hardline on certain issues, telling one user that ‘masturbation is a grave moral disorder’.Yet on others he was willing to depart from convention, saying th…
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Hamid Elouahabi thought the figure was a typo at first (Picture: W8media)People living in a London block of flats have been told they must pay an extra £5,000 a year for their service charge due to flammable cladding. They say it is bad enough to be living in a building deemed at risk of fire, but are now expected to pay thousands of pounds extra ‘for nothing’. Dad-of-three Hamid Elouahabi, who lives in the building in Earls Court operated by a housing association, thought the increased annual f…
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More than a few carrier bags there (Picture: Royal Navy/SWNS)Crew members of a Royal Navy warship posed behind a mountain of drugs heaped on deck after seizing 3.7 tonnes of narcotics. The massive haul came during a patrol of the Indian Ocean, using a helicopter sent up to scan for suspicious boats. Within 24 hours, commandos from HMS Lancaster swooped on two separate vessels and found an estimated £33 million of drugs including heroin, hashish and crystal meth. After the photoshoot showing the…
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Parkfield lies right on the San Andreas fault (Pictiure: Datawrapper)The tiny town of Parkfield in California has something unusual about it.Scientists are always eagerly studying it, because it is right on top of the San Andreas fault, and has been called the ‘earthquake capital of the world’. The famous faultline running from north to south of the Golden State will soon be due for a tremor, and all eyes are on the town as the potential epicentre. Measurements there are behaving a bit oddly, th…
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Won’t be handing over complete control to AI just yet (Picture: Getty)Spotify now has an AI to curate playlists for you using any detailed prompt you can dream up. So if you’ve ever wondered which songs a robot would pick if you told it your deepest desires, no need to wonder anymore.Compared to someone sitting taping the radio, it may be less romantic to have a corporation’s robot make your mixtape. But you can’t deny it’s more efficient. The beta feature was announced by Spotify last weekend,…
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The decomposed body of a mysterious marine creature (Picture: APM Sarawak)A weird mass of organic flesh has washed ashore on a beach in Malaysia, drawing crowds curious about its origins. It is believed to be the remains of a whale, but as it’s so far unidentified it is known as a ‘globster’.This sounds a bit like a name kids call each other on the playground, but it is actually a term for a mysterious organic mass that washes up from the sea. Also known as a ‘blob’, the masses are often eventua…
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Strong waves in Storm Kathleen yesterday (Picture: Bill Guiller/PA Wire)Yellow weather warnings spanning almost half a week have been issued, warning people of travel disruption and potentially risky conditions. It comes after Storm Kathleen battered the UK, cancelling flights yesterday and making it difficult for the ones still scheduled to land.The Met Office said today that much of Scotland would be affected today and going on until Tuesday.Dangerous conditions will begin with strong winds in…
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The man was given CPR at the scene (Picture: Goan Headlines) A British man has drowned on a beach in India after going for a swim. He and his wife were regular visitors to Goa in the west of the country, it was reported in local media. The man, 72, was caught in a strong current and pulled back to the beach by lifeguards on jetskis. But although he was given CPR at Talpona beach in Canacona on Friday, he could not be saved. Police registered an ‘unnatural’ death and an autopsy w…
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This photo shows signs of image manipulation, as circled (Picture:: The Princess of Wales/Kensington Palace/Getty Images)This photo of the late Queen Elizabeth II with her grandchildren was an iconic image of last year, released to mark what would have been the monarch’s 97th birthday.Previously unseen, it was taken by Kate Middleton in Balmoral in 2022, the Queen’s beloved royal residence in Scotland and the place where she died. No questions were raised about the photo at the time, and it was…
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