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ShiftAdverts featuring camera-clad cleaners are on display around New York CityPicture this: a team of camera-clad cleaners and a private chef to boot, all wired with high-tech recording apparatus show up at your home.You are not part of a reality TV show, and have not woken up in an Aldous Huxley or Margaret Atwood novel.Instead, you are a resident of New York City, where AI companies are sending free cooking and cleaning staff straight to people’s doors.But, there is a catch: this AI company is gathering data to train the next generation of cooking and cleaning robots, and every inch…
Getty ImagesUS workers clean the Reflecting Pool in Washington DCA former US Olympian arrested for allegedly vandalising the Reflecting Pool in Washington DC is denying he did anything wrong.David “Davey” Hearn, 67, was detained by the pool’s edge on Friday as he was finishing a long bike ride.Hearn told BBC News that he had removed his cycling glove to simply touch a long strip of rubbery material which appeared to have “delaminated” from the bottom of the pool, when he was stopped by US Park Police and National Guard troops. The champion canoeist is now facing a misdemeanour charge of…
LIVEWorld Cup 2026: Germany through, Netherlands & Japan impress, Curacao make historyAll the latest reaction and highlights from the 2026 Fifa World Cup as Germany come back to beat Ivory Coast 2-1.
Tunisia out of World Cup after thumping defeat by JapanTunisia are out of the World Cup after a thumping defeat by Japan in Monterrey.
CrimeCon and RenownedPhotosThe clamour of the crowd is constant in a Las Vegas convention hall. Podcasters rub shoulders with prosecutors, and attendees – wearing T-shirts emblazoned with slogans like “True Crime And Wine” or “I’m Only Here For An Alibi” – carry conference-provided bags stamped with “unsolved crime is a choice”. Amongst rows of booths, one woman stands apart, staring stoically ahead as people pass by pictures of her murdered daughter.They are all here for CrimeCon, an annual gathering of true-crime enthusiasts, content creators, investigators, advocates, survivors and victims’ relatives. But for many – including stoic mom Dr Maggie Zingman…
Getty ImagesFrance has banned alcohol at some events at a massive national music festival as a heatwave pushes temperatures towards record levels.Annual Fête de la Musique celebrations draw millions to the streets but with the most serious heatwave warnings being issued for 35 of France’s departments, the government has banned alcohol consumption in public places under the red alerts.”For all events organised by the state and its agencies, instructions have been given not to offer alcohol,” the office of Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu said.On Sunday, temperatures of 39C-40C are expected from the southwest through the Paris region into Burgundy, with…
BBC”Everyone’s really upset mum – loads of them have got their own YouTube channels.”That was my 12-year-old son’s summary of how the news about the social media ban for UK under-16s went down in his classroom.Exactly how a bunch of 12-year olds might have ended up with their own channels in the first place when the minimum age is supposed to be 13 shows just how big a change in culture the government is trying to make.In Preston, school pupil Isabella went viral when a BBC colleague asked her on-camera what she would do instead with the nine hours of…
Curacao earn first World Cup point as inspired Room keeps Ecuador outCuracao win their first-ever World Cup point as goalkeeper Eloy Room earns them a draw with Ecuador.
AFP via Getty ImagesMona Khalil, seen here in 2002, dedicated much of her life to protecting endangered turtles along Lebanon’s south coastLebanese environmental activist Mona Khalil, whose work helped turn a stretch of coastline in southern Lebanon into one of the eastern Mediterranean’s most important nesting sites for endangered sea turtles, has died after being wounded in an Israeli strike.Khalil, 76, was injured when her house on Mansouri beach, near the southern city of Tyre, was hit during Israeli attacks in southern Lebanon two weeks ago.She died on Friday after several days in hospital, according to a local environmental group.Her…
AFP via Getty ImagesEscalating violence has marked Colombia’s presidential campaign”My brother was murdered for not paying an extortion payment…in front of his children,” Edilma Martinez Flores said at a support centre for displaced people in Bogotá.She fled her home on the outskirts of Cali, in the south-west, after armed criminal groups handed out leaflets ordering residents to leave or face violence.”We had no choice but to leave our things behind. They started placing bombs along the routes people travel.”Edilma is far from alone, and experiences like hers are why insecurity is dominating voters’ minds in Sunday’s key presidential election.It isn’t…