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ReutersA sign said the opening of the tower was delayed for “operational reasons”The Eiffel Tower was closed on Monday after staff went on strike over female workers being removed for the visit of a Hindu religious group, workers and management said.A delegation of around 100 people linked to the Bochasanwasi Akshar Purushottam Swaminarayan Sanstha (BAPS) group visited the landmark in the French capital on Saturday.Staff union representative Diane Davoine says as they arrived at the monument, women were told to move.”During the visit of this delegation, women were asked to leave their places of work in order to place men…
BBCRene Haas was previously on the board of British pharmaceutical giant AstraZenecaThe boss of the biggest UK-headquartered tech firm has said that artifical intelligence will find a cure for cancer that humans cannot in our lifetimes.Rene Haas, chief executive of Cambridge-based chip designer Arm Holdings, said while modelling how a DNA marker is impacted by cancer was currently “too complex” a problem, computers are “going to solve it” in the future.Haas also told the BBC that AI would lead to widespread humanoid robots in the next five years, but that its current rapid growth was being held up by a…
Fears for children’s safety in West Bank school as settler attacks riseOn the first day of the new Palestinian school year, the head-teacher of al-Mughayyir boys school arrived at work before dawn, walking past the freshly installed barbed wire fencing and reinforced school gates as the sun began creeping through olive trees around the village, deep inside the occupied West Bank.”We are scared,” Bassam al Assaf told me. “The students are afraid, and their parents are afraid.”Six people, including three pupils at the school, have been killed in al-Mughayyir this year, in a surge of settler-related violence against Palestinians. One…
Champions League returns – who are favourites and players to watch?The Champions League is back and BBC Sport take a look at who the favourites are to win the title plus predictions from the experts.1 hr agoEuropean Football
ReutersUlrich Siegmund, the AfD’s leader in Saxony-Anhalt, says the result is a “clear mandate to govern”The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) is “very, very close” to taking power in the eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt, its deputy parliamentary leader has told the BBC, after a historic victory in elections there. Sunday’s preliminary results show it fell three seats short of an outright majority, with 43.8% of the vote. It is now seeking support from other parties or individuals in order to govern.While most German political parties refuse to work with the AfD, Beatrix von Storch called for its opponents to enter…
Getty ImagesNetflix has confirmed the lead stars of the coming-of-age sitcom are set to reprise their roles for The Inbetweeners 3Ooh, sequel friend! A new Inbetweeners movie is officially in the works, Netflix has confirmed. The original cast of Simon Bird, James Buckley, Blake Harrison and Joe Thomas will reprise their roles for the feature film, with production starting on Monday.The Inbetweeners 3 will follow on the story of their characters, Will McKenzie, Jay Cartwright, Neil Sutherland and Simon Cooper.They originally starred in three seasons of the popular coming-of-age sitcom, which aired on E4 between 2008 and 2010.The show has…
Getty ImagesOpenAI’s chief scientist Jakub Pachocki has called for “extreme caution” over AI’s runaway progress and warned more intervention may be needed to ensure “humans remain in control of the future”.”I am concerned no one is prepared for the consequences of a continued rapid rise in machine intelligence,” he wrote in a blog post entitled “An Alien Mind”.The post comes only a few days after the ChatGPT-maker released its latest model GPT-6 Astra, which it called its most powerful product ever.OpenAI and other AI firms like Anthropic shared reports of their AI agents acting autonomously and carrying out real-world cyber-attacks…
From quiz show to facing Man United in Champions League – coach tells his incredible storyLithuanian coach Valdas Dambrauskas cut his teeth in English football, and now returns in the Champions League with Sabah.9 hrs agoMan Utd
ReutersThe Sussexes’ return to the UK will not change their status, says Buckingham PalaceThe Duke and Duchess of Sussex will not be working royals allowed to carry out official engagements now they have returned to the UK, a letter sent on behalf of King Charles spells out.The letter is intended to clarify the status of Prince Harry and Meghan, who moved back from California with children Archie and Lilibet last month.They will still not be able to use the “HRH” titles of His and Her Royal Highness, and remain “private citizens”, says the letter sent on behalf of the King…
Getty ImagesA priest blesses the coffin of the late Bosnian Serb military leaderThousands of people have turned out in Serbia’s capital, Belgrade, to attend the funeral of the convicted war criminal Ratko Mladić. Widely known as the Butcher of Bosnia, Mladić died at the age of 84 while serving a life sentence in the UN prison in The Hague, the Netherlands.He was found guilty of genocide by a UN war crimes tribunal for his role in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, when around 8,000 Bosniak Muslim men and boys were killed. It was described as Europe’s worst atrocity since World War…