LONDON (Reuters) – Britain will make it illegal to use artificial intelligence tools that create child sexual abuse images, it said on Saturday, becoming the first country in the world to introduce the new AI sexual abuse offences. Possessing, taking, making, showing or distributing explicit images of children is a crime in England and Wales. …
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(Reuters) – Australia completed a 16-0 clean sweep in the Women’s Ashes after defeating England by an innings and 122 runs in the one-off test in Melbourne on Saturday. Holders Australia have been dominant in the multi-format Ashes as they also white-washed England in the three-match one-day internationals and Twenty-20s held between the teams last …
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(Reuters) -Spin twins Matthew Kuhnemann and Nathan Lyon combined to dismantle Sri Lanka and bowl Australia to a crushing victory by an innings and 242 runs in the opening test in Galle on Saturday. Australia’s biggest victory in Asia also ensured they will retain the Warne-Muralitharan Trophy, regardless of the outcome of the second and …
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(Reuters) – Chelsea have signed England midfielder Keira Walsh from Barcelona on a four-and-a-half-year deal, the Women’s Super League club said on Friday, with the 27-year-old keen to move closer to her family. The move marks a return to English football for Walsh after two-and-a-half years with the Spanish club having joined Barcelona from Manchester …
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By Catarina Demony and Suban Abdulla LONDON (Reuters) – Tired of going from shop to shop in their hometown to find the culturally diverse products they need, two British rappers have decided to take matters into their own hands. Award-winning duo Casyo Johnson and Karl Wilson, known in the music world as Krept and Konan …
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By Timothy Gardner WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Chris Wright, President Donald Trump’s pick to head the U.S. Energy Department, is scheduled to speak to a conservative think tank in London next month, the organization said on Thursday. At previous meetings with this group, Wright had advocated for expanding fracking operations. A department spokesperson said Wright, who …
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LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s health security agency (UKHSA) said on Friday another case of the mpox variant clade lb has been detected in England, the eighth case confirmed in the country since October last year. The government agency said the risk to the population remained low. The clade lb variant is a new form of …
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By Karolos Grohmann BERLIN (Reuters) – The sliding centre of the Milano-Cortina 2026 winter Olympics will be delivered on time, with the icing of the track to start next month, the International Olympic Committee said on Friday. With Feb. 6 marking one year to go until the Games, the sliding venue for the bobsleigh, luge …
LONDON (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Keir Starmer will host German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Sunday at his Chequers country residence, Starmer’s spokesperson said on Friday, weeks before a national election is due to take place in Germany. The two leaders are expected to discuss issues around Ukraine and the Middle East, the spokesperson said. …
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By Catarina Demony LONDON (Reuters) – More than seven years after the blaze that engulfed London’s Grenfell Tower, some families of victims say they have been traumatised again by letters notifying them that human remains are still in storage which could be of their loved ones. Britain’s deadliest residential fire since World War Two ripped …
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