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Best friends with Hamilton - the man 'ruffling feathers' in fencing

BBC Sport speaks to Miles Chamley-Watson, the man behind the World Fencing League, which launches on Saturday in Los Angeles.

Best friends with Hamilton - the man 'ruffling feathers' in fencing

BBC Sport speaks to Miles Chamley-Watson, the man behind the World Fencing League, which launches on Saturday in Los Angeles.

Best friends with Hamilton - the man 'ruffling feathers' in fencing

BBC Sport speaks to Miles Chamley-Watson, the man behind the World Fencing League, which launches on Saturday in Los Angeles.

Egg and Croissant Brunch Bake

This croissant breakfast casserole really is low-fuss. No need to have fresh croissants, even day-old ones work just fine! High quality croissants go stale pretty quickly so its perfectly fine to use stale ones. This Read More The post Egg and Croissant Brunch Bake appeared first on Alternative Medicine Magazine.

Landmarks recreated as bug hotels near station

Safe havens for insects and small animals have been installed near Burley Park Station in Leeds.
Lebanon to confront Israel over demolition of homes in occupied areas since ceasefire

Lebanon to confront Israel over demolition of homes in occupied areas since ceasefire

In areas of southern Lebanon it has occupied since agreeing last week to a ceasefire with Hezbollah, the Israeli army has been destroying homes it says were used as outposts by the Iran-backed militant group. But the demolitions were happening on such a wide scale that residents, Lebanese officials and UN peacekeepers were increasingly worried that large numbers of people displaced by the latest war would have nowhere to return if the fragile truce holds. From a hill overlooking Beit Lif - about...

Trump administration flies 10-year-old back from Cuba amid custody fight

President Trump's Department of Justice sent a plane this week to Cuba to return a 10-year-old from Utah who is at the center of a custody fight involving the child's gender identity.
Italian man convicted of trafficking Singaporean Tinder date for Dubai sex work

Italian man convicted of trafficking Singaporean Tinder date for Dubai sex work

A court has convicted an Italian man of human trafficking by tricking a Singaporean woman into sex work in Dubai, after rejecting his defence arguments attacking the victim. Achraf Arjaouy, 31, had claimed trial to one count of recruiting a person by means of deception for the purpose of sexual exploitation in Dubai. The victim’s identity is protected by a gag order. The prosecution’s case was that Arjaouy had targeted a woman he met on Tinder by pretending to be a wealthy pilot from Qatar who...
France must avoid becoming 'hostage' on critical minerals: trade minister

France must avoid becoming 'hostage' on critical minerals: trade minister

France and "like-minded countries" must work together to avoid becoming "hostages" on critical minerals used in everything from phones to solar panels, Paris's trade minister said Thursday.
MTR Corp unveils HK$300 million wheelset centre, boosting efficiency by 80%

MTR Corp unveils HK$300 million wheelset centre, boosting efficiency by 80%

Hong Kong’s MTR Corporation has unveiled its first wheelset maintenance centre, set to open in the coming months, cutting the time for the labour-intensive process from more than three days to 10 hours. The rail giant said on Thursday that the new HK$300 million (US$38.3 million) Integrated Wheelset Maintenance Centre, located at the Ho Man Tin siding, would be capable of processing 1,500 wheelsets annually through automation. The capacity is designed to meet growing service demands on the Tuen...
Tencent unveils first flagship AI model with former OpenAI researcher at helm

Tencent unveils first flagship AI model with former OpenAI researcher at helm

Tencent Holdings has released a new flagship artificial intelligence model, the first since former OpenAI researcher Yao Shunyu joined the Chinese tech giant to lead its foundational AI development efforts. The Shenzhen-based company said on Thursday that the closed-source HY3-Preview was its most powerful model yet, on par with leading Chinese models, while still lagging top US models from the likes of OpenAI and Google DeepMind. Notably, the model is relatively small with only 295 billion...
Can Chinese scientists bring Nasa’s ‘space spider’ dream to life?

Can Chinese scientists bring Nasa’s ‘space spider’ dream to life?

For years, Nasa funded a dream called SpiderFab – a spider-like robot that would crawl through orbit, weaving solar power stations and giant antennas from spools of carbon fibre – creating structures too large for any rocket to carry whole. Although SpiderFab never ended up in space, scientists from the Shenyang Institute of Automation in northern China say they have built the key technologies to reach a similar goal. The team first made the building blocks from a carbon-fibre composite, shaping...