The Mona Lisa will be moved to a new exhibition space at the Louvre in Paris as part of a plan to renovate the world’s most frequented museum. Emmanuel Macron stood in front of the masterpiece by Leonardo da Vinci as he made the announcement to an audience of dignitaries, with the change to be…
Arsenal defender Myles Lewis-Skelly’s three-match ban – imposed for his red card at Wolves on Saturday – has been overturned after an appeal. Source link
Singer and broadcaster Wynne Evans has said he is taking “time out” from the Strictly Come Dancing tour as well as his “other public commitments”, to “prioritise my wellbeing”. The Welsh tenor’s statement came two days after he apologised for making an “inappropriate and unacceptable” comment. The Mail on Sunday reported that he made a…
England will take heart from their victory but there were still familiar failings for Brendon McCullum’s side as they continued to struggle against India’s battery of spinners. They have now lost 18 wickets to turning deliveries in this series, a record for England in T20 series, beating the 14 they twice lost to New Zealand…
Kelly Ng, Brandon Drenon, Tom Gerken and Marc Cieslak BBC News Getty Images DeepSeek has stunned the world – what do we know about it? A Chinese-made artificial intelligence (AI) model called DeepSeek has shot to the top of Apple Store’s downloads, stunning investors and sinking some tech stocks. Its latest version was released on…
Sofia Ferreira Santos BBC News AFP via Getty Images Figures suggest UK population could grow by almost five million over the next decade Net migration could fuel a rise in the UK population to 72.5 million by 2032, figures suggest. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) has projected a population growth of 7.3% between 2022…
China’s success in technology has not come out of thin air, even given the unlikely origins of the DeepSeek deep shock. The obscure Hangzhou hedge fund that coded a ChatGPT competitor as a $6m side project emerges from a concerted effort to invest in future generations of technology. This is not an accident. This is…
Henry Zeffman Chief political correspondent Tom Symonds & Helen Catt Political correspondents House of Commons There are no plans to expand the definition of extremism, Home Office minister Dan Jarvis has said, following reports it could be broadened to cover potentially violent environmentalists and misogynists. He said Islamist extremism followed by far right extremism were…
Family handout Nuria Sajjad and Selena Lau died when a Land Rover crashed into their school playground The driver of a car that crashed into a school tea party, killing two eight-year-old girls, has been rearrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving. Claire Freemantle, 48, previously expressed her “deepest sorrow” and said she…
A jury has found three lifeguards not guilty of failing to take “reasonable care for the health and safety of others” on the night Armagh swimmer Christopher Rogers died. Mr Rogers, 20, passed away after blacking out during a swim training session at Armagh’s Orchard Leisure Centre in April 2017. During the session he had…
