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Ai-Da is an accomplished artist who has shown her designs at the Venice Biennale and addressed the House of Lords about the future of the creative industries. She is also a robot. One that can talk, answer complex questions, paint, and create art currently on display at the London Design Biennale. She’s too lifelike to

Police have released an image of a man they want to speak to after a woman was attacked with boiling water in south London. The victim was taken to hospital after the liquid was thrown at her in Southwark on 10 November last year. The Metropolitan Police and London Ambulance Service were called to reports

A 17-year-old-boy and a 12-year-old girl have died following an incident off Bournemouth beach. Dorset Police said an investigation has been launched and a man in his 40s, who was on the water at the time, has been arrested on suspicion of manslaughter. Emergency services attended the ‘multi-agency’ incident earlier today and 10 people were

England is “not ready” to respond to extreme heatwaves this summer and ministers must implement a national strategy, researchers have said. In addition to excess deaths, they are warning of economic shocks and a “breakdown in public services” should the country experience more very high temperatures either this year or in the future. Those involved

The Office is coming to Australia in a new adaptation for Prime Video, starring its first-ever female lead. Australian comedian and actor Felicity Ward will be taking on the middle-manager role originated by Ricky Gervais. The Australian rendition will star Ward as Hannah Howard, the managing director of packaging company Flinley Craddick. Prime Video said

Officers who raise concerns about misogyny and sexism at Police Scotland fear being labelled a grass and feel they have a “target” on their back, a new report has found. It also said a “boys’ club culture” exists in parts of the service where “the real team meetings happen on the golf course”. The Scottish

The England squad for the Women’s World Cup has been announced, with Lucy Bronze, Lauren James and Mary Earps among the 23-player squad. Beth Mead, who won the Golden Boot in last year’s Euro 2022 triumph, has been recovering from an ACL injury sustained in November and will miss out. Captain Leah Williamson and midfielder

Sarina Wiegman is set to name her England squad for this summer’s FIFA Women’s World Cup on Wednesday – during an event aimed at raising the profile of grassroots football. Wiegman – who steered the Lionesses to Euro 2022 glory last summer – will be at a grassroots football club in Birmingham for the announcement

The King has presented honours to Royal Navy sailors who played a symbolic role in his mother’s funeral procession, one of whom is heavily pregnant. During an open-air ceremony at Windsor Castle, the monarch honoured about 150 sailors and officers who either took part in Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral last September or helped to plan

Ready for another season of love this summer? The 10th series of Love Island will see the return of the reality show as a new batch of guys and girls prepare for some grafting, glam and humour. ITV has unveiled the details of the first set of Islanders, with the new summer series scheduled to

Food inflation in the UK has slowed from April’s record-breaking rise – but is still up more than 15% on the year, new retail figures show. Research by the British Retail Consortium (BRC) and Nielsen shows a 15.4% rise in food inflation in the year to May. It is the second-fastest annual increase that the

One year on from the death of Punjabi hip hop star Sidhu Moose Wala, his father says he is destroyed by his son’s killing. Speaking exclusively to Sky News, Mr Singh says he has not been able to heal from the pain of losing his only child. Sidhu Moose Wala was a global icon who

A car was left stranded after parking on a Cornwall beach. St Agnes Coastguard Search and Rescue Team was alerted to the presence of the black BMW at Trevaunance Cove, St Agnes, shortly before 8.30am on Sunday. Image: Pic: St Agnes Coastguard Search and Rescue Team The team was tasked to ensure everybody in the

Firefighters have warned against leaving objects in direct sunlight after a pair of sunglasses set a car on fire. The sunglasses had been left on the dashboard and pictures show damage to the steering wheel and a hole in the windscreen. Nottinghamshire Fire and Rescue Service said they attended the incident on Saturday – the

Boris Johnson has a “huge role to play” in the future of the Conservative Party, according to one cabinet minister, while a staunch ally of the ex-prime minister urged “the left” to leave him alone. The Conservative MPs were speaking following last week’s revelation that Mr Johnson’s diaries from when he was in Number 10

The Home Office is launching an ad campaign in Albania aimed at deterring people from crossing the English Channel illegally. Posters bear the message that people “face being detained and removed” if they make the journey. The department would not say how much the publicity drive is expected to cost but announced it will also

Police are hunting for a burglar who escaped from a prison van outside their Brixton station. Kwami Richards escaped from the van, operated by a private security firm, at around 2pm on Friday as he was being transported back to jail. The 42-year-old had been detained for breaching his licence conditions after serving a sentence

A body was found in a river in Lincolnshire on Friday during a search for a missing schoolboy, police have said. The teenager, named by police only as Oliwier, 15, was last seen near the bank of the River Trent at The Flood Road bridge in Gainsborough late on Monday evening. Police mounted a “round-the-clock

Carbon dioxide is the big villain of global warming. The “most wanted” for crimes against the climate that we’d love to lock up. In Merseyside and North Wales, they’re putting a posse together. It’s called HyNet and it’s a group of around 40 carbon-intensive industries like glass and cement, even breakfast cereals, crisps and proposed

Britain’s largest building society has made some mortgages more expensive as the Bank of England’s interest rate is now expected to rise higher than previously thought. Nationwide has said interest rates on new fixed-rate mortgages will rise 0.45 percentage points. It follows moves by lenders such as Halifax, Santander and Atom Bank who also upped