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Singapore seizes US-operated cruise ship that offered ‘permanent’ life at sea

MV Odyssey impounded by authorities almost a fortnight after passengers left stranded in Cambodian port

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African writing award probe finds 'no evidence' winning story was AI generated

Zimbabwean writer Simbarashe Kundizeza has also vehemently denied the allegation made in a US magazine.

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What advantages do children have who have imaginary friends?

Whatever form they take, the benefits of fictional friendships can last well into adulthood and help us get through difficult real-life situations.

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UEFA Women's Champions League LIVE: Build-up, team news, live text & score updates as it happens from across the Women's Champions League

Follow build-up, team news, live text & score updates as it happens from across the UEFA Women's Champions League.

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Missing 11-month-old baby rescued after being buried alive in a crate in South Carolina

Officials say the child was found close to his father's home on Tuesday, a day after he was taken, and is being cared for in hospital.

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US House blocks bid to impeach Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth

Trump welcomes the outcome, praising Hegseth as a "Great American Patriot", but Democrats can try again next year.

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Claude Shannon, the brilliant mathematician who invented the digital age (and then retired to his “games room”)

Your fingerprints are on every electronic device we own, on every computer screen we look at, on every digital media.

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Russia-Ukraine talks turn to post-war security but end without breakthrough

Talks in Abu Dhabi centred around Europe's security framework, with US envoys due to meet Putin and Zelensky on Thursday.

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Siblings Abandoned as Babies in Bags Reunite Decades Later

David McBride spent decades searching for his mother after being abandoned as a baby. He finally found a sister and a brother.

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Judge allows Trump's $10bn defamation case against BBC to proceed

But the court dismisses the other part of Trump's lawsuit that alleged the BBC had violated a Florida law.

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