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Charles Leclerc of Ferrari leads at the start of the Formula 1 Hungarian Grand Prix at the Hungaroring circuit in Mogyorod near Budapest on August 3rd, 2025. (Photo by Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto via Getty Images)NurPhoto via Getty ImagesFormula 1 heads to Hungary this weekend for the last race on the calendar before the annual three-week summer break.After three races without tasting victory, Andrea Kimi Antonelli returned to the top step of the podium last time out at Spa-Francorchamps, having beaten Charles Leclerc and Max Verstappen to the checkered flag for a sixth win of the season.The Mercedes youngster now holds a…

AI chatbots provide inaccurate, inconsistent and unreliable guidance to voters asking which party they should back, a study suggests, often recommending the wrong party, not mentioning the right one, or listing parties not even running.“The results raise serious concerns about the reliability of general-purpose AI systems in electoral contexts,” the study, published by the civil liberties group Liberties and based on research during this year’s Hungarian parliamentary elections, concluded.“They misclassified profiles, omitted relevant parties and included parties not running in the election,” said the report, shared with the Guardian. Outcomes were also highly volatile, with “materially different” answers given to…

Members of the public are asked if they think they should have being given a vote before Andy Burnham was appointed the new UK prime minister.

A single dose of psilocybin, the psychedelic substance in magic mushrooms, may produce physical changes in the brain that remain detectable for as long as a month, according to researchers at UC San Francisco and Imperial College London. The study, published in Nature Communications, involved healthy adults who had never previously used a psychedelic. Although none of the participants had a diagnosed mental health condition, the findings may offer clues about why psilocybin has shown therapeutic potential for depression, anxiety, and addiction. Researchers focused on temporary increases in brain “entropy,” a term describing the variety and unpredictability of neural activity.…

Morgan Rogers has joined Chelsea from Aston Villa for a fee of £117m, signing a seven-year deal to become the Blues’ record signing.A deal was agreed on Saturday for the 23-year-old to move to Stamford Bridge as the club stole in ahead of Arsenal, who had been in talks to sign the England international and had appeared to be favourites to secure his signature.It is understood that the chance to work with the new Chelsea manager Xabi Alonso was a key factor in persuading Rogers, who has just returned from helping England to a third-place finish at the World Cup,…

Jennifer Garner recently told the “Shut Up Evan” podcast that paparazzi would go to dangerous lengths to get photos of her and her children. “If I went through a yellow light, 15 cars would go through the red behind me,” Garner said. “They would drive up onto people’s lawns, even on a hillside. We were trying to have our little one play soccer, and the association asked us to stop because there were 20 cars coming. So it wasn’t just about us. It was just an industry that had gotten out of control.” She added, “If you show up and…

Chiemelie Ezeobi The European Union (EU) and the Government of Portugal have strengthened their maritime security partnership with the Nigerian Navy through the donation of two patrol boats and specialised maritime crime investigation equipment to boost efforts against piracy, crude oil theft and other transnational crimes in the Gulf of Guinea. The assets were handed over at the Joint Maritime Security Training Centre, Navy Town, Ojo, Lagos, under the European Union’s €15 million maritime security programme being implemented by the Government of Portugal across the ECOWAS region. The initiative is designed to enhance operational readiness, institutional capacity and regional cooperation…

SALT LAKE CITY — So how much confidence does your next-door neighbor, or the woman at church, or maybe the guy at work have in higher education?The answers likely vary if they live in Utah or if they’re college graduates or Republicans or Democrats.Earlier this year, a Deseret News/Hinckley Institute of Politics survey revealed a sizable majority of Utahns — 67% — reported “a great deal” or “a fair amount” of confidence when asked about the state’s colleges and universities.But Beehive State residents have less confidence in higher education institutions nationally, with just over half of survey respondents — 53%…

Japan logged its first official kokushobi or “cruelly hot day” on Tuesday since the new term for when temperatures top 40 degrees Celsius was introduced in April. The Japan Meteorological Agency coined the new designation to warn the public of the heat dangers of days that were once freak weather events but have now become more common.The central Japan cities of Gujo and Tajimi in Gifu prefecture, along with Toyota in Aichi prefecture, all hit 40C. Gujo’s 40C and Toyota’s 40.1C were all-time highs recorded at their respective weather stations.Across 914 weather stations nationwide, 278 registered temperatures exceeding 35C or…

In 2024, the Amazon rainforest experienced its worst forest fires in over two decades, which the Copernicus Climate Change Service put down to “climate extremes and human activity”. “The 2025 figures are significant and show that it is possible to reduce the burned area in the country,” Vera Arruda, a researcher at the Amazon Environmental Research Institute (IPAM) and co-ordinator at MapBiomas, told the BBC.”The 31% drop compared to the historical average – driven primarily by the lowest number of fires recorded in the Amazon in 41 years – is positive news, but it does not yet allow us to…