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Take a look inside life-sized Barbie Dreamhouse
Ever wanted to have a peek inside a real-life house resembling Barbie’s all-pink Dreamhouse? The BBC’s Colin Paterson has done just that ahead of the release of the new Barbie film. Eaton House Studio in Essex, locally known as The Pink House, is often used for fashion shoots and music videos in the UK. Video…
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Migrant girl death in US custody was “preventable”
Getty Images By Nadine Yousif BBC News The death of an eight-year-old migrant girl in US border custody has been called “a preventable tragedy” by an independent report. Anadith Danay Reyes Alvarez died in hospital on 17 May after she fell ill at a border patrol site in Texas. Investigators later determined that she had…
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Travis King: US soldier in N Korea was jailed for fights in Seoul
Reuters By Derek Cai in Singapore & Jean Mackenzie in Seoul BBC News Travis King, the American soldier who fled to North Korea, had been detained for getting into fights in South Korea before he crossed the border. Court documents showed he also damaged a police car and had recently spent time in a detention…
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MI6 head urges disaffected Russians to spy for UK
PA Media By Frank Gardner, BBC security correspondent in Prague & Marie Jackson in London BBC News MI6 has recruited a number of Russians disaffected by the Ukraine war, its chief has revealed, as he appealed for more to defect and work with them. In a speech in Prague, Sir Richard Moore said many Russians…
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Why KFC failed to master Karachi’s famed paratha rolls
Karachi locals baulked at a mass-produced version of their homegrown treasure, a crispy, meat-filled paratha that captures of zeitgeist of the city in one bold, delicious parcel. Paratha rolls – tender, juicy kebab or bite-sized chunks of grilled meat smothered with tangy chutney, garnished with onions and rolled in flaky, crispy fried flatbread (paratha) –…
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Facebook-owner Meta exec Nick Clegg says AI ‘quite stupid’
Getty Images By Zoe Kleinman & Tom Gerken BBC News Current Artificial Intelligence (AI) models are “quite stupid”, Facebook-owner Meta’s president of global affairs Nick Clegg said as he played down the risks of the technology. The former UK deputy prime minister said the “hype has somewhat run ahead of the technology”. Current models were…
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Heatwave: Italy’s major cities on red heat alert
Reuters By Sofia Bettiza in Palermo & James Gregory in London BBC News Red alerts for extreme heat are in place in most of Italy’s main cities as a heatwave intensifies in Europe. Temperatures are expected to peak on Wednesday, with 23 cities on high alert – from Trieste in the north-east to Messina in…
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Chamoli: Fifteen electrocuted to death near India river
ANI Fifteen people have died after an electricity transformer exploded on the banks of the Alaknanda river in the north Indian state of Uttarakhand. Authorities say a police official and five home guards are among those killed in the accident which took place in Chamoli district. The state’s chief minister, Pushkar Singh Dhami, has ordered…
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Barbie reviews: What do critics make of the Margot Robbie film?
Warner Bros By Steven McIntosh Entertainment reporter Life in plastic is mostly fantastic according to many critics, who have broadly praised the Barbie movie. The much-publicised film is released this Friday – opposite Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer – and stars Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling. Empire said Barbie was “painfully funny”, while the Independent described it…
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Pita Limjaroenrat: Thai reformist leader suspended from parliament
Reuters By Derek Cai & Thanyarat Doksone in Singapore & Bangkok Thai reformist Pita Limjaroenrat’s bid to be nominated prime minister has ended, prompting outrage from his supporters after he won May’s election. The 42-year-old was first dramatically suspended from parliament by the constitutional court, forcing him to leave the debating chamber. Lawmakers then agreed…