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Legal IT Insider’s 2025 Gen AI And The Practice Of Law Report – Publishing This Month!

Legal IT Insider’s 2025 Gen AI And The Practice Of Law Report – Publishing This Month!

Legal IT Insider’s 2025 Gen AI And The Practice Of Law Report will be published next week. The report is written by lead analyst Neil Cameron. The report explores how Gen AI has moved beyond legal tech hype to become a fundamental catalyst...

Who is Rachel Reeves, Britain’s first female chancellor in tears during PMQs

Who is Rachel Reeves, Britain’s first female chancellor in tears during PMQs

Rachel Reeves received the "full backing" of Sir Keir Starmer after the chancellor was seen with tears rolling down her eyes in the House of Commons. The Labour party rushed to throw its support behind Reeves amid concerns that the incident...

The Czech Billionaire, the Union Pact and a Very British Power Play

The Czech Billionaire, the Union Pact and a Very British Power Play

The Louth-London Royal Mail, by Charles Cooper Henderson, 1820 This story keeps giving—which is why we keep returning. When a billionaire dubbed the ‘Czech Sphinx’ takes control of Royal Mail—Britain’s storied postal service—it’s both a chance for...

Full list of 230 UK companies adopting four-day work week with full pay

Full list of 230 UK companies adopting four-day work week with full pay

More than 230 UK companies have now adopted a four-day working week without making any changes to pay. It comes as the latest national four-day working week pilot has ended with a 100 per cent success rate, according to the campaign group 4 Day...

How the UK-based newsletter ‘Shakti Khabar’ created ideas and communities among queer South Asians

How the UK-based newsletter ‘Shakti Khabar’ created ideas and communities among queer South Asians

Shakti [the first queer South Asian organisation in Britain] launched their newsletter Shakti Khabar (Shakti News) in 1989. We draw on the 17 issues of the newsletter published between 1989 and 1992, at the height of Shakti’s activity and...

Britt Baker Sparks AEW Exit Rumors With Aquatic Instagram Post

Britt Baker Sparks AEW Exit Rumors With Aquatic Instagram Post

Posted in: AEW, Sports, TV | Tagged: britt baker, wrestling Comrades! Dr. Britt Baker's cryptic water bottle Instagram post has El Presidente's sources buzzing about a potential AEW exit! Is WWE her NeXT destination? Britt Baker posts cryptic...

Opening round of New Mexico CMWS qualifier in the books

Opening round of New Mexico CMWS qualifier in the books

Midland NM, Albuquerque Baseball Academy teams earn wins, as do both Prime Duke City and HD 2025, advancing to second round of statewide tourney ABA pitcher Matt Delaney throws a pitch to Xclusive's Coen Anderson in the top of the fifth inning...

New Chairman for the UK's ABC

July 2 2025 In the UK, media auditor and print, digital and event advertising currency body ABC has appointed Andrew Hirsch as its Chair Designate, succeeding Derek Morris, who has held the role since 2016. The ABC (Audit Bureau of Circulations)...

‘Objects hold energy’: Author posits that British Museum in London is full of ghosts

‘Objects hold energy’: Author posits that British Museum in London is full of ghosts

In the summer of 2015, Noah Angell was at a loud East London pub for a friend’s birthday when he noticed that some of the people gathered were having an animated conversation about the ghosts at the British Museum. The group had all worked...

This startup will 3D-print dog skin first, then maybe your kidney

This startup will 3D-print dog skin first, then maybe your kidney

Lithuanian startup Vital3D wants to revolutionize human organ transplants — but first, they’ll need to nail some dog Band-Aids. Bioprinting could be the future of medicine, according to CEO Vidmantas Šakalys, who imagines viable 3D-printed organs...

92-year-old convicted in UK's oldest solved cold case

92-year-old convicted in UK's oldest solved cold case

LONDON (AP) — For more than a half-century, Ryland Headley got away with murder. When justice finally caught up to the former railway worker in a British courtroom, he was 92 years old and using hearing aids to listen to his fate. A judge...

Lottie Moss copies supermodel sister Kate's iconic Glastonbury look and shows off her toned figure in a tiny pink and leopard print bikini at Worthy Farm

Lottie Moss copies supermodel sister Kate's iconic Glastonbury look and shows off her toned figure in a tiny pink and leopard print bikini at Worthy Farm

Lottie Moss copied her sister Kate's iconic Glastonbury look and showed off her figure in a pink and leopard print bikini at the festival. The influencer, 27, shared a gallery of snaps from her time at Worthy Farm as she gushed the festival was...

"When he last came to England, he played with hard hands" - Former coach's huge observation after Shubman Gill's ton at Edgbaston

"When he last came to England, he played with hard hands" - Former coach's huge observation after Shubman Gill's ton at Edgbaston

Former Team India coach Ravi Shastri lauded Shubman Gill after the latter's gritty ton on day one of the second Test against England at Edgbaston, Birmingham. Shastri observed that Gill has shown marked improvement in his approach in English...

England: Deputy PM launches £39bn bid to build 300,000 affordable homes

England: Deputy PM launches £39bn bid to build 300,000 affordable homes

Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner has announced a £39 billion house building programme for the next decade, with the goal of delivering approximately 300,000 new social and affordable homes across England. The new ten-year Social and Affordable...

Scotland pupils show rising reading comprehension, new data reveals

Scotland pupils show rising reading comprehension, new data reveals

• The 2025 What Kids Are Reading report includes insights from over 40,000 pupils in Scotland, and reveals children using structured reading programmes read 20.7 books a year, compared to just three books for UK adults • Children’s favourite books...

Blocking of AI web crawlers in US & UK leads to calls for fair revenue share in India

Blocking of AI web crawlers in US & UK leads to calls for fair revenue share in India

As international momentum builds against the unauthorised scraping of journalistic content by artificial intelligence (AI) companies, Indian digital news publishers have renewed calls for fair revenue sharing in India as well. This comes in...

The Hottest CIA Spy In U.S. History, Brittany Butler Jennings, Fires Back At Critics

The Hottest CIA Spy In U.S. History, Brittany Butler Jennings, Fires Back At Critics

Brittany Butler Jennings, 42, says she's just an author trying to raise children and not a spy. PublishedJuly 2, 2025 4:35 PM EDT•UpdatedJuly 2, 2025 4:35 PM EDT Facebook Twitter Email Copy Link A former Central Intelligence Agency spy is fed up...

Here’s how July weather could shape up across New England

Here’s how July weather could shape up across New England

The first six months of the year are now in the books, and June was warmer and drier than average. The dryness was significant, with 2 1/2 inches less rain than the 30-year normal. In some ways, comparing actual precipitation against the 30-year...

Britain Embraces a Culture of Death

Britain Embraces a Culture of Death

Britain’s Parliament just made two shocking rulings. Mothers will be able to kill their babies right up until the point of birth, according to a June 17 vote. Terminally ill adults will be able to get government help killing themselves, according...

Prominent Catholic Bioethics Center in Oxford, England, Shuttered Amid Financial Strain

Prominent Catholic Bioethics Center in Oxford, England, Shuttered Amid Financial Strain

A prominent Catholic bioethics center in Oxford, England, has shut down after nearly 50 years due to financial constraints, according to an announcement from its director, David Albert Jones. “It is with immense sadness we announce that staff have...

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