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Gemma Collins clashes with Sinitta over previous theatre role as tensions rise on I’m A Celeb

Gemma Collins clashes with Sinitta over previous theatre role as tensions rise on I’m A Celeb

Published by Daniella Wilson

Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Gemma Collins is set to face emotional turmoil and a heated confrontation with pop star Sinitta in the upcoming episode of I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! South Africa. The reality television personality, who previously exited the show early, is seen struggling with the harsh realities of jungle life, tearfully admitting her fear of appearing vulnerable to her fellow campmates. A preview of Thursday’s instalment reveals Collins’ ongoing difficulties, as she confides in the Bush Telegraph about needing to contact her agent after enduring “the worst possible bed” in the Savannah Slum camp. Her complaints about the living conditions also provided a moment of levity for her campmates. “We shouldn’t be suffering,” she declared. “Like, let’s get real, we are celebrities – do you know what I mean? No one should have to suffer like this, let alone a …

Israel’s attacks on Beirut ‘much bigger than anything we’ve seen in this war or the previous one’

Israel’s attacks on Beirut ‘much bigger than anything we’ve seen in this war or the previous one’

Published by Sam Flores

Nadia Massih is pleased to welcome Rania Abouzeid, Lebanese Australian independent journalist and veteran war reporter. Ms. Abouzeid describes “chaotic scenes” in the Lebanese capital. Israel’s attacks on Beirut have been extensive and they are now targeting areas well beyond the southern suburbs: “crowded, mixed sectarian residential areas that are full of the displaced”. Women and parentless children are flooding hospitals. Amid the “simultaneous boom, boom, boom, strike after strike” there are “massive traffic jams… people just wanted to flee, but flee where?” Keywords for this article Source link

A visual guide to Artemis II and previous missions to the moon | Space News

A visual guide to Artemis II and previous missions to the moon | Space News

Published by Sam Flores

Monday, April 6, 2026, is one of the most significant days for human spaceflight in more than 50 years. At 13:56 EDT (17:56 GMT) Artemis II mission is expected to break the record for the farthest distance humans have travelled from Earth, originally set by Apollo 13 at 400,171km (248,655 miles). The crew is expected to eventually reach a maximum distance of 406,773 km (252,760 miles) from Earth at 19:07 EDT (23:07 GMT) as they perform a lunar flyby aboard the Orion spacecraft. This means Artemis II will travel about 6,602km (4,105 miles) further into space than any human in history. What is NASA’s Artemis programme? The Artemis programme is NASA’s multi-decade mission to return men and women to the moon for the first time since 1972, establish a long-term base there and eventually enable future missions to Mars by crews. The programme is currently divided into five missions: Artemis I, II, III, IV and V. Artemis I was the inaugural uncrewed test flight, which launched on November 16, 2022, and lasted 25 days. It …

Earth is now heating up twice as fast as in previous decades

Earth is now heating up twice as fast as in previous decades

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Ocean warming has led to widespread bleaching of warm-water corals Sirachai Arunrugstichai/Getty Images Global warming has accelerated and is now happening twice as fast as in previous decades, meaning major climate catastrophes could happen sooner than expected. Earth was warming by about 0.18°C per decade prior to 2013-14. Since then, it has been heating up by about 0.36°C per decade, according to an analysis by Stefan Rahmstorf at the University of Potsdam, Germany, and his colleagues. If warming continues at this rate, humanity could breach the Paris Agreement goal of limiting warming to 1.5°C in 2028, even sooner than other research has projected. “Every tenth of a degree matters and makes the impact of global warming worse in terms of extreme weather events, in terms of ecosystem impacts, also the risk of crossing tipping points,” says Rahmstorf. “The world, apart from the US, is trying to halt global warming, reduce it, and that’s why the fact that it’s now actually doing the opposite, accelerating, is of great concern.” After a string of record-hot years, climate …

TSA says PreCheck still operational after previous announcement of suspension : NPR

TSA says PreCheck still operational after previous announcement of suspension : NPR

Published by Sam Flores

FILE – U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, right, shakes hands with Transportation Security Administration Officer Monica Degro at a news conference at Harry Reid International Airport, Nov. 22, 2025, in Las Vegas. Ronda Churchill/AP hide caption toggle caption Ronda Churchill/AP WASHINGTON — The Transportation Security Administration said Sunday that its PreCheck program would remain operational despite an earlier announcement from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security that the airport security service was being suspended during the partial government shutdown. “As staffing constraints arise, TSA will evaluate on a case by case basis and adjust operations accordingly,” the agency said. It was not immediately clear whether Global Entry, another airport service, would be affected. PreCheck and Global Entry are designed to help speed registered travelers through security lines, and suspensions would likely cause headaches and delays. The turmoil is tied to a partial government shutdown that began Feb. 14 after Democrats and the White House were unable to reach a deal on legislation to fund the Department of Homeland Security. Democrats have been demanding changes …

Alpine skiing-Cortina smiles on Johnson after previous pain

Alpine skiing-Cortina smiles on Johnson after previous pain

Published by Sam Flores

CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, Italy, Feb 8 : Cortina d’Ampezzo’s Olimpia della Tofane piste wrecked Breezy Johnson’s Olympic downhill hopes four years ago but made amends on Sunday, even if the gold medal came apart minutes after being hung round her neck. Johnson held up the separated components – the chunky medal, clasp and ribbon – in the post-race press conference after becoming the first U.S. medallist of the Milano Cortina Games in the opening race of the women’s Alpine ski programme. “I was jumping in excitement and it broke. I’m sure somebody will fix it. It’s not like crazy broken but it’s a little broken,” she said.  ‘HEART ACHES’ FOR LINDSEY VONN The pain this time was for others – teammate Lindsey Vonn who was flown to hospital after a horrific crash while attempting to become the oldest Alpine Olympic medallist at the age of 41 and with a severely injured left knee. “My heart aches for her. It’s such a brutal sport sometimes,” said Johnson. Four years ago it was Johnson’s heart that was aching …

Sam Altman Says Oops, They Accidentally Made the New Version of ChatGPT Worse Than the Previous One

Sam Altman Says Oops, They Accidentally Made the New Version of ChatGPT Worse Than the Previous One

Published by José Betancourt

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Andrew Harnik / Getty Images It’s been a little over three years since the launch of the first commercially-available large language model (LLM) chatbot, OpenAI’s ChatGPT. And though the AI model has certainly made performance gains since it came online, the lackluster performance of recent iterations hasn’t helped the perception that LLMs are hitting a plateau. Case in point, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman recently conceded that the company had “screwed up” the language capabilities of its latest chatbot iteration, GPT-5.2. “I think we just screwed that up,” Altman said at a developer town hall on Monday. “We will make future versions of GPT 5.x hopefully much better at writing than 4.5 was.” Continuing, Altman said that the company chose to focus on ChatGPT’s technical capabilities, perhaps to the detriment of its human-language performance. “We did decide, and I think for good reason, to put most of our effort in 5.2 into making it super good at intelligence, reasoning, coding, engineering, that kind of thing,” Altman said. “And we …

Another crane collapses in Thailand, killing two, after 32 die previous day | Infrastructure News

Another crane collapses in Thailand, killing two, after 32 die previous day | Infrastructure News

Published by Sam Flores

Thursday’s incident, on the outskirts of the capital Bangkok, follows a crane collapse the day before that killed dozens in the country’s northeast. Published On 15 Jan 202615 Jan 2026 Click here to share on social media share2 Share A crane collapse has killed two people on the outskirts of Thailand’s capital Bangkok, one day after a falling crane in the country’s northeast killed 32. Thursday’s accident in Samut Sakhon province involved a crane being used to construct an elevated highway that fell onto the road below, Police Colonel Sitthiporn Kasi, superintendent at the local district police station, told the Reuters news agency. Another police official from the station told Reuters that five people ​had also been injured ‌in the accident. Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of list Transport Minister Phiphat Ratchakitprakarn said the same building firm was also involved, linking Italian-Thai Development to the country’s second deadly crane collapse in two days, according to local media. The company was contracted to build a section of a China-backed high-speed rail project where a huge crane …