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Photographs show the Tenerife property where British teenager Jay Slater is believed to have been last seen before he went missing on Monday.A Snapchat video shared by the 19-year-old on Sunday night appears to show the property he visited in the northwestern mountain village of Masca after attending the NRG music festival. Mr Slater, from Oswaldtwistle near Blackburn in Lancashire, was holidaying with friends on the island before he went missing. Image: The property where Jay Slater is believed to have been last seen His friend Lucy Law told Wednesday’s UK Tonight programme on Sky News that she spoke to…

Canadian actor Donald Sutherland has died, his family announced on Thursday. He was 88. “With a heavy heart, I tell you that my father, Donald Sutherland, has passed away,” his son Kiefer Sutherland posted on social media. Sutherland won numerous accolades during his career spanning the 1960s through to the 2020s. A storied career on screen Sutherland was once one of the biggest stars in Hollywood thanks to his roles like Hawkeye Piece, the rascally army surgeon in “M*A*S*H,” or a quirky tank commander Sgt. Oddball in the film “Kelly’s Heroes.” He was known for his tall frame and piercing eyes, that helped him…

Pakistan’s polio eradication campaign is in disarray after the South Asian country of 240 million people reported the year’s fifth case of the highly infectious virus. It is another blow to the country’s efforts to eradicate the debilitating disease. Four polio cases were reported in the southwestern Balochistan province bordering Afghanistan, while a fifth case is the latest to be reported from the southern Sindh province, raising concerns about the feasibility of eradicating polio in the near future. “The cases this year are a striking reminder that no child anywhere would be totally safe from the crippling disease until Pakistan succeeded in eradicating polio completely,” said Malik Mukhtar…

Microsoft and Nvidia have quickly taken prime positions in the artificial intelligence revolution. The tech giants have a combined market value of $6.6 trillion (€6.16 trillion), making them two of the three largest companies in the world.  Microsoft’s recent success has been underpinned by its $13 billion bet on OpenAI, the startup behind the ChatGPT chatbot, while Nvidia can boast the world’s most  advanced chips that are vital to running high-end AI systems. But their good fortune means competition authorities in the United States are circling. Earlier this month, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) reached a deal on how to investigate the two firms’ dominant position in the AI…

A proposed finance bill sparked mass protests in the streets of Nairobi, as well as in and other parts of Kenya this week. Demonstrators, many of them young people, took to the streets Thursday morning in front of Kenya’s parliament building for the second time this week. Protesters claimed the bill’s tax hikes and levies would make the cost of living crisis worse. Police fired tear gas into the crowd and hundreds were arrested.  Nairobi: Protests against the proposed finance bill turned violentImage: Boniface Muthoni/ZUMAPRESS/picture alliance Gen Z take to the streets Bold young protesters referred to as Generation Z, or Gen Z — the…

Donald Sutherland, who appeared in films such as The Hunger Games and Kelly’s Heroes, has died. The Canadian actor, who was 88, also starred in MASH and won an Emmy for Citizen X. His son, fellow actor Kiefer Sutherland, posted on X: “With a heavy heart, I tell you that my father, Donald Sutherland, has passed away.”I personally think one of the most important actors in the history of film. Never daunted by a role, good, bad or ugly. He loved what he did and did what he loved, and one can never ask for more than that. A life…

A barrage of Russian missiles and drones hit a Ukrainian thermal power plant and other energy facilities overnight, further stretching Ukraine’s already depleted electricity grid, Ukrainian authorities said. The targeted attacks in recent months have drastically reduced Ukraine’s capacity to generate electricity, with rolling blackouts introduced and power imported from neighboring European Union nations. “The enemy attacked a number of energy infrastructure facilities,” Ukraine’s Energy Ministry said, adding that the Russian projectiles targeted power infrastructure in four regions, including the capital, Kyiv. The ministry said the attacks had cut power to more than 218,000 consumers for a period on Thursday…

Robert Habeck, Germany’s economy minister and vice-chancellor, plans to travel to China on Friday after visiting Seoul in South Korea as part of a multi-day diplomatic trip to East Asia. He will be accompanied by a business delegation and members of the Bundestag, Germany’s lower house of parliament. The Green politician is set to address high-ranking lawmakers in Beijing, where he will likely be asked to explain the European Commission’s decision to impose significant tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles (EVs). This move has strained economic relations and prompted China to issue threats of retaliation. Habeck also wants to address Germany’s de-risking…

Arabic-language social media has been flooded this week with shocking images from Saudi Arabia. The pictures and videos show people who were undertaking their once-in-a-lifetime Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca collapsed on the side of the road or slumped in wheelchairs, apparently close to death or dead. They are dressed in traditional pilgrim’s white, their faces covered with cloths. In several pictures, corpses appear to have been left where they presumably collapsed. What started as a rumor on social media was confirmed as the weeklong Hajj pilgrimage ended: Hundreds of pilgrims have died in Saudi Arabia, evidently due to extremely high temperatures and lack…

Serbia have threatened to pull its football team out of Euro 2024 if UEFA doesn’t punish Croatia and Albania for alleged hateful chants.Jovan Surbatovic, general secretary of the Serbian football association, said they have made a formal complaint about “kill, kill, kill the Serb” chants during the 2-2 draw between Croatia and Albania on Wednesday. He warned the team could pull out entirely if the European football governing body UEFA doesn’t act on their complaint.”What happened is scandalous and we will ask UEFA for sanctions, even if it means not continuing the competition,” Mr Surbatovic said, according to Serbian broadcaster…