Author: Laura Robinson

To understand the new smart watched and other pro devices of recent focus, we should look to Silicon Valley and the quantified movement of the latest generation. Apple’s Watch records exercise, tracks our moves throughout the day, assesses the amount of time we are stood up and reminds us to get up and move around if we have been sat for too long – let’s not forget Tim Cook’s “sitting is the new factor” line. Diana saves Steve Trevor who has crashed on Themyscira. He warns her of the great war, World War I, raging across the globe. Wonder Woman…

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Sylvester Stallone is known for playing Italian-American Rocky Balboa in the Oscar-winning film from 1976, but today he was caught sparring with one opponent he had probably never expected to face. For his meeting with the Pope at the Apostolic Palace in the Vatican City, the Hollywood star was accompanied by his wife, Jennifer Flavin, and their three adult daughters Sophia, Sistine and Scarlet, as well as his brother Frank. Playing up to his public persona, Stallone was seen shadow boxing with the 86-year-old pontiff as he jested: ‘Ready? We box.’He then raised his fists like a prized fighter before the Pope, wearing…

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A couple from Hull have been left angry and upset by the ‘depressing’ state of their four-star hotel during a trip to Bulgaria.They described the hotel as being like ‘an abandoned building from the 1970s’, claiming to have spotted live cables at a child’s height and dangerous paving.Chris Sunman and his partner Nicky booked a holiday to the eastern European country in May and were looking forward to their stay in the upmarket Fenix Hotel at the Sunny Beach resort on the Black Sea coast. They booked through TUI, but the break was offered by Balkan Holidays.However, upon arrival, they were…

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This is the first image of the ten-year-old girl whose murder in a children’s home allegedly by a fellow child resident has shocked Germany.The picture emerged as the father of little Lena spoke about his loss for the first time.Lena was found strangled in the boy’s room by staff at the facility 12 hours after she died and astonishingly after she had been raped by an opportunistic burglar who broke in through an opened bathroom window.Speaking to MailOnline, Lena’s father, who asked to be named only as Werner, expressed his outrage at how father-of-two Daniel Troger, 25, had been able…

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A Russian missile attack on President Zelensky’s home town has killed a policeman and injured at least 52 others, with civilians pulled out from the rubble of their destroyed homes.Ten buildings were damaged in the strike on Kryvyi Rih after a wave of Russian attacks overnight in the centre and the east of the country. Three of the people hauled from the rubble were left in a serious condition, with photos showing smoke spewing from the ruins of a building as rescue workers carried an injured person to an ambulance. In one image of the aftermath a group of men can be…

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For a couple who have so noisily prided themselves on their unbreakable togetherness, Prince Harry and Meghan have been frequently, confoundingly, separate of late.In the space of just over a week in which they made several high-profile public appearances, the pair have been together just the once: at a Beyonce concert last Friday in Los Angeles. Meghan’s mum Doria came along, too, and Harry veered between dancing enthusiastically and looking bored rigid.Other appearances for the couple, however, were very strictly on a solo basis. Take Meghan’s second visit to Beyonce on Monday, where she had her picture taken with actress…

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Let the games begin! The Oscars will be handed out on March 10 next year but campaigning began with a bang in Venice this week – and simultaneously across the ocean at the Telluride festival in Colorado.It’s a four dimensional and very expensive game of chess at the best of times, with screenings, suppers, armies of publicists and carefully placed media stories in play as everyone jockeys to get their film and their actor up on the stage at the Dolby Theatre.This year though, with everyone’s hackles raised by the actors’ and writers’ strikes, the signs are that it’s going…

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Bankruptcy at Labour-run Birmingham Council cannot be blamed on Government funding cuts, a leaked internal report for the party has found.Sir Keir Starmer today tried to blame ministers for the collapse of Labour’s flagship council, saying it had been ‘stripped of funding’.But a report ordered by Labour’s ruling National Executive Committee warned the party leadership that blaming the council’s woes on budget cuts ‘does not stand up to scrutiny’.The report uncovered a ‘dysfunctional climate’ at the council, which has been run by Labour since 2012. It said the authority suffered from a ‘long-standing and persistent issues in getting the basics right’.Rishi…

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Banks are ‘encouraging’ fraudsters to steal ‘billions’ of pounds from customers by denying that exploits in chip and pin systems are possible – and the watchdog is allowing them to do it, a leading expert has claimed.Chip and pin was introduced in the UK in the early 2000s after banks accepted security failings which meant magnetic strips on debit and credit cards could be cloned, letting criminals rinse victims at cash points.But scientists, such as security engineering professor Ross Anderson, of Cambridge and Edinburgh Universities, have been able to show for more than a decade that the new technology is…

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Princess Diana and Dodi Fayed will be seen engaging in a love affair — without any love scenes — as the final series of The Crown attempts to avoid giving more offence than the last one did.The pair, pictured, started a relationship on the yacht Jonikal in the summer of 1997, just weeks before they died together in a car accident in Paris on August 31.Their romance will be depicted. However I’m told that there are no nude scenes or ‘anything which could be called intimate’.Perhaps Netflix are trying not to upset Diana’s son Prince Harry, who has a megabucks deal…

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