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Thailand has revoked the visa of a Swiss man who faced growing backlash after reports that he allegedly kicked a local woman sitting on the steps near his villa in Phuket. Urs Fehr and his Thai wife Khanuengnit said they thought she was intruding on their property. They later apologised. Hundreds of angry locals later gathered in front of their seaside villa on Sunday demanding Mr Fehr’s expulsion. More than 100,000 foreigners are estimated to have settled in Phuket. The island is one of Thailand’s most popular hotspots, with millions of tourists visiting each year. According to local reports, the…

Last month was the world’s warmest February in modern times, the EU’s climate service says, extending the run of monthly records to nine in a row. Each month since June 2023 has seen new temperature highs for the time of year. The world’s sea surface is at its hottest on record, while Antarctic sea-ice has again reached extreme lows. Temperatures are still being boosted by the Pacific’s El Niño weather event, but human-caused climate change is by far the main driver of the warmth. “Heat-trapping greenhouse gases are unequivocally the main culprit,” stresses Prof Celeste Saulo, Secretary General of the…

When Alex Baddock’s kidneys failed, his mother did what most parents would do and donated one of hers. But he had to wait until he was three for a transplant, meaning he spent much of his early life on dialysis and needing overnight care. Simply living a normal life was the aim and now, nine years on, 12-year-old Alex and mum Julie, from Ruthin, Denbighshire, are to celebrate their unique bond through one of their passions – skiing. They will take on competitors from around the world on the slopes at the World Transplant Winter Games, external in Bormio, Italy, which starts on…

British musician Jasdeep Singh Degun has said it is “an absolute honour” to become the first sitar player to win a Royal Philharmonic Society Award. Degun, from Leeds, was named best instrumentalist at the prestigious classical music ceremony on Tuesday. He told BBC News the prize was “testament to the hundreds of Indian classical musicians in this country”. “And it feels like we’ve really stepped forward into the classical psyche, which is wonderful,” he said. Degun picked up his award at a ceremony in Manchester – the first time the RPS event has been held outside London in its 35-year…

“We are a team that believes we can do it.” When you look at Manchester City’s form in Europe and domestically, manager Pep Guardiola’s words should be a surprise to no-one. The Champions League holders swept aside Copenhagen 6-2 on aggregate to reach the quarter-finals for the seventh successive season and become the first English club to win 10 consecutive matches in the competition. They did it despite leaving seven players out from the side that beat Manchester United on Sunday, with half an eye on this weekend’s showdown with Liverpool at Anfield – as City bid to become the…

One German man has redefined “man on a mission.” A 62-year-old from Magdeburg deliberately got 217 Covid-19 vaccine shots in the span of 29 months, according to a new study, going against national vaccine recommendations. That’s an average of one jab every four days. In the process, he became a walking experiment for what happens to the immune system when it is vaccinated against the same pathogen repeatedly. A correspondence published Monday in the journal Lancet Infectious Diseases outlined his case and concluded that while his “hypervaccination” did not result in any adverse health effects, it also did not significantly improve or…

For the first time in ten years, California voters could get the opportunity to change a controversial law aimed at criminal justice reform. A new proposal, called The Homelessness, Drug Addiction and Theft Reduction Act, would roll back parts of Proposition 47, approved by California voters in 2014 to reduce overcrowding in jails by reducing punishments for some crimes, like theft and drug possession. Many of the proposal’s backers are exactly who you’d expect: district attorneys, Republican lawmakers and big chain stores that have been lashing out against a Covid-era rise in shoplifting that last year subsided. But it has support…

Singapore has charged two men with cheating for sneaking three people into a Taylor Swift concert without tickets. Yang Chenguang allegedly distracted security staff by talking to them while Li Xiao Wei held onto a turnstile to let the trio in, authorities said. The incident happened last Monday, the third of Swift’s six sold-out shows in the South East Asian city-state. Tickets to the show are highly coveted as Singapore is the only stop of Swift’s Eras Tour in the region. The dates had sold out months before and desperate fans from as far as China turn to resellers to…

Alexsandrah never really wanted to be a model. First scouted when she was 13, and then again as a young adult, she turned down those initial two opportunities. But then she finally decided to give it a go. “What have you got to lose? Just see how it goes,” she told herself. Now full time in the industry, the London-based model is taking another chance in her career, by creating a virtual, AI-generated version of herself. She hopes it will secure her future in modelling. “Having an AI version of you kind of keeps you safe,” she explains. “I will…

West Midlands Police trialled a voice assistant powered by artificial intelligence (AI) in a bid to deal with rising volumes of non-emergency calls. Sensitive technical details of the plan were erroneously published online in a document seen by the BBC. It set out potential risks of the AI, including whether the system, dubbed “Amy101”, would understand local “brummie” accents. West Midlands Police has insisted “robust safeguards” were in place. Based on the tech behind Amazon’s popular voice assistant, Alexa, the trial explored how AI could help the force cope with increasing volumes of calls, and potentially offer new services such…