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The system for allocating most liver transplants on the NHS is causing younger patients to wait longer for surgery, figures show. There is a shortage of liver donors, so a computer algorithm decides who to prioritise on the waiting list. Younger people are currently waiting 156 days longer on average for a transplant than patients over 60. But NHS Blood and Transplant (NHS BT) says difficult decisions have to be made and the system is saving lives. There are about 700 people on the liver transplant waiting list in the UK – although that number fluctuates as new patients are…

At least 1,400 people have starved to death in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray since food aid was suspended because it was being stolen, an official has said. The UN’s World Food Programme (WFP) and the US’s leading aid agency halted food aid to Tigray about four months ago. A subsequent investigation by Tigrayan authorities found that almost 500 people were involved in the theft, the official told the BBC. Tigray was hit by a brutal conflict in 2020, causing famine-like conditions. The conflict ended last November after the Ethiopian government and the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) signed a peace deal…

Artificial intelligence often induces fear, awe or some panicked combination of both for its impressive ability to generate unique human-like text in seconds. But its implications for cheating in the classroom — and its sometimes comically wrong answers to basic questions — have left some in academia discouraging its use in school or outright banning AI tools like ChatGPT. That may be the wrong approach. More than 8,000 teachers and students will test education nonprofit Khan Academy’s artificial intelligence tutor in the classroom this upcoming school year, toying with its interactive features and funneling feedback to Khan Academy if the AI botches an answer. The chatbot, Khanmigo,…

Percy Jackson is getting a jolt of new energy. The popular franchise “Percy Jackson & the Olympians,” following the half-man, half-god son of Poseidon and based on a fantasy YA series of books by Rick Riordan, is about to receive lavish new treatment in a Disney+ series that was teased on Friday. The footage for the show showed actor Walker Scobell taking on the role of Jackson. Scobell was previously seen in the Ryan Reynolds Netflix movie “The Adam Project.” The teaser doesn’t show too much, except a glimpse of a faun, and perhaps a menacing minotaur, two fixtures from the mythical world of…

In the second to last episode of Season 2 of Max’s “Sex and the City” follow-up series “And Just Like That…” this week, the late actor Willie Garson’s beloved character Stanford Blatch received an extended and unexpected tribute, and its origins come from a bit of a surprising place. In the episode, titled “The Last Supper, Part I: Appetizer,” Carrie (Sarah Jessica Parker) invites Stanford’s estranged husband Anthony Marentino (Mario Cantone) over to share an update on her good friend. Garson, who died in 2021 after a bout with pancreatic cancer, played Carrie’s longtime confidant Blatch throughout the original series as well as…

Only country music icon Dolly Parton can manage to get Beatles legends Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr together to record a new rendition of one of their band’s most iconic songs. Parton debuted a cover of the hit 1970 Beatles ballad “Let It Be” on Thursday as the latest single from her upcoming rock album “Rockstar,” and the track features both McCartney and Starr. “I was so proud of getting to sing songs like ‘Let It Be’ with Paul McCartney,” Dolly said on an episode of Talk Shop Live Thursday night, adding McCartney sang and played piano and Starr played the drums on the track. Famed rock singer and guitarist Peter Frampton…

Ron Cephas Jones, who won two Emmy Awards for his acting on the hit television drama “This Is Us,” has died at age 66, according to his manager, Dan Spilo. Jones was best known for playing William Hill, a bisexual recovering drug addict with terminal cancer who reconnects with his son, played by Sterling K. Brown, in the multi-generational drama “This Is Us.” He was nominated for an Emmy four consecutive times from 2017-2020 for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series, winning in 2018 and 2020. Jones appeared in the shows “Mr. Robot,” “The Get Down,” and “Luke Cage,”…

Jamie Dornan knew what he was getting tangled up with when he took on the role of Christian Grey in the spicy “Fifty Shades of Grey” franchise films – and we’re not talking about bedsheets. During an appearance on the “Happy Sad Confused” podcast last week, Dornan admitted that his decision to star in the erotic thriller “wasn’t an instant yes” because he knew that he’d catch some heat from critics. “I knew that it came with a lot of baggage,” Dornan said. “The reality was it was going to make a ton of money and fans were going to love it, and the…

The Women’s World Cup final between England and Spain on Sunday was watched by a peak audience of 12 million viewers on BBC One. The final was also viewed 3.9 million times on BBC iPlayer and the BBC Sport website and app. Overall, an audience of 21.2 million watched the BBC’s television coverage of the tournament. England, who won the European Championship last year, were beaten 1-0 by Spain in Sydney. The final is the second most-watched BBC TV event of 2023, after the Coronation of King Charles III in May. The men’s Wimbledon final between Carlos Alcaraz and Novak Djokovic in…

On weekdays, my alarm goes off at 4:15 a.m., and my husband and I immediately hop out of bed. I chug a bit of water from the bottle on my nightstand, brush my teeth, put on my workout clothes and make our workout electrolyte drinks while he gets his work bag prepped. We hop in the car to head to the gym for our 5 a.m. weightlifting workout class. We get back home around 6:15 a.m. and split the mealtime prep: My husband makes our protein-packed breakfast while I pack his lunch for the day and feed our pup. Then…