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AI email assistants are crafting perfect, tailor-made messages with minimal human input. But some people are now worried their emails sound too perfect -- including people who work in tech.

The migrant sex offender who was wrongly released from prison has been handed £500 in taxpayers' money to leave Britain. Footage captured from Heathrow Airport showed the moment Hadush Kebatu, 38, was ...

In the fall, when mornings are slow to brighten and the clocks shift back, there’s a pull to linger a little longer under the covers. But the outside world rarely adjusts in kind – school bells still ...

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Brits are preparing for heavy downpours as up to two inches of rain and winds of more than 70mph are set to batter the country. Swathes of the UK are bracing for travel disruption, flooding, power ...

A plan to merge three leafy Solihull villages into a single town has been backed by residents in a bid to save swathes of countryside. Councillors and planning officers stressed the move was purely ...

On Oct. 21, personal economics reporter Erica Alini, consumer affairs reporter Mariya Postelnyak and investment reporter David Berman answered reader questions on how to manage their household ...

In 1895–1896, Italy’s attempt to expand into Ethiopia ended in a decisive defeat. Seeking to build a colonial empire, Italian forces clashed with Emperor Menelik II’s well-armed and united Ethiopian ...

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Talks between Ethiopia’s government and holders of a $1 billion defaulted bond collapsed after both sides agreed to terminate the discussions without an agreement. The Ethiopia Ad Hoc Bondholder ...

The largest railroad merger in U.S. history was announced less than three months ago, and opposition has begun. On July 29, Union Pacific Corp. announced it had agreed to buy Norfolk Southern Corp. in ...