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England striker Ivan Toney has pleaded not guilty to assaulting a man at a central London nightclub. The 30-year-old footballer, from Northampton, is accused of headbutting and punching Saber Da Silva at a nightclub in Wardour Street, Soho, on 6 December. At Westminster Magistrates' Court, Toney confirmed his name and age, and pleaded not guilty to a charge of assault occasioning actual bodily harm. District Judge Briony Clarke said the case could be tried in the magistrates court, but Toney elected for a Crown Court trial in front of a judge and jury. He was freed on unconditional bail until a hearing at Southwark Crown Court on 29 October.

South Korea's exports hit record high on AI boom Share South Korea's exports hit record high on AI boom on social media South Korea's exports have surged to a monthly record amid explosive demand for chips used to power artificial intelligence. Exports jumped 83.5 percent year-on-year to $120.9bn in September, eclipsing the previous monthly record of $102.25bn set in June, preliminary customs figures showed on Thursday. Total exports from January through September hit $814.5bn, During the first nine months of the year, the country recorded a trade surplus of $49.85bn. "This is a valuable achievement that once again demonstrates the strength of our industries and companies, and is thanks to the sweat and efforts of our entrepreneurs who have competed fiercely in the global market," said Kim Jeong-kwan, South Korea's minister for trade and industry, in a statement.

Image caption, The hikes are part of immigration policy changes introduced to manage Japan's growing foreign population Japan has raised fees for foreigners looking to reside in the country, with the cost of permanent residency going up 20 times to 200,000 yen ($1,270; £955). Those seeking permanent residency must now also meet new income, pension and Japanese-language requirements. Long lines formed outside immigration offices earlier this week as applicants sought to beat the fee hikes, with Tokyo's main immigration bureau reporting wait times of over seven hours. The fee increases are part of a series of changes to Japan's immigration policy under Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, which aim ito manage its rapidly growing foreign population. In July, Japan implemented a five-fold increase in visa fees for all foreigners - its first visa fee hike in 50 years.

While Gemini 4 has performed well on benchmarks widely used to gauge model efficacy, it does less well when employees actually put it to work, according to people with direct access to the effort. Alphabet's Google has begun rolling out Gemini 4 Argon, its long-awaited flagship artificial intelligence model, but the company is grappling with internal skepticism over how well it performs in key areas, such as coding. Google unveiled the model Wednesday to a small group of trusted cybersecurity partners and said it would expand access after additional testing, starting with paid subscribers. The company said Gemini 4 posted leading scores on several benchmark tests, including beating OpenAI's Astra model on one that measures security skills. But some insiders say those metrics don't tell the whole story.

Y ears ago it would have been an elaborate operation involving any army of cyber troops creating fake news websites, social media accounts and forged dossiers, all deployed to spread disinformation en masse. Now, all you need is AI. In a worrying sign of how AI could "supercharge" fake news, Anthropic recently revealed how Claude AI was used in a political influence operation in Malaysia. It created a commercial election manipulation platform, utilising a network of about 1,000 X accounts, a fake news outlet called "Malaysia Pulse" and a series of fabricated documents. The operation appeared designed to target voters in in recent state elections, pulling in census and electoral data to exploit sensitive political and social fractures, including race, religion, and royalty across all 222 Malaysian parliamentary constituencies.

Night time celebrations filled the air as Iraqis observed the start of a four-day holiday to mark the withdrawal of US troops and international forces after more than a decade in the country fighting ISIL. Trump amazed that an'Israeli plumber' helped land Flydubai flight It's the'closest thing to an HIV vaccine', but who gets access?

Israeli passengers tell of the horror onboard the Flydubai flight that was diverted after the pilot stabbed his co-pilot in the cockpit. The plane dropped 17,000 feet during the fight from Dubai to Tel Aviv, but landed safely after being diverted to land in Saudi Arabia. Share Passengers tell of'nightmare' onboard diverted Flydubai flight on social media Trump amazed that an'Israeli plumber' helped land Flydubai flight It's the'closest thing to an HIV vaccine', but who gets access?