Gabii was a once powerful city, but was largely abandoned by 50 CE. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. The city of Rome has been inhabited continuously for 14,000 years --long before it became known by its current name. While this makes the Italian capital city a world capital in terms of archaeology and ancient history, the centuries and centuries of construction make it difficult to study the city's ancient beginnings . Enter Gabii, an ancient Roman city 11 miles east of Rome you've probably never heard of unless you're an expert in the field.

'There were, frankly, too many indie games to play in a day - a nice problem to have' gamers playing at SXSW Sydney Games Showcase 2025. 'There were, frankly, too many indie games to play in a day - a nice problem to have' gamers playing at SXSW Sydney Games Showcase 2025. Hyperkinetic shooters, gorgeous animal adventures and even a charming puzzler where you play a postie: Australia's developers are punching above their weight T here's no escaping the fact that SXSW Sydney - Australia's iteration of Austin's tech, music and film event, now in its third year - is absolutely beset by brands. In Tumbalong park on Saturday, families who had arrived for a free concert for kids meandered around the garish yellow CommBank Tour zone, as a line wound its way into the giant L'Oréal tent. But metres away at the International Convention Centre, inside the halls dedicated to gaming, the corporate influence was more muted.

Marjorie Taylor Greene's revenge mission: Ex-GOP strategist reveals why firebrand has turned on Trump administration Accountant arrested after'opening fire on MAGA supporter' in row over Trump sign... as victim recalls bullets whizzing past his head'Half the internet' goes down after Amazon cloud outage leaving millions unable to use Ring, Alexa, and banking apps - as experts say we'can't rule out a cyberattack' This is exactly how I look this good at 68 - and you can too: World-famous make-up guru BOBBI BROWN reveals her 10 beauty tricks to hide wrinkles, tighten skin... and the one thing that's almost as good as a facelift Shocking behavior that led to little girl's horror plunge from Disney cruise ship is revealed for first time Keri Russell, 49, SLAMS plastic surgery trends in Hollywood and admits it feels'strange' to look natural Doctors expose the truth about melatonin... as terrifying side-effects soar Trump drops expletive as he issues blunt response to millions of'No Kings' protesters Shock new twist in death of ex-NFL star Doug Martin, 36, as it emerges he died'after brief struggle with police' How I lost 4st fast WITHOUT weight-loss jabs. Virginia Giuffre's memoir appears in book shops a day early: Prince Andrew accuser details multiple encounters with the disgraced royal and reveals how her traumatic childhood made her'perfect victim' for Epstein Greedy waitress chases down customer and calls cops because he didn't tip her: 'Who said he's obligated to tip?' Bailey Zimmerman debuts new cosmetic procedure after revealing he's been'insecure' about it since childhood Are you anxious, tired and have difficulty concentrating? You could be suffering from this common but widely misunderstood condition - and here's how to help yourself: DR MAX PEMBERTON Biden's former mouthpiece Karine Jean-Pierre reveals how ex-president left her'enraged and heartbroken' as she turns on Democrats Sarah Ferguson could turn on Andrew to'save her own skin' if cash runs low - as he faces potential police probe into'dirt digging' after losing his titles Sharon Stone played her mother who tied her to a bed to go party now the real daughter tells the story'Casino' didn't dare show Beware the eye in the sky! READ MORE: How AI cops are already patrolling Britain's streets Whether it's sending a quick text or casting an eye over your emails, those tempted to look at their phone while driving are finally being caught out. UK trials of an AI'traffic cop' have successfully detected thousands of drivers using their phone behind the wheel.

BBC at scene of'brazen' Louvre jewel theft A manhunt is under way for a gang of thieves who carried out a broad daylight raid on Paris's Louvre Museum, and stole jewels described as priceless. The gang appear to have used a mechanical ladder to reach a first-floor window, before breaking into display cases and escaping on motorbikes. The BBC's Hugh Schofield is outside the museum where the extraordinary, daring and brazen robbery took place. Drone footage shows blaze destroying the historic Bernaga Monastery in Italy. Could a Corrie cameo be on the cards for Daniel O'Donnell?

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said he would be ready to join Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin at a proposed summit in Hungary if he were invited. The US and Russian presidents announced on Thursday they planned to hold talks on the war in Ukraine in Budapest, possibly in the coming weeks. In comments released on Monday, Zelensky told reporters: If it is an invitation in a format where we meet as three or, as it's called, shuttle diplomacy then in one format or another, we will agree. Meanwhile, media reports have suggested his White House meeting with Trump on Friday descended into a shouting match - with the US side urging Ukraine to accept Russia's terms to end the war. Zelensky was guarded during his first press briefing since the talks, but still his comments made clear there were large areas of disagreement between the two sides.

BetterGuards has teamed up with the NBA Training Association to outfit players with its adaptive ankle brace. The pro ballers are avoiding serious injury while evaluating the stabilizing design. Austin Reaves of the Los Angeles Lakers wears a BetterGuards ankle brace during the game against the Phoenix Suns in October, 2025. Matas Buzelis was in a situation every professional basketball player dreads. This sickening scenario often means an ankle injury is about to occur, especially for players like Buzelis with a lengthy history of them dating back to his high school years.

British soldiers will be granted new powers to shoot down drones threatening military bases. The plans, to be unveiled by Defence Secretary John Healey in a speech on Monday, are intended to allow troops to take faster, more decisive action. Four British airbases used by US forces reported mystery drone sightings last year, while drones have disrupted airspace across Europe a number of times in recent months. The new powers will only apply to military sites, but could be extended to civilian locations such as airports. Healey is set to announce the introduction of a kinetic option, first reported by the Daily Telegraph, that would enable British troops or Ministry of Defence (MoD) police to shoot drones posing a threat to a military site in the UK.

Universality results for equivariant neural networks remain rare. Those that do exist typically hold only in restrictive settings: either they rely on regular or higher-order tensor representations, leading to impractically high-dimensional hidden spaces, or they target specialized architectures, often confined to the invariant setting. This work develops a more general account. For invariant networks, we establish a universality theorem under separation constraints, showing that the addition of a fully connected readout layer secures approximation within the class of separation-constrained continuous functions. For equivariant networks, where results are even scarcer, we demonstrate that standard separability notions are inadequate and introduce the sharper criterion of $\textit{entry-wise separability}$. We show that with sufficient depth or with the addition of appropriate readout layers, equivariant networks attain universality within the entry-wise separable regime. Together with prior results showing the failure of universality for shallow models, our findings identify depth and readout layers as a decisive mechanism for universality, additionally offering a unified perspective that subsumes and extends earlier specialized results.

While Speech Large Language Models (Speech-LLMs) show strong performance in many applications, their robustness is critically under-tested, especially to speech disfluency. Existing evaluations often rely on idealized inputs, overlooking common disfluencies, particularly those associated with conditions like Parkinson's disease. This work investigates whether current Speech-LLMs can maintain performance when interacting with users who have speech impairments. To facilitate this inquiry, we introduce VocalBench-DF, a framework for the systematic evaluation of disfluency across a multi-dimensional taxonomy. Our evaluation of 22 mainstream Speech-LLMs reveals substantial performance degradation, indicating that their real-world readiness is limited. Further analysis identifies phoneme-level processing and long-context modeling as primary bottlenecks responsible for these failures. Strengthening recognition and reasoning capability from components and pipelines can substantially improve robustness. These findings highlight the urgent need for new methods to improve disfluency handling and build truly inclusive Speech-LLMs

Urban embodied AI agents, ranging from delivery robots to quadrupeds, are increasingly populating our cities, navigating chaotic streets to provide last-mile connectivity. Training such agents requires diverse, high-fidelity urban environments to scale, yet existing human-crafted or procedurally generated simulation scenes either lack scalability or fail to capture real-world complexity. We introduce UrbanVerse, a data-driven real-to-sim system that converts crowd-sourced city-tour videos into physics-aware, interactive simulation scenes. UrbanVerse consists of: (i) UrbanVerse-100K, a repository of 100k+ annotated urban 3D assets with semantic and physical attributes, and (ii) UrbanVerse-Gen, an automatic pipeline that extracts scene layouts from video and instantiates metric-scale 3D simulations using retrieved assets. Running in IsaacSim, UrbanVerse offers 160 high-quality constructed scenes from 24 countries, along with a curated benchmark of 10 artist-designed test scenes. Experiments show that UrbanVerse scenes preserve real-world semantics and layouts, achieving human-evaluated realism comparable to manually crafted scenes. In urban navigation, policies trained in UrbanVerse exhibit scaling power laws and strong generalization, improving success by +6.3% in simulation and +30.1% in zero-shot sim-to-real transfer comparing to prior methods, accomplishing a 300 m real-world mission with only two interventions.