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Watch: Giant rat leads floating parade to kick off Venice Carnival 2026The grand opening to the Venice Carnival 2026 took place on Sunday, with a variety of boats and floats making their way through the city's canals.As is tradition, a giant paper-mâché rat aboard a gondola lead the way; known as "Pantegana", it is a long-standing symbol of the carnival.The two-week festival attracts tourists...

Lotus Health nabs $35M for AI doctor that sees patients for free A growing number of people are asking OpenAI’s ChatGPT and other LLMs about their health, often discovering that the chatbots provide remarkably useful medical insights. KJ Dhaliwal (pictured left), who in 2019 sold the South Asian dating app Dil Mil for $50 million, says he has been thinking about the inefficiencies of the U.S....

Church fresco resembling Italian PM has face scrubbed out after outrageRiccardo De Luca/Anadolu via Getty ImagesNow you see it, now you don't - one of the angels is left with no face at allThe face of an angel on a restored church fresco in Rome that sparked outrage because of its likeness to Italy's prime minister, has been crudely scrubbed out by the artist who painted it.Church and...

US wants Russia and Ukraine to end war by June, says ZelenskyAFP via Getty ImagesKyiv residents have been sleeping in metro stations to avoid Russian air strikesUkrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says the US wants the war with Russia to end by June, adding that both sides had been invited to the US for talks next week."America proposed for the first time that the two negotiating teams –...

FBI fugitive found hiding in north Wales set for extradited to USAJust nowBBCA suspected terrorist who evaded the FBI for more than 20 years before being found in Wales can be sent back to the USA to face trial, a court has heard.Daniel Andreas San Diego, 47, was one of the agency's "most wanted fugitives" after bombings in San Francisco, California, in 2003.He was arrested in November 2024 in...