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Andy Giddings,West MidlandsandEd James,BBC Radio WMGetty ImagesThere have been calls to rename Birmingham Airport after Ozzy Osbourne since his death in JulyThe boss of Birmingham Airport has ruled out renaming it after Ozzy Osbourne.Strong support for the idea, including from the late singer’s daughter Kelly Osbourne, was dashed after CEO Nick Barton said keeping the current name was “incredibly valuable for development”.A petition calling on the airport to change its name has attracted almost 77,000 signatures and the man who started it, Dan Hudson, said: “It continues to go from strength to strength.”Mr Barton said, while he recognised the legend…

Jeremy FowlerCloseJeremy Fowlersenior NFL national reporterJeremy Fowler is a senior national NFL writer for ESPN, covering the entire league including breaking news. Jeremy also contributes to SportsCenter both as a studio analyst and a sideline reporter covering for NFL games. He is an Orlando, Florida native who joined ESPN in 2014 after covering college football for CBSSports.com.Dan GrazianoCloseDan Grazianosenior NFL national reporterDan Graziano is a senior NFL national reporter for ESPN, covering the entire league and breaking news. Dan also contributes to Get Up, NFL Live, SportsCenter, ESPN Radio, Sunday NFL Countdown and Fantasy Football Now. He is a New…

Southern Europe’s already scorching dry summers could get even worse over the next 1,000 years if a key ocean current system collapses — with a rise in extreme droughts and longer dry seasons, a new study suggests.This is the first time that researchers have compared what would happen to Europe’s summer precipitation under different climate scenarios if the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) were to collapse.The AMOC is a major ocean current system in the Atlantic Ocean that brings heat from the Southern Hemisphere to the Northern Hemisphere and helps regulate the climate globally. Scientists have previously warned that human-linked…

Driving down the interstate through the dry Nevada desert, there are few signs that a vast expanse of new construction is hiding behind the sagebrush-covered hills. But, just beyond a massive power plant and transmission towers that march up into the dusty brown mountains, lies one of the world’s biggest buildouts of data centers – miles of new concrete buildings that house millions of computer servers.The Guardian’s journalism is independent. We will earn a commission if you buy something through an affiliate link. Learn more.This business park, called the Tahoe-Reno Industrial Center, has a sprawling landmass greater than the city of…

Canadian Museum of Nature researchers Natalia Rybczynski (left), Danielle Fraser and Marisa Gilbert examine the bones of Epiaceratherium itjilik. Pierre Poirier/Canadian Museum of Nature hide caption toggle caption Pierre Poirier/Canadian Museum of Nature Researchers from the Canadian Museum of Nature (CMN) have identified a new species of rhino that once roamed Canada’s High Arctic 23 million years ago. The extinct rhinoceros, described in the journal Nature Ecology & Evolution, is the northernmost rhino known to have ever walked the planet — and it’s already reshaping scientists’ understanding of when many ancient animals spread across the continents. While there are only…

AMC Theatres said Thursday that its chairman and CEO, Adam Aron, 71, recently suffered a minor stroke. “While on a recent London business trip related to the international movie theater activities of AMC, Mr. Aron suffered a minor stroke on November 17,” it said in a statement. “He immediately received state-of-the-art emergency medical care at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurological Sciences, a superb public hospital in London renowned for its stroke care and operated by the United Kingdom’s National Health Service,” the company explained. “He received a timely injection of clot-busting thrombolytic medication, staying overnight at the hospital…

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“In September 2017, Andrea Bocelli asked me to go to Rome to sing ‘The Prayer’ with him at a benefit gala for his foundation. I had never been to Italy. This was a special moment, to get to go for the first time with probably the most famous Italian singer alive today. What a week, and I only had to sing twice! I’m used to Broadway, where we do eight shows a week, or being on tour and singing every other night, but I was able to relax and breathe. I just took the time to walk, walk, walk along…

On a cloudy winter day, a state government inspector named Ryan Coffield walked into a Family Dollar store in Windsor, North Carolina, carrying a scanner gun and a laptop.Inside the store, which sits along a three-lane road in a county of peanut growers and poultry workers, Coffield scanned 300 items and recorded their shelf prices. He carried the scanned bar codes to the cashier and watched as item after item rang up at a higher price.Red Baron frozen pizzas, listed on the shelf at $5, rang up at $7.65. Bounty paper towels, shelf price $10.99, rang up at $15.50. Kellogg’s…

Liv McMahonTechnology reporterValentino/YouTubeValentino’s campaign using AI-generated visuals to promote its new handbag has come under fire on social mediaItalian luxury fashion house Valentino is facing criticism after posting “disturbing” adverts made using artificial intelligence (AI) for one of its luxury handbags online.The brand announced a collaboration with digital artists as part of what it dubbed a “digital creative project” promoting its new DeVain handbag.But an AI-generated advert it posted on Instagram has been met with intense criticism from fans, who called the visuals – and use of AI – “sloppy” and “sad”.The BBC has approached Valentino for comment.The Instagram post…