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1. Grok’s AI tool stripping women on X opens up a new frontier in systemic abuse of women in India

   Arpan Rai speaks to victims of Grok’s sexualised AI images in India, where there are calls for Elon Musk’s X to do much more to protect women already navigating a highly patriarchal society

2. Honda Civic Sport: Creature comforts

   Sean O’Grady finds himself drawn to this new iteration of a trusty, if old-fashioned, motoring legend

3. Latymer vs The Crown at Bray: What to eat when you’re bored of eating

   When tasting menus feel like homework and smash burgers feel like punishment, the only solution is to get out of London. In this month’s Fine and Dime, two very different meals – one robed and Michelin’d in Surrey, one chaotic and French-ish in Bray – reminded Hannah Twiggs what restaurants are actually for

4. Labour’s deputy leader joins PM in backing The Independent’s SafeCall campaign for missing children

   Lucy Powell supports ‘innovative’ new service for 72,000 young people who disappear each year, as other high-profile figures hail generosity of donors after £165,000 target hit

5. Malachi Kirby: ‘Forest Whitaker held me. The cameras were off but I was shaking’

   After roles in everything from ‘EastEnders’ to ‘Black Mirror’, the actor is now going head-to-head with Stephen Graham in the second round of ‘A Thousand Blows’. He speaks to Annabel Nugent about channelling trauma, on-set therapists, and his funny side

6. Kylie Jenner and Timothée Chalamet are the ‘it’ couple of awards season – why do so many people have a problem with that?

   Three years into their relationship, the make-up mogul and the Hollywood golden boy are still seen as something of a mismatch. Why does this particular A-list pairing continue to get under the skin of Chalamet’s fans, asks Katie Rosseinsky and are they really as ‘weird’ as they seem?

7. South Korea denies flying drones across border as North warns of ‘consequences’

   North Korea has accused South Korea of flying drones across the border between the nations

8. Protests against ICE planned across US after shootings in Minneapolis and Portland, Oregon

   Protests against immigration enforcement have been planned across the country after federal officers shot three people in Minneapolis and Portland

9. Iran protests latest: Internet blackout continues as Ayatollah threatens harsher crackdown

   A human rights group says at least 62 people have been killed since demonstrations began on 28 December

10. A battered Cuba braces for aftershocks as US seizures of oil tankers linked to Venezuela surge

    As U.S. seizures of oil tankers linked to Venezuela surge, so do concerns in Cuba about whether the island’s government and economy will survive