Rosenior, 41, parted company with the west London club following a fifth straight Premier League defeat where the team had failed to score.

The former Hull and Strasbourg boss signed a six-and-a-half-year deal in January, midway through the season, but his reign at Stamford Bridge has been cut short after just four months - including seven losses in the last eight matches.

He started brightly, winning his first four Premier League games in charge and leading the team to the last 16 of the Champions League.

But the side have dropped down the table and are at risk of missing out on Champions League qualification for next season.

A 3-0 loss at Brighton on Tuesday made it five consecutive Premier League losses without scoring, for the first time since 1912.

Rosenior leaves Chelsea seventh in the table, seven points off Liverpool in fifth, who have a game in hand.

Calum McFarlane, who led the team for two matches following the departure of Enzo Maresca in January, will take charge as interim head coach until the end of the season, starting with Sunday's FA Cup semi-final against Leeds at Wembley.

Chelsea FC said in a statement that Rosenior "has always conducted himself with the highest integrity and professionalism".

"This has not been a decision the Club has taken lightly, however recent results and performances have fallen below the necessary standards with still so much more to play for this season. Everyone at Chelsea FC wishes Liam every success in the future."

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Rosenior called his side's performance "indefensible" on Tuesday after a poor result at the Amex Stadium.

During the game, he was subjected directly to chants from supporters urging him to leave.

"I understand their frustration," he said of the fans.

"The buck stops with me."

The club are not in active discussions with candidates and intend to take their time over the next appointment, with no decision expected before the end of the season, the Press Association understands.

Rosenior had been appointed as a surprise replacement for Maresca.

Rosenior had signed a six-year contract with Chelsea when he moved from Strasbourg, owned by the Blues' parent company BlueCo.

Chelsea's collapse under Rosenior started with a 5-2 thrashing away to Paris St Germain on 11 March and from there the rot set in.

The team have since dropped down the league table, having not picked up a point since a win against Aston Villa on 4 March.

The robotic arm, built by Japanese electronics giant Sony, is a paddle-wielding robot by the name of Ace.

Ace was pitted against professional athletes and was found to have given them a real challenge with its nine camera eyes positioned around the court.

The robot, which also has eight joints that direct its movements, learned how to play the sport using the AI method known as reinforcement learning.

"There's no way to program a robot by hand to play table tennis. You have to learn how to play from experience," said Sony AI researcher Peter Dürr, co-author of the study published in the science journal Nature.

Sony said it is the "first time a robot has achieved human, expert-level play in a commonly played competitive sport in the physical world - a longstanding milestone for AI and robotics research".

Michael Spranger, president of Sony AI, said: "Speed is really one of the fundamental issues in robotics today, especially in scenarios or environments that are not fixed.

"We see a lot of robots that are in factories that are very, very fast.

"But they're doing the same trajectory over and over again. With this technology, we show that it's actually possible to train robots to be very adaptive and competitive and fast in uncertain environments that constantly change."

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An Olympic-size table tennis court was built at Sony's headquarters in Tokyo to conduct the experiments, so professional and other highly skilled athletes had a "level playing field" with the robot, Mr Dürr said.

Mr Spranger said it was important the robot didn't have too unfair of an advantage - its speed, arm's reach and performance were made comparable with a skilled athlete who trains at least 20 hours a week.

It plays by official table tennis rules on a typically sized court.

"It's very easy to build a superhuman table tennis robot," Mr Spranger said.

"You build a machine that sucks in the ball and shoots it out much faster than a human can return it.

"But that's not the goal here. The goal is to have some level of comparability, some level of fairness to the human, and win really at the level of AI and the level of decision-making and tactics and, to some extent, skill."

That means, he said, that "the robot cannot just win by hitting the ball faster than any human ever could, but it has to win by actually playing the game".

That's changing. Now, fully commercial sites are springing up all over the open web.

The Internet Watch Foundation, the organisation charged with removing child sexual abuse material (CSAM) from the internet, has seen the number of commercial sites double in the past year alone.

Some of them are hidden behind apparently innocent website fronts, others are just sitting in the open, just a few clicks away from your social media feeds.

The criminals running these sites aren't selling access to one or two videos of 'category A' material - the worst level of designation content assigned by police.

They're encouraging users to download - and pay for - terabytes of content at a time. But like any business, they need a marketing strategy. They've chosen word of mouth.

"[They're using] 'refer-a-friend' schemes whereby if you view the content and you want more, you can spread that link around your social media accounts, and then the more clicks that content gets," according to Mabel, an anonymous analyst at the IWF.

"That's new. We never used to see that at all."

Mabel is one of the few people in the world who is legally allowed to hunt down and remove CSAM from the internet. She's also a grandmother.

She added: "I worry that my grandchildren will be presented with these sites in their feeds on their social media, not realise what they are and click on them."

Nearly every refer-a-friend scheme was reported to the IWF by a member of the public, rather than a trained analyst.

That worries analysts like Mabel because it suggests ordinary people are now stumbling across this extreme abuse material in a way they never have before.

"I come into work every day and I know what I'm going to see. I'm expecting to see the content that I see on the internet," she said.

"But can you imagine if you turned on your phone, turned on the computer, and within a few clicks you saw category A content? You can't unsee that once you've seen it."

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A lot of tech firms, like social media companies, have recognised the harm that seeing such extreme content can do to their employees. Social media moderators are routinely exposed to CSAM, extreme violence and death. It has an impact.

Two years ago, moderators from Meta began legal action against the company after more than 140 of them were diagnosed with severe PTSD.

Other major social media sites like TikTok are also facing legal action over their treatment of moderators and, as a result, many companies are turning to AI to deal with the majority of extreme content.

They say it will help ease the severe mental load for their human workers.

Even the Metropolitan Police announced last week that it will begin exploring how AI could help the force analyse large volumes of CSAM, leaving officers free to "focus human expertise where it is needed most".

So what about the IWF, where analysts are dealing with more content than ever before? They've seen a 6% increase in the amount of CSAM online in the last year alone.

"Artificial intelligence tools are a supplement, right?" IWF chief executive Kerry Smith said.

"They're a supplement to human intelligence. They aren't a replacement."

She believes her human analysts are worth the cost of the mandatory monthly counselling, stringent recruitment process and ongoing psychological care, because of their "offline understanding" of the internet's underbelly.

"[They have an] understanding of how abuse occurs, what exploitation looks like, how you find particular indicators within those images and within those videos that can help identify an individual," Ms Smith said.

"So I think artificial intelligence is a weapon that we could use to prevent online child sexual abuse and exploitation, but it's not a replacement for human intelligence and human insight."

Warning: This story contains descriptions some readers may find distressing, including references to suicide.

Christopher Trybus, of Swindon, Wiltshire, stood trial accused of causing the death of Tarryn Baird, who died aged 34 in November 2017.

The 44-year-old defendant also faced charges at Winchester Crown Court of controlling and coercive behaviour and two charges of rape.

He has been cleared of all charges.

Speaking outside court and accompanied by his current wife, Mr Trybus said: "After three police investigations over the course of 10 years, I'm relieved that the jury has carefully considered the evidence and reached the correct verdict today.

"I want to thank my wife, my family, and my friends for their unwavering support - and my legal team for their hard work and dedication throughout the process.

"This has had a profound impact on my life and on those closest to me. It's been an incredibly difficult experience.

"I would also like to acknowledge that domestic abuse is a very real and serious issue, and victims must always be supported.

"Right now, I'll focus on moving forward and rebuilding my life with my family."

It was the first case of its kind in England and Wales.

Mr Trybus, who denied the offences, claimed his wife made the allegations as a result of mental health issues, including a probable diagnosis of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) after she witnessed violent car-jackings in South Africa, where the couple grew up.

The defendant, who runs an IT business, also said he was out of the country when some of the incidents were alleged to have taken place.

The judge, Mr Justice Linden, thanked the jurors for their service and told them: "It was a difficult and sad case and the stakes were high for the families involved so we understand your task has not been an easy one and no one should underestimate your role in these proceedings."

Describing how he felt about Ms Baird in light of the allegations, Mr Trybus told the court: "It's such a complex feeling, I loved her dearly and she has gone and said all of these things.

"At no point has this ever happened, it's such a mix of emotions, I am upset that she said these things but she is not here so I can't be upset with her, it's not something I can put into words."

Anyone feeling emotionally distressed or suicidal can call Samaritans for help on 116 123 or visit samaritans.org in the UK. In the US, call the Samaritans branch in your area or 1 (800) 273-TALK.

Janet Fordham, 69, suffered fatal injuries in the collision on 14 February 2023 after coming to the country to marry a Ghanaian man she met online, who claimed he could help her get the money back.

Mrs Fordham had fallen victim to several online scams during a five-year period that saw her lose her home and life savings, estimated to be up to £1m, Devon Coroner's Court heard.

When she travelled to Ghana, the retired housekeeper was living in a caravan at the home of her son, Martin, and daughter-in-law, Melanie Fordham, in Honiton, Devon.

She started using online dating websites in 2017 and met a man who claimed to be a British Army sergeant major working in Syria and needed her help to get gold bars to the UK.

Mrs Fordham told her family that they were in love and that he was retiring to return to the UK, with the couple wanting to buy a house together, her daughter-in-law said, adding that she warned her the man would be asking for money.

Melanie Fordham added: "I told her categorically not to send him any. Janet had been sending money to him, but we didn't find out about this until years later. I believe she gave him around £150,000."

Mrs Fordham later learned she had been defrauded again by a "diplomat" after her UK bank accounts were frozen, but her family said they don't know how she transitioned from one fraud to the next.

Melanie Fordham said her mother-in-law "transferred money by several means, including bank transfers, wire transfers at the post office, and potentially a travel agent", but the banks and post office stopped her mother-in-law from using their services because they recognised it was fraud.

Third man promised to help recover funds

The inquest heard another man, named Kofi, contacted Mrs Fordham, claiming he was a doctor in Ghana who worked part-time at a friend's mobile phone repair shop, where he supposedly found a phone containing messages to and from Mrs Fordham.

Kofi claimed he contacted Mrs Fordham because he believed she had been scammed and wanted to help get her money back, Melanie Fordham said.

Police spoke to Mrs Fordham about Kofi, but officers could not further the investigation as she failed to respond.

Detective Sergeant Ben Smith, of Devon and Cornwall Police, said officers contacted Mrs Fordham about allegations of fraud in 2017, 2020 and 2022 and tried to persuade her "not to have any contact with the criminals and not to hand over money", but she was making these decisions of her own free will.

Mrs Fordham continued to transfer money abroad using Bitcoin and ATMs, causing her daughter-in-law to contact the police again.

"Whether she was in so deep, she couldn't accept it was all gone, she had to keep piling money in the hope of getting something back," Melanie Fordham said.

"Whether she genuinely believed what she was being told, we will never know."

Apart from using her savings and home, Mrs Fordham also borrowed money from other family members, totalling around £140,000, was in arrears on loans and credit cards and even cashed in her pension, withdrawing the maximum £500 a day.

Flying to Ghana for marriage

In October 2022, Mrs Fordham flew to Ghana to meet Kofi, with whom she was romantically linked.

"As a family, we tried everything to stop her, but she was adamant," Melanie Fordham said. "I spoke to her doctor, sought legal advice, but because she was of sound mind, albeit brainwashed, she was deemed to have capacity and there was nothing we could do."

In Ghana, Mrs Fordham and Kofi were driving from Accra to the Oti region "to get approval from a family member for marriage" when their car left the road and crashed, fatally injuring Mrs Fordham, Mr Smith told the inquest.

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He said that there was no third-party involved in the smash.

Kofi later pleaded guilty to driving offences and was handed a suspended prison sentence and a fine.

Philip Spinney, senior coroner for Devon, Plymouth and Torbay, said at the end of the hearing: "I conclude that Janet Fordham died as a consequence of a head injury that was probably sustained in a road traffic collision."