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The Know Daily - Friday 11 July 2025
Annabel Preston
July 11, 2025
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And the treats keep coming, as we’ve rounded up some of our favourite recs to enjoy this weekend, alongside the week’s biggest headlines.
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UK NEWS
🇫🇷🇬🇧 French President Emmanuel Macron was in the UK for a state visit, renewing ties with King Charles and Prime Minister Keir Starmer.
📮 Royal Mail will reduce second-class letter deliveries to alternate weekdays, with no weekend slots, from 28 July after reforms by Ofcom.
🤳 Emergency alerts will be sent to mobiles on 7 September to test the national system and prepare for its potential real use in the future.
GLOBAL AFFAIRS
🇪🇺 The EU has shared its final version of voluntary rules to help companies comply with AI codes of practise.
💼 Elon Musk has announced he's forming a new US political party aimed at centrist voters, called the America Party.
🇰🇷 Amid declining birth rates, fertility treatments are on the rise in South Korea, accounting for one in six births in Seoul last year.
CULTURE
👩🎨 The National Trust has launched an art competition inspired by wartime Prime Minister Winston Churchill and his passion for painting.
🎶 The Black Sabbath and Ozzy Osborne farewell gig reportedly raised more than $190m that will be donated to houses and hospitals for children.
🎭 AI startup, Luma, is opening up a lab in Hollywood to train filmmakers to use AI responsibly to create videos without physical shoots across the LA entertainment industry.
WORK & INNOVATION
✍️ Bosses in the UK will be banned from using non-disclosure agreements to cover up misconduct in the workplace.
🦾 Automated surgery using robotic arms could be trialled on humans within a decade, according to researchers.
💸 The theme for new banknotes is in your hands as the public have been invited by the Bank of England to suggest ideas for the next series.
UPLIFTING STUFF
🛶 Kayakers are about to complete a historic river journey, after the ”largest dam removal in US history”.
💊 The world’s first malaria treatment for newborn babies has been approved by a drug regulator.
🦛 The viral hippo, Moo Deng, attracted thousands of visitors in Thailand on Thursday as she celebrated her first birthday.
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Colour analysis has been having a moment online – the 1980s trend sweeping back onto social media, where everyone suddenly knows whether they're a Soft Autumn or a Cool Winter. Traditionally, getting your colours done meant going to a stylist (and spending a fair bit of cash), but now people are using AI to figure it out themselves – and it's actually super simple. Here’s how to do it yourself:
Take a selfie in natural light – no filters, just you and a window.
Upload that photo into a design tool like Photoshop, Canva, or even a free hex code picker online. Use the eyedropper tool to get the exact hex codes for your skin, hair, and eyes.
Open ChatGPT and paste in those hex codes, clearly labelling which one is which.
Ask it to analyse your colouring and identify your seasonal palette. From there, you can get more specific – like which greens will flatter you, whether you should wear gold or silver jewellery, or which lipstick shades will suit you best.
It’s a surprisingly helpful way to get that polished, put-together look – no stylist (or dramatic scarf draping) required.
🗞 Read: This piece on living life as a digital nomad is a rare and brilliant insight. It can be easy to fantasise about the grass being greener on the other side but Emily Bratt opens up the conversation to show what we don’t see on social media.
🎧 Listen: Pamela Anderson appeared on Elizabeth Day’s How to Fail podcast this week and it did not disappoint. Together they unpack the beauty standards of the early noughties and the importance of self-acceptance. Not one to skip!
📺 Watch: Ballard (Prime Video), Foundation (Apple TV), Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story (Disney+) and the new Superman is out in cinemas today.
🧑🍳 Cook: We all know that kefir is good for your gut but it’s also another thing to add to the shopping list. This recipe for making it at home will make you want to give yourself a pat on the back, not just because it’s from scratch but also because it helps save some pennies!
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