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South Africa’s power utility Eskom tried to block a gold mine from going solar – but lost in court

South Africa’s national energy policy says: build more renewable power facilities and build them fast.

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Venezuela’s fragile environment faces rising risks as US pushes for oil and critical minerals and illegal gold mining spreads

Venezuela’s Orinoco River Basin is a wild land of lush forests, grasslands and a vast delta of jungle wetlands teeming with wildlife. River dolphins and endangered Orinoco crocodiles ply its waterways, and over 1,000 freshwater fish and bird species can be found there.

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Today’s obsession with authenticity isn’t new – being true to yourself has troubled philosophers for centuries

Today’s youth cherish “authenticity,” but is it a virtue? According to a report from Ernst Young, more than 9 in 10 Gen Z respondents indicated that being authentic and true to yourself is extremely or very important. In fact, most of them claimed authenticity is more important than any other…

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How Instagram addictiveness lawsuit could reshape social media – platform design meets product liability

A Los Angeles courtroom is hosting what may become the most consequential legal challenge Big Tech has ever faced.

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Measuring poverty on a spectrum instead of an arbitrary line conveys a more accurate picture of inequality

Michael W. Green, a Wall Street investor, created a buzz in late 2025 by arguing that the U.S. poverty line should be jacked up to US$140,000 for a family of four. Currently, a family of that size has to be eking by on $33,000 a year to qualify as poor…

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Family-friendly workplaces are great − but ‘families of 1’ get ignored

In 1960, 72% of adults were married, and over 90% would go on to marry. HR policies and management practices back then catered to nuclear families with a lone, male breadwinner.

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Public health needs steady budgets – and federal funding uncertainty causes real harms, even if the money is later restored

Since early 2025, several large federal health grants to states have been suspended and then restored after legal challenges. On Feb. 13, 2026, for example, the federal government moved to suspend about US$600 million in public health grants to four states before a federal court temporarily blocked the action. Hundreds…

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Telehealth is widely used by older adults insured by Medicare, new research shows

Americans age 65 and older who are insured by Medicare logged about 60 million telehealth visits annually between 2021 and 2023 – about 31 million for mental health and 29 million for other health issues. That’s the key finding in a new study I co-authored in the journal Annals of…

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When Washington and the states are in conflict, the ultimate winner is not always certain

The Trump administration’s aggressive policies on immigration are receiving pushback not just on Capitol Hill but across the country. Democratic leaders in multiple states are refusing to cooperate with immigration arrests.

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Trump offered a restrictive deal to universities that almost all rejected – but the Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education may not be entirely dead

In October 2025, the Trump administration made a controversial proposal to nine major colleges and universities, including Dartmouth College and the University of Virginia. The administration offered them a deal: If they agreed to adopt certain policy changes, such as revising admissions and hiring practices, they would receive advantages in…

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Why women have to queue for the toilet – and what it says about how cities are designed

Do you remember the last time you had to queue for a toilet? If several examples spring to mind, the chances are you were standing in the women’s line. Whether at theatres, airports, shopping centres or festivals, the pattern is the same: men breeze in and out with barely a…

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The Capture season three: experts in facial recognition and AI decipher the fact from the fiction

The BBC’s conspiracy thriller drama The Capture is back for a third season. The first two series had viewers hooked with a story that intertwined police investigations, facial recognition and deepfake AI technology.

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Six female film directors celebrating Spain’s linguistic diversity on screen

The Spanish film industry has historically been dominated by men and, perhaps unsurprisingly, by the Spanish language. The country doesn’t have a great track record for valuing minority languages, or the cultural outputs made in them.

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Why your gut microbiome and heart are closer than you think

The gut microbiome plays an important role in many aspects of health, from digestion and immune function to metabolic balance and neurological processes.

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What the UK’s ‘day of reflection’ reveals about COVID memory

A couple of years ago I dug up an artefact buried under soil, grass and leaves in a park close to my home in Exeter. It was not some ancient object but rather a granite memorial plaque laid down by the local city council only three years before. Dedicated to…

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The Greens’ election review flew under the radar. Here’s what it said

The 2025 Australian federal election was defined by its many shock results, from the Labor Party’s thumping victory to the Liberals’ considerable losses.

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The Iran war has triggered a fuel price rise. What does this mean for Australian consumers?

As many Australians prepare for the Labour Day long weekend, you might be watching the price at the fuel bowser with more trepidation than usual.

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Australian children now have half as many moles as kids in 1992. That’s good news for melanoma risk

About one in two Australians will be diagnosed with skin cancer by age 70. The most dangerous kind is melanoma, which develops in skin cells called melanocytes that have been overexposed to the sun.

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The US sank an Iranian warship and didn’t rescue the survivors. Is this legal in war?

News that a United States submarine had torpedoed and sunk the Iranian warship IRIS Dena about 40 nautical miles off Sri Lanka this week took many observers by surprise. An attack like this so far from the Persian Gulf – and in a key trade route connecting China to the…

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Epstein files reveal the power – and peril – of online sleuths doing the government’s work

A large release of important documents once meant teams of journalists staying back, working through piles of records late into the night.

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Iran’s regime has shut down the internet in the middle of war – placing civilians in the crosshairs

On February 28, hours after the United States and Israel launched attacks on Iran, the Iranian regime imposed a nationwide internet shutdown.

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Is honey good for you? Can it speed recovery if you’re sick or injured?

Honey is often praised for a range of health benefits, from soothing a sore throat and helping you get to sleep to healing woulds and lowering risk factors for diabetes and heart disease.

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English doesn’t need protecting in New Zealand – but other languages do

Anyone tuning into political debates about the recently introduced English Language Bill might be led to think New Zealand’s most widely spoken tongue is endangered.

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The Taliban wages war on women, but their voices roar on the page. Here are 5 essential books by Afghan women writers

There is something profoundly defiant, almost incendiary, about Afghan women writers. When the Taliban regained control of Kabul in August 2021, images of women protesting in the streets and girls being barred from classrooms circulated around the world.

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How does Iran go about selecting a new supreme leader? And who is in the running?

The killing of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Feb. 28, 2026, set off the process of selecting a new supreme leader. It is only the second such transition in the Islamic Republic’s 47-year history and the first since the ailing Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini transferred power to Khamenei in June 1989.

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