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What Ed Miliband’s appointment does and doesn’t mean for the UK’s foreign policy

The route to 10 Downing Street is often fairly parochial, requiring knowledge and experience of local or national issues, rather than international ones. Andy Burnham has been involved in politics for a quarter of a century. But his variety of posts gives us little indication of how he is likely…

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I’m a Philly neonatologist, and every time I discharge a baby from the NICU, I worry about the air they’ll breathe at home

Discharge day in the neonatal intensive care unit, or NICU, should feel like a finish line. After weeks or months of monitors, alarms, oxygen, feeding tubes, blood tests and waiting, a family can finally take their baby home.

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Legally or not, the US government is controlling global access to the world’s most powerful AI

When the U.S. Commerce Department ordered Anthropic on June 12, 2026, to immediately prevent all foreign nationals from using the artificial intelligence company’s two most advanced large language models, it disabled its Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models within hours, making them inaccessible to everyone.

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Not so terrible, after all – 2-year-olds just want to be independent

A 2-year-old is lying on the floor yelling, with their socks pulled off after spending 15 minutes trying to get them on in the first place.

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Why employers still place a premium on people skills, not AI, when they make hiring decisions

If you spend a few minutes talking with college students about their career prospects, one topic is at the top of their minds: Will their jobs be displaced by a bot?

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Time for a clock change? Congress considers daylight saving time … again

In the 108-year history of daylight saving time in the United States, the country has three times moved to institute it year-round: during each of the two world wars and in 1973-74.

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John Healey is the UK’s chancellor: what Burnham’s surprise pick says about his style of government

The UK’s new prime minister, Andy Burnham, has appointed John Healey as chancellor of the exchequer. His pick to fill the UK’s top economic post was something of a surprise: if we were to believe the speculation, the choice was between a minister with strong views on the economy –…

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Why an all-female Glengarry Glen Ross changes less about the play than you might expect

A recent all-female production of Glengarry Glen Ross at London’s Old Vic gave audiences the chance to revisit one of the defining plays of modern American theatre. It also raised the question of whether a work so deeply associated with male aggression and competition looks different when performed by women.

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Supreme Court ruling hands Trump sweeping new powers and limits Congressional oversight

Donald Trump recently took to his Truth Social platform to celebrate a Supreme Court judgment. In response to the court’s decision in Trump v Slaughter on June 29, he posted: “90 years of precedent has been COMPLETELY AND UNEQUIVOCALLY OVERRULED, greatly increasing Presidential Power at a time when it is…

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New Trump book will have readers playing the parlour game: who blabbed?

With their latest book, Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump, New York Times reporters Maggie Haberman and Australian-American Jonathan Swan have written an “inside-the-beltway” account, as they say in Washington, for political nerds and Trump obsessives. It covers in intricate detail the first year of Trump’s second…

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Québec’s Bill 9 doesn’t just ban symbols — it bans obligations

As of Sept. 1, Muslim students at Québec’s post-secondary colleges, known as CEGEPs, will have no place to perform their daily prayers. Jewish, Christian and Muslim independent schools may lose provincial funding. And group prayer in parks will require municipal permission.

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When a teenager makes the ‘stupid choice’, their brain is working exactly as designed

When an adult refuses to let an injustice pass – stands up to a bully, or asserts their rights – we call it principle. When a fifteen-year-old retaliates to an insult thrown in a school corridor, risking detention, we call it a failure to think ahead. It’s easy to ascribe…

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Smouldering myeloma: Lauren Laverne’s diagnosis explained

When the BBC presenter Lauren Laverne revealed she has smouldering myeloma, the diagnosis sounded more alarming than it is. Her situation is more subtle and nuanced than the word “myeloma” suggests.

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How was the first language formed?

Nine-year-old Eva was watching an episode of the children’s show Horrible Histories about the stone age recently when a question popped into her head. The cave men were speaking a broken form of English, but Eva thought that didn’t sound right and she wondered: how was the first language formed?

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What boom in international students? The total number living in Australia is lower than before the pandemic

International students have become a flashpoint in immigration and education debates in recent years.

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Why engagement with Myanmar’s junta is risky without proof of life for Aung San Suu Kyi

Every year, the foreign ministers of the 11 countries in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) get together to talk regional business.

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Homer’s Odysseus was never a perfect hero. Christopher Nolan’s film understands this

Homer’s The Odyssey has long been held up as a powerful example of “the hero’s journey” – a narrative structure that has dominated storytelling for millennia.

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We set 10,000 traps in search of a rare native mouse. Here’s what we found

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Government announces $25 million in Palestinian aid, as Labor conference debate looms

The Albanese government has announced $25 million in aid for Palestine, in timing designed to help manage the debate about the Middle East at Labor’s national conference this week.

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How wellness clinics bend the rules to supply unapproved peptides and anti-ageing injections

Across Australia, “longevity” and “wellness” clinics, most of them online, sell injections that promise to slow ageing, build muscle, heal injuries and help you sleep.

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As its support in Lebanon wanes, Hezbollah faces a difficult decision about its future

Hamas announced this month it would dissolve its government in Gaza to transfer control to a US-backed Palestinian committee. This was one of the mandates of the US-brokered peace deal between Israel and Hamas last year.

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To turn the Socceroos into World Cup contenders, we need to start with the junior game

Australia had high hopes of an historic World Cup knockout round win after progressing through the group stage.

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Why people are ordering fake food and fashion deliveries on free ‘dopamine apps’

It’s Saturday night and you’ve downloaded a new food delivery app. You’ve scanned the menus, picked some Mexican dishes, placed your order and are now tracking the delivery. But your food never comes – and you never expected it to.

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Your dementia risk is higher if your spouse has it – but it’s more than shared lifestyle

Partners do not simply grow old together, they often grow more alike.

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How Sam Neill’s Jurassic Park performance inspired a generation of palaeontologists

The sudden death of actor Sam Neill prompted tributes from colleagues and fans worldwide. But the news also resonated strongly with many palaeontologists, for whom Neill’s character in Jurassic Park, Dr Alan Grant, was a pivotal inspiration for their career choice.

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