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Humans are still better at competitive coding than AI - for now
Computers have taken the crown in chess, go and poker, but when it comes to competitive coding, humans still have the edge - just.
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July 28, 2025
The Guardian
Community leaders 'can help debunk false claims' after attacks
Police forces, community leaders and local councillors should coordinate to \"debunk\" misinformation after serious incidents such as the Southport murders, a study suggests.
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July 28, 2025
The Guardian
Economics viewpoint Why Labour should be wary of reliance on City
There was a period of remorse and apology for banks and I think that period needs to be over.\" So said Bob Diamond, the eight-figure-earning Barclays chief executive, in 2011.
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July 28, 2025
The Guardian
Water chiefs' pay rises to average of £1.1m despite ban on bonuses
The pay of water company chief executives in England and Wales rose by 5% in the last financial year to an average of £1.1m despite a ban on bonuses for several companies and widespread outrage over the sector's poor performance.
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July 28, 2025
The Guardian
Rare proof of David Bailey's 1965 Box of Pin-Ups discovered
David Bailey's Box of Pin-Ups of 1965 was a defining portrait of the swinging 60s, immortalising some of the most fashionable stars of the era, from John Lennon and Mick Jagger to Jean Shrimpton and Susan Murray.
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July 28, 2025
The Guardian
Man arrested by armed police over garden tools on belt strap
A man who was returning from his allotment with a trug of vegetables and gardening tools strapped to his belt was arrested by armed police, after a member of the public said they had seen \"a man wearing khaki clothing and in possession of a knife\".
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July 28, 2025
The Guardian
Win tastes sweet for Russell after drama caps finest season
The Bath fly-half, on his third Lions tour, calls series victory 'so special' despite feeling annoyed by his kicking
3 min |
July 28, 2025
The Guardian
Roman-era Spanish 'church' may have been a synagogue
Seventeen centuries after they last burned, a handful of broken oil lamps could shed light on a small and long-vanished Jewish community that lived in southern Spain in the late Roman era as the old gods were being snuffed out by Christianity.
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July 28, 2025
The Guardian
Bend It Like Beckham Plan for follow-up 20 years after hit
More than two decades after the release of Bend It Like Beckham, the writer and director Gurinder Chadha OBE has announced she is planning to revive the hugely popular story.
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July 28, 2025
The Guardian
Ghana's Gold: Once-Profitable Mine Backed by UK Taxpayer Loses Its Shine
In late 2020, amid the economic maelstrom unleashed by Covid-19, there were few better places to be than sitting on top of a goldmine.
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July 28, 2025
The Guardian
Edinburgh's bequests Graduate riches tied university to slavery
Robert Halliday Gunning was a Victorian success story – an Edinburgh-trained doctor who amassed a fortune in Brazil's goldmines before lavishing his wealth on philanthropic gifts.
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July 28, 2025
The Guardian
'What a team': Starmer leads tributes after Lionesses claim Euro victory
Keir Starmer led the tributes to the England women's national football team after they overcame Spain to win back-to-back European Championships.
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July 28, 2025
The Guardian
Music review: BBC hit rewards faithful with chart covers
Even the Royal Albert Hall's public announcement system was getting into the spirit of things. \"Traitors and faithful, this is your five-minute warning. Please take your seats.\"
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July 28, 2025
The Guardian
Demand for weight loss drugs may soon outstrip supply, pharmacists say
People's enthusiasm for taking weight loss drugs is becoming so \"unsustainable\" that demand may soon outstrip supply, pharmacists have warned.
2 min |
July 28, 2025
The Guardian
Survivors of coercive control are criminalised, research finds
Survivors of coercive control are being unfairly criminalised in England, research has found.
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July 28, 2025
The Guardian
Hundreds gather again in Epping as anti-migrant rallies spread
Hundreds of protesters gathered outside a hotel in Epping for the fifth time yesterday to demonstrate against it being used to house asylum seekers, as protests spread to other hotels.
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July 28, 2025
The Guardian
Thousands of people flee fires in Greece and Turkey
Thousands of people in Greece and Turkey have been forced to evacuate their homes as firefighters battle to contain wildfires fanned by strong winds and searing heat.
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July 28, 2025
The Guardian
Australian Chiefs Demand Explanation Over Late Try
Row Over Keenan Score Escalates After Lions' First Series Win For 12 Years
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July 28, 2025
The Guardian
We Have a Deal' Trump Averts Trade War as EU Tariffs Agreement Made
Donald Trump has announced a tariff deal with the EU to end four months of difficult talks between Washington and Brussels and avert a damaging transatlantic trade war.
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July 28, 2025
The Guardian
The nightly blitz Can Ukraine survive Russia's drone onslaught?
Night by night, the blitz develops. Russian drones, decoys, cruise and ballistic missiles - increasingly aimed at a single city or location - are launched in record numbers into Ukraine, straining the country's ability to defend itself and raising questions about how well it can endure another winter of war.
3 min |
July 26, 2025
The Guardian
Theatre review Huge cast finds a universal message in a local story
There are myriad reasons why this parochial production will never travel outside the city walls of York, not least the size of the more than 80-strong community cast.
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July 26, 2025
The Guardian
Oasis tickets 'My Instagram was used for a £1,400 scam'
A music fan was shocked when scammers used her identity to sell Oasis tickets to her unsuspecting friends. Hilary Osborne reports
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July 26, 2025
The Guardian
Tempsford: How a new train line will turn historic village into boom town
This is where Boudicca rallied against the Romans, they tell you in Tempsford. Where the early English kings fought off the Danes and where Churchill launched secret flights to aid resistance fighters keeping the Nazis at bay.
5 min |
July 26, 2025
The Guardian
Meet the team behind far-right activist Tommy Robinson
The Tommy Robinson outriders were early to Epping. Wendell Daniel, a former Labour councillor who is now a film-maker for Robinson's Urban Scoop video platform, turned his microphone to a woman on the edge of the protests in the Essex town.
6 min |
July 26, 2025
The Guardian
Clarion call How human neurodiversity could help save nature
When Joe Harkness received a message from a friend about macerating moth abdomens to check their genitalia to identify the species, it sparked an idea for a book about wildlife obsessions. But over time, this developed into a different book – a clarion call to embrace neurodiversity in the fight against the extinction crisis.
4 min |
July 26, 2025
The Guardian
Ethically on a roll Who Gives a Crap aims for 'world domination'
It has been ubiquitous in middle-class British bathrooms since a flush of growth during the Covid pandemic.
3 min |
July 26, 2025
The Guardian
Ready to roar How to watch and who to look out for
Here we go, here we go, here we go... where are we going again? To the final of another major football tournament!
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July 26, 2025
The Guardian
Recognise Palestine now, ministers tell Starmer
Keir Starmer is under intense pressure from senior cabinet ministers and more than a third of MPs to move faster on recognising a Palestinian state in response to Israel withholding aid to starving civilians in Gaza.
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July 26, 2025
The Guardian
Winning Euro 2025 final would seal Lionesses' place in history books
Twice in the past week, England's Lionesses have rolled the dice, ridden their luck, and performed sleight of hand worthy of the Magic Circle.
4 min |
July 26, 2025
The Guardian
Ghislaine Maxwell Epstein ally talks to top attorney, but can she be believed?
Early one afternoon in April 2016, Ghislaine Maxwell got so angry that she struck a table.
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