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Assessments to adapt as AI transforms education
Oral assessments, more security checks and speedier marking are all on the cards as generative artificial intelligence (AI) threatens to transform exams for the next generation of students.
2 min |
August 23, 2025
The Guardian
TV review Violence and heart as Cena's unlucky superhero returns
With his medicine-ball biceps and chin worthy of an Easter Island moai, the wrestler turned actor John Cena can actually pull off wearing a daft comic book outfit, shiny silver helmet and all.
2 min |
August 23, 2025
The Guardian
Labubus and tote bags How 'performative males' seek to signal their enlightened ways
Here is a new man in town. You may have spotted him posing with an oat milk matcha pretending to read a copy of The Bell Jar. Or maybe you saw him seeming to listen to Lana Del Rey, but his earphones weren't plugged in. Maybe he makes a point of carrying tampons around with him for women in need. He's called a \"performative male\" and is a relatively new archetype gaining traction – and inspiring mockery and critique – online.
3 min |
August 23, 2025
The Guardian
An accidental paradise How wildlife thrives in Korean no-man's land
Standing on top of a small mountain, Kim Seung-ho gazes out over paddy fields glowing in their autumn gold, the ripening grains swaying in the wind. In the distance, North Korea stretches beyond the horizon.
3 min |
August 23, 2025
The Guardian
Checkpoint Charlie' Rival ebike firms turn London path into a bridge too far
Scattered across pavements, propped against trees and toppled over in bushes, dozens of electric Lime bikes have begun to dominate a 200-metre stretch of road just south of Chiswick Bridge in west London.
3 min |
August 23, 2025
The Guardian
Botswana breakthrough Turning the tide on 'existential threat' of HIV in children
At the turn of the century, HIV was so rampant in Botswana that politicians and doctors viewed it as an existential threat.
3 min |
August 23, 2025
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War dashboard' Militant death tolls being inflated by Israelis, data suggests
Figures from a classified database suggest Israel's political and military leadership has for two years misled the country and the rest of the world about a war that has overwhelmingly killed civilians.
4 min |
August 23, 2025
The Guardian
Pent-up level of abusePower imbalances mean whistleblowing is still rare
Support lines. Slogans. Culture reviews. Even a new standards body. The pipeline of toxic behaviour haunting Britain's television industry in recent years has led to numerous attempts to end the grim assumption among its workers that little can be done to challenge the inappropriate actions of powerful figures.
3 min |
August 23, 2025
The Guardian
Weight loss drugs tipping scales in favour of food-scented fragrances
A sharp rise in the number of sweet, food-scented perfumes on the market could be linked to an increase in the use of weight loss medication, according to the market research firm Mintel.
1 min |
August 23, 2025
The Guardian
US Policy Visa Holders to be 'Vetted' for Rule Violations
The Trump administration is reviewing the records of more than 55 million US visa holders for potential revocation or deportable violations of immigration rules, in a significant expansion of Donald Trump's immigration crackdown.
2 min |
August 23, 2025
The Guardian
It's a bee buffet' The pollinator pathways turning drab alleyways into insect havens
Take a closer look at the colourful plants dotted along an initially unassuming Bristol alleyway and you'll see them teeming with insects.
4 min |
August 23, 2025
The Guardian
Now I'm classed as a thief: the double-edged O2 fraud
The call was unexpected but it brought good news: Bruce Stanwyck* was told that the monthly payments for his O2 phone contract would be reduced from £19 to £12 if he switched to a new deal.
2 min |
August 23, 2025
The Guardian
Far-right party Homeland aiming to spread asylum hotel protests
Members of a far-right nationalist party are helping to organise protests outside asylum seekers' hotels across the country, according to a series of Facebook posts and groups created in recent weeks.
3 min |
August 23, 2025
The Guardian
Back to the Future How medieval methods built a French castle today
It was the summer of 1999 and, in a disused quarry in a forest in deepest Burgundy, a dozen or so incongruously attired figures were toiling away, hewing limestone blocks, chiselling oaken beams and hammering 6in nails.
5 min |
August 23, 2025
The Guardian
Florida appeals ruling that 'Alligator Alcatraz' must close within two months
The state of Florida has appealed against a federal judge's order that the harsh immigration jail in the Florida Everglades known as \"Alligator Alcatraz\" must close within the next two months, a ruling that pumps the brakes on Donald Trump's aggressive deportation agenda.
2 min |
August 23, 2025
The Guardian
Streeting's row with pharma firms grows as talks fail on NHS pricing
A row between Wes Streeting and pharmaceutical companies has intensified after drugmakers rejected the health secretary's latest offer on NHS drug pricing.
1 min |
August 23, 2025
The Guardian
Value of WH Smith takes £600m hit after US accounting blunder
Almost £600m was wiped off the market value of WH Smith yesterday after the retailer cut financial forecasts and launched an independent review after discovering an accounting blunder at its North American arm.
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August 22, 2025
The Guardian
Analysis Relief as GCSEs return to normality in wake of Covid see-sawing
This year's GCSE results in England delivered something teachers and policymakers had craved in recent years: stability, at least for most 16-year-olds.
2 min |
August 22, 2025
The Guardian
Revealed: 83% of Gaza war dead are civilians, Israeli data suggests
Attacks 'are carried out with no concern' for non-combatants
5 min |
August 22, 2025
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Fisher who met king jailed over plot to smuggle £18m of cocaine into UK
A respected fisher who met King Charles and government representatives to discuss the future of the industry has been jailed for taking part in a sophisticated plot to smuggle £18m of cocaine into the UK.
2 min |
August 22, 2025
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Abbott says she advised Corbyn not to start a new political party
Diane Abbott has said she advised her longtime friend Jeremy Corbyn not to launch a new political party because she believed it would struggle to make inroads under the first-past-the-post system.
2 min |
August 22, 2025
The Guardian
Red Cross and UN warn of catastrophe if Israel moves to take Gaza City
The International Red Cross and the UN have warned of an impending catastrophe in the Gaza Strip if Israel launches an offensive to take over Gaza City, as the Israeli military warned medical and aid groups in the Palestinian territory to prepare for imminent forced displacement.
3 min |
August 22, 2025
The Guardian
Ethel Caterham, world's oldest living person, celebrates 116th birthday
Ethel Caterham, the last surviving Edwardian and the world's oldest living person, celebrated her 116th birthday yesterday.
1 min |
August 22, 2025
The Guardian
Erin's tail may bring summer to a close with spell of wet and windy weather
The last days of the summer holidays the UK could be mired by heavy wind, rain and \"very large waves\" as the tail end of Hurricane Erin may hit the country, the Met Office has warned.
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August 22, 2025
The Guardian
'I'm chuffed' Better results, but Wales still lags England
Even though Mia Headington found out she had dyslexia the day before her first GCSE exam, the diagnosis didn't faze her. Opening her results envelope yesterday morning, the 16-year-old found out she had trumped her mock results, achieving five A*s, an A, two Bs and a C.
1 min |
August 22, 2025
The Guardian
Playmaker closes on return 14 years after rejection
Eze was released by boyhood club and others as a teenager before making breakthrough at QPR and Crystal Palace
3 min |
August 22, 2025
The Guardian
Palestine Action ban Protesters to withhold details from police
Protesters at the next mass demonstration against the ban on Palestine Action will withhold their details from officers to force en-masse processing at police stations in an effort to make it \"practically impossible\" to arrest everyone.
2 min |
August 22, 2025
The Guardian
American woman jailed for 30 years over Birmingham murder attempt
An American \"hitwoman\" who attempted to murder a business owner before going on the run in Armenia has been jailed for 30 years at Birmingham Crown Court.
2 min |
August 22, 2025
The Guardian
Minnie Hauk lined up for Arc-Breeders' Cup double
The Queen, no less, wanted to be in the post-race photographs with Minnie Hauk after her win in the Group One Yorkshire Oaks, and while the race itself was in effect over as soon as the odds-on favourite hit the front two furlongs out, there was abundant evidence of the qualities that will make her a major player in the autumn's global championship events.
1 min |
August 22, 2025
The Guardian
Davey says security fears should bar Tesla from UK energy supply
Elon Musk's company Tesla should have its application to supply energy to British homes blocked on national security grounds, Ed Davey has told ministers.
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