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Burnham arrives in Kyiv on 'Bravery Express' train [Sky News, video] The prime minister is expected to meet Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and announce new measures to help Ukraine build long-range missiles. news.sky.com/video/burnha... #standwithukraine

UK minister urges social media firms to remove dangerous driving videos Defence minister Luke Pollard says "there's no place" for social media trend showing people driving the wrong way down roads. www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce308l1w5q5o?...

They Dedicated Their Lives to Teaching. Then the Deepfakes Started The deepfake epidemic in schools is affecting more than students. Four teachers tell WIRED about becoming targets of sexualized, AI-generated content—and how difficult it was to find accountability. Via Wired

New Zealand's government introduces legislation to ban social media for under-16s

'They asked too much': Canadian dollar slides as Ottawa and Washington head for all-out trade war

Art and design A-levels at lowest uptake since 2010 according to UK advocacy group The recent release of A-level and GSCE data for UK students and schools has renewed calls to ‘revitalise arts education’ www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/08/21/a...

BBC News - How wind farm plans are influencing Manx voters ahead of election - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

35 years today since Ukraine's declaration of independence! It was followed by a referendum where more than 90 percent voted in favor of independence contributing to the dissolution of the Soviet Union: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declara...

we are blithely creating a vast desert in western and central north america that will be as dry and „permanent“ as northern africa‘s once wet sahara desert www.nytimes.com/2026/08/23/c...

❗️Russia launched another massive missile and drone attack on Odesa Oblast overnight on Aug. 24, striking food warehouses and energy infrastructure and damaging private homes 🔗 pm9dfw.s.gy/nwu1QB 📸: State Emergency Service of Ukraine via Telegram

Crypto holds big weekly rally as Warsh’s Jackson Hole debut comes into focus

Bessent's $4 billion bond buyback wanted lower yields. It got a bitcoin surge instead.

Jackson Hole Symposium, U.S. PCE prices, IREN earnings: Crypto Week Ahead

The UN Human Rights Office has called for the immediate and unconditional release of two Global Sumud Flotilla activists detained by Israel, & for allegations of mistreatment to be investigated. UN also called for humanitarian aid access to Gaza. Read more: gimehuri.org/israel-must-...

"U.S. President Donald Trump throws more 51st state rhetoric at Canada as stiff new 50% U.S. tariffs take hold. Prime Minister Mark Carney tells Canadians to dig in for a fight as Conservatives push for details of the trade offer he rejected. And Canadian businesses gear up to fight for survival. "

Sectoral Inflation Expectations-August 2026: 12-month-ahead annual inflation expectations; *23.69% for market participants, (previous 23.95%) *32.80% for real sector, (previous 32.50%) *45.58% for households. (previous 44.94%) Data from "Central Bank of Türkiye" www.tcmb.gov.tr/wps/wcm/conn...

Claude Keeps Going Down, and Anthropic's Own Status Page Says So Around twenty incidents in twenty-four days, a major outage live as we publish, and paying users watching their weekly limit drain into “server busy” errors. The receipts are on Anthropic’s own status page. #Anthropic #Claude

Maradona's 'Hand of God' ball sells for £2.5m

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The Israel-backed fanatics at UK Lawyers For Israel are trying to destroy this wonderful man. This shouldn't be allowed. archive.ph/sWPzC

FACT OF THE DAY. 24 August 1814. British troops captured Washington DC then set the Presidential Mansion (now the White House) on fire. It was part of the War of 1812 and is the only time since the US Revolutionary War a foreign power captured and occupied the capital of the United States.

The St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre began in Paris today in 1572, resulting in large numbers of refugees fleeing their homeland for a new life in London. Read here about the Huguenots and the new skills they brought to Britain www.thehistoryoflondon.co.uk/huguenots/

At Hot Chips 2026, d-Matrix showed off its Raptor 3D-DRAM accelerator for AI breaking free of using HBM for memory by stacking DRAM and logic

apnews.com/article/cana... Carney warned about economic coercion. Now Trump is testing the Canadian prime minister apnews.com/article/canada-carney-trum...?...