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World

The costs and challenges facing the 2026 World Cup

Today at 08:21 AM, via BBC News

The World Cup officially kicked off this week – but alongside the football, there are questions around heat, cost, the environmental impact and travel restrictions.

Sport

Free agent Wales players put themselves in shop window

Today at 12:19 PM, via BBC News

Rhian Wilkinson says her free-agent internationals gave potential suitors a glimpse of their qualities by helping Wales finish top of their Women’s World Cup qualifying group.

Sport

Lopes ‘living out a dream’ at World Cup – Grace

Today at 11:09 AM, via BBC News

Shamrock Rovers defender Lee Grace tells BBC Sport of his pride at seeing his friend and defensive partner Roberto ‘Pico’ Lopes preparing for the World Cup with Cape Verde.

Education

Sudan: Minister of Higher Education Inspects Nile University

Yesterday at 13:15 PM, via AllAfrica

[SNA] KHARTOUM — The Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research, Professor Ahmed Modawi Musa, affirmed that the ministry is moving steadily to implement its policies aimed at returning higher education institutions to their original premises and resuming full academic activity, noting that field visits are intended to assess the progress of the educational process and ensure its...

Education

Nigeria: Soludo Names Onwualu Pro-Chancellor of Ojukwu Varsity

Yesterday at 12:54 PM, via AllAfrica

[Vanguard] AWKA — Anambra State Governor, Professor Chukwuma Soludo, has inaugurated the eighth governing council of the Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University (COOU), appointing Professor Peter Onwualu as Pro-Chancellor and chairman of the council.

Education

Sudan: Sudanese Ambassador in Doha Meets Qatari Minister of Education and Higher Education

Yesterday at 12:37 PM, via AllAfrica

[SNA] DOHA — The Ambassador of Sudan to the State of Qatar, Badr-Eddin Abdullah, met on Wednesday with the Minister of Education and Higher Education of Qatar, Lolwah bint Rashid Al-Khater, to discuss prospects for cooperation between the two countries in the fields of education and higher education, and ways to strengthen and develop them.

Science/Tech

The hill I will die on: I really don’t like ‘like’ – or other imprecise and redundant speech | Louis de Bernières

Today at 11:00 AM, via The Guardian

Junk speak, like junk food, encourages verbal littering. It has to be one of the worst things about life in Britain

I live in the Norfolk countryside, and what irritates me most about living here is the deluge of litter that gets thrown out of car windows in the lane outside my house. It is always from junk food outlets, so the question arises as to which way round things are: does junk food...

Science/Tech

Anthropic ‘Suspends’ All Mythos and Fable Access After US Order Limiting Foreign Access

Today at 09:00 AM, via Slashdot

“Anthropic said on Friday it will ‘abruptly disable’ its most advanced AI models for all users,”reports Reuters, “after the U.S. government ordered it to suspend access to the models for foreign nationals, citing national security concerns. The company received the export control directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all foreign nationals, without being given specific details...