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Benfica’s Prestianni gets provisional one-match ban

Today at 16:41 PM, via BBC News

Benfica’s Gianluca Prestianni receives a provisional one-match Uefa suspension after Real Madrid’s Vinicius Jr reported alleged racist abuse during last week’s Champions League meeting.

South Africa

Institutions warned against misusing internationalisation to evade immigration law

Today at 15:30 PM, via SAnews

Institutions warned against misusing internationalisation to evade immigration law

The Portfolio Committee on Higher Education and Training has warned universities and Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) colleges against using internationalisation as a reason to ignore South Africa’s immigration and labour laws.

The warning follows a recent joint meeting with the...

Business

Rand on shaky ground

Today at 15:59 PM, via BusinessTech

The rand is “treading water” around R16 to the dollar at the moment, as global uncertainty has markets in a ‘wait-and-see’ mode, and tensions in the Middle East push traders into gold.

Education

Epstein files cast pall among US faculty and students: ‘I just feel a deep disappointment’

Today at 14:00 PM, via The Guardian

Ties to the disgraced financier run deep through the academic world, documents released by the DoJ show

Major institutions of higher education in the US are reckoning with the latest release of the Epstein files after discovering the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein’s relationships with board members, professors and administrators on campuses across the country.

In some cases, professors...

Education

About 270,000 fewer children in England to get EHCPs under Send overhaul

Today at 13:00 PM, via The Guardian

New special educational needs regime to result in far fewer children being given education, health and care plans

UK politics live – latest updates

Hundreds of thousands fewer children with special educational needs and disabilities (Send) will be given education, health and care plans (EHCPs) as a result of long-awaited changes announced by the education secretary on Monday.

Bridget Phillipson...

Education

Martin Lewis ambushes Badenoch on Good Morning Britain over student loans plan

Today at 12:30 PM, via The Guardian

Finance campaigner marches on to set and tells Tory leader her policy to cut interest rates will only help top earners

UK politics live – latest updates

Kemi Badenoch has faced what could be described as the stuff of nightmares for a UK politician being interviewed about a personal finance policy: being ambushed and contradicted live on air by Martin Lewis.

As the Conservative leader was being...

Science/Tech

Stressful People in Your Life Could Be Adding Months To Your Biological Age

Today at 17:22 PM, via Slashdot

A study published last week in PNAS found that people who regularly cause problems or make life difficult — whom the researchers call “hasslers” — are associated with measurably faster biological aging in those around them, at a rate of roughly 1.5% per additional hassler and about nine months of additional biological age relative to same-age peers. The research drew on DNA methylation-based...

Science/Tech

Sam Altman Would Like To Remind You That Humans Use a Lot of Energy, Too

Today at 16:40 PM, via Slashdot

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is pushing back on growing concerns about AI’s environmental footprint, dismissing claims about ChatGPT’s water consumption as “totally fake” and arguing that the fairer way to measure AI’s energy use is to compare it against humans. In an interview with Indian Express, Altman acknowledged that evaporative cooling in data centers once made water usage a real concern but...

Science/Tech

Wegovy and Ozempic owner dealt blow as next-gen weight-loss drug is branded ‘obsolete’

Today at 16:26 PM, via The Guardian

Novo Nordisk’s shares fall sharply after testing of CagriSema falls short of investors’ expectations

Business live – latest updates

The owner of Wegovy and Ozempic has suffered a significant setback, as its highly anticipated new weight-loss treatment was labelled “obsolete” after disappointing clinical trials.

Novo Nordisk’s shares fell sharply on Monday after the results from testing the...

Motoring

PG Glass and Glasfit in hot water in South Africa

Today at 13:00 PM, via TopAuto

South Africa’s largest retail motor industry trade union has criticized PG Glass and Glassfit following allegations that both companies engaged in price fixing for over two decades.