Skip to Content

SATURDAY, 09 MAY 2026, 17:37

Top Stories

Packer scores four as England close in on Grand Slam

Today at 17:04 PM, via BBC News

England veteran flanker Marlie Packer scores four tries to help the Red Roses thrash Italy in Parma and remain on course for an eighth straight Women’s Six Nations title.

Sport

Marquez out of next two races after crash

Today at 17:08 PM, via BBC News

Defending MotoGP champion Marc Marquez will miss the rest of the French Grand Prix and next week’s Catalan Grand Prix after fracturing his foot in a crash on Saturday.

Sport

Four-try haul for Packer in England romp against Italy

Today at 16:53 PM, via BBC News

Marlie Packer scores four tries as England dominate Italy in the Women’s Six Nations to win 61-33. Packer is only three tries away from becoming England’s women all-time top try scorer. Her career tries for England stand at 58.

Education

‘It’s about recognising our role in history’: Bradford exhibition to revisit live Somali display

Today at 15:00 PM, via The Guardian

At the city’s Great Exhibition of 1904, 57 Somali men, women and children cooked, weaved and danced for visitors

It was, the posters said, a rare chance to see a “little known but interesting people”: a live display of 57 Somali men, women and children who cooked, weaved and danced for the entertainment of hundreds of thousands of Edwardians who flocked to Yorkshire to see them.

More than 120...

Education

Sexual harassment more than twice as prevalent at England’s top universities, analysis finds

Yesterday at 16:39 PM, via The Guardian

Harassment reported by 35% of students at ‘high tariff’ institutions compared with 17% at those with lowest entry grades

Students at England’s leading universities were more than twice as likely to experience sexual harassment than those at “lower tariff” institutions, according to analysis.

Data from a national survey of undergraduates shows that 35% of students at “high tariff”...

Lifestyle

Popular Cape Town restaurant to close its doors

Today at 12:09 PM, via The South African

Cape Town restaurant ëlgr has announced that it will serve its final dinner service on 30 May, bringing an end to its chapter in Kloof Street.

Science/Tech

Why Some US Schools Are Cutting Back On the Technology They Spent Billions On

Today at 16:34 PM, via Slashdot

America’s school districts “spent billions on technology during the pandemic,” reports the Washington Post.”But now some states are limiting in-school screen time because of concerns about its impact on children.”Nationwide [U.S.] schools invested at least $15 billion and possibly as much as $35 billion from federal pandemic relief funds on laptops, learning software and other technology...

Science/Tech

Humanoid Robot Becomes Buddhist Monk In South Korea

Today at 13:00 PM, via Slashdot

A four-foot humanoid robot named Gabi has become a monk at a Buddhist temple in Seoul, participating in a modified initiation ceremony where it pledged to respect life, obey humans, act peacefully toward other robots and objects. “Robots are destined to collaborate with humans in every field in the future,” Hong Min-suk, a manager at the Jogye Order, the largest sect of Buddhism in South Korea,...

Science/Tech

Hackable Robot Lawn Mower Unlocks a New Nightmare

Today at 12:30 PM, via Wired

Plus: Meta officially kills encrypted Instagram DMs, the Trump administration targets “violent left wing extremists,” leaked documents reveal Russia’s school for elite hackers, and more.

Health

Trump Plans to Fire F.D.A. Commissioner Marty Makary

Yesterday at 22:40 PM, via New York Times

Dr. Makary has been a supporter of the Make American Healthy Again Movement but made some enemies in the administration over vaping, the abortion pill and rejections of new drugs.

Health

There Are Ants in This Canadian Hospital. Again.

Yesterday at 20:51 PM, via New York Times

A hospital in Manitoba had to postpone a “limited number of elective surgeries” after ants appeared there for the third time since 2024.