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Chiefs to miss NFL play-offs for first time in 11 years

Today at 01:07 AM, via BBC News

Three-time Super Bowl winner Patrick Mahomes will not play in the NFL post-season for the first time in his career as the Kansas City Chiefs are eliminated from play-off contention.

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The Women’s Football Show

Yesterday at 23:50 PM, via BBC News

Analysis and top stories from week 11 of the 2025/26 Women’s Super League season.

Africa

Six players to watch at Afcon 2025

Friday at 14:30 PM, via BBC News

BBC Sport Africa picks out six players to keep an eye on at the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations in Morocco from 21 December to 18 January.

Sport

Man Utd could block Mainoo move – Monday’s gossip

Yesterday at 23:59 PM, via BBC News

Manchester United might block midfielder Kobbie Mainoo from moving in January, Roma could move for Joshua Zirkzee, Tottenham will target Jan Paul van Hecke next summer, plus more.

Education

Ghanaian students at UK universities face deportation amid funding crisis

Yesterday at 18:00 PM, via The Guardian

Group asks Keir Starmer for help to persuade Ghanaian government to pay backlog of tuition fees and living allowances

Students from Ghana at UK universities say they are in danger of being deported after being stranded by their own government without promised scholarships or tuition fee payments.

The group representing more than 100 doctoral students has petitioned Downing Street and Keir...

Education

What We Know About the Brown University Shooting

Yesterday at 14:33 PM, via New York Times

A person of interest was in custody Sunday, the day after two people were killed and nine others injured during an attack on the Rhode Island campus.

Education

Pens at the ready! A gen-Z trainee takes on the Guardian’s ‘scribbler-in-chief’

Yesterday at 12:00 PM, via The Guardian

As the exam regulator consults about introducing onscreen exams amid complaints of hand fatigue, a young aspiring journalist goes head-to-head with a self-professed expert

This week it was reported that students could soon be sitting their end-of-year exams on laptops after pupils complained of hand fatigue, saying their muscles “are not strong enough”.

With Ofqual preparing to launch a public...

Science/Tech

‘Investors in Limbo’. Will the TikTok Deal’s Deadline Be Extended Again?

Today at 00:59 AM, via Slashdot

An anonymous reader shared this report from the BBC:A billionaire investor keen on buying TikTok’s US operations has told the BBC he has been left in limbo as the latest deadline for the app’s sale looms. The US has repeatedly delayed the date by which the platform’s Chinese owner, Bytedance, must sell or be blocked for American users. US President Donald Trump appears poised to extend the...

Science/Tech

Podcast Industry Under Siege as AI Bot Flood Airways with Thousands of Programs

Yesterday at 23:34 PM, via Slashdot

An anonymous reader shared this report from the Los Angeles Times:Popular podcast host Steven Bartlett has used an AI clone to launch a new kind of content aimed at the 13 million followers of his podcast “Diary of a CEO.” On YouTube, his clone narrates “100 CEOs With Steven Bartlett,” which adds AI-generated animation to Bartlett’s cloned voice to tell the life stories of entrepreneurs such as...

Science/Tech

Entry-Level Tech Workers Confront an AI-Fueled Jobpocalypse

Yesterday at 22:34 PM, via Slashdot

AI “has gutted entry-level roles in the tech industry,” reports Rest of World. One student at a high-ranking engineering college in India tells them that among his 400 classmates, “fewer than 25% have secured job offers… there’s a sense of panic on the campus.”Students at engineering colleges in India, China, Dubai, and Kenya are facing a “jobpocalypse” as artificial intelligence replaces...

Science/Tech

Polar Bears are Rewiring Their Own Genetics to Survive a Warming Climate

Yesterday at 21:12 PM, via Slashdot

“Polar bears are still sadly expected to go extinct this century,” with two-thirds of the population gone by 2050,” says the lead researcher on a new study from the University of East Anglia in Britain. But their research also suggests polar bears “are rapidly rewiring their own genetics in a bid to survive,” reports NBC News, in “the first documented case of rising temperatures driving genetic...