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Ukraine’s Heraskevych says he will compete in banned helmet, defying IOC

Today at 21:10 PM, via Daily Maverick

CORTINA D’AMPEZZO/MILAN, Italy, Feb 10 (Reuters) – Ukrainian skeleton racer Vladyslav Heraskevych said on Tuesday he will defy an International Olympic Committee ban and compete in his “helmet of remembrance” honouring those killed in the war with Russia.

Africa

M23 rebels welcome SANDF departure from Monusco

Today at 17:43 PM, via Mail & Guardian

M23 president Bertrand Bisimwa accused the UN Organisation Stabilisation Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo of failing the people of eastern DRC

Sport

Mouat & Dodds miss out on curling bronze

Today at 21:09 PM, via BBC News

Jen Dodds and Bruce Mouat suffer Winter Olympic heartbreak in the mixed doubles curling for the second time in four years after losing out on bronze to hosts Italy.

Sport

Snoop Dogg to attend Swansea game for first time

Today at 21:07 PM, via BBC News

Snoop Dogg will attend a Swansea City game for the first time since becoming a co-owner of the Championship club when they face Preston North End later this month.

Sport

USA’s Maxim Naumov skates in memory of his parents

Today at 20:32 PM, via BBC News

Maxim Naumov’s emotional skate dedicated to his world champion figure skating parents, Vadim Naumov and Evgenia Shishkova, who died in a plane crash in January 2025.

Education

‘So shameful’: backlash as US national monuments conform to Trump’s rewrite of history

Today at 17:00 PM, via The Guardian

From Pennsylvania to Montana, the White House’s war on ‘woke’ has targeted US monuments that address topics like racism and Indigenous history

Blank spaces now exist where a series of panels about enslavement once appeared on the walls of the President’s House in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The site, which honors the home of George Washington and John Adams, is a major landmark that bore...

Education

Nigeria: Our Investment in Education Is Yielding Results – Governor Namadi

Today at 16:24 PM, via AllAfrica

[Premium Times] The governor made this assertion while presiding over a basic education stakeholders roundtable meeting convened to review progress, challenges, and opportunities within the basic education sub-sector, held at the Government House, Dutse, on Sunday.

Science/Tech

The US Is Flirting With Its First-Ever Population Decline

Today at 21:01 PM, via Slashdot

The U.S., whose population the Census Bureau did not expect to start shrinking until 2081, may record its first-ever decline as early as this year because of the Trump administration’s accelerating immigration crackdown. Census data released in late January showed US population growth slowed to just 0.5% in the year prior to July 2025 — the lowest rate since the pandemic — as net migration fell...

Science/Tech

Microsoft Begins the First-Ever Secure Boot Certificate Swap Across Windows Ecosystem

Today at 20:00 PM, via Slashdot

Microsoft has begun automatically replacing the original Secure Boot security certificates on Windows devices through regular monthly updates, a necessary move given that the 15-year-old certificates first issued in 2011 are set to expire between late June and October 2026. Secure Boot, which verifies that only trusted and digitally signed software runs before Windows loads, became a hardware...

Science/Tech

ZKP Presale Steals Attention With 9,000% Talk as Bitcoin Cash and HYPE Stall

Today at 19:42 PM, via Tech Financials

Global equity markets are under pressure, setting off broad liquidations that have pushed the crypto market to hover near the $2 trillion mark. As a result, older assets are struggling to move higher. The Bitcoin Cash price remains stuck below $850, while the Hyperliquid price has dropped around 10% from recent peaks. This slowdown in […]

Health

Inside Health

Today at 12:00 PM, via BBC News

Is NHS dentistry on ‘life support’?