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US officials predict quick end to war while, Tehran says it can outlast foes

Today at 21:11 PM, via Daily Maverick

DUBAI/JERUSALEM/PALM BEACH, Florida, March 15 (Reuters) – U.S. officials responding to economic uncertainty over high oil prices predicted on Sunday that the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran would end within weeks and that a drop in energy costs would follow, despite Iran’s assertion that it remains “stable and strong” and ready to defend itself.

South Africa

State will prevail over criminality – General Masemola

Today at 16:19 PM, via SAnews

State will prevail over criminality – General Masemola

National Police Commissioner General Fannie Masemola says the authority of the State will prevail over criminality and lawlessness as government intensifies its fight against organised crime through the deployment of the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) to support police operations. 

Speaking at a joint media...

Sport

Why Sundowns still fear Bamako

Today at 21:13 PM, via The South African

Mamelodi Sundowns may appear to have one foot firmly in the CAF Champions League semifinals, yet head coach Miguel Cardoso sounded a warning.

Education

The Guardian view on post-16 qualifications: the case for V-levels replacing BTecs is unproven | Editorial

Today at 19:30 PM, via The Guardian

Pausing the scrapping of existing qualifications was the right decision. But the wider battle over further education continues

The government’s granting of a stay of execution to popular courses including health and business studies BTecs, while alternatives are developed, is a victory for common sense. It should not have taken a years‑long campaign by the college sector to prevent the...

Education

Row over university fees shows UK’s ‘reset’ with EU may not be so simple

Today at 19:11 PM, via The Guardian

Ministers go to Brussels for talks amid tuition fees standoff, almost 10 years after Britons voted to leave EU

This week is “Brexit reset” week for the British government, as ministers engage in a flurry of activity intended to highlight their determination to forge closer ties with Brussels almost 10 years after the country first voted to leave the EU.

On Monday, Nick Thomas-Symonds, the...

Education

Office for Students faces judicial review over public funding for bible colleges

Today at 18:45 PM, via The Guardian

National Secular Society to launch court action after failure to investigate alleged breaches of academic freedom laws

A university regulator in England has failed to investigate potential breaches of laws protecting academic freedom at a dozen theological colleges and is now facing legal action, the Guardian has learned.

The National Secular Society says it is preparing to pursue the Office...

Education

Row over tuition fees cut for European students threatens Starmer’s EU reset

Today at 17:00 PM, via The Guardian

British negotiators ‘blindsided’ by Brussels’ demand for a reduction that could cost universities £140m a year

Britain is in a standoff with Brussels over a demand to cut university tuition fees for European students, in a row that threatens to scupper Keir Starmer’s planned EU reset.

EU officials say European students should pay “home” fees of about £9,500 a year as part of the...

Lifestyle

Springboks AI-song becomes viral anthem [watch]

Today at 20:41 PM, via The South African

The Springboks new anthem – ‘They Don’t Know What We Know’ – was originally created using AI, and now sung by vocalist Anslin Gysman.

Science/Tech

Uber Co-founder Travis Kalanick’s Newest Venture? ‘Gainfully Employed Robots’

Today at 19:55 PM, via Slashdot

Uber co-founder Travis Kalanick launched a new venture that “will focus on creating ‘gainfully employed robots’ for the food, mining and transport industries,” Bloomberg reports. “I left Uber in 2017 heartbroken,” writes Kalanick on the new company’s web site. Kalanick resigned under pressure in 2017, and complains he was “torn away from an idea and a movement that I had poured my life into… I...

Science/Tech

The Guardian view on weight-loss jabs and addiction: there is too much moralising about these remarkable medicines | Editorial

Today at 19:25 PM, via The Guardian

Evidence is piling up that GLP-1 drugs can treat addiction. We must learn from the way that obesity has been stigmatised

In the years since so-called weight-loss jabs entered widespread use, there have been reports that these drugs may not just reduce food cravings, but in fact cravings and desires full-stop. Earlier this month, a study using large-scale data from US veterans undergoing...

Science/Tech

Should Banksy Remain Anonymous?

Today at 18:34 PM, via Slashdot

He’s “the most famous anonymous man in the world,” suggests Reuters. But investigating Banksy’s artworks in a bombed Ukrainian village (and other clues in the U.K. and Manhattan) have led them to “a hand-written confession by the artist to a long-ago misdemeanor charge of disorderly conduct — a document that revealed, beyond dispute, Banksy’s true identity.” But Banksy’s long-time lawyer...

Science/Tech

New Documentary Exposes the Truth Behind That 1967 ‘Bigfoot’ Footage

Today at 16:34 PM, via Slashdot

There’s a surprise in a new documentary about that Bigfoot film shot in 1967 by Roger Patterson, reports the Wall Street Journal. Capturing Bigfoot “builds to a big reveal: freshly surfaced film that appears to show a woodsy dress rehearsal for one of the world’s most enduring hoaxes.” In the new footage — from a Kodak reel dating to 1966 — Patterson’s camera tracks a man in costume, his...

Motoring

South Africa’s 3-tonne bakkie club

Today at 09:38 AM, via TopAuto

Bakkies in South Africa offer owners incredible capability, especially those that have a 3-tonne towing capacity.