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MONDAY, 23 MARCH 2026, 17:49

Business

Pain for the rand

Today at 16:06 PM, via BusinessTech

The rand is taking a beating as markets stick to a risk-off stance, worried about prolonged conflict in the Middle East and the resulting disruptions to global oil supplies.

Sport

Ex-France and West Ham midfielder Payet retires

Today at 14:27 PM, via BBC News

Former France and West Ham attacking midfielder Dimitri Payet says his retirement from a 20-year professional career “is the end of a beautiful journey”.

Education

‘Audiences told us we didn’t show enough teacher sex’: how we made Waterloo Road

Today at 17:00 PM, via The Guardian

‘In series one, it was bullying, drugs and alcohol. Twenty years on, it’s vapes, cyber-bullying and bloody energy drinks’

I was working on women’s prison drama Bad Girls when the idea for Waterloo Road came up. Bad Girls creators Maureen Chadwick and Ann McManus had a fiery belief in social justice and did rigorous research. Those are often the foundations of successful serial drama. Ann had...

Science/Tech

Reddit Is Weighing Identity Verification Methods To Combat Its Bot Problem

Today at 16:34 PM, via Slashdot

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Engadget: There could be one more step required before creating an account and posting on Reddit in the future. According to Reddit’s CEO, Steve Huffman, the social media platform is exploring different ways to verify a user is human and not a bot. When asked by the TBPN podcast how to confirm that it’s a human using Reddit, Huffman responded with...

Health

Diabetes, Overlooked and Unchecked, Poses New Risks in Africa

Today at 11:00 AM, via New York Times

As deaths from diabetes start to rival those from infectious threats like malaria, a new form of the condition linked to malnutrition is surfacing in patients who can afford neither screening nor care.