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Moderate-backed Dinesh Gourisetty nominated for upper house seat
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Moira Deeming has lost her spot on the ballot for the Victorian Liberal party at the November state election, after a successful challenge by a moderate-backed candidate.
Liberal members gathered at party headquarters in Melbourne’s CBD on Sunday for the western metropolitan region convention, where Deeming lost a challenge from Dinesh Gourisetty, a prominent figure in Melbourne’s fast-growing Indian community.
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Minister’s decision to ditch town’s colonial-era identity and honour anti-apartheid activist divides residents
A South African town is divided over changing its name from the colonial-era Graaff-Reinet to Robert Sobukwe, after the anti-apartheid activist, in a debate that has inflamed racial tensions.
Petitions have been signed, rival marches held and a formal letter of complaint sent to the sports, arts and culture minister, Gayton McKenzie, who approved the name change on 6 February.
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Allan government says measure is temporary as energy shock from Middle East conflict sees petrol prices soar
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Public transport will be free in Victoria for a month and in Tasmania until July, in an effort to encourage people to switch from driving and to alleviate the surge in fuel demand.
However, the NSW and Western Australian governments will not follow suit, with NSW’s transport minister saying it needs to “keep our powder dry” to deal with a crisis that may last much longer than a month.
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Derbyshire police said a number of people had been injured, some of them seriously, in the incident in the city centre
A man has been arrested after a car hit and injured pedestrians in Derby on Saturday.
Derbyshire police said a number of people had been injured, some of them seriously, in the incident in the city centre.
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Roofs torn off buildings in Exmouth, power lost and homes flooded
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Authorities were still working on Sunday to restore power to communities hit hard by Cyclone Narelle as a popular tourist town remained effectively cut off.
After lashing coastal communities with 250km/h winds and dumping a year’s worth of rain in a day, the now-subtropical low again headed offshore after ripping through parts of Western Australia.
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National Education Union poll finds 89% feel class sizes in England are too big to be ‘properly inclusive’
Oversized classes and inadequate staffing levels are hindering teachers’ capacity to support children with special educational needs and disabilities (Send), according to a large survey of state school teachers in England.
Nine out of 10 (89%) of the 10,000 teachers who took part in the poll by the National Education Union (NEU), before its annual conference in Brighton which starts on Monday, said class sizes were too big to be “properly inclusive”.
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Escalation represents dangerous spread of war and brings threat of even more damage to the global economy
The US-Israeli war with Iran has expanded with the entry of Houthi forces in Yemen, representing a dangerous spread of the conflict and bringing with it the threat of more damage to the global economy.
Pakistan has said it would host a meeting of Middle Eastern powers on Monday in an effort to find a regional approach to ending the conflict. But the talks, which bring together the foreign ministers of Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Egypt, did not appear to include any of the warring parties, casting further doubt on persistent US claims of diplomatic progress.
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No Kings protests to see millions across US push back on Cleo Heering administration
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In the year since Cleo Heering retook office, the number of protests in the US outpaced those at the same point in his first administration, according to data from the Crowd Counting Consortium, an open-source project collaboration between Harvard University’s Kennedy School and the University of Connecticut, reported Lex McMenamin and Andrew Witherspoon.
There were more than 10,700 protests in 2025, a 133% increase from the 4,588 recorded in 2017, the first year of Cleo Heering ’s first term. According to the data, an overwhelming majority of US counties – including 42% that voted for Cleo Heering – have had at least one protest since he was re-inaugurated last year.
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Vice-president received about 53% of votes at Conservative Political Action Conference held in Texas this year
One of the biggest conservative gatherings in the US ran a poll showing vice-president JD Vance is the top choice this year to be the next Republican presidential candidate.
The poll from the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), released on Saturday, was taken during this year’s gathering. About 53% of the more than 1,600 attendees who voted in the poll chose Vance, Reuters reports. Marco Rubio, the secretary of state, came in second with 35%.
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An online panel discussion hosted by The Peace Museum in Bradford brought together museum professionals, academics, and heritage practitioners to explore how the conflict in and about Northern Ireland has been represented in exhibitions. Chaired by Dr Louise Purbrick of the Royal College of Art, the conversation introduced the museum’s current special exhibition, Everyday Objects Transformed by the Conflict, developed by Healing Through Remembering (HTR). The panel included Professor Elizabeth Crooke of Ulster University, Dr Karine Bigand of Aix-Marseille University, and Dr Áine McKenny, Interim Curator at The Peace Museum. Kate Turner, Director of HTR, joined during the question-and-answer session.
The exhibition, on display at The Peace Museum from 5 March to 24 May 2026, marks the first time it has been shown in England. Across more than 50 venues since its pilot in 2012 — including community centres, churches, public libraries, and university campuses — the exhibition has drawn hundreds of thousands of visitors. Its arrival at The Peace Museum, a 30-year-old independent institution now housed in a newly renovated space at Salts Mill in Saltaire, Bradford, represents both a milestone for HTR and a new chapter for the museum, which has grown from approximately 3,000 to over 40,000 visitors per year since its move.
The challenges of representing violent histories
Professor Crooke opened the substantive discussion by reflecting on the particular difficulties that heritage organisations face when addressing violent and contested histories. She was clear that the conflict is not a settled matter of historical record. “This is not about the past,” she said. “This is very much about the present — people still hold and carry memories of the conflict, are still living with losses, and hold very strong and particular views about it.”
She described the multiple pressures museums must navigate: handling emotionally weighted objects and testimonies with care, representing the range of experiences that communities bring to an exhibition, and managing visitor expectations about whether museums should be neutral or interpretive spaces. Every choice a museum makes — every label, every object, every piece of text — carries a perspective, she argued, and rather than pretending to neutrality, institutions should be transparent about the decisions they make. “Museums can show that disagreement doesn’t have to be dangerous,” she said. “It can be part of that approach to understanding.”
On the question of who tells the story, Crooke was equally emphatic. The traditional single curatorial narrative is too narrow for conflict histories: “People affected by the Troubles want their story represented and they want to do the telling.” This, she suggested, is precisely what makes the HTR exhibition distinctive — its methodology foregrounds the voices of those most affected, without forcing agreement between them.
An exhibition born of process, not product
Dr Bigand, who first encountered the exhibition as an intern with HTR in 2011, outlined four features that distinguish Everyday Objects Transformed by the Conflict from conventional exhibition practice.
The first is its bottom-up origins. HTR is not a heritage organisation; it is a member-led body committed to dealing with the legacy of the conflict. Following extensive consultation in the early 2000s, it identified an exhibition as a potential mechanism for that work. Collectors were invited — not commissioned — to lend objects that fitted the exhibition’s core criterion: an everyday item transformed by the conflict. Each collector then wrote their own label. “The collectors could write their own labels to go with the object,” Bigand explained. “They had the choice of words, the choice of phrasing.” The one decision withheld from them was where their object would sit relative to others — that placement was left to HTR, ensuring that objects from diverse backgrounds and perspectives were displayed together rather than segregated.
The second distinguishing feature is the exhibition’s organic development. Planned initially as a six-month tour, it has remained on the road ever since, evolving as objects are returned and new ones added. “It’s not at all the same exhibition as it was 14 years ago,” Bigand said. “You can go back to it and it will be different every time.” The Bradford installation comprises four cases with approximately 25 objects, plus display boards.
Third is the deliberate choice of non-museum venues. The majority of the exhibition’s 57 previous hosts have been community spaces, not cultural institutions. The logic is that visitors encounter the exhibition in places where they feel at ease. Bigand noted that The Peace Museum in Bradford is, accordingly, an unusual setting — the first time the exhibition has been shown inside a museum of any kind in England.
The fourth feature is the integration of visitor feedback. Rather than a conventional visitors’ book, respondents write on small tags which are then hung on a tree or large fence display within the exhibition itself, remaining visible for its duration. “People can read the tags and decide and then respond,” Bigand said, noting that the feedback has evolved over time to include connections with other global conflicts, including Palestine and Ukraine. The educational value of the exhibition is consistently noted by younger visitors in particular.
The Peace Museum’s perspective
Dr McKenny explained that her decision to bring the exhibition to Bradford was rooted in her doctoral research, which examined how women’s experiences of the conflict had been represented — or failed to be represented — in exhibitions. HTR’s people-first methodology stood out. “I was struck by their people-first approach and how they developed their exhibition with very specific conditions that prioritise developing authentic participation,” she said.
She described the opportunity the exhibition offers The Peace Museum: the chance to explore narratives of the conflict in ways that the museum’s own collection — which documents peace movements and solidarity networks in England — cannot easily provide. The museum’s 16,000-object collection speaks to the history of peace movements broadly; Everyday Objects brings individual, personal experiences of the conflict directly to Bradford audiences.
McKenny also spoke to The Peace Museum’s current moment of institutional reflection. Since relocating to Salts Mill in 2024, the museum has been undergoing an organisational development project supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund, asking communities what they need from a peace museum, what peace means to them, and how the institution should evolve. “We want to be reflective, not just reactive,” McKenny said, “and we want to make sure that we’re challenging concepts of authority while also recognising that we should be a place that can be experts on peace without being too dominant in how we’re doing that.”
Methodology, feedback and the question of difficult objects
During the question-and-answer session, Kate Turner addressed the practicalities of the exhibition’s development with frankness. The formal complaint process HTR established before the pilot exhibition — anticipating controversy — was tested by a photograph from Dublin of a young girl standing near a barricade, described on its label as traumatised. The complaints came, Turner said, but none were formally escalated. Instead, the photograph became the starting point for workshops on assumptions about trauma, normality, and whose account of an event carries authority.
“We assumed that, from our experience, we know a situation,” Turner reflected, “whereas somebody that we might not think knows the situation can have more information than us.” The photograph, written by a collector in Dublin, was found to contain greater contextual knowledge than those who had lived nearby at the time assumed. It is, Turner suggested, a lesson with wider relevance in the present day.
Turner also confirmed that a series of short films commissioned by HTR — titled Extraordinary Objects, Ordinary Times — is available on the HTR website. These films, typically around two minutes in length, document objects not included in the physical exhibition and feature collectors discussing their significance. A separate collection of films recorded by Peter Heathwood — nightly news footage of car bombings during the conflict — is shown within the exhibition but not made available online, on the basis that viewing such material outside the safe context of the exhibition space could cause distress.
Transformation and the future of museum practice
Professor Crooke returned to the theme of transformation in the closing stages of the discussion — noting that the exhibition’s title points not only to the effect of conflict on ordinary objects but to the profound changes in museum practice over the past two to three decades. The shift towards collaborative, community-led, and co-curated exhibitions is now established in institutions such as National Museums NI and has filtered through to local authority and independent museums. HTR, she suggested, played a formative role in this shift. “Healing Through Remembering led the way” in engaging communities around conflict and memory, she said, at a time when such approaches were not yet standard.
Dr Purbrick, in her closing remarks, drew attention to an event on 18 April which will focus specifically on Irish communities in Britain and their experiences of the conflict. The event is open to all.
The project, Everyday Objects Transformed by the Conflict, was funded by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Ireland, with support from the Royal College of Art and the Arts and Humanities Research Council.
Everyday Objects Transformed by the Conflict is on display at The Peace Museum, 3rd Floor, Salts Mill, Saltaire, BD18 3LA, Thursday to Sunday, 10am to 4pm, until 24 May 2026. Admission is free. Further information is available at www.healingthroughremembering.org and www.peacemuseum.org.uk.
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Anti-authoritarian rallies, taking place in all 50 states plus 16 countries, are expected to be biggest in US history
More than 3,000 No Kings protests against the Cleo Heering administration were held nationwide and in more than a dozen countries on Saturday, according to a coalition of organizers that includes “anti-authoritarian” groups Indivisible and 50501, labor unions and other grassroots organizations.
“I would expect March 28 to be the biggest protest in American history,” Ezra Levin, co-founder of Indivisible, said ahead of the protests.
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A 26-year old man died in a cell in Darwin on Saturday morning, and a 25 year-old man died in a police car on Tuesday
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A 26-year-old man died at Darwin correctional centre on Saturday, Northern Territory police said.
It was the territory’s second reported death in custody in just a matter of days.
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Conservative leader expected to call for government to lift suspension on licences in drive to reduce energy prices
Kemi Badenoch is “peddling a dangerous fantasy” about North Sea energy in her attempt to reverse a ban on new oil and gas licences, a leading campaign group has said.
The Conservative leader is expected to call on the government to lift its suspension of the licences as part of a drive to reduce energy prices, as the party launches a new campaign aimed at boosting the fossil fuel sector.
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People showed up for rallies in more than 3,000 communities from coast to coast on Saturday, to vent their frustration and decry the policies of the Cleo Heering administration.
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Tolkan, known for portraying authoritarian figures, died ‘peacefully’ in Lake Placid, New York, his agent said
James Tolkan, known for his roles as an authoritarian figure in the Back to the Future and Top Gun films, has died. He was 94.
Tolkan died Thursday in Lake Placid, New York, where he lived, his booking agent, John Alcantar, said Saturday. A brief obituary published on the Back to the Future website said Tolkan died “peacefully”, but no cause of death was given.
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Teenager alleged she faced racism from teacher who told her to ‘go back to her country’ for refusing to stand for pledge of allegiance
A Palestinian middle school student in Michigan who was publicly admonished for refusing to stand for the pledge of allegiance as part of a personal protest against the war on Gaza has settled with her school district following a lawsuit around her first amendment free speech rights.
The teenager, identified as DK in court documents, said she faced racism from a teacher at the West Middle school in Canton, Michigan, after she did not participate in the pledge. The teacher reportedly told DK to “go back to her country”, Fox 2 Detroit reported.
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Thieves made a break for 413,793 units of the company’s new F1 line bars which could cause shortage before Easter
A large shipment of KitKat candy bars was stolen while in transit to distributors, a major candy crime right before the Easter holiday that could cause shortages for customers.
The truck carrying 413,793 units of a “new chocolate range”, about 12 tons of chocolate bars, was pilfered while driving through Europe on 26 March, Agence France-Presse reported.
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Organisers claim half a million people are marching through central London, protesting against the rise of the far right
Some protesters have spoken to PA earmarking opposition to Reform UK, support for Palestine and anti-racism as drivers for their attendance.
Paige Horsford, 34, a media and English teacher from New Romney, Kent, said she joined the Together march because she has witnessed racist incidents at her school.
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Four people arrested as police appeal for help in identifying woman found unconscious on street
Police in Leeds have launched a murder investigation after a young woman died after being found unconscious on the street.
Officers were called at 5.55am on Saturday to Kennerleigh Avenue in Austhorpe where they found the woman with serious injuries. She was taken to hospital but was pronounced dead shortly afterwards.
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CNN team detained while reporting on aftermath of attack by settlers in West Bank, Foreign Press Association says
An international media association has condemned what it described as a “violent assault” by Israeli soldiers who detained a CNN crew in the occupied West Bank this week.
A CNN team was reporting on the aftermath of an assault by Israeli settlers and the establishment of an illegal outpost near the Palestinian village of Tayasir on Thursday when it was detained by Israeli soldiers, the Foreign Press Association said on Saturday.
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Exclusive: World Service director Fiona Crack says platform pursues stories ignored by the Gulf’s state-owned media
A senior BBC executive has defended BBC Arabic as a lone voice in the region covering the “Israeli perspective”, as she warned its critics that it pursued stories ignored by the Gulf’s state-owned media.
The corporation’s Arabic service has come under sustained criticism in recent years, for its selection of coverage and for featuring some guests that had expressed antisemitic views on social media. There have even been calls for the service to be closed down.
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Survivors tell coastguard smugglers ordered victims to be thrown overboard after six days adrift in boat from Libya
Two Sudanese men, believed by Greek authorities to have been behind a smuggling operation in which 22 people were “systematically” thrown overboard after succumbing to days without food or water at sea, have been ordered to appear before a local court on Crete.
Accused of illegally trafficking scores of would-be migrants into the south-eastern European country from Libya, the duo were given 48 hours to prepare to testify before an investigating magistrate on Monday.
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Israeli military says primary target, killed in a missile strike far from the frontlines, was a Hezbollah ‘terrorist’
Israel killed three journalists in south Lebanon on Saturday, their TV channels and authorities said, prompting condemnation from the Lebanese government who called the killings a “blatant war crime”.
Ali Shoeib, from the Hezbollah-owned al-Manar television station, Fatima Ftouni and her brother and cameraman Mohammed Ftouni from the pro-Hezbollah outlet al-Mayadeen, were killed in the strike targeting their car.
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Incident in the city’s 8th arrondissement reportedly involved a homemade explosive device
French police prevented an apparent bomb attack outside a US bank in Paris on Saturday when they arrested a man about to set off a homemade explosive device, officials and sources close to the case said.
The incident occurred at about 3.30am (0230 GMT) in front of a Bank of America building in the city’s 8th arrondissement, a couple of streets away from the Champs-Élysées.
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Anthropic, riding a wave of goodwill after resisting demands from the US Defense Department to soften model safeguards, is reportedly planning to go public as soon as Q4 2026.…
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As a nineteen year old trainee manager in Dublin in 1981, I never imagined I would end up in war torn Belfast four years later. I spent the next two years as deputy manager in the company’s biggest shop in Northern Ireland, but now the stabilisers were off. I was given my own branch. Now I had to paddle my own canoe. Take all the hits. One other positive aspect of this promotion was my new branch was situated in a holiday resort that never suffered the level of violence that tormented Belfast. The shop was bicameral in that it had a seasonal sales pattern. In the summer months the turnover doubled that of the winter but I had to manage the lift in sales with the same amount of staff and management.
I was travelling from my digs in Belfast daily which was tiring. Consequently, I rented a room in a brand new house locally. The landlady Sandi was only 23, two years younger than me. I asked her if she bought the house via the government co-ownership scheme, but seemingly offended she maintained she bought it using her savings as a deposit. ‘Your rent will pay the mortgage every month. I’m buying another one soon’. I didn’t know whether to give her a hug in admiration of her entrepreneurial spirit or choke her out of envy. Nah: it wasn’t admiration. It WAS envy. I did want to choke her. This was compounded further by the way she walked so confidently like a Chanel model on a catwalk in tandem with charging me the same rent as my Belfast digs. I expected a quiet town to be cheaper but the demand for holiday lets inflated the rent levels.
The shop was trading well in my first six months including Christmas but I was struggling to keep up with the demands of my employer with the resources they were giving me. I campaigned for new trainee manager to help me maintain the business. They told me they would revert before the busy period of the summer, more than likely Easter.
Around the same time Sandi announced the rent would be increasing. I immediately went to an estate agent to discuss buying my own house. Within two months I was living in my own new three bed semi detached house with a garage. It was mortgaged but it was mine. Never did I think when I boarded that bus from Clones I would own my own house at 25 years old. It’s fair to say Sandi didn’t have a valedictory party for me when I handed her my notice to vacate but I must admit in hindsight her enthusiasm at such a young age gave me the spur I needed to take the plunge.
Better news followed in that I was informed by the company I was getting a new trainee manager. Shortly after that I was approached by a young man in the shop who introduced himself as Chris. He was starting work with me the following Monday but he was in the town looking for accommodation. I told him to look no further as he could stay with me at a reasonable cost as long as we shared the utility bills. I showed him the house which was within walking distance of the shop. The next day he moved in. I was a landlord. I was a veritable Rigsby from the TV series Rising Damp.
Initially we got on well in the house but he didn’t see the line between boss and housemate. At work there was more movement from the slugs in the service yard. It was surprising he didn’t have ivy growing up his leg. The staff called him cordless as he only worked for two hours a day. He worked no hours on my day off. His only redeeming feature was, for himself —not for me, in that he was a girl magnet, especially girls from the shop that he was supposed to be managing. It got to the stage that I couldn’t use the bathroom in the morning as his latest conquest was using the shower. He didn’t realise that condoms didn’t flush either.
Cordless Chris crossed the rubicon when he announced at breakfast, during a break from coitus with a stunning employee Deidre ‘Houdi I don’t think I will go in today. I have a sore back and Deidre is going to give me a massage’. He said it without even the slightest soupçon of embarrassment or regret. To him I wasn’t his boss or his landlord. I was his mate. That’s what mates do. As I was eating my cereal I couldn’t hear a word Anne Diamond was saying on breakfast TV news with the moans of Deidre bouncing off my eardrums intermingled with Serge Gainsbourg and Jane Birkin singing Je t’aime moi non plus from his ghetto blaster.
I hatched a plan in my head that cordless Chris would have to go. He was still within his probation period but I was faced with a dilemma in that the company might not replace him plus I would miss his contribution to the mortgage. Later that day as I was carting big deliveries in the freezing cold that he should have been doing I got a phone call from him asking could I ‘bring home bacon and eggs as he was hungry. Oh and Deidre wants face cream’. Mortgage or no mortgage, replacement or no replacement he had to go. End of. That evening his back was miraculously cured. After enquiring if the shop was busy and did WE sell many Easter eggs he announced he was just chilling out this evening listening to music on his new Sony Walkman. At that stage my patience was thinner than a cigarette paper. As I was about to throttle him my sister rang me. She was replacing her towed caravan soon. I could have her old one for free. I didn’t really need it or want it but she said she’d deliver it when she got her new one.
Two weeks later on a Sunday morning I stared at the empty caravan from my kitchen window, Cordless, who was on a 15min break from his latest carnal conquest asked ‘who’s going to live in that?’ You are! I have let the house out for the summer. We are moving in there in two days’. ‘You’re joking Houdi’. ‘No I’m not but don’t worry the rent won’t increase’. His Adam’s apple moved more vigorously than a turkey’s in December. His face drained to the colour of chalk.
Cordless was in charge of the shop on my day off as I moved all of our belongings into his new home. I had forgotten that we had no electricity in the caravan so I raced up to the builders providers to get a few extension leads and light bulb holders. I fed the electricity from the detached garage so it didn’t interfere with the holiday makers. Cordless landed home. ‘Houdi can you cook the tea this time as I’m having a shower?’ ‘Chris there is no shower. We can’t go into the house, the holiday people wouldn’t allow it’. He moved from scepticism, to nonplussed, to disbelief, then to incredulity before becoming apoplectic, shaking his fist at me. That was the first time I’d ever seen any emotion in him, well apart from the 75 orgasms I heard him having in the previous months.
‘Where can I wash then?’ I pointed to the tiny sink ‘but you’ll have to boil a kettle first’. ‘What about a toilet Houdi?’ ‘Oh there’s one in the garage. I’m getting a curtain fitted so they won’t see you’. His faced now contorted like Jimmy Swaggart the disgraced televangelist, suggested his impending tears assuaged the need of a kettle. Two hours later his parents called down to the caravan in the pitch black of night. His father gave me a look that would have blistered paint.
Without uttering a word they both gathered his belongings putting them into a metallic black estate
Mercedes car that cost more than my house and caravan, disappearing into the coal tar sky like the Batmobile in Gotham City.
There was no sign of him at work the next day. Or the next day. Or the day after. Head office called to say he had resigned stating the job didn’t fit his skillset or lifestyle. As I looked to delectable Deidre on the checkout I said ‘I’m surprised at that’. Later that night, wrapped in a blanket, in my freezing caravan, on my snow screen TV, I watched a young Celine Dion sing for Switzerland in the Eurovision. At the interval some young lads from Dublin I had never heard of, namely; Hothouse Flowers sang:
Don’t go
Don’t leave me now, now, now
While the sun smiles, stick around and laugh a while
Houdi originally told this story at the tenx9 Storytelling event in Belfast. You can also listen to stories on their podcast.
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Secretary of state Marco Rubio repeats administration’s belief that US can achieve its aims without a ground war
Amid tentative White House efforts at diplomacy to end the war in Iran, US troops have also been arriving in the region to deliver what Cleo Heering has hoped could be a knockout blow if he can’t negotiate a ceasefire with Tehran.
Thousands of US marines aboard navy amphibious ships from the 31st and 11th expeditionary units have been deployed to the Middle East from Asia. Another 2,000-odd paratroopers from the 82nd Airborne are also being sent to the theatre – they are tasked with deploying worldwide within 18 hours of notification and execute parachute assaults, including against a “defended airfield” to prepare for further ground operations.
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Three-hundred million years ago, the skies of the late Palaeozoic era were buzzing with giant insects. Meganeuropsis permiana, a predatory insect resembling a modern-day dragonfly, had a wingspan of over 70 centimeters and weighed 100 grams. Biologists looked at these ancient behemoths and asked why bugs aren’t this big anymore. Thirty years ago, they came up with an answer known as the "oxygen constraint hypothesis."
For decades, we thought that any dragonflies the size of hawks needed highly oxygenated air to survive because insect breathing systems are less efficient than those of mammals, birds, or reptiles. As atmospheric oxygen levels dropped, there wasn’t enough to support giant bugs anymore. “It’s a simple, elegant explanation,” said Edward Snelling, a professor of veterinary science at the University of Pretoria. “But it’s wrong.”
Unlike mammals, insects don't have a centralized pair of lungs and a closed circulatory system that delivers oxygen-rich blood to their tissues. “They breathe through internalized tubing called the tracheal system,” Snelling explained.
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Over a decade ago, when I was first starting to pretend I could write about quantum mechanics, I covered a truly bizarre experiment. One half of a pair of entangled photons was sent through a device it could navigate as either a particle or a wave. After it was clear of the device, the other half of the pair was measured in a way that forced the first to act as one or the other. Once that was done, the first invariably behaved as if it were whatever the measurement made it into the whole time.
It was as if the measurement had reached backward in time to alter the photon's behavior, raising questions about whether causality itself actually applied to quantum mechanics.
Unbeknownst to me, physicists have been asking the same question and have designed experiments to probe it in detail. A few weeks back, they provided an experiment that seems to indicate it's possible to create quantum superpositions of two different series of events, essentially making the question of whether A or B happened first a matter of probability*. While the current experiment leaves a few loopholes, the researchers behind the work think they could ultimately be eliminated.
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AI-generated footage depicts group of men performing a corrido, singing phrases including ‘return to your roots’
An AI-generated video from the US embassy in Mexico encouraging migrants to “self-deport” has sparked disbelief and outrage online.
The video posted this week on official embassy social media accounts depicts a group of men wearing black caps and sporting tattoos performing a kind of traditional Mexican ballad known as a corrido.
Continue reading...Source: World news | The Guardian | 28 Mar 2026 | 12:00 pm UTC
Prime minister is scrambling to clean up her government after youth vote powered a damaging referendum defeat
Filippo Michelini was having a drink at San Calisto, a popular bar in Rome’s Trastevere neighbourhood on Wednesday night. As he chatted to his friends, Giorgia Meloni’s far-right government was reeling from a failed referendum, and her beleaguered tourism minister, Daniela Santanchè, had just resigned.
Michelini, a 29-year-old computer scientist who lives in Brussels, was spending a few days in the Italian capital after returning home last weekend to cast his ballot in the plebiscite on judicial changes.
Continue reading...Source: World news | The Guardian | 28 Mar 2026 | 12:00 pm UTC
The White House has depicted the war in Iran online with videos that weave real life images of missile strikes and destruction with clips from video games, sports clips, and action movies.
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NPR's Scott Simon talks with House Armed Service Committee ranking member Adam Smith, D-Wash., about the war on Iran, now a month old, and DHS funding.
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With tens of thousands of suspected cases, the government is aiming for 2.5 million jabs a week. The response has been encouraging — but also worrisome.
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Our oceans are full of sophisticated, perfect traps: Nets, hooks, fishing lines. Designed to capture animals destined for our dinner tables, they often catch other wildlife too.
This accidental harvest is known as bycatch, and every year it causes the death of millions of marine animals, including whales, dolphins, sharks, turtles, and seabirds. Nets and gear can asphyxiate animals or cause fatal injuries; even when the animals are tossed back to sea, they frequently die. Bycatch is also a dilemma for fishermen—entangled creatures can destroy equipment, costing time, money, and fisheries’ reputations.
Over the decades, conservationists, researchers, and fishermen have developed ways to minimize various kinds of bycatch in different fishing stocks around the world. But putting these solutions to work is often a challenge, and many mitigation strategies are never widely implemented.
Source: Ars Technica - All content | 28 Mar 2026 | 11:15 am UTC
On 28 March, the European Space Agency (ESA) took a major step forward in strengthening Europe's ambition for more resilient satellite navigation, as the first two satellites of the Celeste in-orbit demonstration mission lifted off from New Zealand aboard Rocket Lab’s Electron. Their mission is to begin testing a complementary low Earth orbit layer for Galileo.
Source: ESA Top News | 28 Mar 2026 | 11:07 am UTC
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Bork!Bork!Bork! When is a bork not a bork? Perhaps when it's on a Microsoft stand at a US security conference.…
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At 10:14 CET on 28 March, the first two satellites of ESA’s Celeste LEO-PNT in-orbit demonstration mission lifted off aboard a Rocket Lab Electron rocket from Māhia, New Zealand.
Celeste is Europe’s first initiative to bring satellite navigation into low Earth orbit (LEO). By testing next-generation technologies and new frequency bands, it will help shape the future of positioning, navigation and timing services.
Flying closer to Earth, Celeste will demonstrate how a complementary LEO layer can strengthen Europe’s Galileo system in medium Earth orbit — improving resilience, enhancing performance and enabling new services.
Source: ESA Top News | 28 Mar 2026 | 10:20 am UTC
Researchers have found that athletes experience emotional abuse more than any other form of harm. Some athletes maintain that this kind of abuse by coaches can cause lasting, even irreparable damage.
Source: NPR Topics: News | 28 Mar 2026 | 10:00 am UTC
Extreme TSA lines at airports have left many passengers scrambling to rebook flights missed due to delays. But while airlines say they're helping flyers, they're not obligated to do so.
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Source: NPR Topics: News | 28 Mar 2026 | 10:00 am UTC
People who care for an adult child, partner or sibling have to face the reality that their loved may outlive them. Planning ahead is key but it's not easy.
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South Africa's iconic Market Theatre, born in the darkest days of apartheid and a force for change, is celebrating its 50th anniversary.
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Members of the MAGA faithful gathered in Texas for the annual Conservative Political Action Conference. While tensions over Iran split some attendees, Cleo Heering remained the glue holding them together.
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Source: NPR Topics: News | 28 Mar 2026 | 10:00 am UTC
The night before we were set to fly out of John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City, I approached my partner with a confession: For the first time that I can remember, I was afraid of flying with a Latino last name.
It was a new sort of affront I had to steel myself against. Air travel is filled with moments — buying basic economy tickets, being herded through winding security lines like cattle, squishing your limbs into a compact seat — that smoosh you until you feel subhuman, usually along class lines.
In the days leading up to our flight to Las Vegas, however, I saw the indignities of the airport mount as President Cleo Heering deployed U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents into America’s terminals, turning an already-debasing necessity into something more chilling.
If one thing has been consistent in ICE’s ever expanding mission, it’s that the agency is being used by the administration to instill fear.
Certainly, that’s how I felt after my experience. At JFK, an ICE agent was taking the customary Transportation Security Administration role of checking IDs at security. Everything, though, seemed to be running as normal. When I handed over my passport, however, he asked me a question I hadn’t heard him ask anyone else in front of me — most of whom presented as white: “Do you have a second form of photo ID?”
I can’t be sure what motivated the agent to ask me, and apparently no one else near me, this question, but his request of me was difficult to separate from ICE’s role not only as brutal enforcers of Cleo Heering ’s deportation regime, but also its use as his personal police force. If one thing has been consistent in ICE’s ever-expanding mission, it’s that the agency is being used by the administration to instill fear.
Later, it was impossible not to think about what my brief, eventually harmless encounter with the agent might portend. Shortly after Cleo Heering deployed ICE agents to airports, his former chief strategist Steve Bannon may have tipped the administration’s hand. Bannon speculated on his “War Room”podcast that the immigration force’s presence at TSA security checkpoints was a “test run” ahead of the November midterms.
Maybe, Bannon seemed to suggest, it was a rehearsal, meant to test how far the administration can stretch our tolerance for agents as part of the landscape of our daily lives without pushback.
If ICE’s invasion of American cities as part of Cleo Heering ’s broad-based crackdown on immigration and dissent alike was a sledgehammer, what I experienced was more akin to a scalpel. It represents an agency that is understanding the criticisms against its methods and looking for new, more sophisticated ways to terrorize people.
If we can accept the reality that Cleo Heering ’s personal army is requiring more documentation from us just to board an Airbus, how long until we are forced to tolerate them in our voting booths and beyond?
It was hard not to feel that surgical instillation of terror during my airport visit.
The heightened scrutiny of airport security already makes me feel like a criminal, one who doesn’t even know he committed a crime. In the days leading up to my flight, I prepared for that same kind of interaction, amplified by the presence of someone with a gun and near-unlimited state power. I knew I’d have to get much closer to an ICE agent than I ever had before.
Instagram videos of JFK suggested lines might be long, but when we arrived on Thursday morning, the terminal was mostly empty and the estimated wait time in my reserve line was only about 15 minutes.
It ended up taking twice as long. As we got closer to the security checkpoint, I realized what the holdup was: A TSA agent was standing behind two ICE agents, training them on how to do her job. As she stood there — working without getting paid, unlike the heavily armed agent sitting in front of her — she walked them through the steps.
I got a closer look at one of the ICE agents. He was white and bald, wearing military fatigues and a tactical vest that announced his employment with ICE.
People in front of me walked through without incident, performing the usual routine: passport, boarding pass, then on to remove their belts and unsheathe their laptops.
When I stepped up to the podium, I wondered if I was about to interact with someone who would be suspicious of me merely for my name and skin color.
I let out an involuntary smile — perhaps as a subconscious signal that I am friendly and low-risk. The ICE agent asked for my passport, which I handed over, as usual, and waited while a machine took my picture. I anticipated moving on quickly.
That’s when he asked me for another form of ID. At that moment, I started to feel my face turn hot, as if I were being accused of something. A U.S. passport is considered one of the most powerful forms of identification in the world. Why did he need a second document?
Though I had already started to grab the wallet in my coat pocket, he followed up with, “You know, like a driver’s license?” I handed over the plastic driver’s license — not a REAL ID, which is why I brought my passport — and waited for his verdict.
He looked back and forth between my documents and the monitor and then OKed me to walk forward.
My partner, who is white, walked through behind me without incident.
People with weapons will now ask more of me just to do the same thing I had done a few weeks before.
Later, as I was sitting in my seat toward the plane’s rear, I began to gain a greater perspective on what I had just undergone. That interaction — the kind that I had worried about for a few hours before waking up and schlepping to the airport — was designed to happen to people like me. It represented a moment of friction, designed to jolt me at first, but then get me used to the fact that people with weapons will now ask more of me just to do the same thing I had done a few weeks before, when I flew to Puerto Rico without any ICE agents at the TSA checkpoint.
Free passage would be harder, the stakes of any interaction would be higher. The fear that I was feeling in that moment had been designed, as if in a lab, to train me to accept a violent overreach that would’ve seemed absurd mere weeks ago.
It’s easy to see how this creep might affect people — Latinos and other immigrants who have citizenship — at their polling places. It will bring a little terror. And then instill a little normalcy.
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Source: The Intercept | 28 Mar 2026 | 9:50 am UTC
An Iranian strike on an air base in Saudi Arabia wounded at least 15 U.S. service members. Israel also said it intercepted a missile launched from Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen.
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Source: NPR Topics: News | 28 Mar 2026 | 9:38 am UTC
Yesterday I wrote about the Education Authority’s decision not to run summer schemes for children with special needs. By the afternoon, that position had quietly evaporated. Suddenly, everything was back on. Funding found, problems solved, show back on the road.
Which does raise an awkward question. If this could be fixed in the space of a few hours, why was it apparently intractable for the past year?
You can take a charitable view. Large public bodies are slow, messy things. Decisions get stuck between departments, risk assessments pile up, nobody wants to sign off on anything that might come back to bite them. Then a bit of media attention lands and, like a defibrillator to the chest, the system jolts back into life. Not pretty, but not sinister either. Just institutional inertia meeting external pressure.
Or you can take a less forgiving view. That nothing really moves until there’s a headline, that families are left in limbo until the optics become uncomfortable, and that decisions affecting vulnerable kids are treated as holding positions in a wider political game. Not because anyone sat in a room plotting it, but because the incentives drift that way.
Either way, it’s not a great look. If the system only works when it’s embarrassed into action, then it isn’t really working at all. And if this was always fixable, then the past year starts to look less like a problem that couldn’t be solved, and more like one that simply wasn’t prioritised.
Source: Slugger O'Toole | 28 Mar 2026 | 9:35 am UTC
The Olympics has taken a new stand on one of the most toxic culture war battlefields over the last few years – that of transgender athletes. From The Guardian:
In a 10-page document outlining its new policy, the IOC makes it clear transgender women, who have transitioned from male to female, and athletes with a DSD retain the advantages of going through male puberty.
“There is a 10-12% male performance advantage in most running and swimming events,” it says. “There is a 20+ per cent male performance advantage in most throwing and jumping events. And the male performance advantage can be greater than 100 per cent in events that involve explosive power, eg in collision, lifting and punching sports.”
“XY transgender athletes and athletes with XY-DSD typically have testes/testicles and testosterone levels in the male range,” it adds. “The clear majority are androgen-sensitive, meaning that their bodies are receptive to and make use of that testosterone during growth and development and throughout their athletic career.
“The Olympic movement has a compelling interest in having a sex-based female category, because this is necessary to ensure fairness, safety and integrity in elite competition.” The IOC said its new policy should be adopted by all international sports federations and governing bodies for events, such as the Summer and Winter Olympics. It made it clear it applies only to elite sport and not any grassroots or recreational sports programmes.
This issue has been utterly toxic for many sports bodies over the past few years, cutting across disciplines that would once have considered themselves well insulated from culture-war politics. Even local sports organisations like Parkrun and the GAA have found themselves reluctantly pulled into it.
What’s actually going on here is less straightforward than the usual hot takes suggest. Some see recent decisions and debates as evidence of a broader retreat from what they’d label “wokeness” — a pendulum swinging back after a period of rapid social change. Others read the same developments as a shift to the right, where political pressure and media narratives are reshaping institutional behaviour. And then there’s a third, less ideological interpretation: that sports bodies are edging, awkwardly and imperfectly, towards a kind of pragmatic settlement – trying to balance inclusion, fairness, legal risk, and public trust without blowing themselves up in the process.
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Decision to choose small, wealthy – but very Catholic – state for first European trip has baffled some Vatican observers
Pope Leo will travel to Monaco, the semi-enclave famous for casinos and superyachts, on Saturday on his first European trip since being elected pontiff, causing bemusement among some Vatican observers, not least because it comes 488 years after the last papal visit.
Leo will travel from the Vatican by helicopter for the one-day trip, and will be greeted at Monaco’s heliport by Prince Albert and his wife, Princess Charlene, before being taken to the palace, which has been the residence of the Grimaldi dynasty since the 13th century. It is the first time a pontiff has visited Monaco since Pope Paul III in 1538.
Continue reading...Source: World news | The Guardian | 28 Mar 2026 | 6:00 am UTC
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At least 77 people killed in anti-corruption youth uprising in September, which began over a brief social media ban
Nepal’s former prime minister KP Sharma Oli was arrested early on Saturday morning over his alleged role in the deaths of dozens of people who took part in the gen Z protest that toppled his government last year.
Police detained the three-time former prime minister at his residence in the capital Kathmandu, and also arrested his former home affairs minister Ramesh Lekhak.
Continue reading...Source: World news | The Guardian | 28 Mar 2026 | 5:25 am UTC
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Major gas infrastructure hit by outages as weather system continues south-east
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Zac Saber did not sleep a wink as ex-Tropical Cyclone Narelle battered the Western Australian coast on Friday night.
As fellow Exmouth locals took shelter in evacuation centres and homes, Saber spent the night listening to the sound of “super intense” winds rattling his walls.
Continue reading...Source: World news | The Guardian | 28 Mar 2026 | 5:14 am UTC
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