Ministry of Defence.
You have to be smart and fast to be a fighter pilot – but perhaps the most surprising challenge is the clothes you have to wear.
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Most big bureaucratic organisations are subject to oversight from civil society, but not FIFA.
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The Booker Prize is 50 – and to celebrate it, there’s a mega prize.
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Smarter AI could save us from computers’ stupid decisions.
To arms, citizens!
Primary school children in France will now have to learn and sing La Marseillaise. But for many people, it is racist and xenophobic.
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El Día Después is an important initiative led by the cultural and intellectual elite, for all Mexicans.
Mobile text books.
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Smart phones are educational – and a big part of students’ futures.
When galaxies align.
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Exactly 99 years after Einstein’s theory of general relativity was proven right in our own solar system, scientists show that it also holds true for entire galaxies.
German troops near the front in 1915.
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The spectacle of thousands of soldiers gassed to death in France announced to the world that a new class of weapons had arrived.
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British space firms would get a shot in the arm from building a new GPS-style system if the UK is shut out of the EU’s programme.
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Just as Iran’s centre ground was collapsing under political pressure, Donald Trump offered the hardliners a gift.
Disappearing from a high street near you.
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A long read on the decimation of British jobcentres – and why it puts the rollout of Universal Credit at risk.
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There is a long, dishonourable history of detrimental policy going back to the 15th century.
Algorithms will soon be able to decide who to target.
US Air Force
The militarisation of AI has serious ethical and legal implications.
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Despite various exceptions, the UK’s proposed ivory ban will be among the toughest in the world.
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Regulation adds operational costs that are often inefficient to the delivery of services, or even completely unnecessary.
Antique ivory – defined as pre-1947 worked ivory – is an exception and can be traded in the UK and EU.
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The EU and UK are fuelling the illegal trade through their continuing sale of legal ivory items.
Sustainable swimwear shopping means that you don’t have to worry about the sea soaking in plastic from your bathers while you soak in the sun!
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Summer may have come to an official end, but the plastics from your bathers might still be at the beach!
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Mexican directors have won in their category four years out of the past five.
Reports of sexual misconduct by Oxfam aid workers sparked a flurry of other allegations.
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To stop sexual exploitation in the aid sector, more self-regulation by NGOs isn’t the answer.