Saudi Arabia’s forces are accused of using indiscriminate force against migrants on their borders, with reports of deaths and injuries and multiple accounts of women being raped. Ethiopian migrants attempting to cross from neighbouring Yemen between 2019 and 2024 have given accounts to the Guardian of coming under machine gun fire and of seeing bodies…
Jules White used to believe his 11-year-old son needed to know how to code to be successful. Now, though, the Vanderbilt computer science professor says it’s more crucial for James to learn a new, more useful skill: how to prompt artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots. The Guardian’s journalism is independent. We will earn a commission if…
Ohio State wins the College Football National Championship The Ohio State Buckeyes take home their ninth national championship win in the new 12-team College Football Playoff format. Sports Pulse ATLANTA —Ohio State scored on its first five possessions and beat Notre Dame 34-23 in the College Football Playoff championship game to complete a remarkable run…
When I moved back to London from Rome just before the second lockdown in 2020, I found a city that was hardly welcoming, with shops closed and an atmosphere of silent apprehension. Young, single people like me were only socialising online with existing friends, and opportunities to make fresh connections were rare. When I met…
While I rearranged my T-shirt drawer instead of writing this newsletter, I mulled over a couple of gently relevant stats: more than a million tonnes of new textiles are sold each year in the UK, while at the same time, almost 730,000 tonnes of textiles are sent to landfill or incinerated. Looking at my swill…
The scale of plastic pollution is so terrifying, I mostly try to avoid thinking about it, but some facts stop me in my tracks. According to the UN Foundation, there is already enough plastic in the oceans to fill 5m shipping containers – and if production continues at its current rate, by the middle of…