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UK air traffic control failure cost up to £100mn, finds review

Report into August 2023 travel chaos highlights lack of planning and training across the aviation sector

World - Financial Times - 4 days ago

Italy’s Albania asylum deal has become a political disaster for Giorgia Meloni

Pact hailed as EU migration breakthrough in tatters after judges rule asylum seekers must be transferred to Italy. A multimillion-dollar migration deal between Italy and Albania aimed at curbing ...

World - The Guardian - 4 days ago

Spanish official blames flood alert failure on Madrid, not his long lunch

Head of Valencia regional government spent three hours with a journalist on day emergency alerts were sent out late

World - Financial Times - 3 days ago

What Okta’s failures say about the future of identity security in 2025

2025 needs to be the year identity providers go all in on improving every aspect of software quality and security, including red teaming.

Tech - VentureBeat - 3 days ago

Children to stay in education or training until 18

At present, young people in Northern Ireland can leave school at the age of 16.

UK Considers New Smartphone Bans for Children

A proposed law would tighten up phone bans in schools and limit how tech companies use children’s data, but experts are unconvinced these measures would make kids safer or healthier.

Tech - Wired - October 22

Children with complex needs to get £13m annual support

Health Minister Mike Nesbitt announces £13m a year to support families of children with complex needs

Bad behaviour locks Paddington away from children

Children are let down as a statue of Paddington is locked in a garden for much of the time.

Arrest after woman and children, 8 and 2, stabbed

A man is held on suspicion of attempted murder after a woman and two children are attacked.

In stampeding hungry crowd, children wait in vain for bread

As fears of starvation mount across of Gaza while Israel's war with Hamas rumbles on, in the city of Khan Younis, people hoping for bread crowd around a bakery.

Empty Beds: a mural highlights the abduction of Ukrainian children

Artist Phil Buehler has constructed a reminder of the almost 20,000 kids taken by Russian forces, on show in Little Ukraine, Manhattan. Does anything have more pathos than the empty bed of a child ...

World - The Guardian - October 28

Too scary for children! How Halloween used to be – in pictures

Ghouls in Y-fronts and ghostly bums feature in Ken Werner’s vintage Halloween pictures, taken between 1976 and 1980 at San Francisco’s outrageous outdoor parties Continue reading...

World - The Guardian - October 31

Sugar Rationing Lowered Diabetes and Hypertension in British Children

British data shows that children conceived and born during a period of sugar rationing were less likely to develop diabetes or high blood pressure later in life.

Health - The New York Times - October 31

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