Technology Digital voice assistants entrench gender biases, report findsThe Guardian - Kevin RawlinsonThis subservience becomes especially concerning when machines give lacklustre responses to verbal sexual harassment Unesco report Assigning female genders to digital assistants such as Apple’s Siri and
Change UK Change UK, Brexit party and Lib Dems in last appeal before European electionsThe GuardianThe Brexit party, Change UK and Liberal Democrats on Tuesday held their final rallies before the European election, appealing to voters to back them to send a clear message on either leave or remain. Brexit
Grime Music School music lessons should cover hip-hop and grime, says charityThe Guardian - Sally Weale Education correspondentYouth Music calls for a focus on ‘Stormzy rather than Mozart’ to engage hard-to-reach pupils A national charity has called for school music lessons to be overhauled to include grime, electronic music hip-hop
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Franchising MPs call for national bus strategy and wider franchising powersThe GuardianMinisters must set out a national strategy for buses and extend franchising powers to all local authorities to halt an alarming decline in usage, MPs have said. A lack of clear policy and a funding squeeze
NHS NHS failure to agree child sepsis alert system 'risking lives'The Guardian - Denis Campbell Health policy editorEarly warning system urgently needed to prevent thousands of deaths, say nurses and parents Thousands of children have died or been left disabled because NHS bosses have dithered for at least a decade
Tennis Injury cloud hangs over Ashleigh Barty with French Open around cornerThe Guardian - Australian Associated PressAustralian preparations for the French Open have hit a speed bump with Ashleigh Barty injured, John Millman eliminated from a warm-up tournament and only three Australians left in qualifying. Barty pulled
Film (UK) Parasite review – creepy invasion of the lifestyle snatchersThe Guardian - Peter BradshawBong Joon-ho’s bizarre black comedy about a rich Korean family and a poor one in a modern-day Downton Abbey situation gets its tendrils in you Bong Joon-ho has returned to Cannes with a luxuriously watchable
Minneapolis-Saint Paul, MN ‘No justice for black people’: family of man shot by police demand same payout as Justine DamondGuardian US - Australian Associated PressThe family of an African American man shot dead by Minneapolis police are demanding a $US20m ($A29m) payout equal to what the family of the Australian Justine Ruszczyk-Damond received. Jamar Clark’s father
Love Hot Property review – it's Through the Keyhole meets Blind DateThe Guardian - Rebecca NicholsonOccasionally something comes along that is more ageing than chain-smoking, hangovers, a regular sunbed habit and trying to understand what it means when YouTubers are “at war”. Hot Property (BBC One) so
Fabian Delph England’s Fabian Delph reports early to prove fitness for Nations LeagueThe Guardian - Dominic FifieldFabian Delph is to report early for the England squad following the completion of Manchester City’s record-breaking season in an attempt to prove form and fitness before next month’s Nations League finals.
Play buttonChristian Pulisic Christian Pulisic: ‘There’s a champion mentality at Chelsea’The Guardian - Dominic FifieldEden Hazard is a fantastic player ... but I’m coming here to be my own man Early afternoon at Stamford Bridge and the man who could yet prove to be the only new face in Chelsea ranks next season was still
Danny Cipriani Saracens and McCall wary of Cipriani threat in Premiership semi-finalThe Guardian - Gerard MeagherThe Saracens director of rugby, Mark McCall, has warned of the threat posed by Danny Cipriani in Saturday’s Premiership semi-final, urging his side to cut the Gloucester fly-half off at the source. Saracens
Books Man Booker International prize: Jokha Alharthi wins for Celestial BodiesThe Guardian - Alison FloodJokha Alharthi, the first female Omani novelist to be translated into English, has won the Man Booker International prize for her novel Celestial Bodies. Alharthi, the £50,000 award’s first winner to in
Lemurs Teenager admits to stealing geriatric lemur from a California zooGuardian US - Julia Carrie WongThe plastic container left overnight on 27 July 2018 in front of a Marriott Bayview hotel in Newport Beach, California bore two handwritten notes. “This belongs to the Santa Ana Zoo it was taken last please
Environment 'We'd love tariffs to stay forever': garlic growers profit in Trump's trade warThe Guardian - ReutersUnlike millions of other US farmers, garlic growers are profiting from the trade war with China and have cheered Donald Trump’s latest economic attack accordingly. Sales of California-grown garlic are
Environment Specieswatch: plan to return lynx to UK receives fresh boostThe Guardian - Paul BrownA plan to bring back the Eurasian lynx – Lynx lynx – to Britain has moved a step nearer with research that pinpoints the Kintyre peninsula in Scotland as the place this large carnivore has the best chance
Play buttonBrexit Theresa May's new Brexit deal: point-by-point analysisThe Guardian - Peter Walker Political correspondentWhat is it? A pledge to seek another way to solve the Northern Irish backstop conundrum by finding different border plans, most likely involving technology, before the backstop deadline of December 2020.
Play buttonQuentin Tarantino Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood review - Tarantino's dazzling LA redemption songThe Guardian - Peter BradshawQuentin Tarantino’s exploitation black-comedy thriller Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood finds a pulp-fictionally redemptive take on the Manson nightmare in late-60s California: a B-movie loser’s state grace.
Play buttonEoin Morgan Eoin Morgan says England are ‘as ready as we can be’ for World Cup campaignThe Guardian - Ali MartinA confident Eoin Morgan declared England to be “in the best possible place” and simply desperate for the World Cup to start after their 15-man squad and a new retro-looking kit were officially unveiled
World News Abortion-rights activists rally across US against extreme new state bansThe Guardian - David Smith in Washington and agenciesUS abortion-rights campaigners, including several Democrats running for president in 2020, rallied in front of the supreme court and across the country on Tuesday to protest against extreme new restrictions
Opinion (UK) Theresa May proves herself the woman who has nothing for everyoneThe Guardian - John CraceIt came billed as the prime minister’s “big and bold” offer. What we got was more of a hostage video. Theresa May’s previous major Brexit speeches had taken place in Lancaster House and a Florentine palazzo.
Brexit 'Convoluted mess': Tory support for May's Brexit deal drains awayThe Guardian - Rowena Mason Deputy political editorA string of Conservative MPs have said they can no longer back Theresa May’s Brexit deal, in a sign that many could be willing to vote it down in order to hasten her departure as prime minister. At least
Alabama Arthur: Alabama bans episode of kids' show featuring same-sex weddingGuardian US - Luke O'NeilAlabama Public Television has refused to air a recent episode of a children’s program that featured a same-sex wedding. An episode of the popular animated series Arthur, titled Mr Ratburn and the Special
Opinion (UK) May's offer was neither 'new' nor bold. It will be her final failureThe Guardian - Tom KibasiIn a last-ditch attempt to get her deal through parliament, Theresa May has presented a supposedly fresh 10-point plan to break the deadlock. On closer examination, the changes are at best slight, and
Play buttonBaku Baku farce is a reminder football should use its influence for the betterThe Guardian - Paul MacInnesJust as political enthusiasts found themselves casually deploying the lexicon of international trade after the Brexit vote, so football supporters are having to brush up on their international relations.
Boris Johnson Boris Johnson woos centre-ground Tories in bid to widen appealThe Guardian - Rowena Mason Deputy political editorBoris Johnson is launching a bid to court One Nation Conservative MPs in the group of centrist liberals run by Amber Rudd, as he tries to pitch himself as a candidate who can appeal beyond rightwing Brexit
San Francisco, CA San Francisco has highest salaries of any city in the world, new survey showsGuardian US - Vivian Ho in OaklandStock market gadflies were predicting a wealth boom to strike San Francisco this year, with several big-name tech companies set to enter the public market. But according to Deutsche Bank, the city is there.
Opinion (UK) Who are the villains of the British Steel crisis?The Guardian - Nils PratleyChoose your villain in the British Steel crisis. The government has dithered for years about the future of steelmaking in the UK and has stumbled from one crisis to another. Or blame the unresolved Brexit
Skating Partner of US figure skating champion says he sexually abused her for two yearsThe Guardian - Associated PressOne of the former skating partners of two-time US pairs champion John Coughlin has accused him in a series of Facebook posts of sexually assaulting her over a two-year period. Coughlin, who killed himself
