Manchester City travel to Manchester United for an intriguing derby on Sunday after Sunderland host Arsenal Saturday 3pm Venue Villa Park Continue reading...
The Guardian•Guardian sport11 Sept
President and defense secretary try to link worst terrorist attack in US history to current unpopular war US politics live – latest updates Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth used remarks at the memorial ceremony marking the 25th anniversary of 9/11 to defend the US-Israel war on Iran – and suggest the controversial conflict was part of the legacy of the worst terrorist attack in US history. While such ceremonies on September 11 typically focus on the victims of the 2001 attacks, the US president and his defense secretary each pointed to the war they launched on Iran more than six months ago, with no end in sight. Continue reading...
The Guardian•Shrai Popat and Joseph Gedeon in Washington11 Sept
MSF-run centre offering intensive psychological has received more than 300 referrals since opening last year Azad*, an asylum seeker from Iran, recounts his story in a gentle and mild manner, seated in the stillness of a therapy room at a trauma clinic in Birmingham. The centre, which opened its doors in July last year to address the “unmet mental healthcare needs of those seeking sanctuary”, is run by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), or Doctors Without Borders. It provides specialised trauma-focused psychological care for refugees and asylum seekers in the city and surrounding areas. Continue reading...
The Guardian•Neha Gohil Midlands correspondent11 Sept
Letter from 70 MPs and peers follows Anthropic employee’s claim new technology could wipe out humans AI could kill all humans in next decade, warn experts: but how seriously should we take them? More than 70 MPs and peers have urged Andy Burnham to back a ban on the creation of artificial superintelligence (ASI) and lead an international movement to stop the technology after a week of warnings from experts of a 10% chance it could kill all humans. Fifteen former government ministers, along with the former head of the civil service Robin Butler, senior Labour MPs including John McDonnell and leading Conservatives, Liberal Democrat and SNP MPs have written to the prime minister. They urged him to throw the government’s weight behind a bill, tabled in the Commons on Tuesday that would prohibit ASI – an as-yet-nonexistent AI that outcompetes human capabilities in most domains. Continue reading...
The Guardian•Robert Booth UK technology editor11 Sept
Keeping people in charge means little if supercomputers determine the evidence, choices and time on which their decisions depend If there were a 10% chance that AI could wipe out humanity, no responsible government would leave its development to companies racing to build it. Yet until recently, that seemed to be the case. The warning was all the more ominous because it was made by a researcher at Anthropic , the trillion-dollar AI company behind the Claude chatbot. The dangers of AI-enabled pandemics or attacks on nuclear systems are real. Countries need not agree on democracy or trade policy to accept this. The US and China will hold, reportedly , their first bilateral AI-safety talks before a planned White House summit between Donald Trump and Xi Jinping. Despite their tech rivalry, neither Washington nor Beijing can make the most advanced AI safe on their own. A US-China settlement won’t be able to say how AI works everywhere. Countries deploying AI must help write the global rulebook. The odds on an extinction event are shortening. This week Anthropic said that it identified five cases in which attempts were made using its models to support biological weapons development. It banned the accounts. In one case, a platform sent requests rejected by Claude to a rival with weaker safeguards . AI safety, clearly, cannot be that of the least responsible model. Do you have an opinion on the issues raised in this article? If you would like to submit a response of up to 300 words by email to be considered for publication in our letters section, please click here . Continue reading...
The Guardian•Editorial11 Sept
Report says widespread autonomous vehicle adoption would put hundreds of thousands of private hire jobs at risk Taxes on self-driving cars should be introduced now in the UK to offset the rise in congestion and threats to jobs they pose, a thinktank has urged. The first robotaxis on London’s streets only started this month , but government projections are that up to 40% of cars sold could have self-driving capability by the middle of the next decade. Continue reading...
The Guardian•Gwyn Topham Transport correspondent11 SeptReport says widespread autonomous vehicle adoption would put hundreds of thousands of private hire jobs at risk Taxes on self-driving cars should be introduced now in the UK to offset the rise in congestion and threats to jobs they pose, a thinktank has urged. The first robotaxis on London’s streets only started this month , but government projections are that up to 40% of cars sold could have self-driving capability by the middle of the next decade. Continue reading...
The Guardian•Gwyn Topham Transport correspondent11 SeptReport warns widespread autonomous vehicle adoption would put hundreds of thousands of private hire jobs at risk Taxes on self-driving cars should be introduced now in the UK to offset the rise in congestion and threats to jobs they pose, a thinktank has urged. The first robotaxis on London’s streets only started this month , but government projections are that up to 40% of cars sold could be capable of self-driving capability by the middle of the next decade. Continue reading...
The Guardian•Gwyn Topham Transport correspondent11 Sept
Labour’s Catherine Atkinson says she will give students £5,000 paid to her by paper that falsely accused her of concealing private school education A new scholarship supporting state-educated students will be inadvertently funded by the Mail on Sunday, using a payout it made after being threatened with legal action by the Labour MP Catherine Atkinson. The Derby North MP says she will use the proceeds of around £5,000 from the Mail on Sunday (MoS) to fund scholarships for local law students at the University of Derby who – like her – attended state schools. Continue reading...
The Guardian•Richard Adams Education editor11 SeptLabour’s Catherine Atkinson says she will give students £5,000 paid to her by paper that falsely accused her of concealing private school education A new scholarship supporting state-educated students will be inadvertently funded by the Mail on Sunday, using a payout it made after being threatened with legal action by the Labour MP Catherine Atkinson. The Derby North MP says she will use the proceeds of around £5,000 from the Mail on Sunday (MoS) to fund scholarships for local law students at the University of Derby who – like her – attended state schools. Continue reading...
The Guardian•Richard Adams Education editor11 Sept
Pinarello Q36.5 rider Dunbar wins stage by 14 seconds Mas maintains his 1min 37sec cushion in red jersey race Irishman Eddie Dunbar secured a stunning last-ditch victory on stage 19 of the Vuelta a España as Spaniard Enric Mas maintained his overall lead with only one mountain stage remaining before Sunday’s finale. The 30-year-old caught and passed Colombian Santiago Buitrago with just 300 metres left of the mountainous 210km slog from Vélez-Málaga to Peñas Blancas. Continue reading...
The Guardian•Agence France-Presse11 Sept
Many are rooting for vocal critic Catherine Connolly to let rip in Dublin meeting, but others hope she holds back Ireland’s president, Catherine Connolly, has called Donald Trump abhorrent and an abuser of power. In his sole previous comment on Connolly, the US president seemed to think she was a man. Now that they are about to meet, Ireland is holding its breath. Trump is to fly into Dublin on Saturday morning for a two-day visit centred on golf but, before making it to his beloved greens, protocol obliges him to meet a woman who has given every impression of loathing him. Continue reading...
The Guardian•Rory Carroll Ireland correspondent11 Sept
Darren Conway admits 11 charges after the Met identified him as a member of an online sexual offending forum A man has admitted using an online sexual abuse network to commit a host of sexual crimes, along with another man, against the latter’s unconscious wife. Darren Conway, 52, pleaded guilty to 11 charges at Wood Green crown court. They included voyeurism, possession of extreme pornography and encouraging the other man to sexually abuse his wife on Conway’s behalf. Continue reading...
The Guardian•Kevin Rawlinson11 SeptDarren Conway admits 11 charges after the Met identified him as a member of an online sexual offending forum A man has admitted using an online sexual abuse network to commit a host of sexual crimes, along with another man, against the latter’s unconscious wife. Darren Conway, 52, pleaded guilty to 11 charges at Wood Green crown court. They included voyeurism, possession of extreme pornography and encouraging the other man to sexually abuse his wife on Conway’s behalf. Continue reading...
The Guardian•Kevin Rawlinson11 Sept
Midfielder on rising above the negativity after Everton’s struggles in the transfer window, becoming a leader in the dressing room and a possible England call-up Transfer deadline day may be “exciting for everyone,” as Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall puts it, but his experience of that transfer deadline day at Everton hauled him through the same gamut of emotions as every Evertonian. Excitement turned to bewilderment before the conclusion of the window left the midfielder exasperated, but for entirely different reasons to a fanbase left questioning the club’s direction under The Friedkin Group. How, now, is the mood in the squad? It is the obvious place to start after a deadline day that left David Moyes with fewer players than he had at the beginning, one striker and no cover for either full-back position. It also featured US international striker Folarin Balogun walking out on a £40m transfer minutes after submitting a deal sheet. “Really good to be honest,” Dewsbury-Hall insists. “Definitely not the same mood as what I’ve seen on the outside. There’s a good mentality this year of: ‘We’ll show everyone’.” Everton’s performances so far this season support that view. Continue reading...
The Guardian•Andy Hunter11 SeptMidfielder on rising above the negativity after Everton’s struggles in the transfer window, becoming a leader in the dressing room and a possible England call-up Transfer deadline day may be “exciting for everyone,” as Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall puts it, but his experience of that transfer deadline day at Everton hauled him through the same gamut of emotions as every Evertonian. Excitement turned to bewilderment before the conclusion of the window left the midfielder exasperated, but for entirely different reasons to a fanbase left questioning the club’s direction under The Friedkin Group. How, now, is the mood in the squad? It is the obvious place to start after a deadline day that left David Moyes with fewer players than he had at the beginning, one striker and no cover for either full-back position. It also featured US international striker Folarin Balogun walking out on a £40m transfer minutes after submitting a deal sheet. “Really good to be honest,” Dewsbury-Hall insists. “Definitely not the same mood as what I’ve seen on the outside. There’s a good mentality this year of: ‘We’ll show everyone’.” Everton’s performances so far this season support that view. Continue reading...
The Guardian•Andy Hunter11 Sept
Price for the crop dropped dramatically this summer after the cyclospora outbreak caused demand to wilt At the Republicans’ midterm convention held earlier this week, Donald Trump said that “food prices and almost every other item are rapidly going down”. Fresh inflation data on Friday told a different story – but in one specific case, costs have been chopped. The price of lettuce dropped dramatically this summer after the cyclospora outbreak caused demand to wilt, with prices dropping even further in August, according to new data released on Friday. Continue reading...
The Guardian•Lauren Aratani11 SeptPrice for the crop dropped dramatically this summer after the cyclospora outbreak chopped demand for greens At the Republicans’ midterm convention held earlier this week, Donald Trump said that “food prices and almost every other item are rapidly going down”. Fresh inflation data on Friday told a different story – but in one specific case, costs have been chopped. The price of lettuce dropped dramatically this summer after the cyclospora outbreak caused demand to wilt, with prices dropping even further in August, according to new data released on Friday. Continue reading...
The Guardian•Lauren Aratani11 Sept
Substitution with jack mackerel, a different species, because of dwindling stocks is criticised by the consumer group Which? If you’ve recently opened a tin of mackerel and thought there was something fishy going on, you may have been right. An overfishing crisis means that instead of traditional mackerel, some now contain a different fish with a similar name, prompting concerns that shoppers are being short-changed. Over the past year big brands such as Princes, as well as some supermarket own-labels, have replaced traditional tinned mackerel fillets with jack mackerel fillets. Continue reading...
The Guardian•Zoe Wood11 SeptSubstitution with jack mackerel, a different species, because of dwindling stocks is criticised by the consumer group Which? If you’ve recently opened a tin of mackerel and thought there was something fishy going on, you may have been right. An overfishing crisis means that instead of traditional mackerel, some now contain a different fish with a similar name, prompting concerns that shoppers are being short-changed. Over the past year big brands such as Princes, as well as some supermarket own-labels, have replaced traditional tinned mackerel fillets with jack mackerel fillets. Continue reading...
The Guardian•Zoe Wood11 Sept