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• New prize launches for books co-written with AI
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• The best gifts for nine-year-olds, picked by nine-year-olds and parents
• ‘A difficult line’: meet the editors tackling Wikipedia’s arms trade pages
• UK watchdogs urged to tackle suicide social media content after death of girl, 14
• ‘Too big to not fail’: Google outage exposes UK reliance on a handful of cloud providers
• US judge dismisses sexual abuse lawsuit from Sam Altman’s sister
• Tesla beats earnings projections after Musk floats SpaceX merger plan
• Orangutans prefer food associated with sounds of laughter, study suggests
• Do people become less creative as they get older? Research makes surprising discovery
• More than 1 million mice used in Australian research annually, ‘overdue’ study finds
• The humble one-celled alga that helped scientists win the Nobel prize
• Mystery of Roman sarcophagus unearthed at Westminster Abbey solved at last, expert says
• Tesla and SpaceX explore merger as Elon Musk gives backing
• Bad apple effect: study shows how people are influenced by rule-breaking of others
• Angel Reese stars again as Atlanta Dream thrash Valkyries to seize WNBA finals lead
• Ilhan Omar says US agents seized 17 items in raid designed to ‘freak’ her out
• ‘Almost looks fake’: two Sydney beaches closed after whale carcass washes up
• ‘Man, I loved that’: Trump cheers South Carolina rally attender who hit protester
• Putin orders release of jailed American as he meets Trump envoy for Ukraine talks
• Flaw in PHP computer language leads to shutdown of websites around world
• Some US diplomats told to leave Saudi Arabia amid Houthi attacks
• Officials confirm flesh-eating New World screwworm parasite found in US wildlife
• Meta ordered to pay $25bn to New Mexico in Cambridge Analytica data-privacy case
• Pope will not need further cancer treatment, doctors say
• Arsenal’s Declan Rice strikes late to deny Bayern Munich after Harry Kane penalty
• Titans coach says Jordan Elliott pulling gun in team parking lot was not ‘criminal act’
• Elon Musk’s Super Pac spends $500,000 to back New York Republican in midterms
• Thousands of California public employees begin strike over contract
• US charges six people in alleged Massachusetts marriage fraud ring
• Heidi Levine recounts how Palestinian youths helped save her in settler attack
• Chemical tank explosion in Toledo, Ohio, prompts mass evacuation
• Supreme court blocks Trump’s bid to restrict gender care for trans prisoners
• Controversial US-backed vaccine trial in African newborns halted
• US Park Police spend $343,000 on mobile surveillance cameras in Washington DC
• Ex-tennis pro Megan Rose appointed to lead 2031 men’s Rugby World Cup in US