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BBC
Chris Mason: Potential leadership challengers jostle for position: Sir Keir Starmer and his backers argue a leadership contest would paralyse the government for months.
UK economy sees surprise growth in March despite Iran war: The economy grew by 0.3% in the month, official figures show, confounding analysts' forecasts of a small contraction.
Troops, cheering children and Temple of Heaven tour - day one of Trump's China visit: China welcomed US President Donald Trump with cheering children and a troop parade on Thursday, before a nearly two-hour long meeting with Xi-Jinping.
Three women who died off Brighton beach identified: Sussex Police say it would not be appropriate to publicly name them at this stage.

CBC
Cricket Canada's funding frozen by governing body following fifth estate investigation:

The International Cricket Council issued notice to Cricket Canada that its funding was frozen effective immediately due to concerns over its governance system and a lack of financial oversight.

Canada wants sovereign AI data centres. What does that actually mean?:

Canada wants to build data centres that are not just physically located here, but controlled here — a distinction experts say could determine whether the country can reduce its dependence on U.S. tech giants and keep Canadian data subject to Canadian rules.

These refugees in Kenya were promised jobs in Canada. At the 11th hour, the employer cancelled the offer:

A continuing care organization in Nova Scotia has rescinded job offers it had been extending to refugees for more than two years, leaving the displaced people without a path out of some of the largest refugee camps in the world. They were invited to come to Canada through a federal program, but the organization says as processing timelines and the number of people needing care increased, many of the roles were filled locally.

New York Times Science
A Physicist Who Thinks in Poetry from the Cosmic Edge: In her second pop-science book, theoretical cosmologist Chanda Prescod-Weinstein returns to her celestial and cultural roots.

Building Nests Is Hard. That’s Why Some Birds Steal.: When researchers used GPS devices to monitor the nests of Hawaiian honeycreepers, they found dozens of cases of brazen avian burglary.

How an ‘Impossible’ Idea Led to a Pancreatic Cancer Breakthrough: The new strategy also holds promise for lung and colon tumors. Here’s how scientists discovered it.

A Taxidermist Gives Dead Animals a New Life: The creation, care and keeping of creatures is a responsibility the last full-time museum taxidermist in the U.S. takes both seriously and joyfully.

A Fish That Hitches Rides Where the Sun Doesn’t Shine: The remora often latches on to the exteriors of larger marine creatures. But sometimes it travels in a more intrusive spot: inside a manta ray’s backside.


Visualizing Science

The oldest known human art is also the oldest known human attempt to record Nature.  This painting is 34,000 years old and was found in the Chauvet-Pont-d'Arc Cave, which is the subject of Werner Herzog’s film: Cave of Forgotten Dreams. Herzog used a 3D camera to capture how the shapes of the walls were incorporated into the paintings.

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