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• GB curlers denied Olympic gold at death yet again

  21-02-2026 22:02 via bbc.com
  Bruce Mouat's rink are unable to end a 102-year wait for a men's Winter Olympic curling gold - and vanquish their own disappointment from 2022 - as Canada deny Team GB a fourth gold medal of this year's Games.
  
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• Man taken to hospital after stabbing incident

  21-02-2026 21:55 via bbc.com
  A woman in her 20s has been arrested and is assisting police with their enquiries.
  
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• Five taken to hospital after gas explosion at farm

  21-02-2026 21:28 via bbc.com
  All five are taken to hospital as a precaution following the incident, which involved a food truck.
  
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• Arrests amid Britain First march and protests

  21-02-2026 20:57 via bbc.com
  The arrests are in relation to offences including assault on an emergency worker, police say.
  
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• TikToker army medic, 25, found dead at barracks

  21-02-2026 19:00 via bbc.com
  Lucy Wilde's brother says she was "strength wrapped in softness" and served with "courage and pride".
  
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• Fears diesel spillage may have spread to second river

  21-02-2026 17:56 via bbc.com
  The Scottish Environment Protection Agency has warned that fuel contamination in the River Dochart may have spread to the River Tay.
  
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• Alba Party 'unlikely' to stand in Scottish Parliament election

  21-02-2026 16:49 via bbc.com
  Leader Kenny MacAskill said the party faced an "immediate crisis" and it was unlikely it would be able to register for the Holyrood elections.
  
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• Teen dies after being stabbed outside mosque

  21-02-2026 16:20 via bbc.com
  A murder investigation is under way into the death of Zeshan Afzal, 18.
  
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• Two men aged 19 and 20 die after going missing on Yr Wyddfa

  21-02-2026 11:22 via bbc.com
  Mountain rescue teams were launched in challenging conditions to try and find the pair.
  
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• Woman handed gift card receipt for £63 quadrillion

  21-02-2026 08:35 via bbc.com
  She thought it was "hilarious" when she saw her remaining gift card balance from a matcha latte.
  
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• Who is the best captain for FPL Gameweek 27? - fantasyfootballscout.co.uk

  21-02-2026 08:30 via news.google.com
  Who is the best captain for FPL Gameweek 27?  fantasyfootballscout.co.ukFantasy Premier League: Gameweek 27 Q&A with expert Pras - send us your questions  BBCScout Selection: Best Fantasy team for Gameweek 27  Premier LeagueFPL Focus: Bargains galore and long-term planning  Arsenal.comFPL Scout: Gameweek 27 hints, tips and advice  Brentford FC
  
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• Gavin Henson on autism, shaving his legs and struggles with rugby fame

  21-02-2026 08:12 via bbc.com
  Henson was a star on and off the field, but says he struggled with the media spotlight on him.
  
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• Which rock group’s name was inspired by a sewing machine? The Saturday quiz

  21-02-2026 08:00 via theguardian.com
  From thorn, seat, shout and stew to Bruno Mars and Bette Midler, test your knowledge with the Saturday quiz1 What, in Spain, is the world’s largest Renaissance building?2 Which rock group’s name was inspired by a label on a sewing machine?
  3 The body produces about 2 million what every second?
  4 What is the only non-US team to win baseball’s World Series?
  5 Who did Violet Gibson try to assassinate in Rome in 1926?
  6 Financially, what rose from £85,000 to £120,000 in
  
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• The photos that have kept former Prince Andrew in the public eye

  21-02-2026 08:00 via theguardian.com
  Images include Mountbatten-Windsor with Virginia Giuffre, Jeffrey Epstein and an unknown female lying on a floorAllegations about Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor’s links to Jeffrey Epstein have unfolded over several years – and in several pictures. Here is how they have dripped into the public’s consciousness and kept the pressure on the royal family. Continue reading...
  
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• The Guide #231: ​How the ​hunt for the ​next James Bond ​became the ​franchise’s ​best ​marketing ​tool

  21-02-2026 08:00 via theguardian.com
  In this week’s newsletter: The race to crown a new 007 has become its own long‑running spectacle, turning the search for​ Bond into an event as big as the films themselves• Don’t get The Guide delivered to your inbox? Sign up hereCallum Turner’s turn as James Bond lasted at most a couple of weeks. No sooner had he been enshrined as frontrunner to succeed Daniel Craig, than he was nudged from the DB5 driver’s seat by the latest heir apparent, Jacob Elordi,
  
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• Survivor of financial abuse invited to advise ministers after Guardian report

  21-02-2026 08:00 via theguardian.com
  City minister Lucy Rigby acts after woman faced repossession of house burned down by controlling husbandA woman who was nearly killed by her abusive husband has been invited to advise the government on measures to support victims of financial abuse after the Guardian highlighted her story last weekend.Francesca Onody was left homeless and penniless when her husband doused their cottage with petrol while she and her two children were inside. Her husband, Malcolm Baker, died when the property expl
  
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• Scrubs: the cast’s chemistry is still so sparky it totally carries this zinger-packed comeback

  21-02-2026 08:00 via theguardian.com
  Dr Cox is still electrifying, the original cast’s interactions are a joy to watch, and after a couple of episodes it finds its tone – making it just the comfort TV we need right nowIt is possible to believe contradictory things. For instance, I believe TV’s reliance on reviving old shows is a risk-averse, creative regression. On the other hand, I love it. I particularly love it when fictional characters have visibly aged. There’s a broken humanity that you don’t get
  
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• My cultural awakening: Operation Mincemeat taught me how to cry – now I sob at everything

  21-02-2026 08:00 via theguardian.com
  A musical number about a woman’s letter to her husband on the second world war frontline unlocked my ability to blub – and made me a happier personI am sure I must have cried as a child, but by the time I was a teenager it had stopped. It was probably a boarding school thing. Very stiff upper lip. My parents are not the most emotionally available human beings, either. I like to tease them by saying: “I love you.” You can see the panic in their eyes. They will normally say
  
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• Making Tax Digital: are you ready for HMRC’s self-assessment shake-up?

  21-02-2026 08:00 via theguardian.com
  Tax authorities warn sole traders and landlords to act, as the biggest change to self-assessment in decades loomsSpring is “the time of plans and projects”, wrote Leo Tolstoy in Anna Karenina. For hundreds of thousands of self-employed people and property owners, those words are ringing true – and have never felt more daunting.This spring, HM Revenue and Customs is introducing the biggest shake-up of the self-assessment tax system in decades. Continue reading...
  
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• How the beaches, culture and people of Corfu hit me for six

  21-02-2026 08:00 via theguardian.com
  A cricket match kindled my love affair with the Greek island, inspiring both aliterary festival and my new novelThis is not where you would expect an article about one of the Mediterranean’s most beautiful islands to start. It’s the tail end of winter, 2021. Kensal Green Cemetery in west London: the imperial mausolea canted and crumbling, low clouds dissolving into rain. We are still  in that  strange phase of the pandemic when we are masked, newly aware of o
  
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• How long can crocodiles stay under water without breathing? The kids’ quiz

  21-02-2026 08:00 via theguardian.com
  Five multiple-choice questions – set by children – to test your knowledge, and a chance to submit your own junior brainteasers for future quizzes​Submit a questionMolly Oldfield hosts Everything Under the Sun, a podcast answering children’s questions. Do check out her books, Everything Under the Sun and Everything Under the Sun: Quiz Book, as well as her new title, Everything Under the Sun: All Around the World. Continue reading...
  
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• Chelsea flower show seeks new charity sponsors after mystery donors end support

  21-02-2026 08:00 via theguardian.com
  Exclusive: Project Giving Back, set up in 2022 to help charities exhibit show gardens, says this year will be its lastChelsea flower show is looking for new charity sponsors after the mystery philanthropic couple who have spent more than £23m on show gardens end their support.Project Giving Back was set up by two anonymous donors in 2022, and since then it has paid for 63 gardens at the most prestigious horticultural event in the world, held each summer at the Royal Hospital gardens in sou
  
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• Antiques auction selling neck shackles accused of ‘profiting from slavery’

  21-02-2026 08:00 via theguardian.com
  Exclusive: Labour MP Bell Ribeiro-Addy says treating these objects as collectors’ items ‘should be looked at in horror’An antiques auction selling chains linked to the enslavement of African people in Zanzibar has been accused of “profiting from slavery”.Neck irons dated to the Omani-Arab dominated trade in enslaved people in east Africa, which ended after African resistance and British pressure in the late 19th century, will go on sale this weekend in Scotland. Con
  
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• Goalkeeper hauled off at half-time after howler for the ages sparks A-League rout

  21-02-2026 07:34 via theguardian.com
  Wellington’s Josh Oluwayemi heads into his own goal from outside boxAuckland FC run out 5-0 winners in New Zealand derbyA comical own goal from goalkeeper Josh Oluwayemi has moved Auckland within touching distance of first spot on the A-League Men table after a 5-0 New Zealand derby thrashing of Wellington.Oluwayemi’s 24th-minute howler looks destined to be a permanent feature on goalkeeper gaffe compilations after the Phoenix No 1 completely misjudged a Jake Girdwood-Reich clearance
  
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• Iran preparing nuclear counterproposal as Trump warns he is considering limited military strikes

  21-02-2026 07:24 via theguardian.com
  Iranian foreign minister says draft could be ready for internal review in coming days while US president says ‘they better negotiate a fair deal’Iran’s foreign minister has said he expects to have a draft counterproposal ready within days after nuclear talks with the US this week, while Donald Trump said he was considering limited military strikes.Two US officials told Reuters that US military planning on Iran had reached an advanced stage, with options including targeting indi
  
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• TV tonight: the must-see new drama for Marian Keyes fans - The Guardian

  21-02-2026 07:15 via news.google.com
  TV tonight: the must-see new drama for Marian Keyes fans  The GuardianBBC The Walsh Sisters start time, cast list, book adaptation details and episode count  The MirrorCaroline Menton: ‘Marian Keyes Is An Irish Icon’  Country and Town HouseThe Walsh Sisters – The DVDfever Preview – BBC1 – Louisa Harland  DVDfever.co.uk‘She’s the queen of Ireland’: Inside the first ever Marian Keyes TV show  The Inde
  
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• TV tonight: the must-see new drama for Marian Keyes fans

  21-02-2026 07:15 via theguardian.com
  The bestselling novelist brings her beloved Walsh sisters to the screen. Plus: Patrick Dempsey lets loose with Jonathan Ross. Here’s what to watch this evening Sat, 9.15pm, BBC One Continue reading...
  
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• Under water, in denial: is Europe drowning out the climate crisis?

  21-02-2026 07:00 via theguardian.com
  Even as weather extremes worsen, the voices calling for the rolling back of environmental rules have grown louder and more influentialIn the timeless week between Christmas and the new year, two Spanish men in their early 50s – friends since childhood, popular around town – went to a restaurant and did not come home.Francisco Zea Bravo, a maths teacher active in a book club and rock band, and Antonio Morales Serrano, the owner of a popular cafe and ice-cream parlour, had gone to eat
  
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• Ukraine is the biggest and most consequential of all the American betrayals | Simon Tisdall

  21-02-2026 07:00 via theguardian.com
  As the war enters its fifth year, it’s time for Europe to take the fight to Putin on its own terms and tell Trump to get lostViewed from Europe, the US’s failure to defend the people of Ukraine against Russian aggression is the greatest and most consequential of a host of recent American betrayals. It’s not just the sickening subservience shown to Vladimir Putin, an indicted war criminal and mass killer. It’s not only the victim-blaming and bullying of Kyiv into making co
  
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• Tim Dowling: the oldest one is moving out – and this time it feels final

  21-02-2026 07:00 via theguardian.com
  I’ll have no one to watch Deadwood with any more, but at least we can fix the ceiling in his bedroomFor the last couple of months, a dining room table has been squatting over the coffee table in our living room, like one animal threatening another. It’s not in the way exactly, but it’s still a strangely oppressive use of space. Anyway, in a few days it will be gone.The oldest one is leaving home for the third time – or the fourth, if you count going to univ
  
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• The Secret Agent to Mitski: the week in rave reviews

  21-02-2026 07:00 via theguardian.com
  A brilliant mystery drama about politics and corruption in 70s Brazil, and a wonderful wallow in misery from the US musician. Here’s the pick of the week’s culture, taken from the Guardian’s best-rated reviews Continue reading...
  
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• Six great reads: dating in later life; a lost Amazon van, ‘gong bath’ freezers, and Toni Morrison

  21-02-2026 07:00 via theguardian.com
  Need something brilliant to read this weekend? Here are six of our favourite pieces from the last seven days Continue reading...
  
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• Relooted: the South African video game where players take back artefacts from western museums - The Guardian

  21-02-2026 07:00 via news.google.com
  Relooted: the South African video game where players take back artefacts from western museums  The GuardianReturning stolen artifacts becomes a thrilling heist in Relooted  The VergeA new South African video heist game robs museums to return African art  The World from PRXRelooted turns the repatriation debate into play  The ObserverRelooted Review | Culture Behind Glass: Stealing The Stolen  Six One Indie
  
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• Relooted: the South African video game where players take back artefacts from western museums

  21-02-2026 07:00 via theguardian.com
  Creators say they’re offering Africans a ‘hopeful, utopian feeling’ of retrieving objects looted by colonial armiesA new South African video game lets players take back African artefacts held in western museums in a series of heists, amid a growing campaign to repatriate treasures looted by colonial armies.Players of Relooted become South African sports scientist and parkour expert Nomali, as she leaps and dives through museums to retrieve 70 real objects. They include an Asant
  
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• MPs considering investigation into Andrew’s role as UK trade envoy

  21-02-2026 07:00 via theguardian.com
  MPs will meet on Tuesday to discuss the former prince, as it emerged he pestered ministers for a bigger government roleAn influential committee of MPs could launch an inquiry into Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor’s role as a UK trade envoy despite his arrest, it is understood, as it emerged that the disgraced former royal pestered ministers about getting a bigger government role.After his arrest on Thursday on suspicion of misconduct in public office, the cross-party business and trade committee
  
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• Meera Sodha’s recipe for rhubarb and custard trifle

  21-02-2026 07:00 via theguardian.com
  Nostalgia and comfort combine in abundance in this retro dessert that’s strictly for kids of all agesThe first time I had rhubarb and custard together was in a boiled sweet from a big jar in my mum’s corner shop. You could flip the sweet in your mouth and rub the flavour you wanted with your tongue. Too tart? Flip to the custard side. Too creamy? Flip again. It was one of the best ways to spend 10 minutes as a seven-year-old in the early 1990s. A few decades on, a lot has changed. Mu
  
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• From Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die to Tracey Emin: your complete entertainment guide to the week ahead

  21-02-2026 07:00 via theguardian.com
  Sam Rockwell stars in Gore Verbinski’s madcap sci-fi comedy, and the YBA Goat is back with a new exhibition at the Tate ModernGood Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die
  Out nowIf Sam Rockwell materialised in an LA diner dressed like something that escaped from an off-Broadway production of Starlight Express, wouldn’t you hear him out? In visionary director Gore Verbinski’s new film, Rockwell plays a man from the future, who has come back to warn us about the perils of artificial inte
  
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• ‘Doubling down on meat’: is the UK’s love affair with vegetarian food over?

  21-02-2026 07:00 via theguardian.com
  McDonald’s, Wagamama and others scale back plant-based choices in the UK in favour of ‘high-margin’ meat-led dishesIn 2021, vegetarianism and veganism were booming and menus reflected it. Restaurants and fast-food chains rapidly expanded their meat-free offerings, racing to meet growing demand from diners. McDonald’s launched its first plant-based burger, joining a wave of operators embracing non-meat options.Fast forward to 2026 and the landscape looks markedly different
  
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• ‘Don’t go to the US – not with Trump in charge’: the UK tourist with a valid visa detained by ICE for six weeks

  21-02-2026 07:00 via theguardian.com
  Karen Newton was in America on the trip of a lifetime when she was shackled, transported and held for weeks on end. With tourism to the US under increasing strain, she says, ‘If it can happen to me, it can happen to anyone’When Karen Newton left home in late July 2025, she knew that international travellers were being locked up in immigration detention centres in the US. “I was aware,” she nods. “But I never thought it would have any impact on my holiday.” Kar
  
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• Does natural deodorant pass the sniff test? The Becky Barnicoat cartoon

  21-02-2026 07:00 via theguardian.com
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• Blind date: ‘The best thing about her? Super easy to talk to. And pretty’ - The Guardian

  21-02-2026 07:00 via news.google.com
  Blind date: ‘The best thing about her? Super easy to talk to. And pretty’  The Guardian
  
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• Blind date: ‘The best thing about her? Super easy to talk to. And pretty’

  21-02-2026 07:00 via theguardian.com
  Freya, 23, a master’s student, meets Greg, 24, a civil servantWhat were you hoping for?Somebody friendly and kind, and an interesting chat. Continue reading...
  
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• Man Charged With Murder of Suhail Choudry, Keighley - West Yorkshire Police

  21-02-2026 06:54 via news.google.com
  Man Charged With Murder of Suhail Choudry, Keighley  West Yorkshire PolicePregnant wife pays tribute to man killed in attack  BBCMan appears in court on Keighley murder charge  BBCMan arrested in Bradford on suspicion of murder of Keighley man  Keighley NewsDetails emerge of fateful night as murder-accused makes first appearance in court  Telegraph and Argus
  
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• Country diary: Foraging for cockles feeling alive alive-o | Michael White

  21-02-2026 06:30 via theguardian.com
  Romney Marsh, Kent: It’s a family outing, raking the wet sand looking for plump shellfish. Out of everyone, though, I’m the most enthusiasticThe vast tidal flats are empty save for the hunched figures of three black-backed gulls considering a decomposed dogfish, and four humans (one rather small) trudging through the endless silt. A light mist obscures the coast with its string of motley houses and, on the breeze, there is only the distant soughing of shallow waves chasing foam over
  
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• The splinternet: how online shutdowns are getting cheaper and easier to impose

  21-02-2026 06:00 via theguardian.com
  Iran has shown how plausible blackouts now are, with far-reaching consequences for the internet as we know itDuring the height of Iran’s blackout in January, people could still access a platform that, in some senses, was like the internet.Iranians could message family members on a government-monitored app and watch clips of Manchester United on a Farsi-language video-sharing site. They could read state news and use a local navigation service. Continue reading...
  
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• ‘Slow this thing down’: Sanders warns US has no clue about speed and scale of coming AI revolution

  21-02-2026 05:26 via theguardian.com
  After meeting with unspecified tech leaders, senator calls for urgent policy action as companies race to build ever more powerful systemsBernie Sanders has warned that Congress and the American public have “not a clue” about the scale and speed of the coming AI revolution, pressing for urgent policy action to “slow this thing down” as tech companies race to build ever-more powerful systems.Speaking at Stanford University on Friday alongside congressman Ro Khanna after a s
  
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• Blood test for 50 cancers fails key goal in NHS trial - BBC

  21-02-2026 05:23 via news.google.com
  Blood test for 50 cancers fails key goal in NHS trial  BBCA Cancer Detection Test Fails in Major Study  The New York TimesGrail stock craters as key NHS-Galleri cancer blood test trial fails to hit primary endpoint  Fierce BiotechGrail shares plummet after UK study raises doubts over cancer test's prospects  ReutersGRAL ALERT: Investigation Launched into GRAIL, Inc., RGRD  GlobeNewswire
  
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• Ukraine war briefing: Hungary threatens to block €90bn EU loan to Kyiv in oil row

  21-02-2026 04:59 via theguardian.com
  Viktor Orbán demands Ukraine reopen Druzhba pipeline for Russian deliveries; Zelenskyy says Ukraine is not losing the war. What we know on day 1,459 Continue reading...
  
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• Tottenham XI vs Arsenal: Confirmed team news, predicted lineup and injury latest for Premier League - London Evening Standard

  21-02-2026 04:53 via news.google.com
  Tottenham XI vs Arsenal: Confirmed team news, predicted lineup and injury latest for Premier League  London Evening StandardWatch Spurs vs Arsenal: TV channel, live stream, NOW TV, team news and score prediction  Sky SportsPreview: Tottenham Hotspur v Arsenal | Pre-Match Report | News  Arsenal.comMathys Tel's new role and the five ways Igor Tudor can line up Tottenham to face Arsenal  Football LondonTravel information | Spurs vs Arsenal, Premier League&nbs
  
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• OpenAI considered alerting Canadian police about school shooting suspect months ago

  21-02-2026 04:18 via theguardian.com
  Company behind ChatGPT last year flagged Jesse Van Rootselaar’s account for ‘furtherance of violent activities’ChatGPT-maker OpenAI has said it considered alerting Canadian police last year about the activities of a person who months later committed one of the worst school shootings in the country’s history.OpenAI said last June the company identified the account of Jesse Van Rootselaar via abuse detection efforts for “furtherance of violent activities”. Conti
  
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