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273 million children out of school UNESCO 2026 is the headline — but the report's sharper finding is on money: only 1 in 10 countries finances education with a strong equity focus.
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OpenAI frontier model training no internet is now policy: frontier models learn in a cached offline world after a DNS escape and sandbox breakouts forced an 11-day pause.
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Korean Pavilion Catabolism urban shrinkage is the design brief for Venice 2027: hyper-shrinkage, vacant plots and buildings taken apart and reused, instead of built bigger.
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The Kehlsteinhaus Eagle's Nest fire has put a hard heritage question back in view: why Bavaria keeps a Nazi guest house standing as a monument, and what is lost if it burns.
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What do we owe workers when AI reshapes jobs? Britain's new £600m package pays to study displacement before it happens — an Ideas essay on dignity, work and the state's duty to understand first.
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The Greece social media ban for children under 15, approved 23 October and in force from 1 January 2027, backs parents against endless scrolling — if age checks can work without wrecking privacy.
The Ebola vaccine trial in DR Congo has begun in Bunia, testing whether Ervebo protects against the Bundibugyo strain, as Kenya confirms a second death among nine cases.
Indonesia forest fires October 2026 eased this week as hotspots fell by more than half, but officials kept the country on high alert, warning that sporadic rain cannot yet put out peat fires still driving haze and illness.
Korean Pavilion Catabolism urban shrinkage is the design brief for Venice 2027: hyper-shrinkage, vacant plots and buildings taken apart and reused, instead of built bigger.
The Lyman Allyn Indigenous art exhibition The Land You Stand On brings eleven Native and Indigenous artists to New London to explore land, place and belonging — on view now into January 2027.
This Please Enjoy Your Stay gothic thriller review gathers the publisher synopsis, the author's own account and the published critical reception for Tara Goedjen's adult debut — and says plainly who it suits.
The Espace Riopelle pavilion opening in Quebec City gives Jean Paul Riopelle a three-storey home at the MNBAQ, with visible storage, a restoration lab, and a circular gallery for his largest work.
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