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Julita WaleskiewiczEast of EnglandLauren Barford-DowlingLauren Barford-Dowling says the price of school shoes, meals and trips is “daunting”A mother-of-three said she has found it “scary” trying to keep up with the cost of sending her children to school.Lauren Barford-Dowling, 27, from Luton, described the price of uniforms, shoes, meals and trips as “daunting”.Level Trust, a Luton-based charity that provides free school supplies to families, said demand for its services had risen by up to 20% compared with last year.”You want them to look their best, but it’s hard to keep up,” Ms Barford-Dowling added.Kerri PorthouseThe Level Trust has a school uniform…

Jason Hiner/ZDNETWhile we didn’t hear much about Siri or Apple Intelligence during the 2025 Apple Event that launched new iPhones, AirPods, and Apple Watches, there were two huge AI features announced that have largely slipped under the radar. That’s mostly because they were presented as great new features and didn’t use overhyped AI marketing language.Nevertheless, I got to demo both features at Apple Park on Tuesday and my first impression was that both of them are nearly fully baked and ready to start improving daily life — and those are my favorite kinds of features to talk about.Also: 5 new AI-powered…

From AmsterdamRecommended if you like Adrian Sherwood, ESG, Hidden OperatorUp next New charity single benefitting Plant een Olijfboom released 20 SeptemberDevon Rexi make tripped-out, percussion-heavy rhythms that are as sexy as they are strange. Though the Amsterdam-based group have only released two EPs and maintain an elusive online presence, they have developed a steady cult following in guitar and dance music circles alike.Formed around 2022 by Nushin Naini and Nic Mauskovic (who also releases music under the alias Nicolini), the mutating band draw on a range of influences dating from the 70s: the percussion, sax and funky bass recall New…

Boasting pace, power and presence at a height of about 6ft 3in, online footage of Chermiti playing academy football at Sporting depicts a man among boys.”I remember he scored a beautiful goal against Benfica, a bicycle kick,” recalls Coelho, who coached the Rangers striker at under-15s and under-19s.”It was the first time I’d seen Youssef. Against Benfica, all goals are special, but a bicycle kick from a 14-year-old boy isn’t normal.”What is normal is his character. Coelho says Chermiti, who has played and scored for Portugal at almost every youth level, is “a normal boy with great talent”.”He really made…

This week’s science news has been out of this world, with NASA’s announcement that speckled rocks found on Mars may be the clearest sign yet that life once existed on the Red Planet.The rocks all contain flecks of leopard-like spots that, on Earth at least, are telltale signs of chemical reactions that microbes use for energy. This, alongside the presence of organic compounds and evidence of water once flowing through the rocks, has gotten scientists seriously excited.But keep the Champagne corked, because it’s still possible that the marks may have been left by inorganic processes, meaning we’ll have to wait…

ReutersPoland’s Secretary of State Marcin Bosacki holds a photo showing the drone damage during a UN Security Council meetingMore Nato countries will move their troops and fighter jets eastwards after Poland accused Russia of an unprecedented drone incursion on Wednesday.Denmark, France and Germany have joined a new mission to bolster the military alliance’s eastern flank. Other Nato allies are expected to take part later.It came as the Kremlin said on Friday that peace talks with Kyiv were on “pause”, with spokesman Dmitry Peskov saying: “You can’t wear rose-tinted glasses and expect that the negotiation process will yield immediate results.”Political tensions…

An unforeseen contribution from Juno Juno, meanwhile, has been orbiting Jupiter since 2016, collecting information on the giant planet’s internal structure, magnetic field, and atmosphere. “Everything is functional,” said Scott Bolton, the lead scientist on Juno, also from SWRI. “There’s been some degradation, things that we saw many years ago, but those haven’t changed. Actually, some of them improved, to be honest.” The only caveat with Juno is some radiation damage to its camera, called JunoCam. Juno orbits Jupiter once every 33 days, and the trajectory brings the spacecraft through intense radiation belts trapped by the planet’s powerful magnetic field.…

Social media misinformation about the contraceptive pill is encouraging women to view it so negatively that many give it up, a study has found.Researchers have identified myths spread on TikTok and other social media platforms as a key driver of users suffering side-effects that are real but psychological in origin. It is called the “nocebo effect”, the opposite of the better-known placebo effect.Experiencing it is closely linked to anxiety, depression and fatigue, with experts saying people become “wary of anything that they believe might make [the conditions] worse”. This, in turn, spurs on the effect.It has been seen with other…

Duki’s meteoric rise in Argentina’s trap scene will be the focus of a new Netflix documentary. On Friday, the streaming service released the first trailer for Rockstar: Duki Desde el Fin Del Mundo, premiering Oct. 2. Directed by Alejandro Hartmann, the film traces Duki’s evolution from freestyler to cultural phenomenon in South America and Spain. “People saw with their own eyes that I was a little kid like any other,” a young Duki says in the clip, speaking of his rise doing freestyles for El Quinto Escalón. “Before freestyling, I wanted to make music.” The trailer weaves together moments of…

Bill ConnellySep 12, 2025, 07:25 AM ETCloseBill Connelly is a writer for ESPN. He covers college football, soccer and tennis. He has been at ESPN since 2019.Week 1 had headliners for the casuals. Week 2 had rivalry games and loads of thrillers for the hardcores. In Week 3, we attempt to split the difference. This week gives us high-stakes helmet games (Texas A&M-Notre Dame, Georgia-Tennessee, Florida-LSU) and rivalry games both bitter (Pitt-West Virginia) and, sometimes, silly (Ole Miss-Arkansas). But most of all, it gives us PANIC.All of ESPN. All in one place.Watch the US Open and much more in the…