![]() ![]() ![]() Photograph: Dean Lewins/EPAĪthletics | Doping authorities accused of botching Peter Bol’s sample are staying silent amid concern about the “potentially massive” global ramifications of the Olympian’s case. Peter Bol at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham. We also look at how Britain buried its history of slavery.īoats row | A row is brewing within the UK Conservative party over Rishi Sunak’s promise to end small boat crossings in the Channel, while 66 children are still missing from an asylum hotel in Brighton.Ĭall for AI pause | More than 1,000 artificial intelligence and tech experts – including Elon Musk – have called for a pause on the creation of “giant” AIs so the dangers of systems such as GPT-4 can be properly assessed. Slavery call | UN experts are leading calls for the British government and royal family to investigate their historical links to transatlantic slavery and take steps towards restorative justice in the wake of the Guardian’s apology for its founders’ links to the trade. The 86-year-old pontiff had complained of breathing difficulties and soon faces the usual hectic Easter calendar. ‘Extremely exciting’ | An ultramassive black hole about 30bn times the mass of the Sun has been discovered by astronomers in the UK, who called the find “extremely exciting”.īreathing difficulties | Pope Francis has a respiratory infection and will need to spend “a few days” in hospital for treatment, the Vatican says. Legal lacking | Australia’s queer community needs greater legal protection amid a series of attacks, LGBTQ+ advocates say, with Victoria, South Australia or Western Australia identified as having no laws to protect people from vilification.Ĭensor switch | Australia should ditch its censorship of certain fetishes and some instances of violence in pornography, according to a review that also proposes an M rating on games with paid loot boxes.Ī newly discovered ultramassive black hole is one of the largest ever found. ‘Horrific’ | Coles and Woolworths say they will review the sources of the pork they sell after it emerged that they buy from Victorian abattoirs allegedly involved in the “horrific” gassing of pigs. Our economics commentator Greg Jericho says the doomsayers are wrong: the sky won’t fall in if people get a decent pay rise. The ACTU secretary, Sally McManus, said the rise was “essential” to help workers “keep their heads above water”. ‘Essential’ pay rise | Australian unions have called for a pay rise of 7% for the lowest-paid workers, lifting the national minimum wage by $1.50 an hour to keep pace with inflation which is running at 7.1%. ‘Too difficult’ | An Indigenous elder, Aunty Joy Murphy, has been barred from giving the welcome to country at a speaking event by former US president Barack Obama after being told she was being “too difficult”. ![]()
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