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      GB’s Amber Anning makes history with 400m gold at world indoors

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 22 March, 2025

    • Anning first GB woman to win individual indoor sprint
    • Disappointment for Molly Caudery in pole vault

    Amber Anning stormed to 400m gold to claim her first senior individual international medal on the second day of the World Athletics Indoor Championships in China. The British record holder, who collected a pair of relay bronzes at last summer’s Paris Olympics, crossed the line in 50.60sec to pip the United States’ Alexis Holmes by three hundredths of a second, while Norway’s Henriette Jaeger took bronze.

    It was redemption for the 24-year-old Anning, who was disqualified from the same event due to a lane infringement at this month’s European Indoor Championships. “It feels amazing,” said Anning, who became the first British woman to win an individual world indoor sprint title. “I came here wanting the win after the disappointment of the Europeans. I wanted the gold and I’m grateful that I was able to get the job done and bring a medal back to the home city.

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      George Foreman: a charmer who left his mark in the dirt and dust of the fight game

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 22 March, 2025

    Former heavyweight champion was always more complex and interesting than his contrasting personae suggested

    Boxing seems a smaller and darker world now. George Foreman has gone and, with his death, he takes a little more of the ­fading light and lost glory of the ring with him. My own life in ­boxing, which stretches across 55 years, can be divided into stages and all of them carry markers Foreman left in the dirt and dust of the fight game.

    From the malevolent force he ­personified when he became ­heavyweight champion of the world to the lovable old grandad ­making hundreds of millions as the face of a food grill business, Foreman could be easily ­caricatured. But he was always more complex and interesting than his contrasting personae suggested.

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      Turkey’s protests over Istanbul mayor grow into ‘fight about democracy’

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 22 March, 2025

    Anger over detention of Ekrem Imamoğlu becomes a touchstone for opposing President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan

    When demonstrators gathered ­at Istanbul’s city hall last week in outrage at the arrest of mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, 26-year-old Azra said she was initially too scared to defy a ban on gatherings. As protests grew on university campuses and in cities and towns across Turkey, she could no longer resist joining.

    “I saw the spark in people’s eyes and the excitement on their faces, and I decided I had to come down here,” she said with a grin, standing among tens of thousands that defied a ban on assembly to fill the streets around city hall on Friday night. Despite the crowds, Azra feared reprisals and declined to give her full name. Many demonstrators were masked in a bid to defy facial recognition ­technology and fearing the teargas or pepper spray sometimes deployed by the police. Others smiled and took ­selfies to celebrate as fireworks illuminated the night sky.

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      Ban on unregulated experts in family courts proposed for England and Wales

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 22 March, 2025

    Public consulted after concerns over children removed from parents on evidence of psychologists without right qualifications

    Unregulated experts could be banned from the family courts under new proposals for proceedings involving children in England and Wales.

    The Family Procedure Rule Committee, which sets the rules in family court cases, has proposed changes to the rules , which are now out for public consultation. It follows growing concern from MPs and campaigners about court-appointed experts who advise on life-changing decisions without having the necessary qualifications. But some organisations say it does not go far enough.

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      ‘A clever agent’: notes from ‘watchers’ of spy Kim Philby made public for first time

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 22 March, 2025

    A new exhibition at the National Archives in London will reveal the extent of MI5 operation to expose the British double agent who was also Observer reporter

    Secret surveillance of Britain’s ­notorious double agent, Kim Philby, made public for the first time in archived documents, reveals how keenly the Security Service wanted to confirm or disprove early suspicions of his high-level treachery.

    In daily bulletins submitted to MI5 in November 1951, undercover operatives describe how Philby, codenamed Peach, moved about London.

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      Dame Denise Lewis: ‘I love an apple crumble – just don’t talk to me while I enjoy myself’

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 22 March, 2025 • 1 minute

    The broadcaster and Olympic gold medallist on her favourite dessert, batch cooking with her mum and how to make the perfect gin and tonic

    I was a naughty athlete. Ask Daley [Thompson] and Linford [Christie]: they didn’t drink, and they still don’t drink. Not a drop passes their lips. Those are the consummate athletes. I was a mischievous athlete. You know the little miniature bottles of Drambuie? My roommates would notice at the end of a competition that Lewis would have a little Drambuie. Delicious! But when I won the gold medal [at the 2000 Olympics] I actually had a bottle of bubbly for that. My roomies must have thought it was going to happen, so they had a little bottle for me.

    My early memories are of food associated with my heritage and my mum: a lot of big flavours, a lot of curry chicken. One dish I can actually taste in my mouth now is snapper, which is a very popular fish in the Caribbean. Especially on Good Friday – we only had fish, so she would prepare whole snapper in a pan, with onions, peppers, a lot of black pepper and fish seasoning. It was just heaven. Whether you ate it hot or cold, that snapper would just be exquisite.

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      Did AI mania rush Apple into making a rare misstep with Siri? | John Naughton

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 22 March, 2025 • 1 minute

    The company that prides itself on announcing products only when they’re ready grossly underestimated the demands of personalising its virtual assistant

    After ChatGPT broke cover in late 2022 and the tech industry embarked on its contemporary rendering of tulip mania , people started to wonder why the biggest tech giant of all – Apple – was keeping its distance from the madness. Eventually, the tech commentariat decided that there could be only two possible interpretations of this corporate standoffishness: either Apple was way behind the game being played by OpenAI et al ; or it had cunning plans to unleash upon the world its own world-beating take on the technology.

    Finally, at its annual World Wide Developers’ Conference (WWDC) on 10 June last year Apple came clean. Or appeared to. For Apple, “AI” would not mean what those vulgar louts at OpenAI, Google, Microsoft and Meta raved about, but something altogether more refined and sophisticated – something called “Apple Intelligence”. It was not, as the veteran Apple-watcher John Gruber put it , a single thing or product but “a marketing term for a collection of features, apps, and services”. Putting it all under a single, memorable label made it easier for users to understand that Apple was launching something really novel. And, of course, it also made it easier for Apple to say that users who wanted to have all of these fancy features would have to buy an iPhone 15 Pro, because older devices wouldn’t be up to the task.

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      A temple to extravagance. And that goes for Manchester United’s new stadium, too | Rowan Moore

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 22 March, 2025 • 1 minute

    Could Norman Foster’s £2bn design for the club, which will be seen 25 miles away, turn out to be a case of hubris before ruin?

    There’s a phenomenon in architectural history whereby great empires build their grandest monuments just before they fall. The Parthenon was completed just before Athens embarked on the devastating Peloponnesian War. Manhattan’s most celebrated skyscrapers went up on the brink of the Great Depression. The British inaugurated the imposing government buildings of New Delhi 16 years before the end of the Raj. I won’t say that this will definitely be the case with the £2bn stadium designed by the Mancunian Norman Foster for Manchester United Football Club, but it’s striking that it’s proposed at a time when the club has closed its staff canteen and made redundant hundreds of workers to cut costs.

    Every good thing is promised. It is to be “the world’s greatest football stadium”, iconic AND sustainable, with both rainwater harvesting and a “trident” of 200m-high masts visible from 25 miles away. There is to be a “public space” twice the size of Trafalgar Square and a “mixed use mini-city” around it. There are things to like about the plans, including an attempt to avoid the fortress-like exteriors presented by most stadiums in favour of something more open and lively. But they’d probably do well to concentrate on doing fewer things as well as possible. Otherwise, the building might be like one of those football teams made up of extravagant signings who somehow don’t gel.

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      Three killed and 14 injured in mass shooting in New Mexico

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 22 March, 2025

    Authorities responded on Friday to reports of gunfire at a park and have asked for videos from bystanders to aid in investigation

    Three people were killed and 14 others were injured in a mass shooting on Friday night in Las Cruces, New Mexico.

    Local police said the shooting occurred at around 10pm on Friday at Young Park. Those killed included two 19-year-old men and one 16-year-old boy.

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